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Doa Putra Ebal Johan "Utha" Likumahuwa (1 August 1955 – 13 September 2011) was an Indonesian singer from Ambon, Maluku. He rose to fame in Indonesia in the 1980s with his albums Nada & Apresiasi (1982) and the song "Tersiksa Lagi". [1]
The custom dates back at least to the late 17th or early 18th century. Gong-chime and drum ensembles, labeled tifa totobuang, were mentioned by François Valentijn, a Dutch army cleric who served in the Dutch army in Ambon, Maluku in two tours, 1686-1994 and 1703–1713. [4]
A group of men after the institute of the M.P. in a church in Ambon, pre-1943. Ambon belonged to the colonial ethnic group. [10] They were formed in the 16th to 18th century as a result of the mixing of the indigenous population of Ambon Island and West Seram Regency, the human trade of the Hitu people, and with the immigrants from both other parts of Indonesia and Europeans. [11]
An iconostasis with a rounded stone ambon of two steps (Beloiannisz, Hungary).. The ambon or ambo (Greek: ἄμβων, meaning "pulpit"; Slavonic: amvón) in its modern usage is a projection coming out from the soleas (the walkway in front of the iconostasis) in an Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox and Eastern Catholic church.
St. Francis Xavier Cathedral [1] (Indonesian: Katedral Santo Fransiskus Xaverius), also called Ambon Cathedral, is the cathedral of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Amboina (Dioecesis Amboinaënsis or Keuskupan Amboina) in Ambon, Maluku, Indonesia.
Ambon Bay Festival (Indonesian: Festival Teluk Ambon) is an annual event held at Ambon Bay and across West Seram Regency, Maluku, Indonesia at the end of September. [1] The festival aims to promote national and international tourism to the Maluku Islands. [2] It has been held since 2006. [3]
Ambonese Malay or simply Ambonese is a Malay-based creole language spoken on Ambon Island in the Maluku Islands of Eastern Indonesia.It was first brought by traders from Western Indonesia, then developed when the Dutch Empire colonised the Maluku Islands and was used as a tool by missionaries in Eastern Indonesia.
The Battle of Ambon (30 January – 3 February 1942) occurred on Ambon Island in the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), as part of the Japanese offensive on the Dutch colony during World War II. In the face of a combined defense by Dutch and Australian troops, Japanese forces conquered the island and its strategic airfield in several days.