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Subagio Sastrowardoyo (1 February 1924 – 18 July 1995) was an Indonesian poet, short-story writer, essayist and literary critic. Born in Madiun, East Java, the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), he studied at Gadjah Mada University, Cornell University and in 1963 graduated with an MA from Yale University. [1]
A timber raft on the Barito River with housing for the workers (ca.1905-14). The Barito River is the second longest river in Borneo, Indonesia after the Kapuas River with a total length of 1,090 km (680 mi) and a drainage basin of over 80,000 km 2 (31,000 sq mi) in South Kalimantan, Indonesia.
The Musi River (Indonesian: Sungai Musi) is a river in Southern Sumatra, Indonesia. [8] It flows from south-west to north-east, from the Barisan Mountains range that form the backbone of Sumatra, in Kepahiang Regency, Bengkulu Province, to the Bangka Strait that forms an extension of the South China Sea.
The Jeneberang (Indonesian: Sungai Jeneberang) (Historical Name : Garassi River) is a river of approximately 75 km in length in the south-western half of the island of Sulawesi, Indonesia. [1] The catchment has an area of 760 square kilometers. [1] [2]
Jalan Sungai Pinang runs through the riverine neighbourhood. The Malay and Indian villages along the Pinang River date back to the 18th century, possibly predating Captain Francis Light's arrival on Penang Island in 1786. [3] Sumatran traders had arrived at the river's estuary in the 1780s and established settlements like Kampung Rawa and ...
The river, known as the Linggy, as depicted in The Malayan Peninsula (1834) by P.J. Beghie. Details of masonry of the fortifications at Fort Supai.. The Linggi, alongside the Muar, played a key role as trade routes since the era of the Malacca Sultanate around the 15th century, as well as the main entry points for the Minangkabau people to enter what is now known as Negeri Sembilan.
The discovery of iron smelting furnaces and tuyere suggest that Sungai Batu became a focal point of the global iron trade. Around the excavation area there is also a dumping of iron ore and tuyere. The forged iron was exported to the Western and Eastern worlds via ancient waterways using merchant ships. [citation needed] Sea level in Sungai Batu
The river starts from the southern end of the Titiwangsa Mountains in the neighbouring state of Negeri Sembilan, at Kampung Orek, Tampin District as the Tampin River which flows south, almost parallel to the Karak-Tampin trunk road (Federal Route FT 9) until Tampin and Pulau Sebang, the latter is beyond the Negeri Sembilan-Malacca border.