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The 2024 Makassar mayoral election was held on 27 November 2024 as part of nationwide local elections to elect the mayor of Makassar for a five-year term. The previous election was held in 2020. The previous election was held in 2020.
In Makassar language, the word Mamminasata means "expression of ideals, feelings, or hopes that are coveted for all of us". The national government regards the Makassar Metropolitan Area as including Makassar, Maros Regency, Gowa Regency, Takalar Regency, and Pangkajene Islands Regency. Pankajene Island is now included in the Metropolitan Area.
The Makassar kings maintained a policy of free trade, insisting on the right of any visitor to do business in the city, and rejecting the attempts of the Dutch to establish a monopoly. [12] Makassar depended mainly on the Muslim Malay and Catholic Portuguese sailors communities as its two crucial economic assets. However the English East India ...
Lion Air with flight 792, MD-82 on the Jakarta-Makassar-Gorontalo route on December 24, 2005, the plane's wheels slipped off the runway while landing at Hasanuddin Airport, Makassar. [71] On December 24, 2006, a Boeing 737-400 with flight number 792, PK-LIJ for the Jakarta-Makassar-Gorontalo route skidded while landing at Hasanuddin Airport ...
Mohammad Ramdhan Pomanto, also known as Danny Pomanto, (born 30 January 1964) is an Indonesian politician who served as the mayor of Makassar, [1] [2] the fourth largest extended metropolitan area in Indonesia, between 2014-2019 and 2021-2025
The Sacred Heart of Jesus Cathedral [1] (Indonesian: Katedral Hati Kudus Yesus yang Mahakudus) is the cathedral belonging to the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Makassar in the city of Makassar, [2] the capital of South Sulawesi, Indonesia. [3]
To gain full control of Makassar Strait, the Japanese needed to capture the cities of Makassar and Banjarmasin. On 1 February, Allied commanders received word from a reconnaissance plane: at Balikpapan, a Japanese invasion force—consisting of 20 troop transport ships, three cruisers and 10 destroyers—was preparing to sail.
Fort Rotterdam is a 17th-century fort in Makassar on the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia.It is a Dutch fort that was built on top of an existing fort of the Gowa Kingdom.The first fort on the site was constructed by the a local sultan around 1634, to counter Dutch encroachments.