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A bomb blast outside the Australian embassy in Jakarta kills 11 and injures up to 100 people. October: Indonesia's first direct presidential election elects Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono following popular disillusionment with incumbent Megawati. 26 December: An earthquake-triggered tsunami kills an estimated 170,000 in Aceh and causes widespread ...
The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia and Oceania .
Banten: Founded in the early 16th century on the collapse of the Majapahit Empire by the son of the King-Priester of Cirebon, the Sultanate of Banten, in western Java. Bima: A state existing in the 17th century on Sumbawa Island. Bone (also spelled Boni): In the Bugi region of the southwestern Celebes (Sulawesi Selatan). The state was founded ...
The Kingdom of Siau was a kingdom located in the Siau Tagulandang Biaro Islands Regency, North Sulawesi, present-day Indonesia. It was established in 1510 by Lokombanua II or Lokongbanua II , who was also its first king. The kingdom lasted until the end of Ch. David's reign in 1956.
The PKI had been very careful to support all of Sukarno's policies. Meanwhile, Sukarno saw the PKI as the best-organized and ideologically solid party in Indonesia, and a useful conduit to gain more military and financial aid from Communist Bloc countries. Sukarno also sympathised with the communists' revolutionary ideals, which were similar to ...
Both cars would later send Astra Daihatsu Motor as the largest car manufacturer in the country, surpassing Toyota Motor Manufacturing Indonesia, and saw the Avanza as the best selling car in Indonesia since 2007 until today. 40.8% of Indonesia's total vehicle production output (four-wheel or above) in 2019 was contributed by ADM.
Not far from the city of Yogyakarta is the volcano Merapi, the most active volcano in Indonesia which has erupted regularly since 1548, resulting in great damage to the population of the district. In October–November 2010, there was a strong volcanic eruption , forcing about a 100,000 people to temporarily leave their homes.
The sultanate was the first Muslim state in Java, and once dominated most of the northern coast of Java and southern Sumatra. [ 3 ] Although it lasted only a little more than a century, the sultanate played an important role in the establishment of Islam in Indonesia , especially on Java and neighboring areas.