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Ong Tee Keat (simplified Chinese: 翁诗杰; traditional Chinese: 翁詩傑; pinyin: Wēng Shījié; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Ong Si-kia̍t; born 22 November 1956) is a Malaysian politician who served as the Minister of Transport in the Barisan Nasional (BN) administration under former Prime Ministers Abdullah Ahmad Badawi and Najib Razak from March 2008 to June 2010, Deputy Minister of Higher Education ...
Makassar, a city in Indonesia; Makassar Strait, a strait in Indonesia; Makassar people, ethnic group inhabiting the southern part of the South Peninsula, in Sulawesi; Makassarese language, also known as Makassar - one of a group of languages known as Makassaric languages. Makasar script, historical letters used to write Makassarese language
Coto makassar, a stew made from the mixture of nuts, spices, and selected offal which may include beef brain, tongue and intestine. Pallubasa, a similar dish to Coto Makassar, but with the addition of coconut. Konro, a rib dish. Burasa or Ketupat, a glutinous rice cake, usually eaten with Coto Makassar and Konro.
A type of Makassan perahu, the patorani. Makassar people from the region of Sulawesi in Indonesia began visiting the coast of Northern Australia sometime around the middle of the 18th century, first in the Kimberley region, and some decades later in Arnhem Land.
The Makassar people are amongst the first native people who are endowed with the harvesting and processing knowledge of holothuroidea (sea cucumber, natively found between the Wallace and Weber line), and was spread to another regions beyond its native homeland throughout the Indonesian Archipelago to the Oceania (and some another regions of ...
Some languages, like Buginese (five million speakers) and Makassarese (two million speakers), are widely distributed and vigorously used. Many of the languages with much smaller numbers of speakers are also still vigorously spoken, but some languages are almost extinct, because language use of the ethnic population has shifted to the dominant regional language, e.g. in the case of Ponosakan ...
Pante Macassar is located on the Sawu Sea in Suco Costa, 281 km west of Dili, near the north coast of the island, at an altitude of 189 metres above sea level. [2] It consists of a series of loosely connected hamlets that reach as far west as the Tono River, which spans the Noefefan Bridge.
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.