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Individuals who retain their Indonesian names do it because they remain concerned about the persistence of racial issues, they believe non-Chinese speakers might struggle with pronunciations, it has become a habit from the New Order era, their family no longer speaks Chinese, they believe Chinese names are better when written in Hanzi, or they ...
Jakarta [c] (/ dʒ ə ˈ k ɑːr t ə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level.
Situ Lembang Park (Indonesian: Taman Situ Lembang) is a park located at Menteng, Jakarta, Indonesia. Situ means lake, while Lembang is the name of the road adjacent the park. [ 1 ] The park is nestled within houses of Menteng residential area and located close to another park Taman Suropati .
In Malay speaking regions, such as Sumatra, some regions of coastal Borneo, and Jakarta, abang/"kakak" ( Southern Sumatra) is for "older brother" and kakak / "Ayuk" (Southern Sumatra) is for "older sister". In Betawi language (used by the Betawi people of Jakarta), mpok is for "older sister" and is only used to address a Betawi female.
Situ (司徒) is one of the more common surviving Chinese compound surnames. It is also spelled in Wade–Giles as Ssŭtu or in the Mathews system as Szŭtu , and romanised from Cantonese as Szeto , Seto , or Sitou , or from Taishanese as Soohoo or Soho . [ 1 ]
The most common and widely used colloquial Indonesian is heavily influenced by the Betawi language, a Malay-based creole of Jakarta, amplified by its popularity in Indonesian popular culture in mass media and Jakarta's status as the national capital. In informal spoken Indonesian, various words are replaced with those of a less formal nature.
Jakarta's Coat of Arms. Jakarta (/ dʒ ə ˈ k ɑːr t ə /; Indonesian pronunciation: [dʒaˈkarta] ⓘ, Betawi: Jakartè), officially the Special Capital Region of Jakarta (Indonesian: Daerah Khusus Ibukota Jakarta; DKI Jakarta) and formerly known as Batavia until 1949, is the capital city of Indonesia and an autonomous region at the provincial level.
Situ (Chinese: 四土话; pinyin: Sìtǔhuà) is a Rgyalrong language spoken in Sichuan, China. The name "Situ", literally "four Tusi ", comes from a historical name of the Ma'erkang region. [ 1 ]