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Named as the Seikaigansyu Hōkōkai (Badan Kebaktian Rakyat Sumatera Barat or West Sumatran People's Loyalty Organization). [68] This was in line with the dissolution of all political parties and popular movements upon the Japanese arrival. [66] As unlike the Jawa Hōkōkai, such organizations were restricted to the individual residencies level ...
The Revolutionary Government of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Pemerintahan Revolusioner Republik Indonesia, abbr. PRRI) was a revolutionary government set up in Sumatra to oppose the central government of Indonesia in 1958.
The Minangkabau's West Sumatera homelands was the seat of the Pagaruyung Kingdom, [6] believed by early historians to have been the cradle of the Malay race, [7] and the location of the Padri War (1821 to 1837). Minangkabau are the ethnic majority in West Sumatra and Negeri Sembilan.
West Sumatra (Indonesian: Sumatera Barat [7]) is a province of Indonesia.It is on the west coast of the island of Sumatra and includes the Mentawai Islands off that coast. West Sumatra borders the Indian Ocean to the west, as well as the provinces of North Sumatra to the north, Riau to the northeast, Jambi to the southeast, and Bengkulu to the south.
The following is a list of the governors of West Sumatra who have served since October 1, 1945 until now.. The governor of West Sumatra, one of the provinces of Indonesia, is the chief executive of the province.
Front page of Sinar Sumatra from a 1927 issue. Sinar Sumatra (Malay for "Ray of light of Sumatra") was a Malay-language newspaper published in Padang, Dutch East Indies from 1905 to around 1941 or 1942.
Zuber Usman (12 December 1916 – 25 July 1976) was an Indonesian teacher and writer, known as an early pioneer of Indonesian literary criticism.Born in Padang, West Sumatra, he was educated in Islamic schools until 1937, after which he became a teacher.
The Samudera Pasai Sultanate (Malay: كسلطانن سامودرا ڤاساي ), also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries.