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The Pink Book is an informal name for any of several books with pink covers. It may refer to: It may refer to: The annual publication by the Office for National Statistics that details the United Kingdom's balance of payments
In Indonesia, the religious texts that read by these people were then specifically designated as kitab gundul in order to distinguish them from the book written with the diacritical aids. [ 3 ] Kitab gundul was soon referred as kitab kuning, which means yellow book, because mostly the books were published on yellow paper.
Ahmad Syech Albar (27 September 1927 – 17 December 1974), better known by his stage name Bing Slamet, was an Indonesian singer, songwriter, comedian, and actor.During his career, he acted in 17 films and released "dozens" of albums.
The Arabic spoken in Indonesia is generally used by people of Arabs descent and Islamic students (santri), primarily based on Hadhrami Arabic brought by Arab traders from Hadramaut, Yemen. This language has a unique feature, which is the mixture of vocabulary from Arabic and Indonesian, as well as other regional languages.
Iqro (Arabic: اقرأ, romanized: iqraʾ, lit. 'Read!'; full title: Buku Iqro': Cara Cepat Belajar Membaca Al-Qur’an, "Iqro Book: A Fast Way to Learn to Read the Quran") is a textbook used in Indonesia and Malaysia for learning Arabic letters and pronunciation.
Some works of the Pujangga Baru generation are worthy of especial mention. Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana's short novel Layar Terkembang ("The Sail Unfolds") is a sensitive portrayal of young women in contemporary Indonesia. Rustam Effendi with his Bebasari wrote the first modern play (on a historical theme).
The Syair Bidasari is a Malay poem popular across Southeast Asia. [1] [2] [3] Surviving manuscripts date to the early 19th century, and the story may be older.[4] [5] Following a beautiful maiden who falls into a deathlike sleep during the day, it has been compared to the European fairy tales of Snow White and Sleeping Beauty.
According to Za'aba, the word pantun is thought to evolve from the Malay word sepantun [19] (Jawi: سڤنتون) meaning 'same as'. [20] The word is used to signify a proverbial metaphor or simile, [21] a type of figure of speech commonly found in traditional pantun or proverbs from classical Malay literature. [22]