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Bali, Indonesia: The World Peace Gong Park can be found on the island of Bali, Indonesia Desa Budayal Kertalangu Bali. It was the venue for the Miss World Contestants commitment to World Peace, in September 2013, Geneva, Switzerland; New Delhi, India [2] Penglai, Shandong, China; Vientiane, Laos; Paipa (Colombia) Ambon (Indonesia) [3] Maputo ...
The Maluku sectarian conflict (Indonesian: Konflik Sektarian Kepulauan Maluku) was a period of ethno-political conflict along religious lines that occurred in the Maluku Islands in Indonesia, with particularly serious disturbances on the islands of Ambon and Halmahera.
In the summer of 1950, southern parts of the Maluku Islands, with majority Christian populations, were rebel territory with the proclamation of the so-called Republic of South Maluku (RMS), and its army was mainly composed of demobilized ex-Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) soldiers and other South Moluccan men who remained loyal to the Dutch crown, even during the days of the United ...
Pattimura Airport [1] (IATA: AMQ, ICAO: WAPP) is located in Ambon, Maluku province, Indonesia. The airport is located 38 kilometers west of the city of Ambon. The airport was named after Pattimura (1783–1817), an Indonesian national hero who fought against the Dutch colonialists in the nineteenth century. The airport serves domestic and ...
A group of men after the institute of the M.P. in a church in Ambon, pre-1943. Ambon belonged to the colonial ethnic group. [10] They were formed in the 16th to 18th century as a result of the mixing of the indigenous population of Ambon Island and West Seram Regency, the human trade of the Hitu people, and with the immigrants from both other parts of Indonesia and Europeans. [11]
By the 1960s, the superpowers, the US and the USSR, as well as growing regional power China had had significant influence in Southeast Asia. From 1961 to 1968, the US had had steadily increased its military involvement in Vietnam, providing support for the ostensibly pro-democratic South Vietnam in the form of military advisors (during Kennedy's term [1]) and later ground troops (during ...
Thomas Matulessy (8 June 1783 – 16 December 1817), also known as Kapitan Pattimura or simply Pattimura, was a famous Ambonese soldier who became a symbol of both the Maluku and Indonesian struggle for independence, praised by President Sukarno and declared a national hero by President Suharto.
The statue to Tiahahu in Ambon. Soon after Indonesia's independence, Tiahahu was declared a National Heroine of Indonesia; [3] 2 January was designated Martha Christina Tiahahu Day. [3] On that day, people in Maluku spread flower petals over the Banda Sea in an official ceremony honouring her struggle. [3]