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  2. Topeng dance - Wikipedia

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    Topeng dance is a dance performance filled with meaningful symbols that are expected to be understood by the audience. These symbols are conveyed through the colors of the masks, the expressions of the masks, and the accompanying music. The meaning conveyed can be in the form of leadership values, love, wisdom, and many others expressed through ...

  3. Betawi people - Wikipedia

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    Betawi people, or Batavians[3][4][5] (Orang Betawi in Indonesian, meaning "people of Batavia "), are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the city of Jakarta and its immediate outskirts, as such often described as the native inhabitants of the city. [6] They are the descendants of the people who inhabited Batavia (the colonial name of Jakarta ...

  4. Gadget - Wikipedia

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    The etymology of the word is disputed. The word first appears as reference to an 18th-century tool in glassmaking that was developed as a spring pontil. [3] As stated in the glass dictionary published by the Corning Museum of Glass, a gadget is a "metal rod with a spring clip that grips the foot of a vessel and so avoids the use of a pontil".

  5. Parenting - Wikipedia

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    Parenting. A father and a mother holding their infant child. Parenting or child rearing promotes and supports the physical, cognitive, social, emotional, and educational development from infancy to adulthood. Parenting refers to the intricacies of raising a child and not exclusively for a biological relationship. [1]

  6. Orang bunian - Wikipedia

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    In Malaysian, Bruneian and Indonesian folklore, Bunian people or Orang bunian (Indonesian pronunciation: [o.raŋ bu.ni.an]) are supernatural beings said to be invisible to most humans, except those with "spiritual sight". While the term is often translated as "elves", it literally translates to "hidden people" or "whistling people".

  7. Nick Saban: Doctors and Tua Tagovailoa's family should decide ...

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    But Saban said medical professionals and his family should make the decision about Tagovailoa's future in the NFL. "I think Tua and his family and everyone else should listen to all the medical ...

  8. Orangutan - Wikipedia

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    The name "orangutan" (also written orang-utan, orang utan, orangutang, and ourang-outang [1]) is derived from the Malay words orang, meaning "person", and hutan, meaning "forest". [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The locals originally used the term for actual forest-dwelling humans, but the word underwent a semantic extension to include apes of the Pongo genus at ...

  9. Law of Indonesia - Wikipedia

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    Law of Indonesia is based on a civil law system, intermixed with local customary law and Dutch law.Before the British presence and colonization began in the sixteenth century, indigenous kingdoms ruled the archipelago independently with their own custom laws, known as adat (unwritten, traditional rules still observed in the Indonesian society). [1]