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King Kertanegara of Singhasari launched Pamalayu expedition against Melayu Kingdom in Sumatra. 1284. King Kertanegara launched Pabali expedition to Bali, which integrated Bali into the Singhasari territory. 1289. Kertanegara insult the envoy of Kublai Khan that demand Java to pay the tribute to Yuan Dynasty.
Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world, with over ...
History of Indonesia. The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia.
The Youth Pledge ( Indonesian: Sumpah Pemuda, lit. 'Youth Oath') is the popular name of the primary part of the Decision of the Congress of Indonesian Youth ( van Ophuijsen spelling Indonesian: Poetoesan Congres Pemoeda-pemoeda Indonesia) of 28 October 1928, which defined the identity of Indonesians. The decision proclaimed three ideas: one ...
On 23 January 1942, three years before the 1945 proclamation, an independence activist Nani Wartabone declared "Indonesian independence" after he and his people won in a revolt in Gorontalo against the Dutch who were afraid of Japanese invasion of Celebes. He was later imprisoned by the Japanese after they had invaded the area.
The National Museum of Indonesia ( Indonesian: Museum Nasional) is an archeological, historical, ethnological, and geographical museum located in Jalan Medan Merdeka Barat, Central Jakarta, right on the west side of Merdeka Square. Popularly known as the Elephant Museum ( Indonesian: Museum Gajah) after the elephant statue in its forecourt, its ...
During the first Kongres Pemuda of Indonesia held in 1926, in the Sumpah Pemuda, Malay was proclaimed as the unifying language for Indonesia. In 1945, the language which was named "bahasa Indonesia", or Indonesian in English, was enshrined as the national language in the constitution of the newly independent Indonesia.
The official language of Indonesia is Indonesian [7] (locally known as bahasa Indonesia ), a standardised form of Malay, [8] which serves as the lingua franca of the archipelago. The vocabulary of Indonesian borrows heavily from regional languages of Indonesia, such as Javanese, Sundanese and Minangkabau, as well as from Dutch, Sanskrit ...