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Pancasila. (politics) A depiction of the Garuda Pancasila on a poster; each tenet of the Pancasila is written beside its symbol. Pancasila ( Indonesian: [pantʃaˈsila] ⓘ) is the official, foundational philosophical theory of Indonesia. The name is made from two words originally derived from Sanskrit: " pañca " ("five") and " śīla ...
As Islam is the largest religion in Indonesia, it is quite common to find Arabic first names or words. Popular Arabic names include Muhammad, Ahmad, Arief, Ibrahim, Ismail, Aisyah, Nur, Aminah, Nabila and Zahra. Such names are used by Indonesians not of Arab descent, both as first names and as surnames.
Personal life Early life. Anies Rasyid Baswedan was born on 7 May 1969, in Kuningan, West Java, as the eldest son and child of the three children of Aliyah Rasyid (b. 1940), a lecturer at Yogyakarta State University, and Rasyid Baswedan (1934–2013), a vice rector at Islamic University of Indonesia.
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The Malay language has many loanwords from Sanskrit, Persian, Tamil, Greek, Latin, Portuguese, Dutch, certain Chinese dialects such as Hokkien and more recently, Arabic (in particular many religious terms) and English (in particular many scientific and technological terms).
Medan (/ m ɛ ˈ d ɑː n / meh-DAHN, Indonesian: ⓘ) is the capital and largest city of the Indonesian province of North Sumatra. The nearby Strait of Malacca, Port of Belawan, and Kualanamu International Airport make Medan a regional hub and multicultural metropolis, acting as a financial centre for Sumatra and a gateway to the western part of Indonesia.
25 December 1935. Type. Nationalist organization. Membership. 10,000 (end 1909) [1] Budi Utomo (Dutch: Boedi Oetomo, meaning "Noble Endeavour") [2] was an early native nationalist political society in the Dutch East Indies. [3] The organization's founding in 1908 is considered instrumental to the beginning of the Indonesian National Awakening .
The national emblem [1] of Indonesia is called Garuda Pancasila. [2] The main part is the Garuda with a heraldic shield on its chest and a scroll gripped by its legs. The shield's five emblems represent Pancasila, the five principles of Indonesia's national ideology.