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unusual facts about Bali, Indonesia



1996 Wismilak International

The 1996 Wismilak International was a women's tennis tournament played on outdoor hard courts in Surabaya in Indonesia that was part of Tier IV of the 1996 WTA Tour.

2012 Qatar Airways Tournament of Champions

The 2012 edition was the first held in Sofia, having been relocated from Bali, where the tournament was held for the previous three years and called the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions.

A. cinnamomea

Aglaia cinnamomea, a plant species found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.

A. edulis

Aglaia edulis, a plant species found in Bhutan, Cambodia, China, India, Indonesia and Malaysia

A1 Team Indonesia

A1 Team Indonesia has been operating since January 2008 by Performance Racing, which provide technical and race services.

Afrizal Malna

Best Literary Work 2009 from the Indonesian news magazine Tempo for the poetry collection Teman-Temanku dari Atap Bahasa

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata

Amblyeleotris rubrimarginata is a species of goby found on reefs or in sea grass beds in the western Pacific from New Caledonia to the Great Barrier Reef and around New Guinea, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

Andrew Durante

Durante was selected in Pim Verbeek's Socceroo squad in February 2010 for Australia's 2011 AFC Asian Cup qualification match against Indonesia.

Anneke Grönloh

Grönloh was born in Tondano, North Celebes, Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia), and spent her early years in the Japanese-occupied Dutch East Indies in a Japanese concentration camp.

Badung Regency

It covers Bali's most heavy touristic regions, including Kuta, Legian, Seminyak, Jimbaran, Nusa Dua, Canggu, Uluwatu, Badung, and Mengwi.

Bafut, Cameroon

Bafut is one of the two regions in Cameroon (the other being Bali, Cameroon), where traditional power structures are still in place.

Banggai Island

Banggai Island is the second largest of the Banggai Islands, an archipelago located at the far eastern end of Central Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Bekisar

The male is used in East Java, Bali and the surrounding islands in popular vocal competitions; this practice has caused the decline of wild Green Junglefowl populations.

Bobonaro District

It was also the site of the killing of five Australian-based journalists (the Balibo Five) by Indonesian forces on October 16, 1975 during an incursion by Indonesia into what was then Portuguese Timor.

Bota

The Banjar people are a group of migrants who originated from Banjarmasin in Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Chamba people

The Chamba in Cameroon are divided into several subsets: Bali Nyonga, Bali Kumbat, Bali-Gham, Bali-Gangsin, and Bali-Gasho.

Daihatsu Sirion

Since 2011, the name has been used in Indonesia for the second generation of the Malaysian-built Perodua Myvi (2011–present), a model which in turn is a redesigned version of the second generation of the Daihatsu Boon (2010–present).

Damien Dernoncourt

He oversees an international team of 1500 individuals across the company’s facilities in Bali, Hong Kong, Bangkok and New York.

Erythroxylum novogranatense

It was introduced in Bogor (West Java, Indonesia) in 1875, and by 1888 large quantities of seed were already being distributed in South-East Asia.

European Union-Indonesia trade relations

Indonesia mostly exports to the EU agricultural products and processed resources, mainly palm oil, fuels and mining products, textiles and furniture.

Evolution of the Dutch Empire

Dutch New Guinea was retained separately until 1962, when it was transferred to Indonesia under pressure from the United States amid the escalation of the Vietnam War.

Gelora Bung Karno Stadium

KBS held "Music Bank World Tour" concert which is the second biggest k-pop concert to be held in Indonesia in 9 March 2013.

Genevieve Woo

Woo owns Vintage Bunny, an online jewellery store specialising in modern handmade and authentic vintage jewellery, created using natural stones, pearls, Balinese silver and Austrian crystals.

Halime Zülal Zeren

She was very successful at the 2013 Islamic Solidarity Games held in Palembang, Indonesia by taking a total of six medals, five of them in gold.

Harmony Chinese Music Group

The Harmony Chinese Music Group (和聲中樂團) is a Chinese music group founded in 2001 in Bandung, Indonesia.

Heart of Borneo

The proposed Heart of Borneo region includes a number of areas already under protection, such as: Batang Ai National Park, Lanjak Entimau Wildlife Sanctuary, Gunung Mulu National Park, Crocker Range National Park, Kinabalu National Park in Malaysia, the Kayan Mentarang National Park, Bukit Baka Bukit Raya National Park, Danau Sentarum National Park in Indonesia and the Ulu Temburong National Park in Brunei.

Herbert Feith

In retirement he returned to Indonesia with Betty, teaching at Gadjah Mada University in Jakarta and Andalas University in West Sumatra, again on local salaries.

Historical behaviour studies

A particular characteristic of the Stuttgart studies of historical behaviour was the comparative turn towards non-Western societies like Indonesia, Japan, and China.

Jal tarang

The jal tarang developed on the pattern of gongs of gamelan orchestras played in Java, Bali, and Burma (now Myanmar).

John Allison

John Moore Allison (1905–1978), U.S. ambassador to Japan, Indonesia, and Czechoslovakia

Joseph Bruchac

He holds the ranks of pengawal and pendekar in Pencak Silat, the martial art of Indonesia, and has studied various forms of T'ai chi, capoeira, kung fu wushu, and Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with numerous teachers.

Lontar Foundation

Lontar also published Indonesia in the Soeharto Years - Issues, Incidents and images written by John H. McGlynn and a large number of other writers.

Macassar Dunes Conservation Area

In the 1600s under colonial rule, the first Muslim community in South Africa was founded here by Sheikh Yusuf of Indonesia, who named the area after his home in Indonesia – the original Khoi name for the area was not recorded.

Pandji Tisna

--Is the setting in Bali or were they written in Bali?--> were published by Balai Pustaka.

Philipp Vielhauer

Philipp Adam Christoph Vielhauer (Bali, Cameroon 3 December 1914- Bonn 23 December 1977) was a German Lutheran pastor, and scholar of early Christianity and the New Testament Apocrypha.

Pierre Roland

Pierre Roland is currently in a few number of TV series in Indonesia, one of them is "Mimpi Manis", where he is acting alongside one of the most famous Indonesian Dangdut singers, Dewi Persik.

Rajiman Wediodiningrat

Maneuver at the time led the Budi Utomo which proposed the establishment of a people's militia in every region in Indonesia (awareness of having an army of people) answered the Netherlands with compensation form People's Council and dr .

Roy M. Huffington

In 1966 HUFFCO signed production sharing contract with Pertamina to explore oil in the Kutai Basin of the Mahakam River delta in East Kalimantan, Indonesia.

Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival

The Silk Screen Asian American Film Festival is a week long film festival founded in 2006 by filmmaker and artist Harish Saluja and held every May during Asian American Heritage Month in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to show mostly recent films and music by artists with Asian ethnic origins, such as from Japan, China, Taiwan, India, Indonesia, Korea, and the Philippines.

Soe Tjen Marching

Her work has been released on the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia, played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher.

Soedjatmoko

In 1947, after Indonesia proclaimed its independence, Soedjatmoko and two other youths were deployed to Lake Success, New York, to represent Indonesia at the United Nations (UN).

STAR World Philippines

Before STAR World, STAR Plus was STAR's English language entertainment channel which has started its operations in 1 January 1994 and its Indonesia counterpart was Film Indonesia and India was Zee TV.

Starcom IP Asia

Starcom IP Asia consists of 17 countries and 29 offices, with locations in Australia (Perth, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Gold Coast, Brisbane) Bangalore, Bangladesh, China (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Hong Kong), India (New Delhi, Chennai, Mumbai), Indonesia, Japan, Kazakhstan, Korea, Malaysia, New Zealand (Auckland, Wellington), Philippines, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Taiwan and Vietnam.

Supreme leader

Sukarno, the president of post-revolution Indonesia was known as the "Great Leader of Revolution" and Bung Karno ("Leader of People").

Tamam Shud

The group was invited to contribute music for the soundtrack for the Alby Falzon surf movie Morning of the Earth and Falzon initially wanted Tamam Shud to provide all the music, but after G. Wayne Thomas took over as producer, other artists were added, and Tamam Shud's involvement was eventually reduced to just three tracks - the instrumental track "Bali Waters" (featuring Lockwood on flute), and the songs "Sea The Swells" and "First Things First".

Tanjung Puting

Tanjung Puting National Park is a national park in Indonesia located in the southeast part of West Kotawaringin Regency in the Indonesian province of Central Kalimantan (Central Borneo).

Telecommunications in Sri Lanka

The most recent survey was conducted in July 2008 in eight Asian countries, including Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Sri Lanka, Maldives, Pakistan, Thailand, and the Philippines.

Wajo

Wajo Regency, a regency of South Sulawesi province of Indonesia.

White-lipped python

Liasis mackloti, a.k.a. Macklot's python, a non-venomous species found in Indonesia.

Zubir Said

The eldest child in a family of three boys and five girls, Zubir Said was born on 22 July 1907 in Bukittinggi in the Minangkabau highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.


see also

2007 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic – Doubles

The Doubles Tournament at the 2007 Commonwealth Bank Tennis Classic took place between 10 and 16 December on outdoor hard courts in Bali, Indonesia.

Bali bombings

The 2005 Bali bombings, a series of terrorist suicide bombs, and a series of car bomb attacks that occurred on October 1 2005, in Bali, Indonesia

China Airlines Flight 676

The plane took off from Ngurah Rai Int'l Airport, Bali, Indonesia en route to Chiang Kai-Shek Int'l Airport, Taipei, Taiwan with 182 passengers and 14 crew.

David Magson

David William Magson (born 4 April 1945) is a mathematician and businessman living in Bali, Indonesia, who was awarded his MBE in 2003 for his contribution to the recovery effort which followed the first terrorist bombing in Bali in 2002 in which more than 200 people, both Indonesians and visitors, lost their lives.

Dennis B. Funa

He also spoke in various intellectual property rights-related conventions, such as in the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)-Asia Pacific Conference on New Technology and the Enforcement of Copyright held in Bali, Indonesia in 1995, and in the WIPO-ASEAN Regional Round Table on IPR Cooperation and the TRIPS Agreement held in Thailand in 1996.