Geography and Archipelago

Geography And Archipelago

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  1. Complete the sentence about Pematangsiantar with the correct year: In ______, the Dutch took control, turning Pematangsiantar into their colony.
  2. Complete the sentence about Borobudur with the correct year: The largest restoration project was completed in ______ by the Indonesian government and UNESCO, followed by the monument's listing as a UN…
  3. Complete the sentence about Prambanan with the correct year: The devastating ______ eruption of Mount Merapi volcano located around 25 kilometres north of Prambanan in Central Java, or a power struggl…
  4. Complete the sentence about Tirta Empul with the correct year: On a hill overlooking the temple, a modern villa was built for President Sukarno's visit in ______.
  5. Complete the sentence about Mount Bromo with the correct year: The Tengger Caldera was still active in late January ______, the activity being characterised by fluctuating ongoing eruptions.
  6. Complete the sentence about Mount Bromo with the correct year: The impact of a heavy rain of volcanic ash from eruptions since 19 December ______ resulted in disruption of normal activities.
  7. Complete the sentence about Mount Merapi with the correct year: A pyroclastic flow from a large explosion killed 27 people on 22 November ______, mostly in the town of Muntilan, west of the volcano.
  8. Complete the sentence about Mount Merapi with the correct year: Another large eruption occurred in ______, shortly before the Yogyakarta earthquake.
  9. Complete the sentence about Mount Merapi with the correct year: On the afternoon of 25 October ______, Merapi erupted on its southern and southeastern slopes.
  10. Complete the sentence about Mount Tambora with the correct year: The ______ eruption was the largest in recorded history, erupting up to 150 cubic kilometers of volcanic material, making it a VEI-7 on…
  11. Complete the sentence about Mount Rinjani with the correct year: The eruption of nearby Mount Tambora on Sumbawa is known for the most violent eruption in recorded history on 15 April ______, with a s…
  12. Complete the sentence about Mount Agung with the correct year: The eruption of ______ was one of the largest and most devastating eruptions in Indonesia's history.
  13. Complete the sentence about Mount Agung with the correct year: On February 18, ______, local residents heard loud explosions and saw clouds rising from the crater of Mount Agung.
  14. Complete the sentence about Mount Semeru with the correct year: In ______, Semeru erupted in January, and on 4 and 6 December.
  15. Complete the sentence about Mount Kerinci with the correct year: Kerinci was first climbed in December ______ by Dutch mountaineers Arend Ludolf van Hasselt and Daniël David Veth.
  16. Complete the sentence about Mount Batur with the correct year: The substantial lava field from the ______ eruption is visible today when viewed from Kintamani, a town on the southwest ridge of the cal…
  17. Complete the sentence about Lake Maninjau with the correct year: Since ______, this water has been used to generate hydroelectric power for West Sumatra, generated around 68 MW at maximum load.
  18. Complete the sentence about Kelimutu with the correct year: The first event occurred in ______ for more than 5 years and was a Phreatic eruption, where hot water is heated until it erupts into an expl…
  19. Complete the sentence about Kelimutu with the correct year: Kelimutu's most recent eruption took place between June and July ______, which included minor phreatic explositons.
  20. Complete the sentence about Kelimutu with the correct year: The area is said to have begun to attract attention after being noticed by a regional Dutch military commander, B. van Suchtelen in ______ a…
  21. Complete the sentence about Komodo National Park with the correct year: The park was founded in ______ to protect the Komodo dragon, the world's largest lizard.
  22. Complete the sentence about Komodo National Park with the correct year: In ______ the park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site and a Man and Biosphere Reserve.
  23. Complete the sentence about Komodo National Park with the correct year: The island of Padar and part of Rinca were established as nature reserves in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Komodo National Park with the correct year: In ______ the national park was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
  25. Complete the sentence about Komodo dragon with the correct year: Komodo dragons were first documented by Europeans in ______, when rumors of a "land crocodile" reached Lieutenant van Steyn van Hensbro…
  26. Complete the sentence about Komodo dragon with the correct year: The first two live Komodo dragons to arrive in Europe were exhibited in the Reptile House at London Zoo when it opened in ______.
  27. Complete the sentence about Komodo dragon with the correct year: After returning with 12 preserved specimens and two live ones, this expedition provided the inspiration for the ______ movie King Kong.
  28. Complete the sentence about Raja Ampat Islands with the correct year: Most of the islands constitute the Raja Ampat Regency, which was separated from Sorong Regency in ______.
  29. Complete the sentence about Wakatobi National Park with the correct year: Since ______ the park is listed as a tentative World Heritage Site.
  30. Complete the sentence about Gunung Leuser National Park with the correct year: In ______, Herman Rijksen established the Ketambe Research Station, a specially designated research area for the oranguta…
  31. Complete the sentence about Tanjung Puting National Park with the correct year: Friends of National Parks Foundation is an Indonesian NGO that has been working to restore the habitat in the Pasalat an…
  32. Complete the sentence about Tanjung Puting National Park with the correct year: Camp Leakey, founded in ______ with assistance from the Leakey Foundation, was the first of these centers.
  33. Complete the sentence about Lorentz National Park with the correct year: In ______ Lorentz was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO.
  34. Complete the sentence about Lorentz National Park with the correct year: The dingiso, a tree-kangaroo species only discovered in ______, is endemic to the Sudirman Range.
  35. Complete the sentence about Taman Mini Indonesia Indah with the correct year: On 31 December ______, the World Peace Committee recognized TMII as an International Civilization Park and World Peace The…
  36. Complete the sentence about Taman Mini Indonesia Indah with the correct year: A project called "Indonesian Miniature Project" was started by Harapan Kita Foundation in ______.
  37. Complete the sentence about Taman Mini Indonesia Indah with the correct year: Taman Mini Indonesia Indah was eventually inaugurated on 20 April ______.
  38. Complete the sentence about Monas with the correct year: Soedarsono incorporated the numbers 17, 8 and 45, representing 17 August ______ Proclamation of Indonesian Independence, in the dimensions of t…
  39. Complete the sentence about Monas with the correct year: A further 360 piles were driven in for the museum foundations, with work being completed in March ______.
  40. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta with the correct year: The committee for the construction of the Istiqlal Mosque, led by Cokroaminoto, was founded in ______.
  41. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta with the correct year: In ______, the committee appointed Sukarno as technical chief supervisor.
  42. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta with the correct year: To make way for the mosque, the Citadel Prins Frederick, built in ______, was demolished.
  43. Complete the sentence about Istiqlal Mosque, Jakarta with the correct year: The foundation stone was laid by Sukarno on 24 August ______; the construction took 17 years.
  44. Complete the sentence about Jakarta Cathedral with the correct year: After the arrival of Dutch East India Company in ______, the Catholic Church was banned in the Dutch East Indies and was limited to…
  45. Complete the sentence about Fatahillah Square with the correct year: In ______, a Chinese clothing bazaar occupied the northwest part of the square.
  46. Complete the sentence about Fatahillah Square with the correct year: In the year ______, restoration of the square and a couple of landmark in the Old Town was done by the governor Ali Sadikin.
  47. Complete the sentence about Ancol Dreamland with the correct year: The development of Ancol was started during the tenure of Ali Sadikin, the governor of Jakarta in ______.
  48. Complete the sentence about Pangandaran with the correct year: The Pangandaran International Kite Festival has been held since ______.
  49. Complete the sentence about Bali with the correct year: Bali was inhabited around ______ BC by Austronesian peoples who migrated originally from the island of Taiwan to Southeast Asia and Oceania thro…
  50. Complete the sentence about Java with the correct year: Java was the first place where Indonesian coffee was grown, beginning in ______.
  51. Complete the sentence about Kalimantan with the correct year: In ______, President of Indonesia Joko Widodo proposed that Indonesia's capital be moved to Kalimantan.
  52. Complete the sentence about Kalimantan with the correct year: The People's Consultative Assembly approved the Law on State Capital in January ______.
  53. Complete the sentence about Papua with the correct year: In ______, Papua adopted its current name and was granted a special autonomous status under Indonesian legislation.
  54. Complete the sentence about Papua with the correct year: The City of Jayapura was separated on 2 August ______ from Jayapura Regency and formed into a province-level administration.
  55. Complete the sentence about Lombok with the correct year: The Dutch had first visited Lombok in ______ and the Dutch East India Company concluded its first treaty with the Sasak Princess of Lombok.
  56. Complete the sentence about Lombok with the correct year: The Balinese had managed to take over the whole island by ______, but Balinese infighting resulted in the island being split into four feuding…
  57. Complete the sentence about Lombok with the correct year: In ______, the Mataram kingdom brought its rivals under control.
  58. Complete the sentence about Flores, Indonesia with the correct year: The first Portuguese visit took place in ______, through the expedition of António de Abreu and his vice-captain Francisco Serrão…
  59. Complete the sentence about Halmahera with the correct year: In June ______, about five hundred people were killed when a ferry carrying refugees from the fighting on Halmahera sank off the northeast…
  60. Complete the sentence about Maluku Islands with the correct year: The Maluku Islands formed a single province from Indonesian independence until ______, when they were split into two provinces.
  61. Complete the sentence about Maluku Islands with the correct year: The first recorded word that can be identified with Maluku comes from Nagarakertagama, an Old Javanese eulogy of ______.
  62. Complete the sentence about Nusa Tenggara with the correct year: In ______ this was split into three new provinces, as the provinces of Bali, West Nusa Tenggara and East Nusa Tenggara.
  63. Complete the sentence about Bangka Island with the correct year: The Kota Kapur inscription, dated from 686 CE, was found in Bangka in ______, showed Srivijayan influence on the island around the 7th…
  64. Complete the sentence about Mentawai Islands with the correct year: Earthquake and tsunami activity has been high since the ______ Indian Ocean earthquake.
  65. Complete the sentence about Riau Islands with the correct year: After the decline of Srivijaya, the Riau Islands became part of the Bentan Kingdom around ______ AD, with Raja Iskandar Syah as one of i…
  66. Complete the sentence about Karimunjawa with the correct year: Twenty-two of the islands have been declared in ______ as a marine reserve, the Karimunjawa National Park.
  67. Complete the sentence about Thousand Islands with the correct year: Since the establishment of Batavia in ______, Pulau Kapal, later named by the Dutch as Onrust Island, has been a naval base.
  68. Complete the sentence about Thousand Islands with the correct year: The Dutch enlarged the fort in ______ and gave it an asymmetrical pentagonal shape with a bastion in each corner.
  69. Complete the sentence about Thousand Islands with the correct year: After the dissolution of the Dutch East India Company in ______, the Batavian Republic took over the management of the Dutch East In…
  70. Complete the sentence about Thousand Islands with the correct year: In ______, a Royal Navy squadron under Captain Henry Lidgbird Ball, consisting of HMS Daedalus, HMS Sybille, HMS Centurion and HMS B…
  71. Complete the sentence about Nusa Penida with the correct year: After the integration of Bali into the Dutch East Indies in ______ which later became Indonesia, Nusa Penida remained attached to Klungku…
  72. Complete the sentence about Simeulue with the correct year: In ______ during the Aceh War the Dutch colonial empire government took control of Simeulue.
  73. Complete the sentence about Enggano with the correct year: In ______, Charles Miller succeeded in landing and meeting the indigenous population.
  74. Complete the sentence about Enggano with the correct year: Italian explorer Elio Modigliani visited Enggano Island between 25 April and 13 July ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Kalimantan Barat with the correct year: The same policy followed by the Sambas Sultanate around ______, which brought in workers from China to work in the gold mines in the…
  76. Complete the sentence about Kalimantan Barat with the correct year: The government of Lanfang was ended in West Kalimantan after the Dutch Invasion in ______.
  77. Complete the sentence about Kalimantan Timur with the correct year: The cave paintings were first spotted in ______ by the French explorer Luc-Henri Fage and the French archaeologist Jean-Michel Chazi…
  78. Complete the sentence about Aceh with the correct year: Aceh was the closest point of land to the epicenter of the ______ Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, which devastated much of the western coas…
  79. Complete the sentence about North Sumatra with the correct year: In the second wave of migration from mainland Southeast Asia c. ______ BC, the Young Malays or Deutero Malays settled on the coast.
  80. Complete the sentence about West Sumatra with the correct year: West Sumatra was the centre of the Pagaruyung Kingdom, founded by Adityawarman in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about West Sumatra with the correct year: The first European to come to the region was a French explorer and cartographer named Jean Parmentier who arrived around ______.
  82. Complete the sentence about West Sumatra with the correct year: Likewise in the Ming Chronicles from ______, there was the royal name of Mi-nang-ge-bu of the six kingdoms who sent messengers facing Yo…
  83. Complete the sentence about Riau with the correct year: The name is likely to have become famous since Raja Kecil moved the Malay kingdom center from Johor to Ulu Riau in ______.
  84. Complete the sentence about Banten with the correct year: Formerly part of the province of West Java, Banten was split off to become a separate province on 17 October ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Banten with the correct year: On 22 November ______, Dutch Governor-General Herman Willem Daendels declared that the Sultanate of Banten had been absorbed into the Dutch Ea…
  86. Complete the sentence about Banten with the correct year: Banten became part of the province of West Java, but separatist efforts led to the creation of the separate province of Banten in October 17…
  87. Complete the sentence about West Java with the correct year: West Java was one of the first eight provinces of Indonesia formed following the country's independence proclamation and was later legally…
  88. Complete the sentence about West Java with the correct year: To defend against the threat, Prabu Surawisesa Jayaperkosa signed the Luso-Sundanese Treaty with the Portuguese in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Special Region of Yogyakarta with the correct year: The Sultanate has existed in various forms and survived through the rule of the Dutch and the ______ invasion of the Dut…
  90. Complete the sentence about Ring of Fire with the correct year: The existence of an orogenic belt of volcanic activity around the Pacific Ocean was known in the early 19th century; for example, in ___…
  91. Complete the sentence about Sunda Strait with the correct year: The ______ eruption of Krakatau, one of these islands, had a profound effect on the area, both short and long term.
  92. Complete the sentence about Java Sea with the correct year: The Battle of the Java Sea from February to March ______, was one of the costliest naval battles of World War II.
  93. Complete the sentence about Wallace Line with the correct year: In fact, Wallace did not include the Philippines in his ______ paper, and the determination of a line in honor of his name was suggested…
  94. Complete the sentence about Puncak Jaya with the correct year: The predecessor of the Lorentz National Park, which encompasses the Carstensz Range, was established in ______ following the report of th…
  95. Complete the sentence about Orangutan with the correct year: In Western sources, the first printed attestation of the word for the apes is in Dutch physician Jacobus Bontius's ______ Historiae natural…
  96. Complete the sentence about Orangutan with the correct year: The word was first attested in English in ______ by physician John Bulwer in the form Orang-Outang, and variants ending with -ng are found…
  97. Complete the sentence about Orangutan with the correct year: In Malay, the term was first attested in ______, not as an indigenous name but referring to how the English called the animal.
  98. Complete the sentence about Bornean orangutan with the correct year: The Bornean orangutan and the Sumatran orangutan were considered merely subspecies until ______; they were elevated to species foll…
  99. Complete the sentence about Sumatran tiger with the correct year: Felis tigris sondaicus was the scientific name proposed by Coenraad Jacob Temminck in ______ for a tiger specimen from Java.
  100. Complete the sentence about Sumatran tiger with the correct year: Panthera tigris sumatrae was proposed by Reginald Innes Pocock in ______, who described a skin and a skull of a tiger zoological speci…

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