Governance and Constitution

Governance And Constitution

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  1. Complete the sentence about Sundanese language with the correct year: Until ______ AD, Sundanese was the state language in the kingdoms of Salakanagara, Tarumanagara, Sunda, Galuh, Pajajaran, and Sume…
  2. Complete the sentence about Languages of Indonesia with the correct year: According to the ______ census, over 97% of Indonesians are fluent in Indonesian.
  3. Complete the sentence about Malay language with the correct year: A form known as Proto-Malayic was spoken in Borneo at least by ______ BCE, it has been argued to be the ancestral language of all subs…
  4. Complete the sentence about Malay language with the correct year: Batenburg on 29 November ______ at Kedukan Bukit, on the banks of the Tatang River, a tributary of the Musi River, near Palembang, in…
  5. Complete the sentence about Malay language with the correct year: After the Capture of Malacca by the Portuguese in ______, marking the fall of the Malacca Sultanate, the royal court re-established it…
  6. Complete the sentence about Tempeh with the correct year: The first known usage of this spelling is in an ______ German article.
  7. Complete the sentence about Tempeh with the correct year: According to historical evidence, tempeh was first made in Bayat, Klaten, Central Java, and was commonly consumed around ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Tofu with the correct year: The earliest Japanese document concerning tofu refers to the dish being served as an offering at the Kasuga Shrine in Nara in ______.
  9. Complete the sentence about Indonesian coffee with the correct year: The second shipment of seedlings was sent in ______ with Hendrik Zwaardecroon.
  10. Complete the sentence about Jamu with the correct year: In ______, Jamu was officially recognized as one of Indonesia's intangible cultural heritage by the Indonesian Ministry of Education and Culture…
  11. Complete the sentence about Jamu with the correct year: Subsequently in December ______ Jamu wellness culture is officially recognized as UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage of Indonesia.
  12. Complete the sentence about Jamu with the correct year: Jamu is believed to have originated in the Mataram kingdom era, c. ______ years ago.
  13. Complete the sentence about Jamu with the correct year: During the second conference of the Indonesian Association of Physicians, held in Solo in March ______, two presentations on the topic were give…
  14. Complete the sentence about Batik with the correct year: Outside of Java, the word first appears in a ______ merchant ship's bill of lading as batick.
  15. Complete the sentence about Kebaya with the correct year: The link between "kebaya" with "qaba" "a vesture", an Arabic term was first established in the Hobson-Jobson dictionary in ______.
  16. Complete the sentence about Kebaya with the correct year: The connection between kebaya with Arabic qaba, "a long loose jacket" was first established by orientalist scholars Henry Yule and Arthur Burn…
  17. Complete the sentence about Gamelan with the correct year: On 15 December ______, Gamelan was inscribed onto the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity.
  18. Complete the sentence about Angklung with the correct year: One of the first performances of angklung in an orchestra was in ______ during the Bandung Conference.
  19. Complete the sentence about Angklung with the correct year: UNESCO included the Indonesian angklung in the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity on 18 November ______.
  20. Complete the sentence about Legong with the correct year: Legong is mentioned in "I've Been To Bali Too", the single by Australian folk-rock band Redgum from their ______ album Frontline.
  21. Complete the sentence about Pendet with the correct year: In ______, I Wayan Beratha developed this dance and increased the number of dancers to five, as is often performed now.
  22. Complete the sentence about Pendet with the correct year: In ______, I Wayan Beratha and his colleagues developed Pendet dance as a mass dance.
  23. Complete the sentence about Jaipongan with the correct year: In ______, Indonesian President Sukarno prohibited rock and roll and other Western genres of music and challenged Indonesian musicians to r…
  24. Complete the sentence about Jaipongan with the correct year: Jaipongan made its public debut in ______ when Gugum Gumbira and his degung and dancers first performed in public.
  25. Complete the sentence about Dangdut with the correct year: By ______, it was still largely popular in Western Indonesia, but the genre was becoming less popular in the eastern parts, apart from Maluku…
  26. Complete the sentence about Dangdut with the correct year: Despite its derogatory intent, it was seized upon by those playing it, and the term appears in Rhoma's ______ dangdut classic.
  27. Complete the sentence about Dangdut with the correct year: Orkes Melayu singer Ellya Khadam switched to dangdut in the 1970s, and by ______, she was the number-one artist in Indonesia.
  28. Complete the sentence about Anggun with the correct year: By ______ she had released five Indonesian-language studio albums.
  29. Complete the sentence about Agnez Mo with the correct year: In ______, she released her second children's album, Yess!, which was a duet album with fellow Indonesian child singer Eza Yayang.
  30. Complete the sentence about Joey Alexander with the correct year: Alexander played at the Montreal and Newport Jazz Festivals in ______ and has performed for Herbie Hancock, Bill Clinton, Wendy Kiess…
  31. Complete the sentence about Joko Anwar with the correct year: In ______, Indonesia Tatler included Anwar in its list of the most influential film directors in modern Indonesian cinema.
  32. Complete the sentence about Garin Nugroho with the correct year: Nugroho was born in Yogyakarta, Special Region of Yogyakarta on 6 June ______.
  33. Complete the sentence about Garin Nugroho with the correct year: After studying under Teguh Karya, he graduated from the IKJ in ______.
  34. Complete the sentence about Garin Nugroho with the correct year: After his mother's death in ______, Nugroho decided to make a film about Javanese culture.
  35. Complete the sentence about Garin Nugroho with the correct year: In ______ Nugroho returned to theatre with The Iron Bed, adapted from Opera Jawa.
  36. Complete the sentence about Indonesian literature with the correct year: Likewise, the Pujangga Baru Generation was active even after the Generation of ______ had entered the literary scene.
  37. Complete the sentence about Pramoedya Ananta Toer with the correct year: Pramoedya was born on 6 February ______, in the town of Blora in the heartland of Java, then a part of the Dutch East Indies.
  38. Complete the sentence about Pramoedya Ananta Toer with the correct year: On 17 August ______, after the news of the Allied victory over Japan reached Indonesia, Sukarno proclaimed Indonesian independe…
  39. Complete the sentence about This Earth of Mankind with the correct year: In ______, it was legally reprinted in Indonesia by the publisher Lentera Depantara, after already having been translated into…
  40. Complete the sentence about Chairil Anwar with the correct year: Anwar was born and raised in Medan, North Sumatra, before moving to Batavia with his mother in ______, where he began to enter the loca…
  41. Complete the sentence about Chairil Anwar with the correct year: After publishing his first poem in ______, Anwar continued to write.
  42. Complete the sentence about Chairil Anwar with the correct year: In January ______, his father was one of hundreds of civilians killed by the Dutch in the Rengat massacre.
  43. Complete the sentence about Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana with the correct year: A Renaissance man himself – the author of numerous books on a range of subjects – he was working on a novel at the time of h…
  44. Complete the sentence about Laskar Pelangi with the correct year: In ______, SD Muhammadiyah Gantong, taught by Muslimah Harfan and Bakri, awaits ten students as required by law.
  45. Complete the sentence about Laskar Pelangi with the correct year: Belitung, heavily reliant on its tin industry, was severely affected by the ______ tin crisis, and PN Timah went bankrupt.
  46. Complete the sentence about Habiburrahman El Shirazy with the correct year: El Shirazy was born on the outskirts of Semarang, Central Java, on 30 September ______, the eldest of five children born to…
  47. Complete the sentence about Habiburrahman El Shirazy with the correct year: After graduating in ______, he continued his studies at a madrasa in Surakarta designed for gifted children.
  48. Complete the sentence about Habiburrahman El Shirazy with the correct year: In ______, after completing his studies in Surakarta, El Shirazy travelled to Cairo, Egypt, to enrol at Al-Azhar University.
  49. Complete the sentence about Raden Saleh with the correct year: While in Europe, in ______ Saleh became the first indigenous Indonesian to be initiated into Freemasonry.
  50. Complete the sentence about Raden Saleh with the correct year: From ______, he spent five years at the court of Ernest I, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, who became an important patron.
  51. Complete the sentence about Raden Saleh with the correct year: Several of his paintings were destroyed when the Colonial Dutch pavilion in Paris was burnt in ______.
  52. Complete the sentence about Affandi with the correct year: Beginning in ______, Affandi began teaching himself how to paint.
  53. Complete the sentence about Affandi with the correct year: In ______, he received a scholarship from the United States government to study arts education.
  54. Complete the sentence about Indonesian art with the correct year: The first film produced in Indonesia was the ______ Dutch East Indies film Loetoeng Kasaroeng, a silent film which was an adaptation o…
  55. Complete the sentence about Javanese people with the correct year: The Java valley was home to thousands of Hindu temples that co-existed with Buddhist temples, most of which were buried in the massiv…
  56. Complete the sentence about Batak with the correct year: A Tamil inscription has been found in Barus which is dated to ______.
  57. Complete the sentence about Dayak people with the correct year: In ______, during the Japanese occupation, the Japanese referred to Kaharingan as the religion of the Dayak people.
  58. Complete the sentence about Chinese Indonesians with the correct year: The term Chinese Indonesian has never been clearly defined, especially for the period before ______.
  59. Complete the sentence about Ethnic groups in Indonesia with the correct year: The following lists of major ethnic groups in Indonesia are based on the ______ Indonesian census.
  60. Complete the sentence about Indonesia national football team with the correct year: The predecessor of the team, Dutch East Indies, participated in the ______ edition, where they were eliminated in th…
  61. Complete the sentence about Indonesia national football team with the correct year: Indonesia achieved the bronze medal at the ______ Asian Games in Tokyo.
  62. Complete the sentence about Indonesia national football team with the correct year: In ______, a team from Java represented the Dutch East Indies in the Far Eastern Games in Manila, Philippines.
  63. Complete the sentence about Indonesia national football team with the correct year: On 9 June ______, two national organizations, NIVU and PSSI, joined forces and worked together to contribute players…
  64. Complete the sentence about PSSI with the correct year: Soeratin then cancelled the agreement with NIVU at the PSSI congress in ______ in Surakarta.
  65. Complete the sentence about Persib Bandung with the correct year: After Indonesia's independence, Persib was reformed in Bandung in ______, during the Indonesian National Revolution.
  66. Complete the sentence about Persija Jakarta with the correct year: Persija has roots that predate the current Indonesian state, which declared independence in ______.
  67. Complete the sentence about Persija Jakarta with the correct year: VIJ changed its name to Persija in ______, five years after the Indonesian independence.
  68. Complete the sentence about Persija Jakarta with the correct year: In mid-______, a club with ethnic Chinese, Dutch and Eurasian players merged with the rebranded outfit.
  69. Complete the sentence about Persija Jakarta with the correct year: After the ______ independence, national football competitions in Indonesia centred on region-based associations of amateur clubs that…
  70. Complete the sentence about Arema FC with the correct year: Arema was established during the peak of this subculture, on 11 August ______, with a goal of developing professional football club in Malan…
  71. Complete the sentence about Arema FC with the correct year: In ______, Arema experienced severe financial difficulties, which affected the team's performance.
  72. Complete the sentence about Bambang Pamungkas with the correct year: Bambang helped his club to win the Liga Indonesia in ______, and he was awarded the accolade of that season's best player.
  73. Complete the sentence about Shin Tae-yong with the correct year: Shin is regarded as one of the greatest K League players of all time, and was selected for the K League 30th Anniversary Best XI in ___…
  74. Complete the sentence about Shin Tae-yong with the correct year: Shin retired in September ______ due to an ongoing ankle issue that would have required surgery.
  75. Complete the sentence about Shin Tae-yong with the correct year: Shin played 23 international matches including at the ______ AFC Asian Cup for the South Korea national team.
  76. Complete the sentence about Thomas Cup with the correct year: Since ______, the two Cups have been held jointly at the various stages of play.
  77. Complete the sentence about Thomas Cup with the correct year: China, which did not begin to compete before ______, trails Indonesia with 12 titles, while Malaysia has won 5 titles.
  78. Complete the sentence about Uber Cup with the correct year: The Uber Cup trophy was officially presented at the annual general meeting in ______, the year the first Uber Cup tournament was first held.
  79. Complete the sentence about Alan Budikusuma with the correct year: In ______ he was runner-up to China's Zhao Jianhua at the IBF World Championships in Copenhagen.
  80. Complete the sentence about Alan Budikusuma with the correct year: Budikusuma was a member of world champion Indonesian Thomas Cup teams in ______.
  81. Complete the sentence about Taufik Hidayat with the correct year: At age 17, he won the Brunei Open and reached the semifinals of the ______ Asian Championships and the Indonesia Open.
  82. Complete the sentence about Taufik Hidayat with the correct year: In ______, Hidayat, at just 19 years old, achieved the world number one ranking after winning the Malaysia Open, Asian Championships…
  83. Complete the sentence about Taufik Hidayat with the correct year: Hidayat participated in the men's singles competition at the ______ Summer Olympics in Sydney.
  84. Complete the sentence about Taufik Hidayat with the correct year: Hidayat won the men's singles gold medal at the ______ Summer Olympics defeating Hidetaka Yamada of Japan and Wong Choong Hann of Mala…
  85. Complete the sentence about Rudy Hartono with the correct year: Hartono was born on 18 August ______ as Nio Hap Liang in Surabaya.
  86. Complete the sentence about Rudy Hartono with the correct year: In ______, he entered his first tournament at the Surabaya's junior championship when he was 12 and won.
  87. Complete the sentence about Liem Swie King with the correct year: Liem was born on 28 February ______ in Kudus Regency, Central Java.
  88. Complete the sentence about Liem Swie King with the correct year: During elementary school, he studied at Sekolah Tionghoa, and later moved to SD Negeri Dema'an II in ______.
  89. Complete the sentence about Liem Swie King with the correct year: In ______ at the age of 15, Liem became the junior single champion of Central Java.
  90. Complete the sentence about Greysia Polii with the correct year: Having started her career at the Jaya Raya in Jakarta, she later was selected to join the national team in ______.
  91. Complete the sentence about 1992 Summer Olympics with the correct year: Beginning in ______, the International Olympic Committee decided to hold the Summer and Winter Olympics in alternating even-numb…
  92. Complete the sentence about 1992 Summer Olympics with the correct year: The ______ Summer and Winter Olympics were the last games to be staged in the same year.
  93. Complete the sentence about 1992 Summer Olympics with the correct year: The ______ Games received universal acclaim, with the organisation, volunteers, sportsmanship, and Spanish public being lauded i…
  94. Complete the sentence about 1992 Summer Olympics with the correct year: New Delhi, India, had announced a bid for the games, but withdrew in March ______.
  95. Complete the sentence about Southeast Asian Games with the correct year: At the 8th SEAP Games in ______, while South Vietnam was fallen and no longer existed, the SEAP Federation considered the inclu…
  96. Complete the sentence about Southeast Asian Games with the correct year: Timor-Leste, one year after gaining independence from Indonesia, was admitted at the 22nd SEA Games in ______.
  97. Complete the sentence about Sepak takraw with the correct year: The choice of this name for the sport was essentially a compromise between Malaysia and Thailand in Kuala Lumpur in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Indonesian Basketball League with the correct year: The league was organized independently by Perbasi until ______.
  99. Complete the sentence about Indonesian Basketball League with the correct year: Aspac Jakarta succeeded in becoming the first title winner in ______.
  100. Complete the sentence about Indonesian Basketball League with the correct year: In ______, Satria Muda emerged as a new force to get rid of Aspac in the grand final and appear as a champion.

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