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Sukabumi

 

a city in Indonesia, in southwestern Java; situated at the foot of the volcano Pangrango. Population, 80,000 (1961). Sukabumi has a railroad station on the Jakarta-Bandung line. Industrial enterprises produce foodstuffs and condiments, textiles, leather and footwear, and metal products.

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He claimed the group invested in various projects, including a profitable cattle farm located in Sukabumi, West Java, which was started by Dulmatin, a senior JI leader who played a key role in the 2002 Bali bombings but was killed by Indonesian police in Jakarta nine years ago.
The child, nicknamed Rapi, started smoking used up cigarette buds he found outside his mother's market stall in Sukabumi.
During April 2015-October 2016, district animal health officers of the West Java Animal Health Authority collected samples from birds in 6 districts of West Java Province: Subang, Indramayu, Tasikmalaya, Purwakarta, Sukabumi, and Bandung (Figure 1).
8 (Saba) - The death toll from the landslides that rocked Indonesia's West Java island of Sukabumi last week rose to 32, the Indonesian authorities said Monday.
A search and rescue operation was still under way to look for the missing villagers, seven days since the rain-triggered landslide badly damaged 29 houses in a village of Sukabumi district, said a spokesman for Indonesia's disaster management agency, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho.
The landslide that plunged down surrounding hills just before sunset Monday buried 30 houses in Sirnaresmi village in West Java's Sukabumi district.
The Chinese of Sukabumi: A Study in Social and Cultural Accommodation.
For example, many factories producing garments moved to smaller urban and semi-urban regions like Sukabumi and Cirebon in West Java; Semarang, Kendal, and Boyolali in Central Java; and Mojokerto in East Java--where wages were half (or even less than half) of those in Greater Jakarta, Surabaya, and neighbouring districts.
DPA JAKARTA INDONESIAN opposition politicians and citizens criticized President Joko Widodo on Monday, a day after he rode a highly-modified motorcycle through the town of Sukabumi alongside several cabinet ministers.
Koswara Kusuma from the Sukabumi Region of Java Island to share and teach some basics of this wonderful ancient art form to the participants.
To conduct the workshop, the Embassy had invited two batik maestros Fonna Melania and Koswara Kusuma from the Sukabumi Region of Java Island to share and teach some basics of this wonderful ancient art form to the participants.
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