Cirebon

(chē'rĭbŏn`), formerly

Tjirebon,

port city (1990 pop. 254,477), district (1990 pop. 1,649,428), and seaport, N Java, Indonesia, on the Java Sea. Crops grown in the fertile coastal plain include sugar and rice. The city has diversified manufactures and is the seat of a private university. It was formerly the capital of a sultanate that was abolished after 1815. SW of Cirebon is the resort village of Linggajati, where in 1946 the short-lived Dutch-Indonesian agreement for the establishment of the United States of Indonesia under the Dutch crown was drafted. The name was also spelled Cheribon.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Cirebon

(also Tjirebon, Cherebon), a city and port in Indonesia, on the northern coast of the island of Java. Population, 179,000 (1971). Cirebon is an important transportation junction. The city produces cigars and cigarettes, textiles, leather, building materials, and concentrated phosphorites.

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Topeng Cirebon is a masked dance tradition of West Java.

The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast

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The intervention was implemented through two organisations, KOMIDA, a mainstream microfinance bank with stringent membership and repayment conditions, and the Forum Komunikasi Difable Cirebon (FKDC), a disabled people's organisation (DPO) in Cirebon that used a revolving loan fund and more flexible repayment conditions.

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Originating in her dissertation, her book emerged from an encounter with the mask form from the Cirebon region, called Topeng Cirebon, in Berkeley.

The Encoded Cirebon Mask: Materiality, Flow, and Meaning Along Java's Islamic Northwest Coast

Romain Pierre was detained by police in Cirebon but released a few hours later because, a spokesman said, "he unintentionally entered the complex as he was hunting Pokemon while jogging".

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Romain Pierre was detained by police in Cirebon, but released a few hours later because, a spokesman said, "he unintentionally entered the complex as he was hunting Pokemon while jogging".

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A spokesman for West Java police said that Romain Pierre, 27, was caught at a checkpoint on Monday evening after initially running away when challenged by security guards at the military complex in Cirebon. Pierre was released a few hours later because it became apparent "he unintentionally entered the complex as he was hunting Pokemon while jogging," the police spokesman, Col.

Tourist hunting Pokemon in army base

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Sabang navy commander Kiki said the boat was now fixed and would be escorted out of Indonesian waters by Indonesian navy ship Teluk Cirebon.

Indonesian police fire warning shot as stranded Sri Lankan women disembark from the boat

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