Sumatra is a large island in western Indonesia that is part of the Sunda Islands. It is the largest island that is located entirely in Indonesia and the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2.
North Sumatra is a province of Indonesia. It is located in the northwest of the island of Sumatra, and its capital is Medan. North Sumatra is the fourth most populous province in Indonesia after West Java, East Java and Central Java and the most populous Indonesian province outside Java, with over 13.5 million inhabitants in 2014.
Maimun Palace or Maimoon Palace is an istana of the Sultanate of Deli and a well-known landmark in Medan, the capital city of North Sumatra, Indonesia. Today, it serves as a museum.
The Trans-Sumatran Highway is a primary north-south road in the Indonesian island of Sumatra, 2,508.5 km longs, and connecting the north of the island in Banda Aceh to Bandar Lampung in the south, running through many major cities, traverse Medan city, Pekanbaru City, Jambi city, Palembang city on the way. Upgrade work is expected to begin in March, 2013 to make it a full-fledged highway, including land acquisition.
Indian Indonesians are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there were about 120,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012. Most of them were concentrated in province of North Sumatra and urban areas such as Banda Aceh, Surabaya, Medan and Jakarta. However, it is almost impossible to get correct statistical figures on the Indian Indonesian population, because most them have merged and assimilated with the indigenous population to become indistinguishable from native Indonesians.
Sup Kambing or Sop Kambing is a mutton soup from Southeast Asia, commonly found in Indonesian cuisine and Malaysian cuisine. It is prepared with goat meat, tomato, celery, spring onion, ginger, candlenut and lime leaf, its broth is yellowish in color.
The architecture of Indonesia reflects the diversity of cultural, historical and geographic influences that have shaped Indonesia as a whole. Invaders, colonizers, missionaries, merchants and traders brought cultural changes that had a profound effect on building styles and techniques.
Medan Hokkien is a local variant of Hokkien spoken among the Chinese in Medan, Indonesia. It is the lingua franca in Medan as well as other northern city states of North Sumatra surrounding it, and is a subdialect of Zhangzhou (漳州) dialect, together with widespread use of Indonesian and English borrowed words. It is predominantly a spoken dialect: it is rarely written in Chinese characters as Indonesia had banned the use of Chinese characters back in New Order era, and there is no standard romanisation.
Medan Station is the main train station in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. In addition to intercity services operated by Indonesia's national rail operator, Indonesian Railway Company, the station also has service to Kualanamu International Airport via Kualanamu ARS.
Old Medan City Hall is a building located on Jalan Balai Kota, Medan, North Sumatra.
The Indonesian island of Sumatra is the sixth largest island in the world. The rich ethnic diversity and historical heritage in Sumatra is reflected in the range of architectural styles in the island. The vernacular style is the native Sumatran ethnic groups architecture of dwellings, while the Hindu-Buddhist architecture reflected through the cultural historical heritage of candis built in Sumatra. The third wave is Islamic architecture adopted in mosques and palace in Sumatra, especially in Aceh, North Sumatra, and Malay cultural sphere in the island.
Dutch colonial architecture in Indonesia were built across the archipelago that once was known as Dutch East Indies. Most of the better and permanent colonial era structures were located in Java and Sumatra, which economically were considered more important during the Dutch imperial period. As a result, there are more surviving colonial buildings in the two island. Plenty of old VOC era forts and warehouses are scattered throughout the archipelago, particularly around Maluku Islands and Sulawesi. There are three Dutch colonial architectural styles:
The State of East Sumatra was established by the Netherlands after the reoccupation of North Sumatra in July, 1947, during the first of the Dutch "police actions" against the fledgling Republic of Indonesia. In 1949, as part of a peace deal that concluded the Indonesian National Revolution, it joined the United States of Indonesia, of which the Republic was also a component state. In August, 1950, it was finally absorbed into the Republic as part of the province of North Sumatra. Today, the part of East Sumatra are Langkat, Deli Serdang, and Serdang Bedagai.
London Sumatera Indonesia is an agribusiness company in Sumatra, Indonesia. Its head offices are based in Jakarta and regional offices are located in Medan, Palembang, Samarinda and Makassar. It is engaged promarily in the palm oil business. The company has palm plantations sells palm oil products, rubber, palm oil seeds, cocoa and tea. The plantation estates and processing facilities are located in Sumatera Utara, Sumatera Selatan, Kalimantan Timur, and on the Indonesian islands of Sulawesi and Java. Subsidiaries include PT Multi Agro Kencana Prima, Lonsum Singapore Pte Ltd, PT Tani Musi Persada and PT Sumatra Agri Sejahtera. The company trades on the Jakarta Stock Exchange.
Johannes Martinus (Han) Groenewegen was a Dutch architect who was active in the Netherlands and the Dutch East Indies, and subsequently, Indonesia from the 1920s to the 1960s.
Medan Sunggal is one of the 21 districts in the city of Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. The district of Medan Sunggal is bordered by Deli Serdang to the west, New Medan to the east, Medan Selayang to the south, and Medan Helvetia toat the north.
A jambur is a structure that is used as a multipurpose hall by the Karo people of North Sumatra, Indonesia. The traditional jambur is a large pavilion-like structure, raised above ground, wall-less, and placed under a large Karo traditional house roof style. Karo ritual ceremonies e.g. wedding feast, funeral, or general feasts are held within the jambur. Jambur can still be found in big cities of North Sumatra, e.g. Medan, Kabanjahe, Berastagi, as well as small villages in the Karo lands.
