| Sabang | ||
|---|---|---|
| City | ||
| Other transcription(s) | ||
| • Jawoë | سابڠ | |
 Rubiah Island, Sabang | ||
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 Location within Aceh | ||
| Coordinates: 5°53′39″N95°19′9″E / 5.89417°N 95.31917°E Coordinates: 5°53′39″N95°19′9″E / 5.89417°N 95.31917°E | ||
| Country |  | |
| Province |  | |
| Government | ||
| • Mayor | Nazaruddin | |
| • Vice Mayor | Suradji | |
| Area[ citation needed ] | ||
| • Total | 153.00 km2 (59.07 sq mi) | |
| Population (2014 Estimate) | ||
| • Total | 32,271 [1] | |
| Time zone | UTC+7 (Indonesia Western Time) | |
| Area code | (+62) 652 | |
| Website | sabangkota.go.id | |
Sabang is a city consisting of a main island (Weh Island) and several smaller islands off the northern tip of Sumatra. The islands form a city within Aceh Special Region, Indonesia. The administrative centre is located on Weh Island, 17 km north of Banda Aceh. The city covers an area of 153.0 square kilometres and according to the 2010 census had a population of 30,653 people; [2] the latest estimate (for January 2014) is 32,271. [1] Sabang is also known as the northernmost and westernmost city of Indonesia.
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.
Aceh is a province of Indonesia, located at the northern end of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Banda Aceh. It is close to the Andaman and Nicobar Islands of India and separated from them by the Andaman Sea. Granted a special autonomous status, Aceh is a religiously conservative territory and the only Indonesian province practicing Sharia law officially. There are ten indigenous ethnic groups in this region, the largest being the Acehnese people, accounting for approximately 80% to 90% of the region's population.
Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It is the world's largest island country, with more than seventeen thousand islands, and at 1,904,569 square kilometres, the 14th largest by land area and the 7th largest in combined sea and land area. With over 261 million people, it is the world's 4th most populous country as well as the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, contains more than half of the country's population.
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The Japanese occupied the island and installed numerous bunkers, fortifications and gun emplacements. Their remnants can still be seen, though most have been re-purposed or removed. On 6 May 1943, the Imperial Japanese Navy's submarine, the I-29, tasked with a Yanagi mission, landed the Indian leader and freedom fighter, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose and his lieutenant, Abid Hasan at Sabang on Weh Island, instead of the Penang, to avoid detection by British spies.
I-29, code-named Matsu, was a B1 type submarine of the Imperial Japanese Navy used during World War II on two secret missions with Germany. She was sunk while coming back from the second mission.
The Yanagi missions were a series of submarine voyages undertaken by the Imperial Japanese Navy during the Second World War, to exchange technology, skills and materials with Japan's Axis partners, principally Nazi Germany. These voyages had to run the gauntlet of the western allies naval superiority in the Indian and Atlantic oceans; of the five westbound voyages, three arrived safely, with two submarines sunk en route, while of the three successful vessels only one completed her return voyage, with two sunk before reaching home.
Abid Hasan Safrani, IFS, born Zain-al-Abdin Hasan, was an officer of the Indian National Army and later, after 1947, an Indian diplomat.
