Goodluck Ebele Azikiwe Jonathan is a Nigerian politician who served as the president of Nigeria from 2010 to 2015. He lost the 2015 presidential election to former military head of state General Muhammadu Buhari,and was the first incumbent president in Nigerian history to concede defeat in an election.
Harmoko,colloquially referred to as Bung Harmoko,was an Indonesian politician and journalist who was active during the New Order era. He served as the Speaker of the People's Representative Council from 1997 until 1999,and was a factor in president Suharto's resignation during the widespread student demonstrations which occurred at the end of the New Order.
The 2010 Mentawai earthquake occurred with a moment magnitude of 7.8 on 25 October off the western coast of Sumatra at 21:42 local time. The earthquake occurred on the same fault that produced the 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake. It was widely felt across the provinces of Bengkulu and West Sumatra and resulted in a substantial localized tsunami that struck the Mentawai Islands.
Nazril Irham,known professionally as Ariel or Ariel "Noah",is an Indonesian musician,singer and songwriter of Minangkabau ancestry. He is the lead singer of Indonesian band Noah,formerly known as Peterpan.
Teuku Mohammad Hasan was an Indonesian politician and national hero from Aceh,who served as the first and only governor of Sumatra from 1945 until 1948. He also served as a cabinet minister in Sjafruddin Prawiranegara's emergency cabinet and was a member of both the Senate of the United States of Indonesia (USI) and the Provisional People's Representative Council (DPRS) of the Republic of Indonesia.
Digital terrestrial television in Indonesia (DVB-T2) started in 2009,and in most areas runs alongside the analogue TV system. The phase 1 of nationwide analog shutdown will be done in 166 regencies and cities,including Dumai,Banda Aceh,Batam,Tanjungpinang,Serang,Bali,Samarinda,Tanjung Selor,Tarakan,Makassar and Jayapura started from 30 April 2022 and it simplified in three stages. Analog broadcasting station in Jakarta along with 173 regencies/cities non-terrestrial services was officially signed off on 2 November 2022 at midnight. Batam,Bandung,Semarang,Surakarta and Yogyakarta followed on 2 December 2022,followed by Surabaya on 20 December 2022,Banjarmasin on 20 March 2023,Bali and Palembang on 31 March 2023,Makassar on 20 June 2023 and Medan on 30 July 2023. On 15 July 2023 at stroke of midnight,Trans Media and Emtek/SCM officially completed the shutdown. On 31 July 2023 at stroke of midnight,Viva Group,RTV and NET TV officially completed the shutdown of analog broadcast nationwide followed by MNC Group on 1 August 2023 at stroke of midnight. On 12 August 2023,the digital terrestrial television of Indonesia fully turned,shifted and switched to all ultra high definition on all thirteen local free-to-air terrestrial television station.
Ignasius Jonan is an Indonesian professional who was the Indonesian Minister for Energy and Mineral Resources serving under President Joko Widodo's administration. He is a former Indonesian Minister of Transportation and a former CEO of the Indonesian government-owned railway company,PT Kereta Api Indonesia which he headed from 2009 to 2014.
Yasonna Hamonangan Laoly is the current Minister of Law and Human Rights of Indonesia. He was a member of the North Sumatra regional legislature from 1999 to 2003,and of the People's Consultative Assembly from 2004 to 2014. He is the first ethnic Nias to hold a cabinet position. He is one of the leaders in the central executive board of the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle.
Tjahjo Kumolo was an Indonesian politician. He served as Minister of Home Affairs in the Working Cabinet (2014–2019),and Minister of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform in the Onward Indonesia Cabinet from 2019 until his death,both under President Joko Widodo.
The Islamic Defenders Front was an Indonesian hardline Islamist organization founded in 1998 by Muhammad Rizieq Shihab with backing from military and political figures. Since 2015,Ahmad Shabri Lubis has been the organization's leader,while Rizieq Shihab holds the title of Grand Imam of the FPI for life. The FPI originally positioned itself as an Islamic religious police,mostly by conducting illegal and unauthorized vigilante operations. It also acted as an Islamist pressure group with prominent social media activism and mass mobilizations against pro-government activists,ethnic Chinese,Christian minority,as well as liberal and reformist politicians.
Mochamad Basuki Hadimuljono is an Indonesian bureaucrat who currently serves as the Minister of Public Works and Public Housing under Joko Widodo. Before his appointment as minister,he had worked for the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works for nine years.
Budi Karya Sumadi is an Indonesian architect who currently serves as the Minister of Transportation in Joko Widodo's Working Cabinet.
Terawan Agus Putranto is an Indonesian physician who served as the Minister of Health of Indonesia between 23 October 2019 and 23 December 2020. He graduated from the Faculty of Medicine of Gajah Mada University and then joined the Indonesian Army as a military physician. Afterwards he studied Radiology in Airlangga University and obtained his doctoral degree in Hasanuddin University at 2013. He is a radiologist. He is the fourth Health Minister of Indonesia to have come from the military and the first since Suwardjono Surjaningrat,who was in office between 1978 and 1988. As Suwardjono and the two earlier officers were 2-star generals,Terawan,a 3-star general,is the highest-ranked military officer to have ever held this ministerial office.
Arifin Tasrif is an Indonesian executive who is the Minister for Energy &Mineral Resources in Joko Widodo's Onward Indonesia Cabinet.
TVRI Sport is an Indonesian terrestrial television channel owned by public broadcaster TVRI,specialised in sports programming. Serves as complementary to TVRI main channel,the channel is available only in digital terrestrial,satellite,and TVRI Klik streaming service.
Sugiharto was an Indonesian politician and businessman. He was Minister of State Owned Enterprises from 2004 to 2007 and was deputy chairman of the Indonesian Association of Muslim Intellectuals (ICMI). He died of COVID-19 in 2021.
Prof. Mr. Mohammad Nasroen was a Minangkabau bureaucrat,Indonesian philosophy scholar,professor of philosophy at the University of Indonesia,and a politician. He served as the first governor of Central Sumatra from 15 April 1948 to 1 August 1950,and he was the Minister of Justice in the Sukiman Cabinet from 20 November 1951 to 3 April 1952 replacing M. A. Pellaupessy.
Edy Mulyadi is an Indonesian senior journalist currently active at Forum News Network (FNN),notable for criticizing Indonesia's planned new capital city,Nusantara by using inappropriate words in late January 2022. He is also currently a cadre of the Prosperous Justice Party (PKS),and he was originally elected to the 2019 Indonesian legislative election as a DPR candidate but failed for insufficient votes.
