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This is a list of Indonesian Did You Know items for Indonesian portal. The top 5-6 items will be listed in the portal. Periodically, the first item will be put at the bottom of the list, thus allowing the rotating mechanism. If you want to add more items, then please add at the bottom of the list in the Next Items section. Please remember that the corresponding article of the DYK should be available.

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• ... that after Albert Aalbers re-designed the famous Savoy Homann Hotel in Bandung, Hollywood stars including Charlie Chaplin and Mary Pickford stayed in the hotel?

• ... that the name of Braga Street in Bandung was taken from a musical drama group, the Toneel Braga?

• ... that Francisco Serrão, one of the vessel commanders sent by Afonso de Albuquerque from Malacca to find the spice route the 'Spice Islands', took a Javanese woman as his wife when his ship berthed at Gresik?

• ... that the Togian Hawk-owl is found only in three islands of the Togian group. The species was discovered on 25 December 1999?

• ... that one of the statues in Candi Sukuh is a giant 1.82 m phallus with four balls below its tip that is now located in the National Museum of Indonesia?

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• ... that Mount Tambora on the Sumbawa island violantly erupted in 1815 and caused a global effect which is known as the year without a summer in 1816? (Image:Tambora_volc.jpg)

• ... that Javanese people have no family name? In fact, many Javanese have only a single name, for example Sukarno and Suharto.

• ... that Gajah Mada, the prime minister and military leader of Majapahit Empire, has taken an oath not to take any food containing spices before he conquered Nusantara? And yes, he did.

• ... that the traditional stone jumping in Nias is a manhood ritual to see a young man leaping over the 2 metres high of thick stone tower even with a sword in his hand?

• ... that in Madura there is a traditional bull race in which a young boy jockey sits in a simple wooden sled pulled by a pair of bulls over a course of about 100 metres, the race lasting 10-15 seconds?

• ... that if you can touch the finger and toe of a particular buddha through the holes in one of the stupa (pic) at the top of Borobudur, then you will have good luck?

• ... that a population of orangutans found in the 1990s used feeding tools regularly?

• ... that until the mid 19th century, the Banda Islands were the only source in the world of the spices nutmeg and mace?

• ... that the tarsier has the longest continuous fossil record of any primate? Once found in Asia, Europe and North America, they are now only found on a number of South East Asian islands including the Philippines, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Sumatra.

• ... that Lake Toba in Sumatra was the site of a supervolcanic eruption, the largest volcanic eruption within the last two million years? The eruption plunged Earth into a volcanic winter, the average global temperature was decreased by 3 to 3.5°C for several years, and caused a planet-wide die-off of plants and animals.

• ... that on Flores island there are two archeological finds of different insular dwarfism species: one is Homo Floresiensis, a 1 meter tall diminutive Homo species, nicknamed the hobbit, and the other one is Stegodon, a pre-historic dwarf elephant?

• ... that the red sky background of the famous Norwegian painting, The Scream, shows the worldwide effect of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption?

• ... that when a noble Torajan dies, their body could be kept for years to allow the deceased family to raise money for the death feast?

• ... that the matriarchal society of Minangkabau in West Sumatra has been considered the largest and most stable matrilineal society in the modern world?

• ... that Indonesia is known as the "emerald of the equator" because 57% of the area is covered by forest?

• ... that the Babirusa or Pig-deer (pic), an endangered pig-like animal native to Sulawesi and surrounding islands has two pairs of tusks: the upper canines of the male babirusa are so curved and enlarged that they emerge through the flesh, by way of holes, to pass through the top of the snout. (Image:Babirusa.jpg)

• ... that Balinese people only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut? If they have a fifth child it will start all over again with Wayan.

• ... that the Hooded Pitohui is a songbird of New Guinea with black and orange plumage. This species and its two close relatives, the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui, are the first documented poisonous birds.

• ... that at Ijen volcano complex, tens of sulfur mining workers carry 70–100 kilograms of highly concentrated sulfuric rocks, that were picked up by hands, from the caldera to the crater rim (200 metres away) daily.

• ... that in 1664 Run, one of the Banda Islands, and then held by the British, was considered so valuable by the Dutch, that they gave up a Dutch North Atlantic colony - an island known as Manhattan - in exchange for Run.

• ... that Bunaken (pic) is one of the most popular underwater vacation destinations in Indonesia? And that it has around 70 genera of corals compared to 10 in Hawaii? (Image:Bunaken3.jpg)

• ... that the westernmost island of Indonesia, Weh Island, is the only known habitat of the threatened toad species, Bufo valhallae, according to IUCN list? The island is also known for its coral reef and the 21st finding of the rare and unusual megamouth shark in 2004.

• ... that one possible origin of the name of Krakatau is based on a linguistic misinterpretation of kaga' tau; meaning I don't know in Betawi language. Once, a captain ship asked a local inhabitant the island's name, and he replied "kaga' tau!".

• ... that there is a lake called Kelimutu Lake or Danau Tiga Warna (three colors lake) in East Nusa Tenggara? It has three colors and changes periodically every year.

• ... that Abangan literally means red in English, a term coined by Clifford Geertz to refer to Javanese Muslims who practice syncretism as a result of mixture between Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism and Animism traditions.

• ... that the Bugis, a sea-faring people of Southern Sulawesi, were trading with Aboriginal people of Northern Australia long before European colonists arrived in the area. The products of the forest and sea that they brought back were avidly sought after in the markets of Asia, where they were bartered for opium, silk, cotton, firearms and gunpowder.

• ... that the Javan Rhinoceros is one of the rarest and most endangered large mammals anywhere in the world. According to 2002 estimates, only about 60 remain alive, in Indonesia and Vietnam. They are primarily found in Ujung Kulon National Park, Java, but sightings are extremely rare.

• ... that Puncak Jaya (pic) is the highest point in Indonesia? The mountain is located in Papua and reaches 5,039 m (16,532 feet) above the sea level. (Image:Puncak_Jaya_icecap_1936.jpg)

• ... that Islam in Indonesia was introduced by sea traders from Gujarat, India, in the eleventh century ?

• ... that Batak Toba's funeral ceremonies include the second burial (mangongkal holi) of which the deceased bones are reinterred several years after the death?

• ... that Indonesia has more than 300 ethnic and language groups?

• ... that the native Borneo snake species, known as the Kapuas mud snake, is the only snake that can change its skin color spontaneously?

• ... that the inhabitants of Komodo Island are descendants of former convicts who were exiled to the island and have mixed themselves with the Bugis from Sulawesi?

• ... that the Sumatran Striped Rabbit is only found in forest in the Barisan Mountains in Western Sumatra. It is critically endangered, and very few specimens have ever been found, often decades apart?

• ... that Isidore van Kinsbergen had to dig and to clean up for four months before he could take the first photograph of Borobudur?

• ... that one of the active volcanoes in the Banda Sea is named the Emperor of China?