Semarang
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 59 ′ S , 110 ° 25 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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| province | Jawa Tengah | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-JT | ||
| surface | 373.7 km² | ||
| Residents | 1,506,924 (2009) | ||
| density | 4,032.4 Ew. / km² | ||
| Website | www.semarangkota.go.id | ||
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Semarang (old spelling: Samarang ) is a port city in Indonesia on the north coast of Java with 1,289,500 inhabitants. It is the capital of the Jawa Tengah province at the mouth of the Semarang River .
overview
The first Dutch-Indian railway connected the port with Tanggung in 1867 , it was the seat of the administration of the Nederlands-Indische Spoorweg and several private railways . In Semarang, Oei Tiong Ham founded the first multinational conglomerate in Southeast Asia.
The city has well-developed seaports from which sugar , copra , tobacco , coffee and rubber are exported. There are also shipyards , mechanical engineering and electrical industries as well as an important fishery. Shoes, textiles and glass are also manufactured.
The University of Diponegoro was founded in Semarang 1960th
Due to the uncontrolled extraction of groundwater and the drying out of clay layers, the soil in the city sinks by up to 15 centimeters every year, which leads to great economic damage. This is why the tide penetrates the streets of the city districts near the coast.
Another consequence of the overexploitation was the closure of the zoo and reopening at a location in Mangkang 15 km from the city in 2007.
religion
The city is the seat of a Catholic Archbishopric , whose Archbishop Ignatius Suharyo Hardjoatmodjo was given by Pope Benedict XVI. was appointed Military Bishop of Indonesia on January 2, 2006 . He succeeded Cardinal Julius Riyadi Darmaatmadja , who resigned from office for reasons of age.
The Central Java Great Mosque was inaugurated in 2006.
economy
Seidensticker has been producing shirts in its own factory in Semarang since 2015 .
Sports
The football club PSIS Semarang , founded in 1932, played in the highest Indonesian league, the Indonesia Super League , from 2001 to 2009 .
sons and daughters of the town
- Raden Saleh Syarif Bustaman (1811–1880), Javanese prince and painter
- Nicolina Maria Christina Sloot (1853–1927), Dutch writer, pseudonym "Melati van Java"
- Willem Einthoven (1860–1927), Dutch doctor and researcher; his work led to the development of the electrocardiogram (Nobel Prize in Medicine 1924)
- Oei Tiong Ham (1866–1924), founder of the first Southeast Asian multinational conglomerate and richest man in Southeast Asia
- Carl Lucas Norden (1880–1965), Dutch-American engineer and inventor
- Johannes Antonius James Barge (1884–1952), Dutch anatomist
- Johan Ranneft (1886–1982), Dutch Rear Admiral in the Royal Navy
- Conrad Helfrich (1886–1962), Dutch Vice Admiral in the Royal Navy
- Jur Haak (1892-1945), Dutch football player
- Hubertus van Mook (1894–1965), Dutch colonial administrator and minister
- Gerard Pieter Adolfs (1898–1968), Dutch-East Indian painter and architect
- Willem Jacob Luyten (1899–1994), Dutch astronomer
- Ashari Danudirdjo (1922–2010), sailor, lieutenant general, politician and diplomat
- Xenia Stad-de Jong (1922–2012), Dutch athlete (Olympic champion 1948)
- Reina Prinsen Geerligs (1922–1943), Dutch resistance fighter in World War II
- Klaus Hashagen (1924–1998), German composer
- Richter Roegholt (1925–2005), Dutch historian
- Fuad Hassan (1929–2007), politician, Minister of Education (1985–1993)
- Nedly Elstak (1931–1989), Dutch jazz musician and composer
- Nh. Dini (1936–2018), writer
- Max van Egmond (* 1936), Dutch singer (bass-baritone and bass)
- Ignace van Swieten (1943-2005), Dutch football referee
- Eddy Kurniawan (born 1962), badminton player
- Yuliani Santosa (* 1971), badminton player
- Yuni Kartika (* 1973), badminton player
- Johan Prasetyo (* 1982), football player and coach
- Triyaningsih (* 1987), long-distance runner
Individual evidence
- ↑ Pemerintah Kota Semarang - Kondisi Umum (Semarang city administration - General). (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on November 30, 2012 ; Retrieved December 12, 2012 (Indonesian). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Axel Bojanowski : Consequences of natural gas and water production: sagging cities . Article from April 28, 2014 in the portal spiegel.de , accessed on April 28, 2014
- ↑ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2014/11/27/zoo-welcomes-dozens-baby-crocodiles.html
- ↑ Why Seidensticker relies on Indonesia , at www.nw.de , accessed on August 30, 2018
