Sukabumi
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| Coordinates | 6 ° 55 ′ S , 106 ° 55 ′ E | ||
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| Country | Indonesia | ||
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Java | ||
| province | Jawa Barat | ||
| ISO 3166-2 | ID-JB | ||
| height | 600 m | ||
| Residents | 299,247 (2010) | ||
Sukabumi is a city in the Jawa Barat province (West Java) in the Sukabumi administrative district in Indonesia with 299,247 inhabitants (as of 2010).
location
It is located 115 km south of Jakarta at an altitude of about 600 meters on the southern foothills of the Gede volcano . After Bandung to the east is 80 km and km to the ocean in the West about the 65th
history
The so-called Sukabumi inscription from 804 is the earliest evidence of the ancient Javanese script and language. All previous inscriptions were in Sanskrit . The name of the place comes from Sanskrit and means happy earth ; sukha means "happiness, bliss" and bhumi means "earth". Several small villages in this area operated coffee plantations for the Dutch East India Company at the beginning of the 18th century . Andries de Wilde, a Dutch doctor and coffee and tea farmer, acquired the land in 1815. The Dutch then built the infrastructure such as the train station, power station, mosque and church in the early 20th century.
Attractions
sons and daughters of the town
- Miel Mundt (1880–1949), football player
- Marie Cramer (1887–1977), illustrator and writer
- Lothar van Gogh (1888–1945), football player
- Herman Suradiradja (1947-2016), chess player
Web links
- City website (Indonesian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Andreas Yumarma: Unity in Diversity: A Philosophical and Ethical Study of the Javanese Concept of Keselarasan , Gregorian University, Rome 1996, ISBN 88-7652-726-5 , p. 29 ( preview in Google book search)