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Miss Grand Indonesia
Miss Grand Indonesia was an Indonesian female beauty pageant, held annually from 2018 to 2020. The winners of the contest represented Indonesia at its parent international stage, Miss Grand International, in which an Indonesian delegate, Ariska Putri Pertiwi, won the title in 2016. Before the establishment of the Miss Grand Indonesia pageant, the Indonesian representatives for the aforementioned international stage were appointed or determined through other national pageants. The pageant was discontinued in 2021 when the country representative was instead handpicked, and since 2023, Miss Grand Indonesia titleholders have been determined through a newly established Miss Mega Bintang Indonesia. In addition to winning the main title in 2016, Indonesian delegates also qualified for the top 5 in the Miss Grand International pageant in 2018, 2020, and 2022, as well as obtaining the Best National Costume Award in 2016 and 2017. History Early years: 2013–2017 In the first edition of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Mega Bintang Indonesia
Miss Mega Bintang Indonesia (previously Miss Grand Indonesia) is a national beauty pageant in Indonesia that selects the country's representatives in seven international beauty pageants namely Miss Grand International, Miss Face of Humanity, Miss Eco International, Reina Hispanoamericana, World Top Model, Reina Internacional del Cacao, and Miss Aura International. The reigning Miss Mega Bintang Indonesia is Ritassya Wellgreat from South Sumatra. She represented Indonesia at Miss Grand International 2023, where she finished in the top 10. History Miss Grand Indonesia under Yayasan Dharma Gantari (2018-2019) In 2018, Nawat Itsaragrisil, President of Miss Grand International organization announced new contest, namely Miss Grand Indonesia which collaborated with Yayasan Dharma Gantari and Ministry of Tourism and Creative Economy Indonesia. Nawat appointed Dikna Faradiba, as a national director. In 2018, Yayasan Dharma Gantari selected Nadia Purwoko of Bengkulu as Miss Grand Indon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Setiabudi
Setiabudi is a district in South Jakarta, one of the five administrative cities which forms the Jakarta Capital Region, Indonesia. It is in the Golden Triangle of Jakarta ( id, Segitiga Emas Jakarta) of business and commercial establishments in Jakarta. It is named after an Indonesian hero of partial Indo and Sundanese descent, Ernest Douwes Dekker, also known as ''Danudirdja Setiabudi'' (died 1950). About half of its boundaries are with Central Jakarta. Setiabudi residential neighborhood Setiabudi administrative village (12910) was among the first Jakartan housing neighborhoods set out by the independent nation. It is the oldest such place in the District and contains the oldest buildings standing. It was among the first two neighborhoods with direct access to the Sudirman Road, the other being Bendungan Hilir. Planning was initiated in the 1950s but mostly completed in the 1960s. The work heralded the building of the Kuningan Road. Kelurahan (Administrative Village) Setiabud ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Earth Indonesia
Miss Earth Indonesia is a discontinued beauty pageant from Indonesia that selected Indonesian representative in the Miss Earth pageant. The Miss Earth Indonesia competition was abolished in 2021 because of El John Pageant lost the franchise of Miss Earth and rebranded the pageant with Putri Bumi Indonesia From 2022, the licenseholder of Miss Earth pageant is PT. Mahakarya Duta Pesona Indonesia and make a new pageant named Putri Nusantara which Miss Earth Indonesia is selected as one of the winner from that pageant. History In 2007, Yayasan Putri Bumi Indonesia was established, The very first pageant was held in 2007 which focuses on environmental awareness, culture, and ecotourism. The winner represents Indonesia in the Miss Earth pageant, the first Miss Indonesia Earth winner, Artri Aldoranti Sulistyowati represented Indonesia in Miss Earth 2007 pageant, was held on November 12, 2007 at the University of the Philippines Theater, inside the campus of the University of the Ph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Grand International 2014
Miss Grand International 2014 was the second edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, held on October 7, 2014, at the Indoor Stadium Huamark, Bangkok, Thailand. Contestants from eighty-five countries and territories competed for the title, of whom the representative of Cuba, Daryanne Lees, was announced the winner and received a reward of 40,000 USD cash. Meanwhile, the representatives of Australia, Canada, Colombia, and Ethiopia were named the runners-up. The pageant's grand final featured a live performance of Miss Grand International 2013–3rd runner-up, Ali Forbes, and was broadcast nationwide via the Channel 7, with two Thai television personalities, Matthew Deane and Sonia Couling, as the event's MCs. Initially, more than ninety candidates confirmed to participate, but some of them withdrew for unknown reasons, such as Soumia Benmebrouk of Algeria, Ané Reynolds of South Africa, and Dijana Cvijetic of Switzerland. Background Date and venue The pageant press r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive is an American digital library with the stated mission of "universal access to all knowledge". It provides free public access to collections of digitized materials, including websites, software applications/games, music, movies/videos, moving images, and millions of books. In addition to its archiving function, the Archive is an activist organization, advocating a free and open Internet. , the Internet Archive holds over 35 million books and texts, 8.5 million movies, videos and TV shows, 894 thousand software programs, 14 million audio files, 4.4 million images, 2.4 million TV clips, 241 thousand concerts, and over 734 billion web pages in the Wayback Machine. The Internet Archive allows the public to upload and download digital material to its data cluster, but the bulk of its data is collected automatically by its web crawlers, which work to preserve as much of the public web as possible. Its web archiving, web archive, the Wayback Machine, contains hu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mooryati Soedibyo
The Royal Highest Princess Mooryati Soedibyo of Surakarta Sunanate, also known as Hj. DR. BRA. Mooryati Soedibyo, S.S., M. Hum. (born January 5, 1928), is a member of the Surakarta Sunanate royal family in Indonesia, president director of , and the Vice Chairman II of the People's Consultative Assembly of the Republic of Indonesia (term of office: October 1, 2004 - October 1, 2009), and the national director for Puteri Indonesia, which sends contestants to Miss Universe, Miss International and Miss Supranational. She's also ranked number 7 on the list of the 99 most influential women in Indonesia 2007 by the Globe Asia magazine. Mooryati Soedibyo was recorded by MURI-Indonesian World Records Museum as the winner of the oldest doctorate in Indonesia, and as "Empu Jamu". Personal life A member of a Javanese royal family, she was born in Surakarta, Central Java and grew up in the palace of Surakarta Sunanate. She learned about herbal medicine and traditional Javanese cosmetics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miss Grand International 2013
Miss Grand International 2013 was the first edition of the Miss Grand International pageant, held on November 19, 2013 at the IMPACT Arena in Muang Thong Thani, Nonthaburi, Thailand. Contestants from seventy-one countries and territories competed for the title, of whom the representative of Puerto Rico, Janelee Chaparro, was announced the winner and received a reward of 30,000 USD in cash. Meanwhile, the representatives of Australia, the Dominican Republic, the Philippines, and Slovakia were named the runners-up. The pageant grand final featured a live performance by a Thai hip-hop band, Thaitanium, and was broadcast nationwide via Channel 7, with two Thai television personalities, Utt Panichkul and Sonia Couling, as the event's MCs. Initially, eighty-eight candidates confirmed to participate, but some of them did not enter the tournament or withdrew during the pageant boot camp, such as the representatives of Denmark, Sweden, Ukraine, and Singapore. Background Date and ven ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Java
East Java ( id, Jawa Timur) is a Provinces of Indonesia, province of Indonesia located in the easternmost hemisphere of Java island. It has a land border only with the province of Central Java to the west; the Java Sea and the Indian Ocean border its northern and southern coasts, respectively, while the narrow Bali Strait to the east separates Java from Bali by around . Located in eastern Java (island), Java, the province also includes the island of Madura Island, Madura (which is connected to Java by the longest bridge in Indonesia, the Suramadu Bridge), as well as the Kangean Islands, Kangean islands and other smaller island groups located further east (in the northern Bali Sea) and Masalembu Islands, Masalembu archipelagos in the north. Its capital is Surabaya, the Largest cities in Indonesia, second largest city in Indonesia, a major industrial center and also a major business center. Banyuwangi is the largest regency in East Java and the largest on the island of Java. The p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
West Java
West Java ( id, Jawa Barat, su, ᮏᮝ ᮊᮥᮜᮧᮔ᮪, romanized ''Jawa Kulon'') is a province of Indonesia on the western part of the island of Java, with its provincial capital in Bandung. West Java is bordered by the province of Banten and the country's capital region of Jakarta to the west, the Java Sea to the north, the province of Central Java to the east and the Indian Ocean to the south. With Banten, this province is the native homeland of the Sundanese people, the second-largest ethnic group in Indonesia. West Java was one of the first eight provinces of Indonesia formed following the country's independence proclamation and was later legally re-established on 14 July 1950. In 1966, the city of Jakarta was split off from West Java as a 'special capital region' (), with a status equivalent to that of a province, while in 2000 the western parts of the province were in turn split away to form a separate Banten province. Even following these split-offs, West Java is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bali
Bali () is a province of Indonesia and the westernmost of the Lesser Sunda Islands. East of Java and west of Lombok, the province includes the island of Bali and a few smaller neighbouring islands, notably Nusa Penida, Nusa Lembongan, and Nusa Ceningan to the southeast. The provincial capital, Denpasar, is the most populous city in the Lesser Sunda Islands and the second-largest, after Makassar, in Eastern Indonesia. The upland town of Ubud in Greater Denpasar is considered Bali's cultural centre. The province is Indonesia's main tourist destination, with a significant rise in tourism since the 1980s. Tourism-related business makes up 80% of its economy. Bali is the only Hindu-majority province in Indonesia, with 86.9% of the population adhering to Balinese Hinduism. It is renowned for its highly developed arts, including traditional and modern dance, sculpture, painting, leather, metalworking, and music. The Indonesian International Film Festival is held every year in Bal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
East Nusa Tenggara
East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the north. It consists of more than 500 islands, with the largest ones being Sumba, Flores, and the western part of Timor; the latter shares a land border with the separate nation of East Timor. The province is subdivided into twenty-one regencies and the regency-level city of Kupang, which is the capital and largest city. A Christian-majority region, East Nusa Tenggara is the only Indonesian province where Roman Catholicism is the predominant religion. The province has a total area of 47,931.54 km2 and a population of 5,325,566 at the 2020 Census; the official estimate as at mid 2021 was 5,387,738. Economically, East Nusa Tenggara still remains one of the least developed provinces in Indonesia. It currently focuses on expanding the touris ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
North Sumatra
North Sumatra ( id, Sumatra Utara) is a province of Indonesia located on the northern part of the island of Sumatra. Its capital and largest city is Medan. North Sumatra is Indonesia's fourth most populous province after West Java, East Java and Central Java, and also the most populous in the island of Sumatra. It covers an area of 72,981 km2. According to the 2020 census, the province's population in that year was 14,799,361. The mid-2021 official estimate is 14,936,148. North Sumatra is a multi-ethnic province. The Malay people are regarded as the natives of the east coast of the province, while the west coast of the province is mainly inhabited by the Batak (''Pakpak'', ''Angkola'' and ''Mandailing'' groups). The central highlands region around Lake Toba is predominantly inhabited by another ''Batak'' groups (''Toba'', ''Simalungun'' and ''Karo''). The Nias people are natives to ''Nias Island'' and its surrounding islets. With the opening of tobacco plantations in East S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
