Special Region of Yogyakarta
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The Special Region of Yogyakarta is a province-level special region of Indonesia in southern Java. It is a semi-enclave that is surrounded by on the landward side by Central Java Province to the west, north, and east, but has a long coastline on the Indian Ocean to the south.
Kraton Ngayogyakarta Hadiningrat
View of Mount Merapi
Ratu Boko
Yogyakarta Beach.
Hamengkubuwono IX
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Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono IX (Hanacaraka: ꦯꦿꦶꦯꦸꦭ꧀ꦡꦟ꧀ꦲꦩꦼꦁꦑꦸꦨꦸꦮꦟ꧇꧙꧇, often abbreviated as HB IX was an Indonesian politician and Javanese royal who was the second vice president of Indonesia, the ninth sultan of Yogyakarta, and the first governor of the Special Region of Yogyakarta. Hamengkubuwono IX was also the chairman of the first National Scout Movement Quarter and was known as the Father of the Indonesian Scouts.
Arnold Mononutu, Mohammad Hatta, and Hamengkubuwono IX observe a military parade in Yogyakarta on 20 February 1948
Hamengku Buwono IX, accompanied by about 20 other republican authorities, including the Deputy Prime Minister Sjafruddin Prawiranegara, the Minister of Information R. Samsudin, and the chairman of the working committee of the KNIP, Mr. Assaat inspecting some TNI posts on the Karo plateau, North Sumatra, September 1949.
Hamengkubuwono IX's other official VP portrait