Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The clan or gens in Malay tribal society.
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Harga minyak dunia kembali ke US$ 92/barrel di akibatkan oleh permintaan minyak yang meningkat dari Cina akibat cuaca dingin bersalju mendekati tahun baru China serta turunnya suku bunga Fed dari Amerika.
EVENT/INCIDENT 2008 ACCORDING TO DATE(NATIONAL&a 2008
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Negara ini akan menjadi sebuah negara Republiki dengan pemimpinnya seorang presiden untuk mengakhiri pertikaian yang berlarut-larut dengan suku Maois.
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Out-migration has led simultaneously to a greater identification with the Toraja suku ethnicity while at the same time facilitated alterations in that identity.
Tana Toraja: From Ethnogenesis to Ethnotourism « Far Outliers 2004
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Today, Tana Toraja (Toraja Land) is an administrative district in the province of South Sulawesi, the people living there comprise one of the four official suku bangsa (ethnic groups) of the peninsula, and the Toraja are celebrated (at least amongst anthropologists, tourists, and television crews) for their fantastic architecture and elaborate funerals.
Tana Toraja: From Ethnogenesis to Ethnotourism « Far Outliers 2004
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Suliman led me by the hand down David Street, through the smelly - yelly moil of flies and barter, past the meat and vegetable stalls, beneath the crusader arches from which Jewish women peered through trellised windows, across three transversing lanes of the ancient suku, * and halted at Yussuf's door.
Jimgrim and Allah's Peace Talbot Mundy 1909
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"Suku, suku" ( "We wish it, we wish it"), of the men.
Tales of the Malayan Coast From Penang to the Philippines Rounsevelle Wildman 1882
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The dishes of the ghosts: small red shallow platters of unglazed earthenware; primeval pottery suku-makemasu! '
Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan First Series Lafcadio Hearn 1877
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In the neighbourhood of this reside the chiefs of the four great tribes, called ampat suku or four quarters, one of which is named
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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If their accounts differ, and they consent to refer the matter to the decision of the proattins or bench, each party is to give a token, to the value of a suku, that he will abide by it, and to find security for the chogo, a sum stated to them, supposed to exceed the utmost probable damages.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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A person convicted of murder shall pay to the relations of the deceased a bangun of eighty-eight dollars, one suku, and seventy-five cash; to the chiefs a fine of twenty-eight dollars; the bhasa lurah, which is a buffalo and one hundred bamboos of rice; and the palantan, which is fourteen dollars.
The History of Sumatra Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And Manners Of The Native Inhabitants William Marsden 1795
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