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- proper noun Malay world
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Examples
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Searchers have recovered a total of 21 bodies from a Merpati Nusantara Airlines plane that crashed Saturday into the sea off eastern Indonesia with 25 people aboard.
What's News— 2011
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Gembong Nusantara/Associated Press Paramedics carried a villager injured in Yogyakarta.
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Rescuers said they recovered 15 bodies from the plane, which was operated by the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines.
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Rescuers said they recovered 15 bodies from the plane, which was operated by the state-owned Merpati Nusantara Airlines.
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Preliminary reports said the Chinese-built, propeller-powered Merpati Nusantara plane slammed into the water amid fog and rain, less than half a mile from its intended runway in Kaimana, an eastern province.
Indonesian Plane Crash Hurts Country's Air-Safety Initiatives Andy Pasztor 2011
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Separately, Indonesia's Nusantara Group has been given licenses to explore for coal and exploit the area where Churchill discovered resources, according to the Churchill letter and court documents.
U.K. Miner Challenges Indonesia Eric Bellman 2011
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Churchill says earlier licenses held by Nusantara had expired.
U.K. Miner Challenges Indonesia Eric Bellman 2011
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Insecurity of leases in the mining sector is in the headlines again following the case of Churchill Mining, whose license was suddenly revoked and transferred to a local company, Nusantara Group.
Indonesia's Reform Reversal Hal Hill 2011
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Attempts to reach Nusantara have been unsuccessful.
U.K. Miner Challenges Indonesia Eric Bellman 2011
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The Kompas daily newspaper said the plane was one of four MA60s owned by Merpati Nusantara Airlines.
bilby commented on the word Nusantara
An Indonesian word for Indonesia, used mainly in the wistful and evocative sense rather than geographicl/political one. Somewhat akin to Caledonia for Scotland, for example.
November 30, 2009
Prolagus commented on the word Nusantara
Well known places you've never heard of?
November 30, 2009