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Nevertheless, this has not stopped Batak activists from campaigning for the creation of a new majority Christian / Batak province called Tapanuli to the southwest.
My Sinchew - 2009
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Aziz was attacked by protesters rallying against the council's decision to postpone a plenary meeting to discuss a recommendation for a new province, called Tapanuli, to be created that had been scheduled for Wednesday.
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Ade Sahputra/EPA The remains of a school Thursday, a day after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake rocked North Tapanuli, Indonesia, damaging at least 170 homes and injuring and 50 people
Asia in Pictures 2011
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Ade Sahputra/EPA The remains of a school Thursday, a day after a 5.5-magnitude earthquake rocked North Tapanuli, Indonesia, damaging at least 170 homes and injuring and 50 people
Asia in Pictures 2011
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One who has no first-hand knowledge of the Sumatran tribes finds it difficult to accept at their face value the accounts of the customs practised by the Bataks of Tapanuli, for example, who, when their relatives become too old and infirm to be of further use, give them a pious interment by eating them.
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Tapanuli against a chief named Punei Manungum, residing at Negatimbul, about thirty miles inland from Old Tapanuli, in consequence of his having attacked a kampong under the protection of the company, murdered several of the inhabitants, and carried others into captivity.
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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It is mostly procured in those districts which lie inland of Tapanuli, but it is also found in Musi, where Palembang River takes its rise.
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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Asked whether the petition was driven by the Tapanuli movement by some other regencies,
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Asked whether the petition was driven by the Tapanuli movement by some other regencies,
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The North Sumatra province has also been jolted by a movement to form Tapanuli province.
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