Surabaya

سورابايا

Indonesia's second-largest city and main port in East Java.

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Southeast Asia
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Birthplace of
Firanda Andirja· Mas Mansoer· Sunan Bonang
Site of
Battle of Surabaya (1677)

People and things also explored

Ki Bagus Hadikusumo· محمد الرابع· Sunan Ampel· Sunan Drajat· Indonesia· Battle of Surabaya (1677)· Firanda Andirja· Mas Mansoer

Sources

  • Wikidata
  • GeoNames gazetteer
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islam.museum contributors. “Surabaya”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/place/surabaya/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Last updated 2026-11-09.

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Ki Bagus Hadikusumo

Indonesian scholar and politician (1890–1954) from a Yogyakarta court-official family, educated in the pesantren, who chaired Muhammadiyah (1942–1953) in succession to Mas Mansoer, helped found the Indonesian Islamic Party and Masyumi, and sat in the BPUPKI independence committee, where he argued hard for the Jakarta Charter and the sila as the basis of the state; his books include 'Islam as the Basis of the State'. He was named a National Hero in 2015.