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Konfrontasi

Konfrontasi proper noun: the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore).

Proper noun

Konfrontasi

  1. (Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, historical) the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore)

Origin of Konfrontasi

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian konfrontasi, from Dutch confrontatie.

Questions about Konfrontasi

What does Konfrontasi mean?
Konfrontasi means the armed conflict fought between Indonesia and British-backed Five Power Defence Arrangements (FPDA) from 1963 to 1969 in response to the British allies formation of Federation of Malaysia (conclusion of British Malaya, British Sarawak, British North Borneo, and British Singapore).
What part of speech is Konfrontasi?
Konfrontasi is a proper noun.

Words near Konfrontasi in the dictionary

  1. Konetchy
  2. koneyacker
  3. koneyackers
  4. Konfisakhar
  5. Konfisakhars
  6. Konfrontasi
  7. konfyt
  8. konfyts
  9. kong
  10. kong bak pau
  11. Kong Mountains

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