Batu is a city, located in East JavaIndonesia. Formerly, It was a part of Malang District; but in 2001, Batu became an independent city legalized by Act of 11, 2001, when it became a municipal town with its own city major and council. (source: Indonesia Humanity Foundation, Batu, Indonesia) Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia, and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ...
A population of 170,000 people, it mostly consists of Javanese and Madurese ethnics. The town used to be a recreation place for the Dutch colonial officers in the Dutch colonial area (before 1945). The approximately 90 million Javanese form the largest ethnic group in Indonesia. ... The Madurese are an ethnic group originally from the island of Madura but now found in many parts of Indonesia, where they are the third-largest ethnic group by population. ...
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Coordinates: -7.8671° N 112.5239° E Map of Earth showing lines of latitude (horizontally) and longitude (vertically); large version (pdf) The geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system expresses every horizontal position on Earth by two of the three coordinates of a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. ...