Portal:Indonesia/Selected anniversaries/January

15–16 January 1974 – During a visit by Japanese Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka, widespread riots break out, leading to the formal disbanding of President Suharto's personal assistants
16 January 1904 – Dewi Sartika (pictured) establishes the first school for girls in Indonesia
26 January 1949 – The national flag carrier Garuda Indonesia is established
27 January 2008 – Former president Suharto dies, the first Indonesian president to do so since Sukarno in 1970
31 January 1926 – Hasyim Asy'ari establishes the conservative Muslim organisation Nahdlatul Ulama as a reaction to the modernist Muhammadiyah

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