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A 2010 stamp celebrating cultural heritage of Indonesia. This is a survey of the postage stamps and postal history of Indonesia. Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, consisting of 17,508 islands. With a population of nearly 280 million people, it is the world's fourth most populated country.
1987 –4 Drug Free Society Preventive Education Against Drug Abuse – 30 June 1987; One stamp was issued on this occasion Value: Rs. 1 1987 –5 Independence Day – 14 August 1987; Two stamps were issued on this occasion Value: 80p, Rs. 3 1987 –6 Air Force Day – 7 September 1987; Ten stamps were issued in se-tanent strip of ten in a ...
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During World War I, British and Indian troops fought their way from Basra to Mosul; they used stamps of India overprinted "I.E.F." on their military mail. [3] The British overprinted a variety of Ottoman stamps during their occupation, a grouping now conventionally called the issues of "Mesopotamia".
The history of the arrival of Islam in Indonesia is somewhat unclear. [ 1] One theory states that Islam arrived directly from Arabia as early as the 9th century, during the time of the Umayyad and Abbasid caliphates. Another theory credits Sufi travelers for bringing Islam in the 12th or 13th century, either from Gujarat in India or from Persia ...
Postal rates to 1847. Initial United States postage rates were set by Congress as part of the Postal Service Act signed into law by President George Washington on February 20, 1792. The postal rate varied according to "distance zone", the distance a letter was to be carried from the post office where it entered the mail to its final destination.
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