English Explanatory Dictionary

Konfrontasi

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. 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)

Word forms

Konfrontasi

Etymology

Unadapted borrowing from Indonesian konfrontasi, from Dutch confrontatie.

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