Republic of indonesia abbreviated indonesia or indonesians
is country in southeastern asia, which passed by its equator and located
between continents asia and australia and between the pacific and the indian
ocean.Indonesia is an archipelago the world biggest consisting of 13.466
island. A commonly used alternative name was
Nusantara. With population about 260 million people in 2013. Indonesia is the fourth-largest populated country in the
world and the largest Muslim populated country in the world, about 230 million
although officially not Islamic countries. Indonesia is a Republic form of
Government, with the House of representatives, regional representative Council
and a directly elected President.
The
capital city is Jakarta. Land borders with Indonesia Malaysia on Borneo Island,
with Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea and East Timor on the island
of Timor (former part of the province of indonesia). Other neighboring
countries are Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Union territory of
Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India. Indonesian history
much influenced by the other. Indonesia Islands
became an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when the
Kingdom of Srivijaya in Palembang, religious and trade relationship with China
and India. Kingdom of Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms had grown in the early
centuries CE, followed the traders brought Islam, and European powers who
fought each other to monopolize the Maluku spice trade during the era of
exploration of the oceans. After the Netherlands were under colonial rule,
Indonesia which was then called the Dutch East Indies Netherlands declared its
independence at the end of World War II.
Indonesia
gets various obstacles, the next the threats and challenges of natural disasters,
corruption, separatism, the process of democratization and the period of rapid
economic change. From Sabang to Merauke, Indonesia consists of different
ethnic, language, and religion. Based on the nation's thicket (ras), Indonesia
consists of the original indigenous peoples namely the Malay and Papuan Malay
nation where the largest numbers and more inhabited the western part of
Indonesia. Based on the more specific, ethnic Javanese are an ethnic group that
is included in the Deutero Malays clumps and the largest, with a population
reaching which 41.7% of the entire population of Indonesia.
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