INDONESIA

Republic of Indonesia (RI), or Indonesia is a country in Southeast Asia, is located on the equatorial line, and between Asia and Australia and between the Pacific Ocean and Indian Ocean. Consisting of 17,508 islands, Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world. With a population of 222 million in the year 2006, Indonesia is a country with the fourth largest in the world and the countries which has the world’s largest Muslim, although not officially Islamic country. Indonesia is a form of republican government, with the House of Representatives (DPR) and the president elected directly.

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Jakarta is the capital of the country. Indonesia borders with Malaysia on Borneo island, with Papua New Guinea island in Papua and East Timor in the Timor island. Other neighboring countries are Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the union territory Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.

History of Indonesia is influenced by many other nations. Islands became an important trading region since at least since the 7th century, when the Kingdom of Sriwijaya formed a religious and trade relations with China and India. Kingdoms, Hindu and Buddhist have been growing in the early Christian centuries, followed by the traders who brought Islam, and the various strengths of European mutual combat to monopolize the spice trade Maluku during the era of ocean exploration. After around 350 years of colonization by the Dutch, Indonesia’s state independence at the end of World War II.

From Sabang to Merauke, Indonesia consist of various ethnic, language and religion that is different. Java tribe is the largest ethnic group and the most politically dominant. In addition to having large population and territory that is, Indonesia has a natural area to support the level of biodiversity in the world’s second largest.

Indonesia currently consists of 33 provinces, five of them special areas. Each province has legislatur agencies and the governor. Province divided into districts and the city, which is divided into sub-districts and villages and again to the village.

Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam, DKI Jakarta, DI Yogyakarta, Papua and West Papua have the privilege legislatur a greater level of autonomy and higher than the central government than other provinces.

Indonesia’s provinces and the capital:

Sumatra
1. Nanggroe Aceh Darussalam
2. North Sumatra
3. West Sumatra
4. Riau
5. Riau Islands
6. Jambi
7. South Sumatra
8. Bangka Belitung Islands
9. Bengkulu
10. Lampung

Java
1. Jakarta
2. Banten
3. West Java
4. Central Java
5. Yogyakarta
6. East Java

Small Sunda Islands
1. Bali
2. West Nusa Tenggara
3. East Nusa Tenggara

Kalimantan
1. West Kalimantan
2. Central Kalimantan
3. South Kalimantan
4. East Kalimantan

Sulawesi
1. North Sulawesi
2. Gorontalo
3. Central Sulawesi
4. West Sulawesi
5. South Sulawesi
6. South East Sulawesi

Maluku
1. Maluku
2. North Maluku

Papua
1. West Papua
2. Papua

Indonesia has 17,508 islands large and small, around 6,000 of them are not populated, which spread around the equator, which provides tropical weather and is located between two continents, namely Asia and continental Australia / Oceania.

Indonesia extends throughout the region 3,977 miles between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Ocean. Indonesia is a vast land 1,922,570 km² and the broad waters 3,257,483 km². The island is the most populous island of Java, where half the population of Indonesia live. Indonesia consists of 5 large islands, namely: Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Papua. Indonesia boundaries clockwise winds over the eye, namely:

1. North: Malaysia, Singapore, Philippines and South China Sea
2. South: Australia, Timor Leste and the Indian Ocean
3. West: Indian Ocean
4. East: State of Papua New Guinea, Timor Leste and the Pacific Ocean

Location also is located in tektonik plates, which means that affected Indonesia prone to earthquakes and tsunamis can cause. Indonesia also has many volcanoes, one of the mountain is very famous Krakatau, located in the Sunda strait between the islands of Sumatra and Java.

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