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Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, Palau, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. The Indonesian economy is the world's sixteenth largest by nominal GDP and fifteenth largest by purchasing power parity. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers brought Christianity and fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic change. Across its many islands, Indonesia consists of hundreds of distinct native ethnic and ...

The Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia. Comprising 17508 islands, it is the world's largest archipelagic state. With a population of 222 million people in 2006, it is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority nation; however, no reference is made to Islam in the Indonesian constitution. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when the Srivijaya Kingdom traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually adopted Indian cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic ...

July 2007 Thanks to the economic slump across Asia, Alex who used to work as a mechanic with a French multi-national now scavenges for a living on Jakarta's rubbish dump. Martin Adler takes us into the reality of Indonesia's social and economic breakdown. The film catches the early signs of a groundswell of criticism and action against President Suharto -- but there is more than just the prospect of popular revolution. Many Indonesians blame the country's ethnic Chinese for economic troubles, and some are ready to take racist action against them.

Indonesia (pronounced /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ or /ˌɪndəˈniːʒə/ ( listen)), officially the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia), is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Indonesia comprises 17508 islands. With a population of around 238 million people, it is the world's fourth most populous country, and has the world's largest population of Muslims. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor, and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. Indonesia is a founding member of ASEAN and a member of the G-20 major economies. ▬▬▬▬▬▬๑ஜ۩۞۩ஜ๑▬▬▬▬▬▬● ➪ ➪ ➪ And here are some of the uniqueness of the Republic of Indonesia. 1. Republic of Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic country consisting of 17504 islands (including 9634 islands and 6000 unnamed islands are uninhabited). 2. Indonesia is the third largest democracy in the world. 3. In Indonesia there are 3 of the 6 largest island in the world, namely: Borneo (the third largest island in the world amply 539 460 km2), Sumatra (473606 km2) and Papua (421981 km2). 4. Indonesia is the largest maritime countries in the world with waters covering an area of 93 thousand km2 and the length of the coast about 81 thousand km2, or almost 25% of long beaches in the world. 5. Java ...

The Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia. Comprising 17508 islands, it is the world's largest archipelagic state. With a population of 222 million people in 2006, it is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority nation; however, no reference is made to Islam in the Indonesian constitution. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when the Srivijaya Kingdom traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually adopted Indian cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic ...

In Indonesia during the New Order era ( Orde Baru ), everything that had Chinese or China overtones such as the Chinese New Year Festival was banned for a long time because they were thought not to reflect a sense of nationalism. Currently in the Reformation era, the ethnic Chinese have been recognized as a part of Indonesian people. In 2000 President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur) revoked the Presidential Instruction No. 14/1967, since it is no longer appropriate according to the principles of Unity in Diversity/Bhineka Tunggal Ika (different in cultures, peoples, tribes and religions, but still united in one Nation), and Plularism (Respecting the differences or plurality of tribes, religions, races and cultures). President Abdurrahman Wahid subsequently issued the Presidential Decree No. 19/2001 on April 9, 2001, which acknowledged the Chinese New Year's Day as an optional holiday (only to be observed by the ethnic Chinese who celebrate it). During the administration of President Megawati Sukarnoputri, Chinese New Year's Day was established as the official national holiday beginning in 2003. Now in the reign of President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono (SBY), the celebration of Cap Go Meh (15 days after the Chinese New Year's Day) is held throughout the country. The city of Bandung in particular held the Cap Go Meh festival for the second time in 2012. The celebration is allowed to take place in the streets according to the tradition of Confucian beliefs. According to the news ...

The Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia. Comprising 17508 islands, it is the world's largest archipelagic state. With a population of 222 million people in 2006, it is the world's fourth most populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority nation; however, no reference is made to Islam in the Indonesian constitution. Indonesia is a republic, with an elected legislature and president. The nation's capital city is Jakarta. The country shares land borders with Papua New Guinea, East Timor and Malaysia. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the Indian territory of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the seventh century, when the Srivijaya Kingdom traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually adopted Indian cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process, and periods of rapid economic ...

CNN's Atika Shubert speaks to one asylum seeker stranded off the coast of Indonesia, trying to reach Australia. www.cnn.com