Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago nation consisting of 17,508 islands, therefore he is also known as Nusantara (Archipelago Between). With a population of 222 million people in 2006, Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world and the largest Muslim country in the world, although not officially an Islamic state. Indonesia is a republic form of government, the House of Representatives, Regional Representative Council and the President is elected directly. Capital city is Jakarta. Indonesia borders Malaysia on Borneo island, with Papua New Guinea on New Guinea and East Timor on the island of Timor. Other neighboring countries include Singapore, the Philippines, Australia, and the territory of Andaman and Nicobar Islands in India.
History of Indonesia is heavily influenced by other nations. Indonesia archipelago became an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when the kingdom of Palembang Srivijaya in religion and trade relations with China and India. Hindu kingdoms and Buddhism has been growing in the early centuries AD, followed by the traders who brought Islam, and various European powers fought each other to monopolize the spice trade in the Moluccas during the era of ocean exploration. Having been under Dutch rule, Indonesia which was called the Dutch East Indies declared its independence at the end of World War II. Indonesia's history has many obstacles, threats and challenges of natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization process and a period of rapid economic change.
From Sabang to Merauke, Indonesia consists of various ethnic, linguistic and religious groups. The Javanese are the largest ethnic group and most politically dominant. Indonesia's national motto, "Unity in Diversity" ("It varies, but remains one"), articulates the diversity that shapes the country. Besides having a dense population and vast territory, Indonesia has a natural area that supports the second largest biodiversity in the world.
Indonesia currently consists of 33 provinces, five of which have a different status. Province is divided into 399 districts and 98 cities divided into districts and the longer the village, village, village, village, villages, Pekon, or other terms that accommodated by the Law of the Republic of Indonesia Number 32 Year 2004 on Regional Government. Each province has its own parliament and provincial governors, while the district has a district legislature and regents; then the city has a local parliament and the city mayor, all elected by the people through elections and local elections. However there is no parliament in Jakarta district or city, because the District Administration and the City Administration in Jakarta is not an autonomous region.
Province of Aceh, Yogyakarta Special Region, West Papua, and Papua has the privilege of the larger legislature and a higher degree of autonomy than other provinces. For example, Aceh has the right to form its own legal system; in 2003, Aceh began to establish Sharia law. Special Region of Yogyakarta gain status in recognition of the vital role in supporting Indonesia Yogyakarta during the Revolution. Province of Papua, formerly called Irian Jaya, got a special autonomous status in 2001. DKI Jakarta, is a specialized area of the country's capital.
Indonesia is an archipelago in Southeast Asia which has 17 504 small and large islands, about 6,000 of them are uninhabited, which spread around the equator, which gives a tropical weather. Indonesia is located at position 6 ° N - 11 ° and 95 ° 08'LS 'BB - 141 ° 45'BT and lies between the two continents of Asia and Australia / Oceania.
Indonesia's territory extends along 3.977 mile between the Indian Ocean and Pacific Oceans. Indonesia's land area is 1.92257 million km ² and 3,257,483 km ² area waters. The island is densely populated island of Java, where half the population of Indonesia live. Indonesia consists of five major islands, namely: Java with an area of 132 107 km ², Sumatera with an area of 473 606 km ², Borneo with an area 539 460 km ², Sulawesi, with an area of 189 216 km ², and Papua with an area of 421.981 km ². Indonesia borders of islands was measured by using the territorial sea: 12 nautical miles and an exclusive economic zone: 200 nautical miles, the direction of the wind directions
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