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| Why Visit Indonesia? |
Indonesia has around 17.504 large and small islands, and around 6000 are still inhabited, spreading around the equator. The territory is about 1,9 million miles². The most populated island is the Java island, whereas almost half of the entire Indonesian population inhabits. There are main islands, which are Java with the scale of 132.107 km², Sumatra 473.606 km², Kalimantan or also known as Borneo 539.460 km², Sulawesi also called as Celebes 189.216 km², and Papua with the scale of 421.981 km².
Indonesia is also located above the tectonic plate, which means that Indonesia is frequently struck by earthquakes and alsso tsunamis. Indonesia also has many volcanic mountains. One amongst them is the famous Krakatau or Krakatoa mountain, situated between the islands of Sumatra and Java, which shook the world in 1883.
The Indonesian inhabitants can be classified into two groups. On the west part of Indonesia are the Malayan tribes while on the East are the Papuans that stem from the Melanesian archipelago. Most Indonesians still refer themselves from specific tribes that are classified according to their respective languages and origins, for example Javanese, Sundanese or Batak.
Aside from the native inhabitants, there are also ethnic immigrants from China, India and Arabia. They have settled in for quite a long time in Indonesia since the existence of trade back in the 8th century and stayed. In Indonesia there is about 3% of the Chinese ethnics. This percentage is unclear because it was estimated back in the 1930s when the government performed a census based on tribes and descendants.
Islam is the majority religion (ca. 85,2%) of the Indonesian population, which makes Indonesia as the largest Muslim populated country in the world. The rest are Christians (Presbytarian - 8,9% and Catholic - 8,9%), Hindu (1,8%), Buddha (0,8%), and other registered religions.
Most Indonesians still speak in their native languages, therefore Bahasa Indonesia, as the official country language was created and taught in schools to unite the Indonesians and in order to be able to understand one another.
Derived, Edited & Translated from the Indonesian Official Site:
www.budpar.go.id
| In Courtesy of The Group Band Cokelat | |||