Indonesia

Demography of Indonesia (0)

The sources do not agree on the population of Indonesia.

The CIA World Factbook gave an estimate of 245 million people in July 2006, but now 234 million for its estimate in July 2007.According to this source, the Indonesian population would have decreased by 4.4% in one year.
The Indonesian government census of 2000 indicates an Indonesian [...]

Main regions in Indonesia (0)

Indonesia is composed of more than 17 000 islands, of which about 6 000 inhabited.They vary in size and very diverse.
Here very broad and very diverse population, Indonesia is a unitary state, which in 1999, has granted some autonomy to the kabupaten (departments), which are also subdivisions of provinces. The latter are today (2007) the [...]

Rokok Kretek: The Culture and Heritage of Indonesia Clove Cigarettes (0)

Rokok is Kretek cigarettes is a flavor, clove, so rokok means Kretek cigarettes cloves or clove cigarettes taste. In many millions of Javanese and Indonesians, Kretek company is pleasant, tasteful, it gives a sense of relief and relaxation and the pricing is nothing to compare with the comfort given.
Clove tree in restaurants, pubs, bars, discos, [...]

Classic period (0)

 
The Indian epic Ramayana, written between the third century BC and third century AD, spoke of Suvarnadvipa, “island of gold (probably Sumatra) and Yavadvipa” Island millet “(ie Java). In the first century AD, west of the Indonesian archipelago is part of a network centered on the kingdom du Fou-nan in south of the current Vietnam, [...]

Anti-pornography bill in Indonesia’s resort island of Bali opposed to the thousands of rally (0)

Denpasar, Indonesia (AFP Communications) - Thousands of Balinese traditional dress, the Indonesian holiday island in the anti-pornography bill Wednesday to the local culture and the threat of rising criticism of the booing.
More than 5,000 demonstrators, most of the National Assembly of the Council of Muslims in the capital, Jakarta, to protest against the bill, mostly [...]

Aceh (0)

Aceh (pronounced A-tché) is a province of Indonesia, located on the northern tip of Sumatra. Its inhabitants are the Acehnese. Its surface is about 57 366 sq km and its population is estimated at about four million people (census 2000), almost two per cent of the Indonesian population. A 2001 Act gives a otonomi khusus [...]