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Indonesia
Indonesia [1] is the largest archipelago in the world that
straddles the Equator between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific
Ocean. While it has land borders with Malaysia to the north
as well as East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the east, it also
neighbors Australia to the south, and Palau, the Philippines,
Vietnam, Singapore, and Thailand to the north, India to the
northwest.
Indonesia is almost unimaginably vast: 18 110 islands providing
108 000 kilometres of beaches, and the distance between Aceh
and Papua is more than 4 000 kilometres (2500 miles), comparable
to the distance between New York and San Francisco. There are
more than 400 volcanoes in Indonesia, 130 of them being considered
active, and many undersea volcanoes. The island of New Guinea
(on which the Indonesian province of Papua is located) is the
second largest island in the world.
Cities
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Jakarta - the perennially congested capital
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Bandung - university town in the cooler highlands
of Java
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Banjarmasin - the largest town on Kalimantan
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Manado - Christian town at the northeastern
tip of Sulawesi, famous for diving
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Medan - the main city of Sumatra
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Surabaya - Indonesia's number two city
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Ujung Pandang (Makassar) - the gateway to
Sulawesi
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Yogyakarta - Java's cultural hub and the access
point to the mighty temples of Prambanan and Borobudur
Other destinations
Seminyak, BaliThe following is a limited selection of some of
Indonesia's top sights.
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Anyer - Beach on in Banten province, near
Mt. Krakatau and Ujung Kulon National Park.
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Bali - A beautiful island with great culture
and art.
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Baliem Valley - the home of the famous penis-gourded
Dani warriors
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Bintan - Resort island just south of Singapore
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Borobudur - A huge temple dedicated to the
Buddha in Central Java which is Indonesia's most visited site.
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Bunaken - One of the best scuba diving destinations
in Indonesia, if not the world.
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Lake Toba - Beautiful lake on North Sumatra
province.
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Mount Bromo - Some of the scariest volcanic
scenery on the planet.
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Tana Toraja - Highland area of South Sulawesi
famed for their extraordinary funeral rites.
Understand
Indonesia is the sleeping giant of Southeast Asia. With 18,110
islands, 6,000 of them inhabited, it is the largest archipelago
in the world. With well over 210 million people, Indonesia is
is the fourth most populous country in the world — after
China, India and the US — and by far the largest in Southeast
Asia. Indonesia also has the largest Muslim population in the
world.
Indonesia markets itself as the ultimate in
diversity, and the slogan is quite true, although not necessarily
always in good ways. Indonesia's tropical forests are the second-largest
in the world after Brazil, and are being logged and cut down
at the same alarming speed. While the rich shop and party in
Jakarta and Bali, after decades of economic mismanagement, the
country is the only member of OPEC that has to import oil, and
53% of the population earns less than $2/day. Infrastructure
in much of the country remains rudimentary, and travellers off
the beaten track (pretty much anywhere outside Bali) will need
some patience and flexibility.
The Indonesian people, like any people, can be either friendly
or rude to foreigners. Most of the time, though, they are incredibly
friendly to foreigners who make it off the beaten track.
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