Clothing, Traditional—Indonesia
Indonesia has three hundred ethnic groups, each with their own costume variations. The majority of the population, the Javanese, wear Indonesian national dress. ...
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Ethnic Colonial Policy — Indonesia
For most of the long period of Dutch involvement in Indonesia, colonial authorities made clear administrative distinctions between ethnic groups. The sharpnes...
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Gerindo
Gerindo (Gerakan Rakjat Indonesia, Indonesian People's Movement), an Indonesian national political party, was formed in May 1937. Its leaders included A. K. Gani (1905–1958), Muh...
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Hamengku Buwono Ix, Sri Sultan
(1912–1988), vice president of Indonesia. Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono IX was Indonesia's vice president from 1973 to 1978 during the New Order under Suharto...
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Indonesia—Profile
(2001 est. pop. 228.4 million). The Republic of Indonesia, with an area of 1,919,440 square kilometers, is the fourth most populous country of the world. The former Dutch colo...
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Pribumi
Pribumi (literally "offspring of the soil") is an Indonesian term referring to people considered as natives of the country, belonging to various ethnic groups in the archipelago....
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Rais, Mohammad Amien
(b. 1944), Indonesian political figure. Mohammad Amien Rais was a prominent politician and one of the leading figures in the 1998 movement that toppled Indonesian President Suhart...
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Indonesian Americans
Overview
The Republic of Indonesia is located in Southeast Asia, on an archipelago of more than 17,508 islands near the equator. The total land area is 782,665 square miles, and t...
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Indonesia
Republic of Indonesia
Republik Indonesia
CAPITAL: Jakarta
FLAG: The national flag, adopted in 1949, consists of a red horizontal stripe above a white stripe.
ANTHEM: Indonesia Raya (Great In...
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Indonesia: Grappling with Unrest in Irian Jaya and Aceh
The Conflict
The Indonesian regions of Aceh and Irian Jaya have flared with violence as ethnic populations reject the authority of the Jakarta g...
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Indonesia
Located in Southeast Asia, Indonesia is the largest archipelagic nation (i.e., one consisting entirely of island groups), the fourth most-populous nation (211.7 million in 2002, according to...
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Indonesia
POPULATION 231,328,092MUSLIM 88.8 percentPROTESTANT 5 percentCATHOLIC 2.9 percentHINDU 2.4 percentBUDDHIST 0.7 percentOTHER 0.2 percent
Country Overview
Introduction
The Republic of Ind...
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Area: 1,890,754 sq km (730,024 sq mi)Population (2006 est.): 222,731,000Capital:
Jakarta
Head of state and government:
President
Susilo Bambang
Yudhoyono
The government of Indonesian
Pres.
Sus...
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The editor-in-chief of Playboy Indonesia was acquitted Thursday of charges that he violated the Muslim nation's indecency laws by publishing pictures of scantily clothed women.Erwin Arnada had face...
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A powerful earthquake under the Java Sea rattled Indonesia's capital early Thursday, violently shaking tall buildings and sending panicked residents into the streets.There were no immediate reports...
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Strong earthquakes shook western and eastern Indonesia on Sunday, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes. There were no immediate reports of injuries.A 6.1-magnitude quake early Sunday...
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Indonesia overturned a terror conviction Thursday against the militant Islamic cleric Abu Bakar Bashir, who served 2 1/2 years for conspiracy in the 2002 Bali nightclub bombings that killed more th...
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Russian President Vladimir Putin arrived in Jakarta on Thursday
on a one-day official visit to expand bilateral cooperation.
Putin is to hold talks with President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
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Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, signed a preliminary deal Wednesday with U.S. drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp. to develop a human bird flu vaccine.Under the memorandum of u...
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Jakarta (dpa) - Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has
expressed disappointment after Indonesian planes were banned from
European Union airspace, Transport Minist...
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A powerful earthquake rocked western Indonesia before dawn Thursday, sending panicked residents fleeing from their homes and briefly triggering a tsunami warning.The quake had a preliminary magnitu...
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Philip Morris International launched a Marlboro cigarette flavored with cloves in Indonesia on Tuesday, seeking to boost sales in one of the world's largest tobacco markets as smokers in Europe and...
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Clothing, Traditional—Indonesia
Indonesian Americans
Indonesia
Indonesia: Grappling with Unrest in Irian Jaya and Aceh
Indonesia
Indonesia
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