The Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia, English: The Republic of Indonesia), abbreviated as Indonesia or Indonesia. Up to now, Indonesia has a total population of 263 million and a land area of 1.919 million square kilometers, which is equivalent to the size of Inner Mongolia and Qinghai Province on the mainland, and is the largest country in Southeast Asia.
1. The etymology of Indonesia comes from the Latin word "Indus" (India) and the Greek word "nesos" (island), which was originally called the Indies or East Indies.
2. The name "Indonesia" was invented by James Logan, editor of the magazine "The Indies and East Asia" published in Singapore in the 50s of the 19th century, as an abbreviation for the Indies.
3. Indonesia is the largest archipelago country in the world and the country with the most islands, consisting of 17,508 islands, of which about 6,000 are inhabited. Indonesia's largest island is Sumatra, which is the second largest island in the world after Greenland, shared with neighboring Papua New Guinea.
4. Before the arrival of the Dutch, there were hundreds of large and small kingdoms in the land of Indonesia, the large ones had tens of thousands of people, and the small ones only had more than a thousand people. In 1596, with the arrival of the Dutch, the East India Company with government authority was established, gradually controlling all the surrounding islands, which was the prototype of the early unification of Indonesia, and in some ways, without the arrival of the Dutch, it is likely that several countries would exist in the land of Indonesia at the same time.
5. In 1644, the colonial governor of New Netherland and the British reached the strangest land deal in history, exchanging New Amsterdam Island (today's Manhattan Island) for the British-controlled Indonesian island of Lune, which became an important turning point in American history.
6. There are more than 400 volcanoes in Indonesia, of which more than 120 are active, accounting for one-sixth of the number of active volcanoes in the world, ranking first in the world.
7. More than half of Indonesia's population lives on the island of Java, which covers an area of only 138,000 square kilometers, with an average population of more than 1,000 people per square kilometer. Among them, there are 30 million Guanghua.
8. Zheng He went to the West seven times and landed on the Indonesian island of Java seven times.
9. Indonesia is a big country that grows durian, but local laws say that eating durian in public places is illegal.
10. There is a breed of chicken in Indonesia called "Rambo Chicken Ni" (very precious meaning), which is black from the inside to the outside, from the top of the head to the toes, including the eyes, beak, tongue and internal organs.
11. Traditional Malay clothing is very distinctive, women's headscarves, on the left to indicate unmarried girls, on the right to indicate married (travel to Indonesia must look carefully).
12. Indonesia is the country with the shortest average height of adult males, about 1.58 meters.
13. Native to Indonesia, civet coffee is currently one of the most expensive coffees in the world, costing hundreds of dollars per pound (that is, the coffee beans that the civet has not digested).
14, in Indonesia, if a girl wants to be a policeman, not only her figure must pass, but also her appearance must pass, plus other conditions, after passing to become a qualified Indonesian policewoman (this is also too difficult).
15. The selection of flight attendants in Indonesia is particularly strict, not only to be beautiful, but also to know at least one traditional Indonesian dance, and before 1994, they must also have chastity, but this has long been abolished because it is almost impossible to recruit.
16. The spread of atheism is prohibited throughout Indonesia, and those who have nationality must have a religion. The Indonesian constitution directly stipulates that GCD is an illegal organization, the constitution prohibits atheism, you must choose a religion, not necessarily the world's major religions, even if it is animism. A foreigner wearing a T-shirt with a red sickle and hammer was arrested and locked up.
17. Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia, has sunk 2.5 meters in nearly a decade, making it the fastest sinking city in the world.
18. Indonesia's transportation infrastructure is average, most of the roads and railways are old and dilapidated, and highway construction is stagnant. The Yawan high-speed railway, jointly built by mainland China and Indonesia, will use mainland technology, continental standards and mainland equipment, and will be the best and fastest railway in Indonesia after completion.
19. The 930 incident was a military coup d'état in Indonesia in 1965, implicating hundreds of thousands of Chinese. Since then, Chinese Indonesians have been banned from using Chinese, taking Chinese names, opening Chinese schools, and working in government departments. This incident led to a large number of Chinese Indonesians being forced to leave Indonesia. On October 27, 1967, China issued a statement severing diplomatic relations with Indonesia, and on October 31, it closed the Embassy of the People's Republic of China in Indonesia and recalled its personnel. Normal relations were not restored until 8 August 1990. (For details, please see this article: The truth of the 930 incident in Indonesia in 1965)