Location: Asia
Capital: Jakarta (9.400.000 inhab.)
Main Cities: Surabaja, Medan, Bandung, Semarang, Malang, Surakarta, Pakanbaru, Palembang
Population: 212,000,000
Area: 1,904,443 km2
Coin: 1 Indonesian rupiah = 100 sen
Languages: Bahasa Indonesian, Javanese
Religions: Sunni Moslem, Christian, Hindu
The Independence's Year: 1949
Mountains: Mont Kerinci(3800 m.),Mont Semeru (3676 m.)
Volcanos: Over 100 active volcanos

Great insular country, located between Asia and Oceania (the western part of the New Guinea belongs to Indonesia) and among the ocean Pacific and the Indian ocean.
Torn to pieces from political struggles and from separatist movements and from the destructive work of the great tsumani that has struck in December 2004 the western coasts of Sumatra.
It is constituted by the great islands of Sumatra, Giava, the greatest part of the Borneo and the New Guinea, of Celebes (Sulawesi) and from the smallest islands of the Probe, Bali and Molucche.
The island of Giava, where the capital Jakarta (over 9 million inhabitants) is also situated, it is one of the more densely populated places of the planet.

October '11
Indonesia, non solo vulcani

 

Photographies to greater solution can be found to the page Central and Oriental Asia Gallery