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- Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world that consists of 17,504 islands (including 9634 islands that have not been named and 6,000 uninhabited islands). Here are 3 of the 6 largest island in the world, namely: Borneo (the third largest island in the world with an area of 539,460 km2), Sumatra (473,606 km2) and Papua (421,981 km2).
- Indonesia is a maritime country in the world with an area of 93 thousand km2 waters and long beach about 81 thousand km2, or nearly 25% of the long beach in the world.
- Java is the most populous island in the world where nearly 60% of Indonesia's population (about 130 million people) live on the island, which covers only 7% of the entire territory of the Republic of Indonesia.
- Indonesia is the country with the largest tribes in the world. There are more than 740 nationalities / ethnicities, which in Papua alone there are 270 tribes.
- Countries with the largest regional languages, ie, 583 languages and dialects of the 67 main languages used by various tribes in Indonesia. The national language is Indonesian although local languages with the largest number of users in Indonesia is the Java language.
- Indonesia is the largest Muslim country in the world. The number of Muslims in Indonesia around 216 million people or 88% of the population of Indonesia. Also has a number of mosques and the State of origin pilgrims in the world.
- Buddhist monument (temple) in the world is the Borobudur temple in Central Java with a height of 42 meters (10 levels) and long relief of more than 1 km. Estimated to be made for 40 years by the Sailendra dynasty during the ancient Mataram kingdom (750-850).
- Where the discovery of the oldest in the world of early humans, namely: Pithecanthropus Erectus dating from 1.8 million years ago.
- Republic of Indonesia is the country's first born after World War II in 1945. Indonesia is the country's 70th oldest in the world.
- Indonesia was the first country (until now the only one) that ever came out of the United Nations (UN) on the date January 7, 1965. RI rejoin the UN in 1966.
