Indonesia

Indonesia is the worlds largest Muslim-majority country and third largest democracy. Indonesia is the largest country in Southeast Asia with a maximum dimension from east to west of about 3200 miles 5100 km and an extent from north to south of 1100 miles 1800 km.

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Covering an area of 1904569 sq.

. According to a geospatial survey conducted between 2007 and 2010 by National Coordinating Agency for Survey and Mapping Bakosurtanal Indonesia has 13466 islands. As a member of the G20 and the biggest market in Southeast Asia it is a significant player in the global economy. These provinces are subdivided into regencies and cities which are further subdivided into districts and again into rural or urban villages.

Indonesias embrace of democracy promotion of tolerance and steady economic growth are critical to regional security and global trade. An earthquake of 61 magnitude hit Indonesias West Java province on Saturday the countrys geophysics agency BMKG said. Located on the north-western coast of the most populous island of Java is Jakarta the capital and the largest city of Indonesia.

A 64 magnitude quake struck the West Java region on Saturday which was felt 280km in the Indonesian capital of Jakarta. Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the World after China India and the United States. Km Indonesia comprises over 17504 islands and is by far the largest and the most varied archipelago on Earth.

Indonesia is an archipelagic country extending about 5120 kilometres 3181 mi from east to west and 1760 kilometres 1094 mi from north to south. The earthquake is the third to hit Indonesia in recent weeks. Indonesia is the worlds third largest democracy has the largest Muslim-majority population is the tenth-largest economy in the world by purchasing power and possesses the worlds greatest marine biodiversity and its second greatest terrestrial biodiversity.

More than half of the Indonesian population - roughly 150 million people or 55 - live on the island of Java about the size of California making it. 1 day agoIndonesian lawmakers passed a sweeping new criminal code on Tuesday that criminalizes sex outside marriage as part of a tranche of changes that critics say threaten human rights and freedoms in. It shares a border with Malaysia in the northern part of Borneo and with Papua New Guinea in the centre of New Guinea.

According to the BMKG the epicenter of the earthquake was on land and. 1 day agoIndonesia is set to overhaul its criminal code making sex outside of marriage punishable with up to one year in jail - a move critics say could curb freedoms and police morality.

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