Indonesia
Unity in Diversity

The Indonesian people say that the country slogan is “Unity in Diversity”. The country like a mozaik of the diversity of culture. Indonesia house the diferent religion, different language, difference in tradition ,habit and custome; difference in the way of live. Shortly Indonesia is a  multicultural country.
Indonesia with around 220 million peoples inhabitans is the fourth after China, India and USA. Indonesia is also the first country in the world according the number of Muslim community. (85% Muslim). But Indonesia is not the muslim country as the rule is above of  5 religions (Islam, Protestant, Catholique, Hindhou and Boudhis).  Atheis is not welcome in Indonesia. Everyone must have a religion stated in the Identity Card according to Indonesian Law.
Indonesia is the greatest archipelago in the wolrd. It contains more than 13.000 islands total and more than 400 differents dialects or  languages. For exempel: in Java people speaks Javanese and Sundanese. The two languages are differents. In Bali People speaks Balinese. In Sumatera They have some  languages: Aceh language, Batak, Melayu language. Kalimantan or his old name is Borneo is the house for  Dayak community. Sulawesi or Celebes has Toraja and Bugis culture. Toraja is very known as the practice of animisme. Than Moluque and Irian Jaya or we call Indonesian Papou  have other root of the cultural story. They are not similar with the reste of west part of Indonesia. In this area the animisme practice is still very strong. Every island in Indonesia has its own culture and language.
 

Geographi of Indonesia

Indonesia has a central  position between two continents Asia and Australia;  and between two oceans Indian and Pasific. The country is in the end of Asian continent and on the land of Indonesia meet the tree tectonic plate;  Euro-Asia plate,  Australia  plate and Pasific plate. Some tectonics  eathquakes happened in this country almost every years. Indonesia is also passed way by the ring of fire so the number of actifs volcanos are found in this country.
Indonesia stand on around 5000km from Sabang in Sumatera island until Merauke in Papoua or Irian Jaya island. A national song titled as “Dari Sabang sampai Merauke”. There are three different times in Indonesia.
Western time (GMT+7) > Sumatera, Java and west Kalimantan  
Midle time (GMT +8) > Bali, Central Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Lombok.
Oriental time (GMT +9) > Maluku, Ambon and Irian Jaya.

Land and Peoples

About 500 valcanos are found in Indonesia and around  129 are still actifs. Some volcanos show their activity for the interval around 2-6 years. Some of them are Merapi, Slamet, Krakatoa, Bromo, Ijen and Semeru in java.  Rinjani in Lombok. Batur in Bali. Locon in Sulawesi. The two spectaculars volcanos are Krakatoa (36.000 death in 1882) and Tambora (95.000 death in 1885).
What does that means?
As volcanic country, Indonesia is very fertile because the volcano give all minerals that needed for the live. Every plant can grow up on the slop of the volcano. The rain forest can keep the water that give more energy and vitamin for the human being. The Indonesian people think that the volcano is not dangereuse at all. They want to live close the volcano for their life. They don’t want to live out side even the Gouvernment give them a stimulant. Their philosophie is that the volcano is sacral. People living close the volcano as microcosmos must ajust  with Macrocosmos symbolized with volcano. The danger will ocure when the Microcosmos and Macrocosmos are not harmonize.  A ceremony  is organized to have the harmony of the Nature. Explosion of the volcano is symbole of the fertility. A Man meet a women. The volcano symbolize Man and ocean symbolize women.
65% of the inhabitant live in the village where the majority are working in  agrilculture that  the main product is rice. Rice is the main food for all of the population. In 1830 – 1870 during the Ducth colonialism, The peoples had to plant sugar cane, coffee, Tee, rubber and tobacco where the product were given to Dutch Gouvernment. Nowday, We can find coffee in the big part of Java Sumatera, Java, Bali, lombok and Sulawesi. The cane sugar in Java and Kalimantan. Tee in  west java, some in central java and est java. Tobaco we can find in nord of Sumatera and java. Rubber is very common in big part of sumatera.

Brief Story of Indonesia...
1641 : The Dutch took  Malaca from hand of Portugal.
1906 : Hollande control Indonesia.
1908 : Budi Otomo, first fondation of Nationalism movement.
1928 : Sumpah Pemuda (Youth National Meeting).
1942 : Japan colonized  Indonesia.
1945 : Independance day by  Mr.Ir.Soekarno et   Muhammad Hatta.
1946 : Agreement between Indonesianist and Holand gouvernment, to create the United States of Indonesia.
1949 : Acknowlegement of Independence day by Holand Gouverment.
1965 :  Communiste party coup d’etat.
1967 : Suharto become the second President.
1998 : Suharto leave the post  as the begeening Asian economic crisis.
1998-2004: The country has 4  presidents
1998 : Baharuddin Jusuf Habibie
1999 : Aburrahman wahid
2001 : Megawati Sukarnoputri, daughter of the first President  Sukarno
2004 : Susilo Yudhoyono curren  president,  direct election by the peoples (the 2nd mandat)