Indonesia Islands

·   Where is Indonesia?

    If you have a world map, so you can see Indonesia is a very beautiful archipelago in South East Asia. It’s like a chain of islands that lies from Sabang in the West to Merauke in the East, from Miangas Island in the North to Rote Island in the South. Geographically, it’s located between two continents: Asia (upper) and Australia (below) and surrounding by oceans (Hindi Ocean and Pacific Ocean). Indonesia is a tropical country with fantastic nature and culture, where the equator line crossed Pontianak a capital city of West Kalimantan.

·   What about population?

      Indonesia is densely populated country. Today, the population is near 250 million people that spread out in thousands of islands from 34 provinces all over the country. Generally each island has different tribe and different life style. Therefore there are many ethnic groups in Indonesia. You can imagine that any ethnic group own their different culture in tradition, language, dress, dance, music, songs, culinary and way of life. It means that there are many differences live in Indonesia. But we have motto Unity in Diversity which uniting our people in one nation with Bahasa Indonesia as formal language.

·   What about tourist destination?

  Indonesia have many historical remains from the past that become tourism attracted, you can find temples, palaces, fortress, mosque, church, monument and museum almost in every islands. As nature in heritage, Indonesia also rich in rivers and tributary, there are many lakes, beaches, variety of flora and fauna, forests and even volcanoes. Besides, Indonesia is an agricultural country. It’s a land of small farmers. If you go traveling around Indonesia, you will see rice fields as a wonderful natural landscape everywhere from island to island.

·   Why should you speak Bahasa Indonesia?

    If you have a plan to trip to Indonesia and you want to traveling around, it will be better if learn bahasa Indonesia a little bit (if you don’t want more), so you can speak with people wherever you meet. Instead of their local language, most of Indonesian speaks Bahasa Indonesia. In the capital city like Jakarta or other big ones is not difficult for you to meet speaking English people. But if you travel farther from the city – unfortunately beautiful places usually not in a city, I suggest you to speak Bahasa Indonesia. Why?  Because when you have difficulty to find places or whatever, you will easy to get assistance. Indonesian people are friendly, helpful, polite and welcome. So, if you want to get to know more about Indonesia hospitality and its smiling people, Let’ Speak Bahasa Indonesia. I will tell you the basic, easy daily conversation and some other words. But don’t forget, Keep Smiling!
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