25 interesting facts about Indonesia ???
1.) Indonesia is the world’s largest country comprised solely of islands.
2.) Indonesian children on Bali are traditionally always given at least four names.
3.) Indonesian government recognizes only six religions—Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, Protestantism, Catholicism, and Confucianism.
4.) Indonesia is the world’s leading exporter of frog legs.
5.) Indonesia is home to the world’s largest volcanic lake, Danau (“Lake”) Toba, which is located on Sumatra and is the site of a massive super-volcano eruption that is thought to have happened 69,000 to 77,000 years ago.
6.) Indonesia’s small Hindu population remains mainly on the island of Bali.
7.) Indonesia is the only Southeast Asian country to have been a member of OPEC, although it left the cartel in 2008 due to the decline in world oil prices.
8.) Muslims make up 87.2% of Indonesian population, which makes it the world’s largest Muslim majority nation.
9.) Indonesia is home to the Rafflesia arnoldii, the world’s largest flower, which may be the world’s stinkiest flower as well, and Amorphophallus titanium, the world’s tallest flower.
10.) Indonesian societies tend to be very tolerant of alternate expressions of gender.
11.) Indonesians do not openly discuss sex.
12.) Indonesia men admire virility, and the term jago characterizes a man who is successful with women.
13.) Indonesia is one of the world’s largest producers of nutmeg, which is native to its Banda Islands.
14.) Indonesia is the third worst emitter of greenhouse gases in the world.
15.) Indonesians are superstitious people, and one such belief is in the latah, which happens to women when they are startled by something like a loud noise.
16.) Out of the 10 largest islands in the world, three are a part of Indonesia: Borneo, Papua/New Guinea, and Sumatra.
17.) Indonesia’s national dish is nasi campur, which is essentially the plate of the day.
18.) One of Indonesia’s most interesting critters is the tiny nocturnal primate called the tarsier.
19.) On December 26, 2004, the world’s second largest recorded earthquake, a 9.3+ magnitude quake, struck off the coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
20.) The Indonesia Pasola has to be the most extravagant and bloodiest harvest festivals in Asia.
21.) Indonesia is the only country to see the Komodo dragon, the world’s largest lizard, in the wild.
22.) The Javan rhinoceros is one species that is found only in Indonesia.
23.) Jakarta, Indonesia, is the world’s largest population center without a metro train system that results in some of the worst traffic jams in the world.
24.) Indonesia has the second longest coastline in the world (over 54,000km), after Canada.
25.) One of the longest snakes ever found was discovered in Sulawesi, Indonesia.