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Bali
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Jakarta
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Central
Java
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East
Java
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West
Java
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Yogyakatar
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Banten
I West
Nusa
Tenggara I
East
Nusa
Tenggara
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Bengkulu
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Jambi |
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South
Sumatra
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West
Sumatra
I
North
Sumatra
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Riau
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Aceh |
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The
name
Indonesia
has
its
roots
in
two
Greek
words:
"Indos"
meaning
Indian
and
"Nesos"
which
means
islands.
It
is
an
appropriate
description
of
the
archipelago
as
there
are
estimated
to
be a
total
of
17,508
islands,
of
which
only
about
6,000
are
inhabited,
stretching
for
5,150
km
between
the
Australian
and
Asian
continental
mainlands
and
dividing
the
Pacific
and
Indian
Oceans
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the
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Five
main
islands
and
30
smaller
archipelagoes
are
home
to
the
majority
of
the
population.
The
main
islands
are
Sumatra
(473,6O6
sq.km),
Kalimantan
1539,400
sq.km),
Sulawesi
l
189,216
sq.
km),
Irian
Jaya
(421,981
sq.
km),
and
last
but
not
leastJava
(132,187
sq.km),
home
to
70
percent
of
the
country's
population.
Indonesia
shares
Irian
Jaya
with
Papua
New
Guinea
and
two
thirds
of
the
island
of
Kalimantan
with
Malaysia
and
Borneo. |
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The
islands
and
people
of
Indonesia
constitute
the
fourth
most
populated
nation
in
the
world.
As a
democratic
republic,
Indonesia
is
divided
into
32
provinces,
special
territories
and
classified
geographically
into
four
groups.
First
are
the
Greater
Sundas,
made
up
of
the
larger
islands
of
Sumatra,
Java,
Kalimantan
and
Sulawesi.
Second
are
the
Lesser
Sundas,
consisting
of
smaller
islands
from
Bali
eastward
to
Timor.
Third
is
Maluku
which
includes
all
the
islands
between
Irian
Jaya
and
Sulawesi.
The
fourth
and
final
group
is
lrian
Jaya
in
the
extreme
eastern
part
of
the
country.
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