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Indonesian ( Bahasa Indonesia; [baˈhasa indoˈnesija]) is the official and national language of Indonesia. [ 8] It is a standardized variety of Malay, [ 9] an Austronesian language that has been used as a lingua franca in the multilingual Indonesian archipelago for centuries.
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles). With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country.
Indonesia recognizes only a single national language, and indigenous languages are recognized at the regional level, although policies vary from one region to another. For example, in the Special Region of Yogyakarta, the Javanese language is the region's official language along with Indonesian. [ 13] Javanese is the most spoken indigenous ...
On 5 May 2021, Joko Widodo signed Presidential Decree No. 33/2021, effectively establishing BRIN as the sole national research agency and decreeing that all Indonesian national research agencies—such as the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), the Agency for the Assessment and Application of Technology [] (BPPT), the National Nuclear Energy Agency of Indonesia [] (BATAN), and the ...
Provincial governments have the authority to regulate and manage their own government affairs, subject to the limits of the central government. The average land area of all 38 provinces in Indonesia is about 49,800 km 2 (19,200 sq mi), and they had an average population in mid 2023 of 7,334,111 people. Currently, Indonesia is divided into 38 ...
Nusantara (city) / 0.97306°S 116.70861°E / -0.97306; 116.70861. Nusantara ( Indonesian pronunciation: [nusanˈtara] ⓘ ), officially known as Ibu Kota Nusantara ( IKN ), is the future capital of Indonesia, located between Kutai Kartanegara Regency and North Penajam Paser Regency, East Kalimantan. [ 1] Ibu Kota Nusantara is planned to ...
Independence Day. Hari Kemerdekaan Republik Indonesia. Anniversary of the proclamation of independence read by Sukarno in 1945. National public holiday since 1946. 25 December. Christmas. Hari Raya Natal. Birth of Jesus Christ. National public holiday since 1953.
Chinese Indonesians ( Indonesian: Orang Tionghoa Indonesia ), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, [ 7] are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese Indonesians are the fourth largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world after Thailand, Malaysia, and the United States .