funfacts tentang Indonesia. WOHOO!

its been a long time since i post something in this blog. lets see. counting days. a month and more. wow. i suck haha.

anyway, not long ago i was presenting this material in some meetings that i had. well then i thought why not posting it in here hehehe. so here goes Indonesia.

ah btw did u know guys that a lot of Egyptian know the words Indonesia but they dont actually know where the hell it is hahaha. i was asked about where is the location, what continent it is, and the most hilarious of all: "hey is Indonesia near China? no? okay Japan? no? hmm where is it then?" hahaha lol.

thats the fact that we need to tell the people of the world, fellow Indonesian!

then here we go fellas!

• The local name of Indonesia is ‘Tanah Air Kita’, which means Our Land and Water.
• Indonesia is the largest archipelago the world, comprising of five main islands - Java, Sumatra, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya
• Indonesia spreads over "Ring of Fire", situated in Western Pacific. It has over 400 active volcanoes and bears over 3 earthquakes per day.
• ‘The Sangiran Early Man Site’, situated in Indonesia, has the status of a World Heritage Site and has served as home to around half of the world's hominid fossils.
• Indonesia is home to Komodo dragon (varanus komodoensis), the largest lizard in the world.
• Indonesia has a total of 5million km2. One million more than the USA, although only 2 million km2 are land.
• Indonesia is home to 35cm miniature deer, fish that climb trees to catch insects and spiders that catch and devour small birds in giant webs.
• Did you know that it is forbidden not to have a religion in Indonesia? (doesn’t matter which one as long as you have one)
• Did you know, that Indonesia is the 2nd largest global biodiversity (water + land + air) after Brazil?
• Did you know, that with more than 250.000.000 people, Indonesia is the 4th most populated country in the world?
• Did you know, that there are 316 ethnic groups which speak 670 dialects in Indonesia?
• Did you know that it is forbidden not to have a religion in Indonesia? (doesn’t matter which one as long as you have one)
• Did you know, that there are around 400 volcanoes in Indonesia, and 150 out of them are active, which represents 75% of all active volcano on the planet? (so only 50 for the rest of the world)
• Did you know, that Indonesia is more than 5.000 kilometres long? (which is an average length for a continent)
• Did you know, that Indonesia has the longest coastline in the world, with 100.000 kilometres long?
• Did you know, that Indonesia is probably the last country in the world, which has still unexplored territories, and is not completely mapped? (especially around Irian Jaya)
• Did you know, that there are 17.508 islands in Indonesia, which is the largest Archipelago in the world?
• Did you know, that if you could spend only 1 day on each island of Indonesia, you would need 48 years to see all of them? (transportation between islands not counted)
• Did you know, that on the 17.508 islands, only 6.000 have a name, and only 1.000 are inhibited?
• Did you know, that there are 25% of the world coral reefs in Indonesia?
• Did you know, that on the 4.500 species of reef fishes existing in the oceans worlwide, around 3.500 of them have been identified in Indonesia?
• Did you know, that Indonesia has the biggest underwater biodiversity in the world?