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	Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indonesia's 18,108 islands, of which about 6,000 are inhabited, are scattered around the equator, giving the country a tropical climate.
		The country borders Malaysia on the island of Borneo (Indonesian: Kalimantan), Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea and East Timor on the island of Timor.
		East Timor was a province of Indonesia from its annexation in 1976 until Indonesia relinquished sovereignty in 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indonesia (1903 words)

	Islands of Indonesia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands, according to satellite images.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Islands_of_Indonesia (87 words)

	MSN Encarta - Search View - Republic of Indonesia
		Indonesia has no major rivers that are similar in size or scope to the Mekong or Yangtze in mainland Asia, but it does have many important rivers.
		Although the islands are home to more than 100 ethnic groups, most Indonesians are of mixed Malay origins and practice Islam.
		Indonesia was once a larger importer of rice, but in the late 1960s and 1970s the government introduced improved varieties of rice, increased the use of fertilizers and pesticides, provided better infrastructure for irrigation, and improved the systems of farm credit.
	encarta.msn.com /text_761573214__1/Indonesia_Republic_of.html (17438 words)

	Explore Indonesia..!! :: The Official Site of Indonesia Culture and Tourism Board
		Indonesia is a vast and beautifully diverse country of more than 13.000 islands spread across some 5.000 kilometers of tropical Ocean.
		Spanning the seas between Asia and Australia, Indonesia is the largest archipelago.The major Islands of Indonesia are Sumatera, Bali, Java, Kalimantan, Sulawesi and Irian Jaya.
		Almost half of Indonesias 200 million people live in Jawa, an area about the size of England.
	www.budpar.go.id /country.html (260 words)

	INDONESIA TOURISM : GENERAL INFORMATION
		The islands and people of Indonesia constitute the fourth most populated nation in the world.
		Indonesia shares Irian Jaya with Papua New Guinea and two thirds of the island of Kalimantan with Malaysia and Borneo.
		Five main islands and 30 smaller archipelagoes are home to the majority of the population.
	www.indonesia-tourism.com /general/general.html (224 words)

	More Deaths in Continued Violence in Indonesia's Maluku Province
		The program has two purposes-to try to reduce the population on the other overcrowded islands of Indonesia, rather unsuccessfully since it was implemented in the 1960s, and to Javanize the eastern region of Indonesia, whose islands are colonies of a de facto Javanese empire.
		The issue of greater independence in Indonesia's 17,000 islands is a major issue for newly elected President Abdurrahman Wahid, with economic recession and political instability fuelling separatism.
		Twenty-five years after activists supporting independence for Indonesia's Moluccan islands hijacked a train in the Netherlands to gain recognition, the spice islands are back on the Dutch political agenda.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/Cove/4232/9911/INA-maluku-9910.html (1732 words)

	Asia Times
		Theoretically, other countries could come and take over those "neglected" islands and should Indonesia protest, they could insist on bringing their case to the international court, where they could be expected to win in the light of the principle of sovereignty exercise or continuous administration.
		Indonesia, once considered one of Asia's economic powerhouses, was brought to its knees in 1997 when financial crisis plunged it into deep economic recession.
		Indonesia, the world's biggest archipelagic country, stretching almost 5,000 kilometers from the Asian mainland into the Pacific Ocean, has more than 17,000 islands, only 3,000 of which are inhabited.
	www.atimes.com /atimes/Southeast_Asia/DL21Ae01.html (875 words)

	Tsunami News for Islands, Indonesia
		...surviving on coconuts on one of Indiaâs Andaman and Nicobar islands, an archipelago close to the epicentre of the earthquake that triggered the tsunami.
		And islands and coastal regions on the Gulf of Thailand, though untouched by the tsunami, have seen tour cancellations.
		On hearing the initial reports of damage at Andaman and Nicobar islands, the Eastern...
	danger.mongabay.com /earthquake/2004/Islands.html (2132 words)

	The Anthropology of the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia
		The Anthropology of the Mentawai Islands, Sumatra, Indonesia
		Managing the Mentawais: An Examination of Sustainable Tourism Mananagement and the Surfing Tourism Industry in the Mentawai Archipelago, Indonesia.
		Mentawai in Global Context (2): Globalization, Regional Autonomy, and the Innervation of Local Political Process in the Mentawai Islands
	www.mentawai.org (792 words)

	Discount Hotels Indonesia - Discount Hotel Search
		Two thirds of Indonesia consists of forests, woodland and mangrove swamp and the islands support a wide variety of flora and fauna.
		Stretching over 3000 miles, Indonesia comprises six main islands, plus 30 smaller archipelagos which house most of the population, and contain more than 300 largely extinct volcanoes due to their geographical location on a volcanic belt.
		Bali is relatively small, it is densely populated and culturally and economically one of the most important islands of Indonesia.
	www.discounthotel-search.com /discount-hotel/Indonesia.htm (276 words)

	Yayasan Orphans International Indonesia - The Celebes Islands
		The size of New York State, it is one of Indonesia's Outer Islands, surrounded by the largest and most spectacular virgin coral reefs left in the world.
		This is partially because Sulawesi is the furthest island from the Arab and Indian lands that influenced Indonesia so dramatically from 1500-1600, and partially because the northern end of the island was so successfully missionized by the Protestant Dutch.
		In 1900, almost 50 years before the Republic of Indonesia was founded, Minahasa had one school per thousand inhabitants (1:1,000), compared to 1:50,000 on the main Indonesia island of Java.
	www.geocities.com /orphansinternational/Indonesia/3-island.html (1953 words)

	Savu Islands, East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia
		arely influenced by modern lifestyle, the Savu Islands are a predominantly Christian society.
	www.raijua.com (29 words)

	The eastern islands (from Indonesia) -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		The largest country in Southeast Asia, both in area and population, is the Republic of Indonesia.
		The islands are populated by a number of distinct ethnic groups.
		former Japanese-mandated islands (Marshall, Caroline, and Mariana islands except Guam) after transfer to strategic trusteeship of U.S. by agreement in 1947 with Security Council of United Nations; trusteeship finally ended in 1994 when the last remaining trust territory, Palau, gained full independence; pop.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-22852?tocId=22852 (967 words)

	Indonesia islands links
		This part of Indonesia is separated from the rest of the country in many ways, culturally, biological, and also what conserns the origin of its people.
		Smaller Sunda Islands consists of the string of small islands that stretch out to the east from Java all the way to Irian Jaya.
		A really thorough study of these islands, located outside of Padang, Sumatra.
	home.swipnet.se /zabonk/indons/bagus/island.htm (454 words)

	THE SPICE ISLANDS
		Many of Indonesia's islands are mountainous, have active volcanoes and are covered by dense rainforest.
		Indonesian Culture: Because of its sheer size the culture of Indonesia is highly varied.
		Today the importance of the Spice Islands is as one of the few surviving areas of primary tropical rainforest with a rich natural history.
	www.iol.ie /~spice/Indones.htm (836 words)

	Singapore investors have cold feet over Indonesia
		FOR decades, Singapore's executives looked out of their sleek office towers and saw opportunity in the islands of Indonesia, happily investing in the sprawling and impoverished archipelago.
		But after the announcement of the vote, militia gangs, backed by the Indonesian military, went on a violent rampage, murdering hundreds of people and destroying most of the territory's buildings and other infrastructure.
		And only days after Goh's January visit to Jakarta, villagers, upset by a land dispute and armed with spears and machetes, overran Singaporean-owned tourist resorts and factories on Indonesia's Bintan Island, just 40 kilometers (25 miles) east of Singapore.
	www.singapore-window.org /sw00/000228ap.htm (492 words)

	CIA - The World Factbook -- Indonesia
		The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945.
		Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hostilities, and UN mediation before the Netherlands agreed to relinquish its colony.
		Indonesia became a net oil importer in 2004 due to declining production and lack of new exploration investment.
	www.cia.gov /cia/publications/factbook/geos/id.html (1225 words)

	Siberut Islands, Sumatra - Indonesia Travel Packages
		Siberut island (4.030 km sq) is the largest island of four islands in the Mentawai archipelago.
		Explore the jungle in the heart into the heart of the Siberut Island in the western part off West Sumatra's coast, to meet the indigenous people of the Mentawai who live close to nature and still live in comparative isolation, maintaining their age-old ways.
		Some good coral reefs can be found along the east, south to southeast part of the Siberut island and the surrounding the small islands.
	www.travellingtoindonesia.com /sumatra/siberut.htm (669 words)

	List of islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		List of islands of the People's Republic of China
		List of islands of the Republic of China (Taiwan)
		2 List of islands by ocean or sea
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands (669 words)

	Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia (Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita)
		Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia (Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita)
		Wallace's subsequent life is skimmed over quickly, then a final chapter looks at how things have changed since his time, at what it is like to work as a naturalist or anthropologist in modern Indonesia and at some of the conservation and environmental issues the country faces.
		Most of Archipelago is taken up by colour photographs, mostly of flora and fauna and landscapes that Wallace might have seen, but also of the differing aspects of modern Indonesia.
	dannyreviews.com /h/Archipelago.html (325 words)

	Indonesia books, Indonesian history (book reviews)
		Gavan Daws, Marty Fujita: Archipelago: The Islands of Indonesia
		Apart from the US, the UK, and New Zealand, Indonesia is probably the foreign country I know most about: I have been there three times, visiting parts of
		Barry Dawson, John Gillow: The Traditional Architecture of Indonesia
	dannyreviews.com /s/Indonesia.html (219 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Archipelago : Islands of Indonesia
		The authors (Daws is a historian and Fujita is founding director of The Nature Conservancy's Indonesia program) do a fine job of interspersing excerpts from Wallace's journals and papers, along with their narrative of his exploits, with modern descriptions of flora, fauna, and conservation needs.
		Chapters dealing with individual islands, or groups of islands, begin with Wallace's experiences there and continue to current descriptions of conditions and concerns.
		Around 10% of the book is devoted to the explorers, like Wallace, who first discovered the uniquness of the islands and tried scientifically describe what they found - some early maps of the region and pictures of explorers are presented.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0520215761?v=glance (1576 words)

	ipedia.com: Islands of Indonesia Article
		Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands (latest satellite images), whereof about 6,000 are inhabited.
		Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands, whereof about 6,000 are inhabited.
		Major islands of Indonesia : Greater Sunda Islands Borneo, the third largest island in the world Java Sulawesi Su...
	www.ipedia.com /islands_of_indonesia.html (131 words)

	Indonesia Asia locator map and information page
		Indonesia, with over 17,000 counted islands, is by far the largest and most varied archipelago on Earth.
		This tropical country and its many islands (including Bali) is one of the most beautiful (and popular) exotic tourism destinations on the planet.
		It's positioned across a region of immense volcanic activity, and Indonesia has some 400 volcanoes, with at least 70 still active.
	www.worldatlas.com /webimage/countrys/asia/id.htm (293 words)

	AllRefer.com - Aru Islands, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		Aru Islands or Aroe Islands[both: A´rOO] Pronunciation Key, group of about 95 low-lying islands, 3,306 sq mi (8,563 sq km), E Indonesia, in the Moluccas, in the Arafura Sea, SW of New Guinea.
		AllRefer.com - Aru Islands, Indonesia (Indonesian Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
		You are here : AllRefer.com > Reference > Encyclopedia > Indonesian Political Geography > Aru Islands
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/A/AruIsls.html (199 words)

	Islands of Indonesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Islands of Indonesia -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		(Click link for more info and facts about Thousand Islands) Thousand Islands ((The dialect of Malay used as the national language of the Republic of Indonesia or of Malaysia) Indonesian: Kepulauan Seribu)
		(A chain of islands forming a province of Indonesia east of Java; includes Bali and Timor) Lesser Sunda Islands:
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/i/is/islands_of_indonesia.htm (550 words)

	Definition of List of islands by area
		This is a list of islands in the world ordered by area.
		This section of the list is not comprehensive; it shows how the areas of other large islands compare.
		The list of authors can be found here.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/List_of_islands_by_size (550 words)

	Encyclopedia: List of islands of Indonesia
		Indonesia is an archipelago made of 18,108 islands (latest satellite images), whereof about 6,000 are inhabited.
		Maluku Islands (or Moluccas) * Ambon (Amboyna) * Aru Islands (Kepulauan Aru) * Bacan * Banda Islands (Kepulauan Banda) * Barat Daya Islands * * Damar
		Greater Sunda Islands * Borneo( Kalimantan part), the third largest island in the world * Java * Sulawesi (formerly known as Celebes) * Sumatra
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/List-of-islands-of-Indonesia (550 words)

	Pacific Islands - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Philippines ; the South China Sea Islands ; and most of the islands of Indonesia.
		List of islands of Antarctica and the Southern Ocean
		(Redirected from List of islands in the Pacific Ocean)
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_islands_in_the_Pacific_Ocean (550 words)

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