Indonesia, My Country

Jakarta by night

Whenever I'm travelling to strange country, there are always questions about Indonesia that sometimes shock me.
Wanna know the examples?

Here they are:
Do you have many cars in your country?
Do you have pinneaple in your country?
Do you eat avocado?
and the worst was,
Where is it?

I don't blame people for not learning enough in geography, but somehow I feel just sad to realize that when I was in school we learned so much about the other countries in the world. So, here are some informations about Indonesia that you might want to know:

Cars in my country?
See the picture above, and you'll see that it's not just about cars, but we also have the thing that is called "traffic jam".

In the case for pinneaple and avocado, I believe that you know that those exotic fruits just live in tropical weather. And, Indonesia is obviously crossed by the equator line.
Here are some informations I copied from the CIA world fact book...

Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state.

Geography
Location:
Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean

Geographic coordinates:
5 00 S, 120 00 E

Map references:
South East Asia

Area:
total: 1,919,440 sq km land: 1,826,440 sq km water: 93,000 sq km

Area - comparative:
slightly less than three times the size of Texas

Land boundaries:
total: 2,830 km border countries: East Timor 228 km, Malaysia 1,782 km, Papua New Guinea 820 km

Coastline:
54,716 km

Maritime claims:
measured from claimed archipelagic straight baselines territorial sea: 12 nm exclusive economic zone: 200 nm

Climate:
tropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands

Terrain:
mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains

Elevation extremes:
lowest point: Indian Ocean 0 m highest point: Puncak Jaya 5,030 m

Natural resources:
petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, silver

Land use:
arable land: 11.32% permanent crops: 7.23% other: 81.45% (2001)

Geography - note:
archipelago of 17,508 islands (6,000 inhabited); straddles equator; strategic location astride or along major sea lanes from Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean

People
Population:
241,973,879 (July 2005 est.)

You can have some more ideas on Indonesia on my blog, just click on the link to beautiful places...and enjoy the beauty of Indonesia! =)