All about Indonesia

2. The Name
• /ˌɪndoʊˈniːziə/ IN-doh-NEE-zee-ə
• Greek words: ‘Indos’ which means ‘Indian,’ and
‘nesos’ which means ‘islands’.
• Indonesian meaning: ‘Tanah Air Kita’

3. The Flag
• Known as Sang Saka Merah-Putih ("The
Sacred Red-and-White")
• Inspired by the Majapahit Empire
• Has been used since 17 August 1945
• The red stands for courage, while the
white stands for purity.

4. Brief History
• It is said that Indonesia was inhabited by homo
sapiens or also known as Java man based on the
fossils found in East Java
• Hinduism and Buddhism was the religion which
practiced during the 5th century
• During 13th century, Muslim traders introduced
Islam in northern Sumatera and it became the
dominant religion in Indonesia by 16th century.

5. • Colonized by the Portuguese, British and Dutch.
• Dutch dominated Indonesia till 1942, which ended
by Japanese occupation
• Sukarno, influential national activist, declared
independence on 17 August 1945 after Japanese
surrendered

6. • Dutch tried to reestablish their rule after Sukarno
declared independence
• On 27 November 1949, the Dutch finally
acknowledged Indonesia after a long conflict
• Indonesian consider 17th Aug as their National
Independence Day

7. Population
• Estimated population of 253,899,536 (2014)
• 4th most populous country in the world
• World’s most Muslim populated country consisting
of 86% Muslims.
• Other religions: 8.7% Christian, 3% Hindu, 1.8%
Buddhist and others

8. • Consists of various ethnic groups:
– Javanese: 41.71%
– Sundanese: 15.41%
– Matay: 3.45%
– Madurese: 3.37%
– Batak: 3.02%
– Minankabau: 2.72%
– Betawi: 2.51%
– Bantenese: 2.05%
– Banjarese: 1.74%
– Balinese: 1.51%
– Makassarese: 0.99%
– Crebonede: 0.94%
*There is a total 350 ethnic groups speaking 750 native languages and
dialects

9. • Most Indonesians are able to speak two languages;
native language/dialect and Bahasa Indonesia which
is the national language of Indonesia
• Agriculture provides large employment percentage
for the population
(rice, cassava, peanuts, nutmeg, cloves, palm oil,
copra, coffee, cocoa, meat and egg)

10. Politics
• Indonesia uses ‘presidential representative
democratic republic’ political system
• The president is both head of state and head of
government

11. Presidents
Sukarno
1945 - 1967
Suharto
1967 - 1988

12. B.J. Habibie
1998-1999
Abdurrahman Wahid
1999-2001

13. Megawati Sukarnoputri
2001-2004
Susilo Bambang
2004-2014

14. Joko Widodo
(Current)

15. Achievements
• The country is home to one of the world's richest areas
of biodiversity
• In the 1990s, a national grant making foundation was
created -KEHATI, the Indonesian Biodiversity
Foundation (Yayasan Keanekaragaman Hayati
Indonesia)
• To support conservation, sustainable use, and equitable
sharing of the benefits of Indonesia's biodiversity

16. Achievements
Indonesia’s Part in WWF
• In 2004, WWF-Indonesia gained recognition for its work
when the Government, at CBD COP 7 in Kuala Lumpur,
Malaysia, declared its commitment to establish 12 new
protected areas.
• Three of them were WWF’s sites, i.e. Tesso Nilo in Riau,
Sebangau in Central Kalimantan, and Jamursba Medi in
Papua.

17. Achievements
Indonesia’s Part in WWF
• In 2005, WWF-Indonesia’s major accomplishment was
securing the commitment of the three governments of
Brunei, Malaysia and Indonesia to share one vision for
the Heart of Borneo (HoB)
• It was an initiative to conserve and achieve sustainable
development across 22 million hectares of Asia’s largest
trans-boundary tropical forests in Borneo

18. Achievements
Indonesia’s Part in WWF
• The Ministry of Forestry, State Ministry of the
Environment, Ministry of Home Affairs, and Ministry of
Public Works worked to (1) establish ecosystem-based
land-use planning; (2) restore critical areas; and (3)
protect areas with high conservation value.
• The positive commitment made by the government was
highlighted at IUCN World Conservation Congress’ side
event on 8-10 October 2008 in Barcelona, Spain

19. 5 Achievements of
Indonesia that has been recorded in the Guiness World
Book of Records

20. Rudy Hartono
Rudy is essentially a badminton player who won the
All England eight times (7 times in a row (1968, 1969,
1970, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974 and 1976) where it is
recorded in the Guinness Book of Records in 1982

21. Kunto Hartono
Hartono Kunto carved his name in the
Guinness Book of World Records, drumming
72 hours non-stop.

22. Pantai Malalayang Divers
A total of 2861 divers involved in the diving
world record breaking at the Malalayang
Beach, Manado, North Sulawesi (North
Sulawesi) with a record time of 31 minute

23. Dominic Brian
12-year-old boy Kuta, Bali listed his name in
the book of Guinness World Records after
successfully demonstrated the ability to
remember the 76 rows of numbers in just 60
seconds.

24. Gita Gutawa
• Gita Gutawa recorded as the youngest singer to
hold a solo concert at the age of 16 years 6
months.
• The concert was entitled Music Box Gita Gutawa,
successfully held at Balai Sarbini, Plaza Semanggi,
Jakarta, February 25, 2010.

25. Achievements in Education
• Indonesian student team won the gold medal in the
category of "Laboratory Skill Assessment" in the fields of
biology, physics, and chemistry.
• This was in the event of ASEAN Plus Three Junior Science
Odyssey (JSO) which took place June 24 to July 1, 2013
in South Korea.

26. Acievements in Education
• Sepitinus George Saa who hails from Papua, Indonesia, is
a race winner of the First Step to Nobel Prize in Physics
in 2004.

27. Achievements in Sports
The following six badminton athletes are Olympic gold medalists for Indonesia in badminton:
Alan Budikusuma
1992 Barcelona Olympics
Susi Susanti
1992 Barcelona Olympics
3andra Wijaya andTony Gunawan:
2000 Sydney Olympics.
Markis Kido dan Hendra Setiawan:
2008 Beijing Olympics
. Rexy Mainaky (Left) Ricky Subagja:
1996 AtlantaOlympics
Taufik Hidayat
2004 Athens Olympics

28. Acievements in Sports
• During the period 1977-2011, Indonesia has become the overall
champion for 10 times
• Indonesia controlled 40.7 percent of the gold medals or 92 at the
Tenth SEA Games in Jakarta, in 1979 and 34 percent of gold
medals or 85 at the 11th SEA Games in Manila in 1981
• Indonesian athletes won in the15th SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur in
1989, in the 17th SEA Games in Singapore in 1993 and in the 19th
SEA Games in Jakarta in 1997

29. Indonesia’s Music, Dance and Arts
MUSIC
• The music of Indonesia is as profoundly diverse and magnificent as its geography,
religion, and culture. "Bhinneka Tunggal Ika" is a national motto in the old Javanese
language that means, "Unity in Diversity."
• Types of music in Indonesia: traditional, non-traditional (local) and non-local (western).
• There are also combinations of them. Examples of unique non-traditional Indonesian
music styles are "dangdut" and "keroncong“
• Some traditional songs or compositions require specific instruments, such as:
o gamelan,
o rebab,
o arumba,
o calung,
o angklung: instruments made of bamboo.

30. Indonesia’s Music, Dance and Arts
MUSIC
• Most Indonesian music is closely associated religion and spiritual practice.
• Indonesian music is intertwined closely with the four most widely practiced Indonesian
religions: Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism/Taoism, and Christianity.
• Vocal music plays a significant role in the music-culture of Indonesia. Solo and group
singing are found everywhere in Indonesia with or without gamelan accompaniment.

31. Indonesia’s Music, Dance and Arts
DANCE
• Indonesian dance reflects the richness and diversity of race and culture in Indonesia.
• Every tribe in Indonesia has its own peculiar variety of dance; In Indonesia there are more than
3000Indonesian original dances.
Prehistoric or patterned dance tribal dance.
• Many anthropologists believe that the dance movements in Indonesia begins with rituals and religious
ceremonies
• Such dances are usually originated from the ritual, such as a war dance, dance shaman to cure or ward off
disease, to summon rain dances, and various types of dance related with agriculture such as
dance Hudoq Dayak
• The dance is an ancient type usually display repetitive movements such as Tor-Tor dance of the Batak of
North Sumatra
• Dance Trance is a sacred dance Dedari special in Bali, where girls who have grown up dancing
in unconscious mental condition believed possessed the holy spirit
• This dance is intended to expel evil spirits from around the village. Kuda
Lumping dance and dagger dance also involves trance.

32. Indonesia’s Music, Dance and Arts
DANCE
Hindu-Buddhist-style dance.
• Acts such as the celebrated Hindu epic Ramayana, Mahabharata and the Flag
was the inspiration for display in a dance-drama called "Ballet" like "ballet" in the
western tradition
• Javanese Ramayana Ballet performed regularly at Prambanan, Yogyakarta, while
snedratari the same theme in Balinese version staged at various temples across
the island of Bali.
• Java Bedhaya sacred ritual dance is believed to come from the Majapahit in the
14th century and even earlier, this dance comes from the dance ritual performed
by a virgin girl to worship Hindu gods like Shiva, Brahma and Vishnu

33. Indonesia’s Music, Dance and Arts
DANCE
Islamic-style dance
• Dance Zapin Malay and Acehnese Saman dance and music
styles implement nuanced Arabia and Persia, combined with local
style dance featuring a new generation of Islamic era.
• Typical instruments used also Arabic and Persian, such
as tambourines, drums, and the drum major in the dance musical nuances of
Islam, as well as a dance accompanist singing humming citing Islamic prayers.