Indonesia

__ Indonesia __ by: Kayla Chetney and Logan Smyth

Indonesia is a large country in southeast asia that consists of several large and small islands.

media type="custom" key="5712667"

Political Information The current leader of Indonesia is Susilo Bambang Yudhoyano elected in 2004 and is both the cheif of state and head of goverment. Indonesia is a republic and has free elections presidental elections every five years. they base their law system on Roman-dutch law. The legal age to vote in Indonesia is 17.

The red in the flag symbolizes human blood and the white represents the human spirit. The design of this flag is based on the 13th century Javan Majapahit Empire flag that had nine red and white stripes.

​ Social informatiom

Indonesia has a population of 240,271,522 people wth the average life span being 70-76 years. The amount of people living with aids in Indonesia is 270,000 people.There are numerous ethnic and religous groups in Indonesia such as the Javanese,Sundanese,Madurese,Minangkabau,betawi,bugis,banten and Banjar. Everyone age 15 and older can read and write. In Indonesia they speak a number of langauges Bahasa(Indonesian),English,Dutch and local dialects.

media type="custom" key="5648175"media type="custom" key="5855411"media type="custom" key="5855481"

Economic information

Indonesia has currency and exchange rate of 514.9 billion a year.Indonesia's poverty rate is 17.8 percent.Indonesia's Major industries are petroleum,natural gas,textiles,footwear,mining and tourism. Major imports and exports of Indonesia are machinery and equipment,chemiclas and fuels.Exports oil,textiles and footwear. Indonesia's natural resoures include oil and gas. GDP pe capita is 4,000.

Current events A police raid of Jakarta has killed one of Indonesia's most wanted teroists. The suspect behind the bali bombings in 2002 has been killed by Indonesian ploice. THe police raided Jakarta and one of the terrorists killed in the raid was Dultmatin one of the top southeats asian terrorists. Dulmatin was a electronics specialist trained in a AL-Qaeda camp in afghanistanand had a 10 million bounty on him. Dultmatin was killed during a shootout during the raid by police. For the people of Indonesia this is a victory because Dultmatin was one of southeast Aisa's most wanted terrorists. Dultmatin was the lead suspect in the bali bombings of 2002 wich killed 202 people.

An earthqauke with a magnitude of 6.5 struck friday night off the coast of Sumantra. The qauke centerde around 100 miles. There were no reports of injury or damage to property. The pacific tsnami warning center said there wa a small chance of a tsunami. Residents of Sumantra were lucky that the earhqauke just barely missed them. Indonesia currently has many issues such as Homegrown terrorists,AL-Qaeda and a devastating earthqauke.

Timeline

media type="custom" key="5669495"

Extra info about Indonesia Indonesia's recorded history goes back to 3000 B.C Some fossil records indicate that Indonesia was inhabited by people as early as two million to 500,000 years ago.

Indonesia's founding president Soekarno.

Indonesia contains 17,508 island and about 6,000 are inhabited. The five largest islands in Indonesia are Java,Sumatra,Kalimantan,New guinea and Sulawesi.