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Electricity:
Voltage:127/230V*
Frequency:50 Hz
Plug types:C, F, G,
Note:*Conversion to
230V in progress; complete in
principal cities
TV Systems:
System:PAL B / PAL G
DVD-Region: 3
Geography
Bordering countries:
Location:
Southeastern Asia, archipelago between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean
Area:
total: 1,919,440 sq km
land: 1,826,440 sq km
water: 93,000 sq km
Climate:
tropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands
Terrain:
mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior mountains
Economy
GDP:
$915.9 billion (2008 est.)
$863.1 billion (2007)
$811.1 billion (2006)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
GDP growth rate:
6.1% (2008 est.)
6.4% (2007 est.)
GDP per capita:
$3,900 (2008 est.)
$3,700 (2007 est.)
$3,500 (2006 est.)
note: data are in 2008 US dollars
Inflation rate: 11.1% (2008 est.)
Currency: Indonesian rupiah (IDR)
Exchange rates:
Indonesian rupiah (IDR) per US dollar - 9,698.9 (2008), 9,143 (2007), 9,159.3 (2006), 9,704.7 (2005), 8,938.9 (2004)
People
Population: 240,271,522 (July 2009 est.)
Growth rate: 1.136% (2009 est.)
Religions:
Muslim 86.1%, Protestant 5.7%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 1.8%, other or unspecified 3.4% (2000 census)
Languages:
Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified form of Malay), English, Dutch, local dialects (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese)
Government
Capital:
name: Jakarta
time difference: UTC+7 (12 hours ahead of Washington, DC during Standard Time)
note: Indonesia is divided into three time zones
Independence:
17 August 1945 (declared); 27 December 1949 (by the Netherlands)
note: in August 2005, the Netherlands announced it recognized de facto Indonesian independence on 17 August 1945
Note: Information on Indonesia was mainly sourced from CIA's World Factbook and may represent an American point of view. To learn more about Indonesia, please visit one of the links below.
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