Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, a
One of the oldest known figurative paintings, a depiction of a bull, was discovered in the Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave and dated to between 40,000 and 44,000 years ago.
An 1835 painting illustrating the submission of Prince Diponegoro to General De Kock at the end of the Java War in 1830.
Mount Semeru and Mount Bromo in East Java. Indonesia lies within one of the most tectonically active regions on Earth.
Lake Toba in North Sumatra, the world's largest known Cenozoic caldera.
Indonesia is home to over 700 living languages spoken across its extensive archipelago. This significant linguistic variety constitutes approximately 10% of the world’s total languages, positioning In
The Kedukan Bukit inscription (7th century CE), found in South Sumatra, is the oldest surviving specimen of the Old Malay language, which later evolved into various dialects across the archipelago, one of which was standardized into modern Indonesian.
The Youth Pledge, a pledge made by Indonesian youth on October 28, 1928, defining the identity of the Indonesian nation. On the last pledge, there was an affirmation of Indonesian language as a unifying language throughout the archipelago.
The use of Dutch, Javanese and Malay in Java, Dutch East Indies
One of the Yupa inscriptions from Kutai, East Kalimantan, written in Sanskrit using the Tamil Grantha script.