Name: 地理Now!インドネシア (Geography Now! Indonesia)
Uploaded: 2021-01-14T07:46:10.000Z
Duration: 14 min 53 s
Description: VoiceTubeの動画で発音を聞きながら英語表現を覚えよう！学べる英語：

Hey everybody, so if you don't know anything about Indonesia,

様態の副詞

basically, all you have to know is that it's kind of like the Hawaii of the Muslim world, but it's like huge.

It's like the biggest state and with orangutans.

*Intro song* It's time to learn Geography NOW!

So as some of you know, I've been to Indonesia one time on one island for like three hours

I ate one dish, so basically I'm like the Indonesia expert, right?

Well, if not I'm kind of like the only guy on YouTube doing full profile videos like this, so for now

You'll just have to kind of deal with me for like the next twelve or so minutes. Woohoo, default!

Alright, so again if you don't know anything about Indonesia

It's basically like if the Middle East and South East Asia had

An incredibly colorful, loud, somewhat explosive set of babies, like thousands of them

First of all Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago nation

Located right where the Indian Ocean meets the Pacific Ocean

On the incredibly clustered set of islands making six countries

Known commonly as Nusantara or the Malay Archipelago

Indonesia actually has land borders with three of these countries

East Timor, Papua New Guinea, and Malaysia, on the biggest island: Borneo or Kalimantan

Which is one of the world's only two triple split nation islands

The other one being Cyprus *CORRECTION: Actually it isn't the Cyprus (as Cyprus was located in West Asia), but it's Brunei*

Although technically if you include the UN Buffer Zone it's kind of like four entities

The country is divided into 34 provinces, five of which have special administrative statuses

With the capital and most populous city Jakarta located on Java

The world's most populous island with nearly half of the entire population of Indonesia in it

The largest cities after Jakarta are Surabaya and Bandung both located on Java Island

Bali's Ngurah Rai International in Denpasar

Now here's where things get a little speculative

Today there are still arguments claimed as to exactly how many islands Indonesia has

The National Coordinating Agency for Surveying and Mapping * now named Geospatial Information Agency * says Indonesia has about 13,500

The National Institute of Aeronautics and Space Agency says that it has about 18,300

Whereas the Indonesian government claims about 17,500

But whatever the point is there's a lot of them

Over 8,800 have names and over 900 of them are permanently Inhabited

You would think they are the country with the most islands, but surprisingly Finland and Canada beat them

But a lot of their islands are kind of like boopadoop little islands in the lakes, so does it really count?

Now let's talk about the five special administrative provinces

They are: Aceh, Yogyakarta, West Papua and Papua, and the capital, Jakarta

Now, no surprise the capital Jakarta acts as its own political entity

Lots of countries do that, but what about the others?

First, Aceh. Aceh is kind of like the black sheep of Indonesia

It's the only province in which Sharia law is fully implemented

Also, they kind of have like a ton of oil

So, yeah, they've kind of asserted a very independent ideology

That sets them apart as autonomous from the rest of Indonesia

Then you have Yogyakarta, which is the only region that is still governed by a pre-colonial monarchy

The Sultan of Yogyakarta who acts as a hereditary governor

Otherwise we get the two Papuas, which collectively used to be the province called Irian Jaya

Basically this is the place that has the least in common with the rest of Indonesia

It has a culture and background closer to their cousins across the border in Papua New Guinea

So then why is this part of Indonesia, well long story short, Indonesia was basically like:

"Well now that we have our full sovereignty, we get everything that the Dutch colonized"

But the people of Papua were not too happy so then Indonesia was like:

"Alright, we'll give you a vote to stay or leave"

"However, we would strongly implore you to make the *right* decision"

So they voted to stay in, a lot of people complained, there's still some current opposition

And to this day, the area has a relatively high level of autonomy

And the government kind of just leaves them alone except for when it comes to mining for resources

Oh, and the South Maluku area also kind of has like an independence dispute thing kind of going on

But the major opponents to the Indonesian government are primarily based in the Netherlands

Then you have the strange Riau Islands which looked like they should belong to Malaysia

But they don't even though they have a strong Malay derived culture

And you have the Ambalat Sea block which has a ton of oil that both they and Malaysia argue over

So that essentially covers most of the administrative divisions of Indonesia

Some of the most notable spots of interest in Indonesia might include:

Borobudur, disputably the largest Buddhist temple in the world

Yeah, try to say that five times fast: "Pura Ulun Danu Bratan Lake"

The Seven Story Pagoda of Sibu *CORRECTION: This is in Malaysia*

The Smoked Mummy Villages of Aikim and Jiwika in Papua

Or if you're lazy you can just go to The Taman Mini Indonesia Indah Park

Which kinda has like a bunch of replicas of all the famous sites in Indonesia

Oh, and keep in mind there's Dutch colonial style buildings all over

Too many ancient temples and pagodas to list

And no matter how many buildings and landmarks are built

They will never compare to what mother nature has done, which brings us to:

Indonesia's land is like that one ex we all had back in our 20's

That we trusted a stupid friend to hook us up with

Super attractive, but almost killed you a few times