Farming in Indonesia

The Exotic Places for Agricultural More than 60% of Indonesia's population work in agriculture, this is why Indonesia called as an agricultural country. There are two types of agriculture are predominant in Indonesia: permanent irrigated rice farming ( sawah ) and rotating swidden or slash-and-burn ( ladang ) farming of rice, corn, and other crops. The former dominates Java, Bali, and the highlands all along the western coast of Sumatra; the latter is found in other parts of Sumatra and other outer islands, but not exclusively so. A lot of interesting things that can be seen in the paddy field, such as: The farmers who row to the paddy...

About Indonesia

The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trade region since at least the 7th century, when Srivijaya and then later Majapahit traded with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign cultural, religious and political models from the early centuries CE, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been influenced by foreign powers drawn to its natural resources. Muslim traders brought Islam, and European powers fought one another to monopolize trade in the Spice Islands of Maluku during the Age of Discovery. Following three and a half centuries of Dutch colonialism, Indonesia secured its independence after World War II. Indonesia's history has since been turbulent, with challenges posed by natural disasters, corruption, separatism, a democratization...

Where is Indonesia?

Foreign tourists were mostly only familiar with Bali without knowing in what country is Bali located. This article shows that the famous island of Bali was a part of the Indonesian Archipelago. Thus, know further about Indonesia is a must if choose Indonesia as your Destination Archipelago. Geography of Indonesia Indonesia lies between latitudes 11°S and 6°N, and longitudes 95°E and 141°E. It consists of 17,508 islands, about 6,000 of which are inhabited. These are scattered over both sides of the equator. The largest are Java, Sumatra, Borneo (shared with Brunei and Malaysia), New Guinea (shared with Papua New Guinea), and Sulawesi. Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia on Borneo, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea, and East Timor on the island of Timor. Indonesia shares...

How do you spell Indonesia?

I gathered some of Internet reference pronunciation word 'Indonesia', pick the easiest way for you to pronounce the word 'Indonesia'. Indonesia:in-do-ne-sia, en-do-ni-shia, een-dough-nay-see-ah, enn-duh-nay-seah, indo-ni-ziya, indo-nay-seeya, ˌɪndəˈniːʒə, ˌɪndoʊˈniː...

Prologue - a destination archipelago

Indonesia - a Destination Archipelago In the world of tourism, Bali is more known around the world than Indonesia. In fact, Bali is one of 33 provinces in Indonesia. While Bali has been marked as an exotic destination, other provinces will soon to follow. It is because Indonesia as the world's largest archipelago - which consists of 17,000 islands - has a lot of exotic places for tourist destination. I build this blog as a gallery of Indonesian archipelago. I will show you wonderful places to visit, unique buildings, studying cultural diversity, and meet the friendly people of Indonesia. I hope this blog will help you to know more about Indonesia, The Destination Archipelago. Enjoy & fol...