Capital : Jakarta
Government : Republic
Currency : Indonesian rupiah (IDR)
Area : 1,919,440 km2
Population : 245,452,739 (July 2006 est.)
Language Bahasa Indonesia (official) and countless regional languages, the most widely spoken of which are Javanese and Sundanese
Religion : Muslim 88%, Protestant 5%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 2%, Buddhist 1%, other 1% (1998)
Electricity : 220V/50Hz (Shuko Euro plug)
Calling Code : +62
Internet TLD : .id
Time Zone : GMT+7 through GMT+9

Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world that straddles the Equator between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. While it has land borders with Malaysia to the north as well as East Timor and Papua New Guinea to the east, it also neighbors Australia to the south, and Palau, the Philippines, Vietnam, Singapore, and Thailand to the north, India to the northwest.

Indonesia is almost unimaginably vast: 18.110 islands providing 108.000 kilometres of beaches, and the distance between Aceh and Papua is more than 4.000 kilometres (2.500 miles), comparable to the distance between New York and San Francisco. There are more than 400 volcanoes in Indonesia, 130 of them being considered active, and many undersea volcanoes. The island of New Guinea (on which the Indonesian province of Papua is located) is the second largest island in the world.

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