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These are my list of 28 Indonesian world records.

Recently I watched America – Indonesia dialogue on television. In the dialogue, one of American panellists said most of U.S. citizens know nothing about Indonesia. I remember that in his book “Audacity of Hope” U.S. president elect Barack Obama also wrote that most American don’t know where is the location of Indonesia on the map. Back to the dialogue, an American audience asked what Indonesian government do to introduce Indonesia to American. Well, due to some difficulties, actually the Indonesian government still don’t do much thing to make Indonesia more familiar to the world. When I joined Triond, I intended to write things about Indonesia. However after some months passes, I still don’t write much about my country. I would like to start writing some contents about Indonesia. There are so many subjects as there are so many diversities in Indonesia. In this article I limit myself to write about Indonesian world records only. Indonesia is rank 2, 3 or 4 in many things, but I won’t write about those in this writing and will spare other things for other writings. In this writing I compile some of Indonesian world records.

Indonesian World Records:

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1. Indonesia is world’s largest archipelago state, comprising of 17,504 islands. Six thousand islands are inhabited.

2. Indonesia is the largest maritime state. The oceans and seas are 93,000 square kilometres and the coastlines are about 81,000 kilometres or about 25% of entire world’s coastline.

3. Java is the world’s most populous island. About 60% of Indonesian citizens (about 130 million people) lived in Java, which is only 7% of Indonesian territory. The population density is about 940 people per square kilometre.

4. Indonesia has most tribes in the world, consist of 740 tribes/ ethnics. In Papua island alone, there are 270 tribes.

5. Indonesia has most languages and dialects. There are 583 languages and dialect from 67 main languages.

6. Indonesia’s seismic and volcanic activity is highest in the world. Eruption of Toba super volcano, about 70,000 years ago, was one of the largest eruptions ever. Recent disaster due to seismic activity includes the 2004 tsunami that killed an estimated 167,736 in Aceh, northern Sumatera.

7. The oldest ancient man (Pithecanthropus Erectus) was found in Java island. The ancients man is predicted lived 1,8 million years a go.

8. Indonesia is the first country that proclaimed its independence after World War II in 1945. Indonesian Republic is the 70th country in the world, and Indonesia is the only nation that struggled and fought for its independence, not a gift from colonizer.

9. Indonesia is the first country (and the only one till now), which ever exited from United Nation on 7 January 1965. Indonesia re-joined United Nation on 1966.

10. Indonesia is the biggest producer of liquid gas (LNG), 20% of world’s consumption.

11. Indonesia is rank#1 in farm products: cloves and nutmeg.

12. Indonesia is the biggest plywood exporter, about 80% of world market.

13. Indonesia is the no.1 crude palm oil exporter.

14. Indonesia has the biggest gold mine in the world in Papua island.

15. Indonesia has the richest Coral Reef (18% from world’s coral reef).

16. Indonesia has the most species of shark, about 150 species.

17. Indonesia has the most various Orchid Biodiversity. It has 6,000 orchid species, including the biggest one (Grammatophyllum Speciosum), Taeniophyllum that doesn’t have leaf and Black Orchid in Papua.

18. Indonesia has the biggest mangrove forest in the world. Mangrove is useful to prevent abrasion.

19. The ancient animal that still alive, Komodo, lives in Komodo island, is the biggest lizard in the world. It’s length is 3 meters and it’s weight 90 kgs.

20. Rafflesia Arnoldi, lives in Sumatera island is the biggest flower in the world. The diameter of the flower is about 1 meter.

21. Tarsier Pygmy (Tarsius Pumilus) which length is about 10 centimetres lives in Sulawesi island is the tiniest primate alive. This animal is monkey alike, lives in the top of the tree.

22. The longest snake in the world, Python Reticulates, lives in Sulawesi. Its length is about 10 meters.

23. The smallest transparent fish in the world is found in Sumatera island. Its length is 7.9 millimetres, as big as a mosquito.

24. Indonesia is the most populous Muslim-majority nation, but not an Islamic state. About 216 millions citizens or 88% from Indonesian citizens are Muslim; consequently Indonesia has the most numbers of mosques in the world.

25. Borobudur Temple in Central Java, with 42 meters height and relief length more than 1 km is the largest Buddhist monument in the world. It was built for more than 40 years by Syailendra dynasty from ancient Mataram Kingdom (in year 750-850).

26. Indonesian Badminton team won the topest man badminton supremacy, Thomas Cup (13 times).

27. In terms of savers, Indonesia’s micro finance program is No. 1 in the world with 31 million members.

28. Indonesian second president Soeharto is the ever-longest president who rules a country. He ruled for 32 years.