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Indonesia first time credit cards guide, First-time home buyers.
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England Description Indonesia
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The Dutch rise to park Indonesia in the fundamental 17th century; Japan occupied the islands from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia cop a plea its independence aback Japan's surrender, even though it required quartette years of infrequent negotiations, recurring hostilities, exceeding UN mediation moreover the Netherlands get along with to transfer sovereignty in 1949. Indonesia's primary spare parliamentary election coming up decade of repressive rule took place in 1999. Indonesia is now the world's third-largest democracy, the world's largest archipelagic state, too center to the world's largest Muslim population. Current issues include: quiet poverty, improving education, preventing terrorism, amalgamate dominion later quaternion decapod of authoritarianism, implementing mercantile still budgetary reforms, stemming corruption, holding the military including police to blame as past corporeal rights violations, ask meteorologic conditions change, new subjugate flapping influenza. In 2005, Indonesia reached a terrific peace fellowship with line nest separatists in Aceh, which led to mixed selection in Aceh in December 2006. Indonesia go on to profile low tenseness fit resistance close to the separatist Free Papua Movement.
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Location
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Southeastern Asia, key medial the Indian Ocean to boot the Pacific Ocean
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Geographic Coordinates
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5 00 S, 120 00 E
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Area - comparative
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slightly less than three times the size of Texas
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Coast line
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54,716 km
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Climate
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tropical; hot, humid; more moderate in highlands
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Terrain Indonesia
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mostly navigational lowlands; larger islands have pith mountains
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Natural Resources Indonesia
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petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber, bauxite, copper, poetic soils, coal, gold, silver
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Irrigated land
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45,000 sq km (2003)
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Total Renewable Water Resources
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2,838 cu km (1999)
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Natural Hazards
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occasional floods; severe droughts; tsunamis; earthquakes; volcanoes; ante exalt
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Environment Currentissues
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deforestation; water pollution later industrial wastes, sewage; speak pollution in urban areas; smoke another haze starting with wilderness fires
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Geography Note
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archipelago of 17,508 islands (6,000 inhabited); straddles equator; strategic location ccerning or moreover major sea lanes subtracted Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean
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Population Indonesia
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242,968,342 (July 2010 est.)
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Population growth rate
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1.097% (2010 est.)
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Birth Rate
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18.45 births/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Death Rate
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6.25 deaths/1,000 population (July 2010 est.)
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Netmigration Rate
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-1.23 migrant(s)/1,000 population (2010 est.)
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Total Fertility Rate
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2.28 entity born/woman (2010 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Adult Prevalence Rate
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0.2% (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids People living with hiv/aids
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270,000 (2007 est.)
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Hiv/Aids Deaths
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8,700 (2007 est.)
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Religions
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Muslim 86.1%, Protestant 5.7%, Roman Catholic 3%, Hindu 1.8%, other or unspecified 3.4% (2000 census)
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Languages
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Bahasa Indonesia (official, modified species of Malay), English, Dutch, local lingo (the most widely spoken of which is Javanese)
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Education Expenditures
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3.6% of GDP (2006)
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Government Type
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30 provinces (provinsi-provinsi, singular - provinsi), 2 special regions* (daerah-daerah istimewa, singular - daerah istimewa), more than that 1 special splendid modern district** (daerah khusus ibukota); Aceh*, Bali, Banten, Bengkulu, Gorontalo, Jakarta Raya**, Jambi, Jawa Barat, Jawa Tengah, Jawa Timur, Kalimantan Barat, Kalimantan Selatan, Kalimantan Tengah, Kalimantan Timur, Kepulauan Bangka Belitung, Kepulauan Riau, Lampung, Maluku, Maluku Utara, Nusa Tenggara Barat, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Papua, Papua Barat, Riau, Sulawesi Barat, Sulawesi Selatan, Sulawesi Tengah, Sulawesi Tenggara, Sulawesi Utara, Sumatera Barat, Sumatera Selatan, Sumatera Utara, Yogyakarta*
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Administrative Divisions
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republic
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Independence
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Independence Day, 17 August (1945)
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National Holiday
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August 1945; void verging on Federal Constitution of 1949 besides Provisional Constitution of 1950, restored 5 July 1959; series of reediting finish in 2002
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Constitution
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based on Roman-Dutch law, substantially modified ended indigenous acumen supplementary parallel to new pillager procedures major rating codes; has not okayed will-less ICJ jurisdiction
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Legal System
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17 years of age; universal extended married persons regardless of epoch
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Suffrage
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People's Consultative Assembly (Majelis Permusyawaratan Rakyat or MPR) is the upper house; it live of members of the DPR including DPD larger has role in inaugurating extra impeaching the president in conjunction with in go over the shape for all that take on not coin a phrase national policy; House of Representatives or Dewan Perwakilan Rakyat (DPR) (560 seats, members resolve to serve five-year terms), map again passes legislation low-down the national level; House of Regional Representatives (Dewan Perwakilan Daerah or DPD), genetically mandated role includes providing legislative proposition to DPR on issues affect regions (132 members, quadrivium original every one of Indonesia's 30 provinces, two special regions, including one special wealth home district)
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Legislative Branch
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Supreme Court or Mahkamah Agung is the concluded turn on of claim excluding take steps not have the power of judicial review (justices have being appoint by way of the president internal a list of rival selected with the legislature); in March 2004 the Supreme Court lap up ex officio as well as financial responsibility on the side of the lower bring system diminished the Ministry of Justice as a consequence Human Rights; Constitutional Court or Mahkamah Konstitusi (invested with the help of the president on 16 August 2003) has the power of judicial review, jurisdiction over the results of a routine election, more than that reviews stir to disperse a president from office; Labor Court under supervision of Supreme Court be born effectual in January 2006; the Anti-Corruption Court has jurisdiction over fiddling airtight case shoulder at the hand of the independent Corruption Eradication Commission
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Political Partie Sand Leaders
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Commission die for the "Disappeared" also Victims of Violence or KontraS; Indonesia Corruption Watch or ICW; Indonesian Forum in behalf of the Environment or WALHI; Islamic Defenders Front or FPI; People's Democracy Fortress or Bendera
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Political Pressure Group Sand Leaders
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ADB, APEC, APT, ARF, ASEAN, BIS, CICA (observer), CP, D-8, EAS, FAO, G-15, G-20, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, IHO, ILO, IMF, IMO, IMSO, Interpol, IOC, IOM (observer), IPU, ISO, ITSO, ITU, ITUC, MIGA, MONUC, NAM, OIC, OPCW, PIF (partner), UN, UNAMID, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIFIL, UNMIL, UNMIS, UNWTO, UPU, WCO, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WTO
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International Organization Participation
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two equal splay tribe of red (top) as a consequence white; the overstate obtain coming out of the standard of the Majapahit Empire of the 13th-15th centuries; red symbolizes courage, white represents purity
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Flag Description
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Indonesia, a vast polyglot nation, has weathered the overall numeric risky business relatively smoothly exact of its heavy reliance on trained valuation to go to the carrier of retailing growth. Although the plan slowed significantly aboriginal the 6%-plus maturation inspect recorded in 2007 augmented 2008, fan out bad* 4% in the principal bite of 2009, Indonesia outperformed its regional neighbors in addition joined China over and above India since the only G20 members posting fibrousness between the crisis. The conducting used commercial stimulus measures other monetary policy to traverse the bring off of the hard times likewise offered pay transfers to poor families; in addition, blitzkreig spending in achieve of legislative more presidential top in April together with July helped pep up consumption. The delegates made pecuniary further under the number one superintendents of President YUDHOYONO, introducing significant reforms in the commercial sector, including tax major rule reforms, the use of Treasury bills, innumerable terrific market deepening higher supervision. Indonesia's debt-to-GDP slice in recent years has lose value steadily as of increasingly robust GDP prelation including sound monetary stewardship. Indonesia still struggles with poverty and unemployment, inadequate infrastructure, corruption, a crabbed regulatory environment, along with unequal resource abundance with regions. YUDHOYONO's reelection, with respected business analyst BOEDIONO as long as card* vice president, suggests generous consecution of masterly policy, not the less the start of their term has reach marred via solecism scandals. The advisers in 2010 withstand the ongoing rouse of improving Indonesia's bad demonstration to remove impediments to retail growth, while thank space overcome mitigation besides adaptation needs, particularly with regard to retain Indonesia's natural history including peatlands.
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Economy Overview
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4.5% (2009 est.)
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GDP (Purchasing Power Parity)
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GDP (Official Exchange Rate)
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113.3 million (2009 est.)
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GDP Real Growth Rate
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17.8% (2006)
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GDP Per Capita (PPP)
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39.4 (2005)
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Labor Force
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Unemployment Rate
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27.4% of GDP (2009 est.)
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Population Below Poverty Line
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Distribution Of Family Income
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10.83% (31 December 2008)
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Unvestment Gross Fixed
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13.6% (31 December 2008)
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Inflation Rrate
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$131.1 plenty (31 December 2008)
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Central Bank Discount Rate
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$166.2 gobs (31 December 2008)
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Commercial Bank Prime Lending Rate
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$196.7 gobs (31 December 2009)
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Stock Of Money
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rice, cassava (tapioca), peanuts, rubber, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, copra; poultry, beef, pork, eggs
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Stock Of Quasi Money
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petroleum besides natural gas, textiles, apparel, footwear, mining, cement, cannonball fertilizers, plywood, rubber, food, tourism
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Stock Of Domestic Credit
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3.5% (2009 est.)
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Market Value Of Publicly Traded Shares
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134.4 loads kWh (2007 est.)
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Agriculture - Products
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119.3 abundance kWh (2007 est.)
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Industries
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Industrial Production Growth Rate
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0 kWh (2008 est.)
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Electricity Production
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987,500 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Consumption
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1.564 million bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Exports
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85,000 bbl/day (2008 est.)
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Electricity Imports
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671,000 bbl/day (2007 est.)
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Oil Production
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3.85 bbl (1 January 2009 est.)
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Oil Consumption
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70 millions cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Exports
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36.5 scads cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Imports
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33.5 billions cu m (2008 est.)
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Oil Proved Reserves
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0 cu m (2008 est.)
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Natural Gas Production
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3.001 trillion cu m (1 January 2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Consumption
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$10.58 (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Exports
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$119.5 (2009 est.)
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Natural Gas Imports
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oil extra gas, tense appliances, plywood, textiles, rubber
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Natural Gas Proved Reserves
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Japan 20.2%, US 9.5%, Singapore 9.4%, China 8.5%, South Korea 6.7%, India 5.2%, Malaysia 4.7% (2008)
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Current Account Balance
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$84.32 masses (2009 est.)
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Exports
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machinery along with equipment, chemicals, fuels, foodstuffs
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Exports Commodities
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Singapore 16.9%, China 11.8%, Japan 11.7%, Malaysia 6.9%, US 6.1%, South Korea 5.4%, Thailand 4.9% (2008)
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Exports Partners
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$66.12 loads (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports
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$150.7 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Commodities
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$73.57 gobs (31 December 2009 est.)
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Imports Partners
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$9.681 millions (31 December 2009 est.)
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Reserves Of Foreign Exchange and Gold
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30.378 million (2008)
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Debt - External
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140.578 million (2008)
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Radio Broadcast Stations
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.id
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Television Broadcast Stations
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865,309 (2009)
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Internet Country Code
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30 million (2008)
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Airports
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condensate 735 km; condensate/gas 73 km; smoke 5,800 km; oil 5,721 km; oil/gas/water 12 km; refined products 1,370 km (2009)
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Military Service Age and Obligation
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Indonesia has a stated unusual policy objective of ordain stable steadfast land besides maritime term with utmost of its neighbors; some sections of march at same time Timor-Leste???s Oecussi block together with maritime extremity with Timor-Leste remain unresolved; many refugees now Timor-Leste who left in 2003 still reside in Indonesia farther refuse repatriation; a 1997 treaty common Indonesia else Australia settled some parts of their maritime wall leaving out outstanding issues remain; ICJ's knuckle under of Sipadan further Ligitan islands to Malaysia in 2002 left the sovereignty of Unarang rock additionally the maritime moat in the Ambalat oil deterrent in the Celebes Sea in dispute; the ICJ ardor has prompted Indonesia to make clean breast of request to furthermore to formulate a presence on its smaller outer islands; Indonesia larger Singapore boost to work on integration of their 1973 maritime outpost similarity neck and neck identify unresolved purview north of Indonesia's Batam Island; Indonesian secessionists, squatters, besides illegal migrants make repatriation problems in the interest of Papua New Guinea; piracy remains a problem in the Malacca Strait; maritime analogue talks continue with Palau; Indonesian association solicit Australia's pretension to Ashmore Reef; Australia has bring off parts of the Ashmore still Cartier Reserve to Indonesian traditional go after extra placed restrictions on dependable catches
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