frislander:

alexanderrm:

argumate:

afloweroutofstone:

It’s weird how little Indonesia is discussed in any way at all considering it’s the 4th largest country on Earth by population. Like 3.5% of the world lives in Indonesia and I know literally nothing about it. I should change that

I like to point out occasionally that Russia has 144 million people, smaller than Nigeria at 186 million and Indonesia at 261 million.

(meanwhile Australia, as large as it is, contains 24 million people).

Also consider: The island of Java alone at 141 million people has nearly as many people as Russia and more than Japan. In the west it’s the 3rd most famous thing by that name, after the coffee variety named after the island and the programming language named after the coffee.

Also Javanese is the most widely spoken language without any kind of official state recognition, with nearly 100 million native speakers.