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National Palace, is the official residence of the Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia). Petaling Street , a Chinatown located in old dowtown near Merdeka Square , it area has dozens of restaurants and food stalls, serving local favourites such as Hokkien mee , Ikan Bakar (barbecued fish), asam laksa and curry noodles .
Borobudur is the single most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia. [17]Both nature and culture are major components of Indonesian tourism.The natural heritage can boast a unique combination of a tropical climate, a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands, 6,000 of them being inhabited, [18] the second longest shoreline in the world (54,716 km) after Canada. [19]
Visit Indonesia Year was a New Order Indonesia inaugurated series of years of promoting Indonesia to the world tourism industry. [7] It was considered as part of the Visit Indonesia Decade . [ 8 ] The Years were announced by Suharto at the beginning of each year during his time in power, and it was his presidential decisions that made the ...
Indonesia and Malaysia are two neighbouring nations that share similarities in many aspects. [3] Both Malaysia and Indonesia have many common characteristic traits, including standard frames of reference in history, culture and religion. Although both countries are separate and independent states, there are also profoundly embedded similarities ...
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
The Malay Archipelago is the archipelago between Mainland Southeast Asia and Australia, and is also called Insulindia or the Indo-Australian Archipelago.The name was taken from the 19th-century European concept of a Malay race, later based on the distribution of Austronesian languages.
The Malay world or Malay realm (Indonesian/Malay: Dunia Melayu or Alam Melayu) is a concept or an expression that has been used by different authors and groups over time to denote several different notions, derived from varied interpretations of 'Malay' either as an ethnic group, as a racial category, as a linguistic group or as a cultural group.
The Ministry of Tourism, Arts and Culture (Malay: Kementerian Pelancongan, Seni dan Budaya) is a ministry of the Government of Malaysia that is responsible for tourism, culture, archives, library, museum, heritage, arts, theatre, handicraft, visual arts, convention, exhibitions, Islamic tourism and craft.