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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 Indonesian Wikipedia (Indonesian: Wikipedia bahasa Indonesia, WBI for short) is the Indonesian language edition of Wikipedia. It is the fifth-fastest-growing Asian-language Wikipedia after the Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Turkish language Wikipedias. It ranks 25th in terms of depth among Wikipedias.
Marhaenism (Indonesian: Marhaenisme) is a socialistic political ideology originated and developed by the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno. [1] It was developed from the ideas of Marxism applied according to the nature and culture of Indonesia, or simply described as "Marxism adapted to Indonesian conditions".
Indonesia has a serious problem with widespread corruption, which has been described as 'rampant' and impacting people from birth until death. [11] A 2014 study and report by Transparency International (TI) as reported in The Wall Street Journal, disclosed that 72% of young Indonesians would engage in corruption for personal gain. [12]
Tawuran (or tubir) is a form of customary mass street fighting between gangs of particular school related students in urban Indonesia, especially in the capital city Jakarta. It is practised largely by males in their junior or senior year of high school.
The Press Council (Indonesian: Dewan Pers) is an independent non-structural agency in Indonesia responsible for safeguarding the freedom of the press. [1] Initially functioning as merely an advisory body to the Department of Information during the New Order era, the council was reformed into a wholly autonomous and independent entity devoid of government influence following the fall of the regime.
However, various social welfare problems occurred, such as natural disasters, social disasters, as well as a surge in the population of the homeless and neglected children in Indonesia. As a result, former high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Social Affairs at that time formed an agency that is directly responsible under the president.
The Executive Office of the President of the Republic of Indonesia (Indonesian: Kantor Staf Presiden Republik Indonesia, lit. ' Office of Staffs of the President of the Republic of Indonesia ') is a non-structural government agency directly under the auspices of the President of Indonesia. The office reports to the President and is headed by a ...