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In the early 1950s the Government of Indonesia implemented the Benteng Program, under which only native Indonesians were allowed to have licenses to import certain items. [1] [2] This was to reduce the economic disparity between ordinary Indonesians and ethnic Chinese who were given racial privileges during the centuries-old Dutch colonial rule.
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]
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).
Football hooliganism has had a long history in Indonesia, with at least 95 football-related deaths between 2005 and 2018. [14] [15] [16] Several teams' fan clubs have so-called "commanders", and riot police units are present at many matches, with flares often being used to disperse rioting crowds invading the pitch. [17]
One main problem for the Agency was that, partly because of period of political instability that Indonesia passed through after the fall of President Suharto in May 1998, there were numerous changes in leadership (of the Ketua or the chair) of IBRA. During the six years of IBRA's operations, there were a total of seven heads of the Agency.
Water supply and sanitation in Indonesia is characterized by poor levels of access and service quality. More than 16 million people lack access to an at least basic water source and almost 33 million of the country's 275 million population has no access to at least basic sanitation . [ 4 ]
Indonesia has been called the "most ignored emitter" that "could be the one that dooms the global climate." [21] It is "one of the largest emitters of greenhouse gases" (GHG). [22] 2013 measurements show Indonesia's total GHG emissions were 2161 million metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent which totaled 4.47 percent of the global total. [23]
Aerial view of the protest President Joko Widodo addressing the protest. Scene of the protest at the Merdeka Square. December 2016 Jakarta protests, also known as the 3rd Defend Islam Action (Indonesian: Aksi Bela Islam III), 212 Movement, or simply as 212 Action, was a mass protest led by Islamist groups which took place on 2 December 2016, in Jakarta, Indonesia.