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In Indonesia the vast majority of everything -- population, wealth, power, infrastructure, development etc -- is concentrated on the single island of Java, whic
by thematrixturtle 4y ago
In Indonesia the vast majority of everything -- population, wealth, power, infrastructure, development etc -- is concentrated on the single island of Java, which is about the size and population of Japan. On Java basically everybody speaks Indonesian (if often as one of several languages), and the vast majority are culturally Javanese & Muslim. Yet, compared to Japan, it would be hard to describe Java as a success story, and it's quite clearly both poorer and developing more slowly than its neighbors.
- rootsudo 4y ago50/50, not "everything" there is Bali, which is much more for Tourism, Foreigners - and more to the point that most people do not think Bali is Indonesia. Culturally Javanese and Muslim, yes but there are sects of Christianity, and outside Java it goes dependent of island, Manado, Bali, Lombok, etc. There is religious freedom. Java is a success story, for most of South East Asia and Central Asia.
- thematrixturtle 4y agoBali has an outsized profile due to the tourism, but it has only 4M of Indonesia's 273M people, plus the island is swamped with (mostly Javanese) migrants. I'm well aware that there's a lot more to Indonesia than Java, but from an economic lens, Java is Indonesia. The island generates well over half the country's GDP: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indonesian_provinces_by_GDP https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Indonesian_provinces_b...
- goombacloud 4y agoWell, the exploitation of "natural resources" (i.e. environment destruction) happens mostly in Sumatra, Papua, and Borneo and is the major economic driver :/