Indonesia - The Magnificent Archipelago of Southeast Asia 

Im a filipino ,and i love indonesia so much!i hve many indonesian friends, apa kabar to all my friends in indonesia,😄😄😄😄😄

Hi guys. A lot of people have already commented that the date of independence is 1945 not 1949. I chose 1949 because that's when the Dutch were finally gone. But I probably should have said 1945 because that's when independence was declared, and it's better to use the date chosen by Indonesians themselves. Thanks!

I was traveling throughout Indonesia and made it to all provinces in Indonesia. What amazed me the most about the country is the differences. It was so diverse that every time you cross the border between provinces, you’re entering to a whole different world. It was very jaw-dropping just to imagine that you can find conservative Islamic Aceh, to the party island of Bali, and tribal communities of Papua, all of them in a single country. That was just wow for me.

I’m Puerto Rican. Been to Indonesia twice. It has become my favorite country!

I just finished a train journey across Java. It was spectacular, and the people were fantastic. I really fell in love with Indonesia.

i dont understand how people can dislike any of his videos hes doing soo much to educate .

"if you visit Jakarta I highly recommend that you take your own helicpoter" xD

I'm Dutch, you said that there is not very much Dutch influence in Indonesia. but there is A LOT of Indonesian influence right here, there are a lot of Indonesian restaurants and monuments referring to Indonesia. around 2,5% of the Netherlands is Indonesian, but at least 10% has an Indonesian heritage (like me)

Hi Paul, an Indonesian by birth place, raised, and nationality here.. I'm highly appreciate your video about my country.. It was quite balance in terms of geography, history, culturally speaking.. Yeah, it's kind of odd to see that the Dutch has colonised Indonesia for 3+centuries, yet their trace are almost invisible in Indonesian culture.. Maybe it's due to many of rural Indonesians still hold some grudge toward the Dutch, because they exploited their area but made no development there.. But anyway, I hope other people find your video as informative and educative as I had.. :)

Indonesian independence is declared in 17 august 1945, year 1949 is the year dutch ended their re-colonializing campaign effort and acknowledge the soverignity of Indonesia. Telling the indonesian independence in 1949, is like telling americans that their independence is in 1783, forgetting their long and bloody struggle to defend and preserve their independence since 1776. It is only acknowledgement from the imperialist point of view.

While on vacation in Jakarta it took us 6 hours from the airport to the hotel (9km)... The traffic is chaotic but Jakarta is a beautiful city.

Indonesia declared independence in 1945 but was only recognized by the Dutch in 1949 after a series of fights. However some countries had recognized Indonesia earlier than 1949 (e.g. Egypt, or so what my teacher taught me). That's the only thing that irked me but otherwise, it's a great and in all honesty a correct explanation towards my country. Thank you! :)

Terima kasih banyak, Paul! As an Indonesian, I really appreciate this video. Indeed, Indonesia is most famous of its beautiful scenery. And yes, Jakarta is the city with the worst traffic in the world. Anyway, Indonesians declared independence in 17 August 1945 and the date has been celebrated ever since. After that, there was a time of national revolution because the Dutch wanted to keep their control of Indonesia. The revolution ended in 1949 with our independence secured. The UN apparently decided to formally recognize our Independence date as 27 December 1949.

13 year old Indonesian here! You pretty much got all of the history correct! For the flag, the red means "courage" and the white means "purity". Great job!

hi indonesia salam damai dari malaysia

As I expected, a lot of Indonesians commented on the 1949 independence date... I'm Indonesian and let me help clear the situation Paul, technically you were correct to say that Indonesia became independent in 1949. However, for decades ever since then students at schools were educated to call 17th August 1945 as Indonesia's independence day, being the day when Sukarno made the declaration of independence. To have full independence, a country must have de facto independence and de jure independence where that de facto independence is recognised by law. Indonesia acquired de facto independence on 17th August 1945 when Sukarno made the declaration and acquired de jure independence on 27th December 1949 when Queen Juliana of Netherlands recognised sovereignty of Indonesia. It is quite a sensitive subject among Indonesians who were mostly indoctrinated to hate the Netherlands as the "colonialist". Even the Netherlands today have acknowledged 1945 as the independence year to normalise and strengthen the relations between the two countries but unfortunately public sentiments have been largely unchanged. Fact of the matter is, like it or not, Indonesia achieved full independence by 1949 when a de facto declaration had been made and the former colonist acknowledged the independence, as well as recognition by the United Nations. Some Indonesians might say "go to hell with the Dutch and the UN" but these are simply enraged patriotism that resulted from decades of education. I'm Indonesian and from an objective point of view, I would say that Indonesia's independence was fully achieved in 1949. With that in mind, when you mentioned the independence, it might be best to list both years and pointing out the controversy behind it to avoid offending some Indonesians. Apart from that, I'd say this is a good piece. Great stuff!!

Rich country, with so much language. I feel the goverment efort to united all of them

Indonesia independence in 17 August 1945 not 1949.

I love when all people are interested on our country, not because of Bali. But maybe because of the languages, or the arts, and the history. I appreciate all people interest feeling for my country

Thankyou for your education... Peace from Indonesia.

I'm proud to be Indonesian people 😍 thank you for the beautiful video #Bhineka Tunggal Ika🇮🇩

Too bad I just found out about this channel. I'm from Indonesia, and I'm quite impressed about the information you gave and your pronunciation. Mostly, people will pronounce the c in Puncak Jaya as /k/, not /tʃ/, however you just pronounce it correctly 👍

I miss u indonesia

The most useful overview of Indonesia I have found on You Tube.

6:15 We took a train across Java.. It was during the night though so we couldn't really see much.. Absolutely beautiful place though!

Video yang bagus sekali. Terima kasih, Paul! You explained my country so well. Langfocus and GEOFocus are incredibly good and educative. Then I wish I have my turn to visit Canada someday. To be honest I laughed hearing the song from the ending of this video, hahaha. Have a nice day!

Anyone (except Indonesians) who has seen this video and wants to visit Bengkulu, the home of two biggest flowers (Female Rafflesia and Male Kibut), you guys can stay freely at my home, in Bengkulu, Indonesia.

Great video. My students will surely learn great information about Indonesia. Keep it up!

You totally capture what geography is all about in your videos. Keep up the good work!

aku diam saja... diam sajah... aku diam saja....

Great stuff! Loving Lang Focus as well!! Keep up the good work!

Great job Paul. I thought Indonesian was so small. I have no idea how big and populated it was. I heard that Indonesian was one of the easiest languages in the world. Do you think intonation would balance out how easy it is, making it harder. Thanks Paul.

Hey Paul, I just wanted to say really nice video and I would love to see more like this :D

Ohh so.. Indonesia got it's Independence after the WWII in my country nicee

Total area of Indonesia is about 5 million km². Land area is about 1.9 million km² and sea area is about 3.1 million km²

Thank you for finally exposing us to the second channel!

Hey, Paul. Brazil here. Congrats on this video. Great job as usual. We need more people like you on the internet and youtube. Any plans on learning Portuguese? Keep the videos coming! Romes

Thanks i'am one of Indonesian and i really proud of my country, if u need some information for Turkey country just tell me i stay here from 6 years ago.

+GEOgraphy Focus Great video, but i have to point out that we call the whole Borneo Island as Kalimantan (we never actually call it Borneo). And also, we call the New Guinea Island simply as Papua (we never really refers it as New Guinea).

Thank you for your video, Paul! Greetings from Indonesia! :)

hi, great video in introducing Indonesia without any political agenda and pretty neutral. Therefore it is very recommended for educational purposes for kids. I'm an Indonesian yet due to my job, we keep moving around from country to country. My 6 yo son is confused with his identity and rarely know about Indonesia. Now, i find this channel that explains briefly about my country and helps my son's learning process and his presentation in class about his Motherland. Thank you, keep up the good works!

i love indonesian country so amazing

thanks for this video, love it

Amazing! Great job man 🎉

If im not mistaken, the reason why in Indonesia we don't see much influence from the Dutch was because of the way that the Dutch was colonizing back then. They didn't go for the 3G(gold, glory, gospel) like all the other empire, but instead they go only for the trading profits. Hence, not much influence was impacted during colonial times.

Indonesia is my favourite country .

Thanks Bro. Very informative vlog

I highly appreciate for your effort make video about my beloved country. Thank you. If you don't mind, I'm going to share this on Facebook :)

Hi! I'm Indonesian. Thanks for featuring our country, even though there are some mistakes. I also live in Jakarta, and I laughed so hard to your description about the traffic and "to take your own private helicopter". Dang, I love that part! 😂😂😂

Hello there! Greetings from Indonesia, I want to request a video, about Mount Krakatoa (pls do a part two of this vid, and include the informations that i give you) 1. Krakatoa makes the moon blue at one point (bcs of the ashes, and yes BLUE!! 💙💙💙) 2. Krakatoa killed more than 36k people and destroyed 2/3 of the island (Rakata Island) 3. The explosion of Krakatoa is considered to be the LOUDEST sound in the modern history, with reports that the explosion could be heard 3000 miles away! 4. The eruption of Krakatoa mountain is one of the most violent volcanic events in history 5. The eruption was equivalent to 200 megatons of TNT - about 13000 times the nuclear yield of the Little Boy bomb (in Hiroshima) and 4 times the yield of the Tsar Bomba (THE MOST POWERFUL nuclear device EVER detonated) (Based on wiki, and these are only some of the facts about Krakatoa) Edit = i misspelled two 😂😂

thank you so much for doing this video.

Thank you, fantastic effort

Great! Looking forward to you explaining the Indonesian language on your Langfocus channel ;)

Wonderfull indonesia ...

Great info paul

You videos are great man, keep up the good work!

AFAIK we don't call our side of the island Kalimantan - we call the whole Island Kalimantan (likewise we call the entire island of New Guinea Papua)

Great video, Sir! Thanks for explaining my country. I like how you explain it. I like when you explain about the capital of Jakarta. I agree with you and I personally dislike my country capital haha. And for the year of independence, the correct one is on 1945. However, personally, it's okay for me if you get wrong on mentioning the year of independence of Indonesia since 1949 independence was where de jure and de facto recognition took place. Yeah, sadly the Dutch didn't want to spread their cultures on us. I personally wanted them to spread their cultures on us and we finally could speak Dutch.

ndonesia was very beautiful sabang until merauke . vacation here .i am indonesians he was gracious greet you and with the open hand help you .welcome in indonesia ~

Beautifully explained.

740 languages.. i'm proud!!

Thanks for this. A bit of correction, words such as "stabilitas" and "universitas" are more of Latin than Dutch. This is by choice, as we prefer to use Latin especially for academical terms.

Great info sir. Thanks

Really really awesome video.. You learn a lot about the nation ;)

I just realized the background music is Balinese instrumental after watching more than 2mins. 😂😂😂

As I observe , Kalimantan is a good place to build its capital even though there are not a lot of people it is at the heart of Indonesia , there are not that many volcanoes nearby and earthquakes there are lowest in Indonesia but Java is a nice place , it's very fertile and good trades come from there so geographically Kalimantan is better but economically the best place is Java

thanks Paul!

Great job!

Thanks!

I Love Indonesia. Wonderfull Indonesia.

I like your videos. I am glad you made a new channel. Your videos are great for educational purposes! Have a nice day!

thanks for this video. good job

I'm so proud to be Indonesian😍

Indonesia Independence Day 17 agustus 1945

Wow you really visited Indonesia..Great Vid!

If you visit Indonesia don't forget visit yogyakarta city!there are so many culture and if you visit Jakarta city don't forget to bring your own helicopter

awesome video, many thanks ! i live in west java. and my ethnic is sundanese :)

Saya orang sulawesi bangga menjadi bagian dari indonesia....

Is a good video. Terima kasih banyak Paul

am from Indonesia I live in Borneo/Kalimantan..... and I just wanna say..... aku cinta tanah airku yang banyak memiliki kekayaan budaya... Try translating that into English... and yes I am Muslim

its better if you know why Indonesia has a lot of cultures, ethnic and, religions but Indonesia could rub along each others. It because our ideology "Pancasila" and "Bhineka Tunggal Ika". I proud of you ^_^

Belajar tentang negara sendiri sambil belajar listening bahasa inggris nih, subscribe ah. btw musik di akhir bikin 'petcah' wkwkwkkk

Dude! This content is amazing, I am having a weekend marathon of your videos! It's so great to find a treasure so big, you educate us! I am looking forward to the videos about India, Pakistan and Bangladesh! Bahut Dhanyavad dost! Ps what is the song playing at the end? Sounds good?

I appreciate you for making this great video about my country. I hope you can also study indonesian language or bahasa Indonesia and makea summary of it, also compare it with filipino and Malay... :)

Finally a more accurate video of Indonesia by people whos actually been there.

Pelajaran sejarah versi youtube. Thanks for your detail learning of my country and share it here and i think all the teacher of history lesson here should follow your style to educate their students .😁

Terima kasih.. 🙏🙏

Jakarta is much better now, no more traffic jam. For Kalimantan,we really concern to stop the ilegal logging. Did you have a bad experience in Indonesia? You sound like dislike it.

thats sounds like lombok gamelan music....

hi, im indonesian base in dubai. just want to correct a little bit for independece day official we declared on 17 aug 1945. thats why evey 17 aug we celebrate independe day. over all your video is correct, i subricbed

Love n peace from Indonesia 🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨🇲🇨

indonesia is awasome

im proud to be indonesian

love this!thank you so much!!!!!it broke my heart when i left when i was 7 and i hope to be able to see it once more before i die....born in heaven i was...thank you sooooooooo much..

yes, formally indonesia independence on 1949., 1945 was declared for independence but there's still not government administration yet ,the government still handled by united nations, 1949 when indonesia totally independence and the government fully handled by indonesian,

Beautiful Vidio.., I do not even know a few islands in Indonesia except large islands like Java, Sumatra and Borneo (-_-)

Thanks dude. please visit to my house in cilacap central java.

Excellent information . Thanks . 22 years ago I spent 4 months of my life in Bali. I loved it for it's beauty and culture . I return this year in september. I didn't like the changes I saw . Too much traffic and touristy, also not so clean . I was very dissapoined . Ubud was at one time the cultural centre of Bali , not anymore .

thank you for talking about my country ! 😊

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