Provinces of INDONESIA explained 

WHEW. Sheesh 38 provinces. That's quite a lot! Thanks to all the Indonesian geograpeeps that helped / are featured in this video! Also...... Hehe, "Fakfak" ....ENJOY!

Even just still in one country, Indonesians always experience culture shock when visiting different cities because each cities has their own unique culture, dialect, food ect 😅

Yoo calling Medan the Indonesian "Gotham City" is wild😂

Thank you for making this and clarifying "there's no one type of Indonesian". As a multi-ethnic Indonesian born and raised in Bandung, with a Sundanese dad from Tasik and a half Malay & Chinese mom from Palembang, the struggle I faced when foreigners asked what Indonesia's culture is like is real. Growing up in multiple cultures, languages & even cuisines, it's like which one am I supposed to tell them. Or when they ask me something about a certain region in Indonesia and I tell them I don't know, the amount of "Aren't you Indonesian" or "Shouldn't you know since you're Indonesian from Indonesia" and I just died a little inside. It's almost like having an identity crisis of "am I a fake Indonesian because I don't know every single detail of our hundreds of different cultures?". Anyways, I love my diverse country and people and will forever be proud to call myself Indonesian :')

When Indonesia said the motto is "unity in diversity", they aint kidding! People, languages, cuisines, clothes, houses, cultures, traditions, musical instruments, flora, fauna, etc. So many differences and scattered over 18,000 islands, yet united as one! Truly incredible! Long live Indonesia! ❤️🤍

Minangkabau have a tradition of "Rantau" which when a young adult Minangkabau man who didn`t get any land inheritence (because it goes to the daughter, traditionally) sets out to any other provinces to find prosperity and stay there. that`s why they were everywhere (you can find any padang restaurant in every province), popularice rendang, and one of the setting for most of their popular story: Malin kundang. I am one of those men trying to find a chance in Bogor, hope i can finally get a job. wish me luck~

fun facts: several Indonesian kingdoms once received status as special regions because of their services in helping Indonesian independence, such as Kutai, Surakarta Hadiningrat, etc. Unfortunately, only Yogyakarta remains as a special region, the only region in Indonesia that adheres to a monarchy system,and before becoming a unitary state, Indonesia had the status of a federal state.

I like how Indonesia is a transition zone between Australia/Melanesia and Southeast Asia. Can be seen in the wildlife, plants, and people as well.

I’m from Greece and I love Indonesia 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇮🇩 . I went to Bali 2 moths ago and it was incredible! I definitely want to travel through the rest of Indonesia. Also a friend of mine was in Palangkaraya for the city mountain biking world championships and he had a lot of fun!

Indonesia never fails to amaze me. One small fact: we share one ethnicity with Indonesia and that is the Sangir people in North Sulawesi. Another one: Ternate island in North Maluku and Ternate City in Cavite province have a historical relationship during the Spanish colonial period. Love and interests from the Philippines 🇵🇭🤜🤛🇲🇨

As a person who has an extreme interest in Indonesia for what seems like no reason, this further drives my interest in Indonesia! Love from Los Estados Unidos!

As a Dutchie this was interesting. We have many streets named after the Indonesian islands and regions.

I remember when we had 27 provinces and taught at school that each province has their distinct traditional costume, musical instrument, and dance. Growing up, the provinces split every now and then just like you said, I always forget how many there are and what is the capital of each provinces. Thank you for forcing yourself to wrap this huge amount of information around your head. Even for Indonesians, Indonesia is too big, but they rarely conprohend it.

2:27 Hi barb Im from medan, north sumatra. I want to correct the population for North Sumatra, medan’s population is about 2 million and the province’s population is about 15 million. North sumatra is actually the most populated province outside of java. Additionally, there are more ethnic groups in north sumatra like malay, javanese, chinese, indian (tamil), and others. I, myself am batak mandailing, malay, and acehnese. Medan is like a cultural melting pot of batak, malay, chinese, and others. Medan founded by a batak, was the capital of the malay kingdom of deli, have chinatown and little india. And yeah sadly Medan is known as gotham of indonesia cause of crime, corruption, etc :)

Timestamp (Indonesian name of the provinces in parenthesess): ===Sumatra=== 1:47 Aceh 2:22 North Sumatra (Sumatera Utara) 2:53 Riau 3:16 Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau) 3:57 West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) 4:35 Jambi 5:07 South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) 5:43 Bangka Belitung Islands (Kepulauan Bangka Belitung) 6:19 Bengkulu 6:53 Lampung ===Java=== 7:47 Banten 8:20 SCR of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) 8:57 West Java (Jawa Barat) 10:01 Central Java (Jawa Tengah) 10:45 SR Yogyakarta (DI Yogyakarta) 11:24 East Java (Jawa Timur) ===Kalimantan=== 12:36 West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat) 13:12 Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah) 14:06 South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) 14:54 East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) 15:24 North Kalimantan (Kalimantan Utara) ===Nusa Tenggara=== 16:17 Bali 17:13 West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat) 17:53 East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur) ===Sulawesi=== 18:59 West Sulawesi (Sulawesi Barat) 19:31 South Sulawesi (Sulawesi Selatan) 20:06 Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) 20:39 Central Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tengah) 21:06 Gorontalo 21:41 North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara) ===Maluku Islands=== 22:39 Maluku 23:28 North Maluku (Maluku Utara) ===Papua=== 25:09 Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya) 25:57 West Papua (Papua Barat) 26:38 Central Papua (Papua Tengah) 27:14 Papua 27:56 Highland Papua (Papua Pegunungan) 28:33 South Papua (Papua Selatan) PHEW... ALL SORTED AND DONE

As someone who’s Egyptian and extremely loves Indonesia I see this as a huge win 😌thanks barb for explaining geography in general in a funny and good way.😭

As a geology student, I would like to talk about the finding of diamond in South Kalimantan. So apparently, the diamonds that are found in that province is a placer deposit which means that the main source of the diamonds are located somewhere else. Until now, many geologists are still debating the exact location of the main source of diamonds found in South Kalimantan because the geological features where diamonds are formed (Kimberlite pipes) cannot be found on the island of Kalimantan. Some even say that the main source are probably located in Indochina region, especially Vietnam.

Love Indonesia from New Zealand! 🇳🇿❤🇮🇩

Fun fact! Nusa Tenggara directly translates to "the southeastern islands" which pretty much sums up our love of naming places by their location.

Hi Barb, Tari Pendet is from Bali not Lampung, in Lampung they have Tari Sembah, Tari Sekura and the most popular Tari siger panguten 7:23

As Indonesia is the one and only SEA country with 3 different time zone in one country , Thats why time is rather chaotic here

Fun fact, La Galigo, which is considered the longest literary work in the world, comes from the province of South Sulawesi. The most complete original manuscript of La Galigo is stored in the Leiden University Library, Netherlands. and also La Galigo is recognized as a Memory of the World by UNESCO.

Fyi, Provinces in Indonesia (38) are the same level as states in the US (50) or provinces in China (23) or Region in Philipines (17) which is level 1 regions, different from term provinces in the Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam, in Indonesia they are equivalent to level 2 regions named Kabupaten, the number of Kabupaten in Indonesia is 416.

The last time I learned this at school Indonesia had like 32 provinces

3:57 Fun fact: there’s a regency in West Sumatra called Mentawai Island. The people on those islands (the Mentawais) have a very distinct culture from the Minangkabau (those on the mainland of West Sumatra). The Mentawais have cool tattoo artwork and other interesting stuffs. You should definitely look that up! Also, Mentawai is a popular spot among surfers!

Papuan Geography lover here. Your tribal customary Map is almost close to perfection. Animha and Meepago region within Indonesian maps tend to overlap, however your map shows a better picture of that. Regards. 😇😇🙏🏾🙏🏾

1:05 Wait I thought there were 1,340 ethnic groups in Indonesia, alongside with 700 languages that scattered across the vast 18,000 islands. Also a fun fact Indonesia have the world's largest numbers of both Austronesians and Melanesians in the world (makes sense considering Indonesia's population of 280 million the 4th largest in the world). Another fun fact about Indonesia is that the Indonesian language is a madeup language created by Indonesian nationalist in 1928. It's mainly based on Riau Malay but got a lot of mixture of Dutch, Malay, Javanese, Portuguese, Banjarese, Arabic, Minangkabau, etc. The purpose of the language is genius because it means to unite the very diverse people of Indonesia under one language that's not in favour of only one ethnic group.

Barbs may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver amazing contents for us to watch ❤🔥🇮🇩

Hi, Indonesian living in Germany with Balinese heritage here! Thank you Barbs for covering the province of my parents, and to address the current problem they are facing - yes, Bali is currently really overwhelmed with tourists and no one does anything to cope with it. Unfortunately, while you are correct about there are other places in my home country worth visiting, it is not always easy to reach those places and tourism in Indonesia is HUGELY trend-based! This means people will go where people are also going. I recall last decade people flocked to Karimun Jawa in Central Java, then suddenly the trend shifted to Bangka-Belitung, then nowadays people are going to Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara) and Bali because the celebrities are going there. I hope this changes soon! As an Indonesian myself I highly encourage fellow Indonesians to not just flock at one place, our country is rich in landscape and there are more to visit than just Bali 😅 Greetings from Germany!

Wow! Excellent. A non-patronising rundown of a complex non-western country.

This was such an interesting episode, I’m going to have to watch it a few times! Much love to Indonesia!

Wuuuiiiihhhh ............. thank you for that! I am German and have been living in Indonesia since 2001, and "even I" still learned a lot from your video. One minor correction, maybe: Krakatoa (1883) was not the largest ever recorded volcano eruption; this title goes to Tambora on the island of Sumbawa (eruption 1815). And another "smart-aleck" thing :) ...... the Ministry of Home Affairs occasionally publishes a new count of islands ...... so, currently -status 2022- they say it is 17,001 islands (not more than 18,000 as you say). But again, many thanks for this informative and entertaining video!!! Really appreciate it!

Even Indonesian itself don't know if we've already have 38 provinces... Many older generation stuck in 27 provinces knowledge back in soeharto era when the 27th province east timor joining the country And some 30ish y.o ppl still only knowing that we have 34 provinces just like the text book tell us

a lot of Love to Indonesia from Bangladesh... I wish to visit Indonesia one day.

Thank you for all the information! Its crazy how diverse this country is!

Thank you Barb for making this video. I realized that Indonesia doesn't really get enough spotlight in the global stage. I mean we are the 4th largest country (population) in the world + country with the most Muslim in the world. I admit that we don't have a lot of diaspora worldwide. Maybe only in Netherlands, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia that have more than 500k Indonesian diaspora. I wish with this video, people around the world can know more about my country. Terima Kasih Geografi Sekarang

8:17 The magic is known as Debus. Some bandits are known to practice it so they're immune to sharp weapons when fighting

I am from PNG, but I learn alot about Indonesia from this video. Thank you very much.

You did such an awesome job informing us about Indonesia! Wow! Impressive work.

Great video! If you wanna visit again, Yogyakarta, Labuan Bajo or Medan are great starting choices. I mean it's difficult to choose really. Because even for me, an Indonesian, i only visited a total of 12 provinces, and about 20 cities. Even for locals, our country is too dang big to explore. Cheers!!

I wanna add and correct something: 1. North Sumatra: Even Batak is the biggest ethnics group in north Sumatra. But in Medan it is not a case. Because Medan is Melting pot from various ethnics group such as Malay, Javanese, Batak, Chinese, Minangese, Aceh and etc. And also the original people of Medan is Malay, they even has a sultanate which call Deli Sultanate until Indonesia Independence. But right now Malay not much as before, because many Batakese come to Medan forom highland north Sumatra near Toba and Javanese come from Java when Dutch colonial era, mostly to work in oil palm field. And also because Java island is so populate. So right now Javanese and batakese become the biggest ethnic group in Medan. 2. South Sumatra: Palembang itself also sub ethnic of Malay. But become is different from Malay in Malaysia and Riau. Palembang language has influence from Java because Srivijaya founder is from Syailendra dynasty from Mataram kingdom in Java, that escape because civil war with Sanjaya dynasty. And from the appearance, people in Palembang and Lampung has some kind of Chinese/east Asian appearance, mainly because Srivijaya has good relationship with many chinese dynasties from Tang to Song. So many Chinese come to Palembang. Even most well known Palembang street food which is pempek, it's has influence from Chinese food. 3. Lampung: Javanese people in Lampung had come to Lampung long time before independence. Mostly come there in early 20th century, in Dutch colonial era. Mostly for farming. And also to improve the javanese people economy, because Java is so populated so hard to farming. Tari pendet is from Bali, not from Lampung. 4. Banten: Bantenese ethnic actually is Sundanese. Thie clasification to make Bantenese its own ethnics come from their history and proud of Banten Sultanate. But yeah Banten people still use Sundanese language, but different accent from mainly Sundanese language in near Bandung. 53% of Banten Province lives in greater Tangerang which still in Jakarta Metropolitan Area. 5. Jakarta has its own people that call Betawinese. Actually Betawinese at first is sundanese, but because Jakarta (Batavia at that time) is has become the melting pot. So many ethnics from all across Nusantara(Indonesia) comes there and mix their languange and culture. And then become Betawi language and culture as we know today. Right now mainly Betawi lives in the suburbs of Jakarta. Because their sold their land in Jakarta to migrants, because Jakarta has become so crowded and many people come to Jakarta. Eventhough right now Javanese is the largest ethnics group, but Betawi accent still mainly use in Jakarta Metropolitan area. And mostly the 2nd and so on generation of Java in jakarta, cant talk Javanese language fluently. Jakarta Metropolitan area itself has more than 33 million Poeple, thats make Jakarta Metropolitan Area become the 2nd biggest metropolitan in the world after Tokyo. 6. West Java: 14 million from 50 million of West Java population live in suburbs of Jakarta (BoDeBek), which include 3 cities (Bekasi, Bogor and Depok city) and 2 regencies (Bekasi and Bogor). Bekasi city which is the largest city in west java also located just next to Jakarta in Jakarta Metropolitan area. 7. East Java: Battle of Surabaya isn't between Indonesia and Dutch. But between Indonesia and ally force, mainly British force which include India muslim and hindu, and gurkha force. Some indian Muslim force defected to Indonesian force. Once they found out that their enemy was Muslim too. This battle was so brutal, and even killed General AWS Mallaby. 8. West Kalimantan: Eventhough West Kalimantan the largest ethnics is Dayak. But the most influence ethnics is Malay, they even had many Malay kingdom such as Pontianak and Sambas sultanate. Until now the decendant of pontianak sultanate still live in Pontianak. 9. Cental Kalimantan: Kaharingan religion is incorporating into Hinduism, in 2nd president era. Because at that time Indonesia goverment only recognized 5 religion (Islam, protestant, catholic, hinduism, budhism). So many of traditional religion and chinese religion had to fit into one of the 5 recognized religion. 10. South Kalimantan: Even Banjarmasin is not the biggest cities in Kalimantan. It has the only metropolitan area in Kalimantan, which called Banjar Bakula. Which also include the biggest city of Banjarmasin, the new capital city of Banjarbaru and town of Martapura (known for diamond town). The airport of south Kalimantan located in Banjarbaru. The distance between Banjarmasin and Banjarbaru is just 30 Kilometer, which so ideal to make metropolitan area. 11. South Sulawesi: Bugis is well known as good sailor. They even sail to Australia before european go there, and also until Madagascar also. Many politician in Malaysia also descendant of Bugis people, such as current prime minister Muhyiddin Yasin and former deputy prime minister Ismail Abdul Rahman. 12. North Sulawesi: Biggest Jewish Menorah statue also located in North Sulawesi

Sending love from Tangerang! Thank you for making this episode!

We are so grateful that you have created & uploaded such an interesting topics of Indonesia's provinces. This is gonna mind blowing all people around the world...!

On the island of Sulawesi there are thousands of megalithic sites from BC as well as hundreds of ancient paintings, the most famous of which is a pig deer painting that is more than 40,000 years old, making it the oldest ancient painting in the world

I have been a long subscriber of you Barbs, since your A's countries. Btw, i am from Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi. Fun facts, North Sulawesi is a home for the cool endemic black macaques called Macaca Nigra (or local calls Yaki) and also the smallest primate of the world, Tarsier that is unique to this area. (Philippines have their own Tarsier, but if i'm not mistaken, ours is smaller. issa cutie!) and most famously, the living fossil of Coelacanth fish was found here! Also, Manado is well known for our tourism industry, mainly for divers. Our region is peaceful and offer high tolerant to diversity, it is one of the most tolerant region of Indonesia, after Bali ofc. Bunaken Marine Park hosts high marine biology diversity in the world with easy access and definitely worth a visit, we got frequent direct flight From Singapore that is served by Low Cost carrier Scoot. The entire area of the north Sulawesi peninsula tip is so full of beautiful diving/snorkling spots and islands, each with their own unique sea creatures and of course natural beauties. The Minahasan never formed a kingdom, it is the kingdomless part of Indonesia, and there's a saying that the our head is our own king. It is one of the most democratic place in Indonesia pre-colonial and ofc the first region in Indonesia that has our own representatives in colonial government called Minahasaraad in ealry 1900s! Besides that, our most well known hero is Dr. Gerungan Saul Samuel Jacob Ratulangi, aka Sam Ratulangi, he's one of the first Indonesians that was awarded with a Doctoral Degree in Europe in 1919. He was the first governor of Sulawesi Island. Yes another fun fact! the whole Sulawesi Island and its attached small islands used to be one province when Indonesia Proclamated our Independence in 1945.

Your description of all provinces of Indonesia is spot-on. With assists from Indonesian Geograpeeps and some sneaky bit of inside-joke. However, many details I think is missed, so may I add it. 1.The largest ethnic group in North Sumatra and West Kalimantan is Malay, I think. 2. You forgot to mention Nias people who inhabited Nias island in NS. They're famous for their warrior armors, their architecture(even used as Duval's inspiration of "One Piece"), and the maturity ceremony by leaping a rock(hombo batu) 3. I have to add some obscure ethnic groups from Sumatra. Chiefly Mentawai(WS), Anak Dalam(Jambi), and Enggano(Bengkulu). Mentawai are famous for their tattoo pattern, Anak Dalam are the one who living in the forest and threatened by deforestation, and Enggano have the one of most unique language in Austronesian family. 4. There are Osing people also, in East Java. Yet another subgroup among Javanese people, mostly living in Banyuwangi peninsula. And that's it. Once again, thank you for the video you made.

Unpopular opinion but I think you can visit the current capital Jakarta to see the true face of our country. Not a very touristy place but lots of museums and monumens to understand our history and country better. But yeah it's got a lot of traffic problems and very crowded as it's the largest city in the whole Southeast Asia (the 2nd largest in the world after Tokyo by metropolitan population of 35,000,000 people). Fun fact about Jakarta, it's also the diplomatic capital of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) which is like the Southeast Asian version of European Union as it hosts the ASEAN headquarters building and embassies to ASEAN.

7:12 While Krakatoa has its own deadly eruption, in the island of Sumbawa, there's Mount Tambora, which produced the largest eruption in the world back in 1815 and made 1816 the year without a summer Regardless, good video ❤

As someone from East Kalimantan. I feel very happy to see another video featuring Indonesia again since the last one ❤🤍

Thank you Barb, Thank you, Geography Now team... this is a great video, I always enjoying your contents

well I highly appreciated, and thanks for high quality content about my country. hope you guys all the best.

6:38 Actually Bengkulu / Bencoolen was swapped with Melaka / Malacca, not Singapore in the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1834.

Finally, thanks Barbs for ur video abt the provinces of Indonesia. I hope u make a filler week abt the states and federal territories of Malaysia. Love Indonesia from Malaysia. 🇲🇾❤️🇮🇩

Hi Barb thank you for this video! as an Indonesian I learnt something new from this if you should come back to Indonesia, I suggest you to go to the Moluccas, especially the Banda Neira... gosh the nature is so beautiful there. other islands in the Moluccas also have beautiful beaches which are not known among foreigners once again thank you for this video have a great day

The coats of arms of each state are all amazing, such a rich country, Thanks for sharing the vídeo

Damn, thankyou for your dedication to made this video. Indonesia is HUGE and you explained it well

Look, Thailand has 76 provinces and the Philippines has 82, and they’re so much smaller than Indonesia even if you combine the two. If you think about it, 38 provinces is not a lot when you consider Indonesia has an area that covers roughly the same distance between London to Tehran. BTW there’s so many factual errors, including by your Indonesian sources themselves, but thank you anyways for this video! Cheers!🍻 🇮🇩

Ohhhh I waited and looked for this explanation. Thank you.😊

Hi Barb, thanks for this video, a great one for featuring my country again. Obviously, it must be hard one to be featured, but really appreciate for it. Thank you again so much. I am from Toraja, and I wanna talk about it a little bit. Actually, it is fun when some people know my place and commonly say that it is where people "partying", but for the dead (well it's not a party like usual thing, rather a ritual ceremony called Rambu Solo. It is actually a complicated event often occur in Toraja, so when people visit there, they will see it directly as part of the live of its people. Well that may the reason why this event become the tourist affection). Obviously there are other things that worth to be see in there, but this one is hard to miss. Place recommendation if you want to visit this country again: overall every places in Indonesia are recommended (sorry can't be specific because it is hard to chose as every places have their own uniqueness and worth to be visited)

THANK'S BRO, FOR PROVIDING YOUR REVIEW ABOUT 38 PROVINCES... GREETINGS FROM ACEH INDONESIA !🇮🇩

I have been waiting for you to finally do the provinces of Indonesia and here it is about time

Very cool video - and I learned a few things. Thanks for posting.

Seeing this video from Bali loved the reaction... Also eager to see the Venezuela episode ❤

I literally loved the video!! An amazing way to understand the depths and hidden yet interesting things of this big and complex country!! Thank you very much Paul !!! You’re still many years on, one of my Top 3 RU-vid channels !! It’s incredible how can you keep up with such quality still, with such competition nowadays in RU-vid!! 😁😁

Hi! I’m Minangnese that born in Palembang. So I want to clarify some of the misconception here as well as some more fun facts. 1. Provinces in Sumatera long time ago is more simplified. So a lot of culture is mixed. For example Jambi culture is close to South Sumatera but got mixed with Malay. Bengkulu culture is a mixed between South Sumatera and West Sumatera. And Lampung culture is mixed as well. Things like pempek (fish cake from South Sumatera) and Songket is shared with other provinces but with a little differences. 2. West Sumatera is known for FOOD! You can never come across bad restaurant in West Sumatera, otherwise they will be in bankrupt in a few months. And because of our Matrilineal culture, a lot of men merantau (exploring outside the provinces) and later opening “Padang” Restaurant. So our food is spread across nation and beloved by many. But still eating in West Sumatera will be much tastier. 3. Music scene in Sumatera is bang-on! Most Bataknese people gifted with beautiful voices. A lot of our singers is Bataknese. And karaoke culture is spread across the island, especially during wedding. Our aunties aren’t shy to sing a song or two. Minangnese-pop also well known in the community. South Sumatera also has folk songs thats sometimes displayed in our local tv channel. 4. South Sumatera nicknamed as Venice city of Indonesia. Because our city is packed with small rivers with Sungai Musi (second longest river in Indonesia) as main river. But because of some nasty dark past, those river is blocked off. But still there’s so many rivers here. And the main transportation used to be a boat (ketek; in Indonesian can means armpit but it’s just the boat machine sounds like). 5. There’s a unique wedding customs from a part of Minangnese people. The bride is the one giving money to “buy” the groom. This is only apply if both of them is from Pariaman. 6. In western we see brides and groom cutting a wedding cake. But in South Sumatera we “tear” a whole chicken. Whichever got the bigger side is the one dominating in their relationship. 😂 7. West Sumatera have well known dances. The one that the performers shatter plates and step on those shattered plates. We call it tari piring (plates dance). 8. Almost forgot about Minangnese flag in 4:29 😂. Indonesian on social media always jokes whenever they see those flags they acted like they arrived in Germany. But it’s actually Minangnese flag (marawa) that have meanings to it. 9. Sriwijaya Empire monarch is actually Javanese monarch descendants. Hence why old Palembangnese language is closer to Javanese. And 5:07 adapt to Javanese names. 10. This place 5:38 is like a hotspot during Chinese holidays. I heard they’re matchmaking here during festivals. And linked to famous legends about love story of Chinese man and Palembangnese woman. 11. Some unique matrilineal customs in West Sumatera. Every girls get their own bedroom but boys sleep in the living room. Once they old enough 4:27 they used to get educated in local mosque and sleep in there. 12. Minangkabau traditional houses can be recognized by how many windows + 1 main door in the house. For example the house got 2 windows and 1 door we call it 3 ruang. It’s always 3 or 5 for common house, 7 is like rare and 9 is for the royal palace. My dad side family has 7 ruang house so the house is preserved by local goverment.

ngl this video made me wanna visit indonesia 🇮🇩 😗 seems like a lot of places to visit but 😂 it looks beautiful

Hey Barbs thanks this coverage! I love this!

thank you, Barbs! I appreciate this video so effin' much!! if you ever go to Indonesia, pretty sure that you will be landed in Jakarta. to simulate travel the Indonesian provinces, there is a place called "Taman Mini Indonesia Indah", translate to "Beautiful Indonesia's Mini Garden". as a jakartan, I can say it is the cheapest way to vibing Indonesia. and for culinary stuff you must visit "Mangga Besar" area and Sabang street

As a lampungnese I know for sure that tari pendet is NOT famous around here, cause that is a very specific balinese culture (so, quite a misinformation right there)... sure there are a lot of bali-javanese transmigrants here but tari cangget, bedana, melinting and sembah are far more popular (and more lampung-y) than pendet. Also no mention of kopi lampung, tons of beautiful beaches, krui international surfing event, aksara lampung/kaganga and massive siger crown?? That sucks! but thanks for mentioning the tempraments, as we are quite loud and easily angered. Love y'all❤

I’m really loving these recent filler videos- I’m honestly excited for everything after the epic country list!!

I feel like these province videos give us a good glimpse of what the country videos would have been like (in terms of length/depth/detail) if they had been made today rather than years ago.

Finally! I actually have a fun story with Indonesian people, being a Latino myself. 🇮🇩🇨🇱 Jadi, pertama kali, saya orang Chile, Amerika Selatan. Saya sudah bejalar bahasa Indonesia selama lebih dari empat tahun (iyah, lama bngt njir) jadi sudah bertemu dan bertemanan sama baaaanyak orang Indo di internet, TAPIIII lama-lama ini saya juga sering dipanggil "Bang Messi". Alasannya, setahu saya, itu karena saya penutur asli bahasa spanyol dan saya juga orang Amerika Latin, yang terkenal (baaanget) dengan sepak bolanya (dan, sayangnya, lagu "Despacito"). Jadi teman² yang cowok sering memanggil saya "Lapi ngapain, bang Messi?" dan "¿Qué mirás bobo?" (Yg si Messi bilang sama pemain timnas Belanda di Piala Dunia). Itu sering banget ke titik beberapa kali saya memperkenalkan diri sebagai "gw Messi". Indonesia itu dunia kecil dalam dunia kita, tidak ada "semacam" orang Indonesia aja, ada baaaaanyak budaya, bahasa, dan fakta yg menarik banget sama gw. Setelah belajar bhs indo, satu²nya yg gw bisa lakukan itu berterima kasih sama orang indo atas persahabatan dan kebaikannya. Gracias indos 🤍🇮🇩🇨🇱🤍 TL;DR = I get called Messi very often just because I speak Spanish

Visit every main land is a good start. u've done batam. probably get to Bandung, or Yogyakarta as java representative, balikpapan as kalimantan representative, Manado as Sulawesi representative, Ambon as maluku representative, and fakfak as papua representative.

Medan is Gotham. Yeah, that's because of how high of crimerates there. My HS friend is from Medan, and she said "the center of the city is quite safe, the rest? Pray you don't get a problem." she said that after she lost her phone, motorcycle, money, and underwear to 4 different person in a day. I'm more concerned about why someone stole underwear.

I just wanna say respect salute n terima kasih-thx for made n share explain content video every province in Indo sending ❤ n good spirit to you n all of you from jkrta

Amazing video. A very welcome information overload 😂

Very informative video from a Filipino "Indonesia" fan. Thank you so much for this one. Of all the provinces in Indonesia, I really love these provinces: North Sumatra, North Sulawesi and Yogyakarta

Hy Barbs, thank you so much for the video !!! It’s really great to see a foreigner explained the beauty of our 17,000 islands and 38 provinces, which many not only foreigners but also Indonesian don’t really know about what we have in our beautiful country, and I believe probably many Indonesian can not name every provinces. I actually sent you an email to offer to help you with video, but apparently you have too many emails in your inbox. I am Minangkabau person who grew up in Bekasi that you mentioned as the largest city in West Java and is actually a city with mix of culture from Betawi (Jakarta) and Sundanese (West Java). The only thing that would have been a nice addition for West Sumatera bit is the mention of Mentawai Islands, a part of West Sumatera but totally different culture, instead of Minangkabau they have local Mentawai tribe with distinct semi nomadic hunter gatherer lifestyle. Mentawai also known for the best surfing spot in the world.

Was a good job to summarize so much information in such a short time.

My conclusion to this as an Indonesian is, our country is rich in history, stories, resources, cultural and heritage, geographical variations, it's hard to compile all into one video and Paul has done a great job sharing this with the world. I am proud of my country and may Indonesia prosper and grow well ❤

yess another indonesian episode. greetings from indonesia( i was also one of the people that emailed you about provinces of sumatra)

I love how you explain about south sulawesi, even though you explain it very briefly. Thank you, barb ❤

This is crazy. Thank you for doing this, Barb. I learned more about my own country in 30 minutes rather than in my whole geography class😅

You are great at being able to explain every province throughout Indonesia... great...

Some more things need to be mentioned here: • There's an ongoing joke, Bekasi is on another planet • People living in either Banten, Jakarta, or West Java when traveling to either Yogyakarta, Central, or East Java, they'd basically say, "We're going to Java" • Aceh is a marijuana producer • The presence of Minangkabau people outside West Sumatra can be detected by the presence of Padang Restaurant • Buginese people have five genders • Everytime you hear a news (mostly outside pundits) about teens being publicly caned for certain offences, it's only happened in Aceh, never happened in the rest of Indonesia • Osing people of East Java is heavily associated with witchcraft Cheers from +62 nation 🇮🇩✨🇮🇩

Like you said Indonesia has a alot of Islands, even myself as an Indonesian sometimes wondering "how the hell are we still a one country?" Lmao. Anyways if you ever wanna visit Indonesia again Barbs, i suggest you go to Yogyakarta for traditional sites, Lombok for the beaches (if you're tired of Bali) and obviously Jakarta for its modernization and there's also some famous historical sites there too.

Hi barb! I am your subscriber from Jambi city. But actually I am not a Jambi Malay. My mother is Javanese and my father is Lampungese, but I was born in Jambi speaking Jambi Malay everyday and doing Jambi traditions. It's so confusing! 😂 But this is what we love about our country. It's so diverse and vibrant!! Love from indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩

for recommendation to visit, i can't give you specific because each island have their unique attraction. but if you hate traffic, avoid jakarta because mostly it's just megapolitan city. but if you only have limited time, visit jakarta then go to miniature park called TMII (Taman Mini Indonesia Indah/ Beautiful Indonesian Miniature Park), located in south-east area of jakarta.

i wanna correct the term u used when u refered to 'lanfang' as a country established by the chinese. its not actually not a country, its more like a kongsi federation which have its main purpose to do business for the chinese indonesian in west kalimantan. and yes they do have their own territory and currency, but its still not considered as a country/republic/kingdom

20:35 noo why didn't you talk about the hangul script used for the cia-cia/butonese language😭. but still thanks for making this video, you did a great job

I have been waiting for this in Filler Week segment for nearly 5-6 years.

As someone who has Indonesian ancestry on my father's side, I am so far only aware of my Riau and Bugis heritage, and who knows what other mixes there are on that side. Having grown up in Singapore, I barely know any of these cultures, other than what I've read or seen in various media or heard from my family members. Hope to one day be able to explore these heritage in Indonesia itself.

Thank you for this video! Even Indonesians like me struggle to get to know each province in our vast country.

Wow finally my country Indonesia 🇮🇩 As Indonesians, let me tell other facts that did not mentioned in the Video Aceh = The most affected area during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and they have many tourism sites to commemorate Tsunami disaster there North Sumatra = Medan also have percentage of Indian-descent people. Many of North Sumatra is talking "too loud" by people in Java Island. So it make them looks "Angrier" West Sumatra = Minangkabau known by Rantau (wandering) culture, They go to other city and many of them opened "Padang" restaurant which provides Minangkabau food in cheap prices. Bukittinggi is also Capital of Indonesia during Dutch Invasion in 1945-1949 Riau Island = Home of "Gurindam" or Malay Poem, have sea dispute with China at Natuna Sea area and illegal fishing problem Jambi = Have highest point in Sumatra, Mount Kerinci South Sumatra = Home to 2018 Asian Games, co-cities with Jakarta. Known by Pempek Food which have unique Submarine shape Bangka Belitung = Known by Martabak Bangka, and Belitung Island is popular sites after it was place for the most popular novel story in Indonesia "Laskar Pelangi" Lampung = Also known controversially by "Begal" or Banditary problem. In one time I have heard oral news that a truck which parked outside the house can be lost in the middle of the day and no one knows who steal it. Although for this story is maybe not true but many of Indonesians hear this story once Banten = Black Magic, it is also called "Debus". While the people who have this magic is practically "unharmed" by sharp things such as Wood block and Knife Jakarta = Known by Betawi People. Also popular as where of "Indonesian slang language" come from. For example "Lo" to replace "Kamu" (You in english) and "Gue" to replace "Saya" (I in english) West Java = Popular by Tea plantation, Many of Jakartans go there for just chilling in weekend which caused traffic moved to Bandung in Saturday and Sunday Central Java = Tegal area in Central Java is known for similiar "Rantau" culture in West Sumatra. They also opened "Warung Tegal" in other cities which also provides traditional home made food with Cheap Price Yogyakarta = In one time Yogyakarta has replaced Jakarta as capital city during Dutch Invasion in 1945 until 1949, Sultan gave Indonesian government a save place to works and giving "all of Yogyakarta Sultanate" money for Indonesian Government during Dutch Invasion East Java = Home to Bromo Tengger National Park with picturesque Desert valley with Bromo and Semeru mountain West Nusa Tenggara = Lombok Island is the home of Mandalika Circuit which hosted 2023 MotoGP World Series Central Kalimantan = in the past, Soekarno hava a dream to make Palangkaraya as future capital of Indonesia. Which also influenced the decition to move Indonesian Capital to Kalimantan Island Southeast Sulawesi = They have Wakatobi Island which popular among divers. Southeast Sulawesi also have Cia-Cia ethnic group with Cia-Cia language which written in Korean Hangul Script because the pronounciation is more likely as Hangul pronounce rather than Latin or Arabic script South Sulawesi = Also known as location of Centre point of Indonesia. Have the second largest Jesus statue in the world, Buntu Burake Jesus Statue And All of Papua's Province have autonomy status, which gave them more "independent" governance and special allowance in National GDP to boost development there

That's a lot of work man! But a really really nice video! Keep up the good work!

14:07 South Kalimantan used to be the capital city of one of the biggest kingdom in Kalimantan, Banjar Sultanate. Yes, the term "Banjar" is used as a nation until Banjar Sultanate fell completely on 1904 to the Dutch. Thats why Banjar Language become lingua franca, because Banjar Kingdom teritory(including vassal) at it peaks was almost the same size as Indonesian Borneo Island.

Actually, there is one thing that needs to be discussed when we discuss East Java. Namely Madurese people (they're 4th largest people in Indonesia). Maybe you saw Madura from the picture of Suramadu Bridge in the video. One of the things that people might forget about Madurese people is satay (yes, that's right, it's a famous food) and the interesting regional clothes and the language which is different from Javanese people. Mator Sakalangkong (Thank you in Madurese)

It was only 27 provinces when I learned geography at school. Feel very old now😂

Amazing.. thanks for making this video

From Texas. In the 1970's I spent 3 years flying helicopters in Indonesia. Mostly Balikpapan, but also Surabaya, Sorong, and Jambi. Thanks so much for this! Fantastic!