Why Indonesia Has the Best and Worst Geography in the World 

Indonesian geographies: Their advantage: archipelagos and volcanoes Their disadvantage: archipelagos and volcanoes

In a nutshell, Indonesia is a country with the largest muslim population in the world, the largest buddhist temple in the world, was colonized by a christian nation, and having a hindu-majority Island as the most famous tourist destination.

Indonesians are so attached to their volcanoes in which Indonesian children would most likely to draw a picture of rice field with volcanoes on background, bisected with public road in between at least more than once in their lifetime.

The fact that we're not broken up like yugoslavia is kinda a miracle

The island of Java has a bigger population than Russia now? 😳

The border of New Guinea and Papua New Guinea is like when you draw a line with a ruler but your ruler slightly move and just ruined the line

Indonesia geography is both blessing and curse, it's a blessing because it's located on a very strategic ship lane with Big Resources on it's land and sea. And also it will make any foreign invasion think twice before messing with indonesia because the logistical nightmare they need to invade the island in Indonesia . But it also a curse since it mean the cost of infrastructure development is insanely expensive compare to the country in the mainland.

I've been to Indonesia in 2015 & 2018. I visited Indonesia with the aim of exploring and adventuring, not for vacation or honeymoon. However, I have not explored Indonesia 100% because it is vast and also very diverse. Each region in Indonesia has different tourist or natural attractions, as if entering a different dimension. It's hard to explain, the point is when you go to Indonesia, what you visit with other regions in Indonesia is definitely different. What made me so interested in Indonesia? The answer is nature, because nature in Indonesia has very clear differences in each region. Some even look strange, unique and absurd and there are lots of hidden places to explore. For me, Indonesia is very suitable to be used as a place for adventure, explorers and get unexpected experiences. My personal conclusion about Indonesia : Indonesia is like a very beautiful Queen, very graceful, very charming, very attractive, very stunning and very cool. However, keep in mind that although the Queen almost looks perfect, on the other hand the Queen also has a dangerous nature (Many natural disasters in Indonesia have been recorded internationally and even get the title of the most frequent and the most violent, Queen appears completely different from the others). When the Queen is asleep, the Queen looks extraordinary and fun to approach but if the Queen wakes up from her sleep, it is certain that there will be a sign of danger because the Queen is in a tantrum. You can see the damage caused by Queen in Indonesia by typing a search "Natural Disasters in Indonesia" or you can look on Wikipedia (There are many written lists of events). Note : Although Queen often tantrums when she wakes up from her sleep, this is what made me fall in love because of her very different figure. Be careful with the forces of nature because we don't know when and where the Queen rages. Because if the Queen has gone berserk then she doesn't know tourists or locals. I can only hope that the Queen doesn't run amok and doesn't harm locals or tourists. Amen. 🙏 Every tourist will have a different experience when visiting Queen, The Queen desire to go berserk is also an adventure, so I want to return to being beside the Queen because the Queen has everything (Super mega diversity) to gain experience and knowledge that is unusual for a tourist like me. Indonesia is more towards the category of tourist attractions for adventure and exploration. Not just for a honeymoon or relaxing because you will definitely lose something unique, strange, interesting and unreasonable in Indonesia as an experience and learning. It was the experience I felt. When you have explored several adventures in Indonesia be it volcanoes, waterfalls, rivers, lakes, jungles, caves and etc. (it's up to their own version, because there are too many to explore), although you will be tired but it is very satisfying and enjoyable. pleasant. of course get a different experience so that your experience can be told like mine. It should be noted that not all tourists who venture to Indonesia are successful, there are also those who fail miserably because of the act of the Queen who woke up from her sleep. The Queen of Mother Earth in Indonesia is so satisfying even though she often throws tantrums. Such is the explanation of the true definition of the word Queen because it has the will and strength according to its own will. Be grateful for those of you who have a place of adventure that is so vast and diverse in nature (not man-made) that foreign tourists like me too can have fun there to explore, learn, know and feel. Indonesia is a very suitable place for tourists who want to try a different trip or vacation. Traveling to Indonesia brings me joy, pleasure, satisfaction, anxiety, sadness, fatigue and confusion. All in one and that is what is called a very interesting and colorful journey, Indonesia does not only offer about buildings or nightclubs. Indonesia is much crazier with its unique and strange nature. I love Indonesia ❤️ (Mysterious Queen Land).

i had a culture shock when i first knew mostly every country is just like a part of one big island or continent and didn't consist thousand of islands separated by water like in here Indonesia 😂😭

to this day, I still question how Sulawesi looks like the letter 'K''

Sure, Indonesia has big geographic challenges, but its demographic challenges are way bigger.

Damn this is like Wendover Productions, Atlas Pro and Economics Explained rolled into one

Fun fact: The word Orangutan came from malay/Indonesian. It comes from the words Orang and Hutan which literally translates to people and forest respectively and since in Indonesian the adjective is in the back, Orangutan literally means forest people

0:30 “Indonesia’s geography is in many ways, blessed AND cursed at the same time” Heh, guess you can call it...blursed?? 三三ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ

Indonesia's Geography reminds me of the Greek Geography.. We need a vast ferry system to connect so many islands.

Makassar is not the capital of Sulawesi, it is however the capital of South Sulawesi and the largest city in Sulawesi. Sulawesi itself has 6 administrative divisions: North Sulawesi, Central Sulawesi, West Sulawesi, South Sulawesi, South East Sulawesi, and Gorontalo each of them has their own capitals respectively: Manado, Palu, , Mamuju, Makassar, Kendari, and Gorontalo City.

Feel good to live in Borneo because I don't have to worry about earthquake, tsunami or volcanic eruption

Most of Indonesia's railway build by colonial Dutch for transporting sugar. That's why most railway tracks are in Java and a few in Sumatra.

I had visited Indonesia 3 years ago specially in Bali and Labuan Bajo, such a beautiful country. Best regards from France here 🇫🇷

My Germany buddy, as a telecom consultant said that Indonesia is very challenging, multi complex problems. It's not easy doing build the telecom infrastructure in Indonesia. Not like India, Brazil or South Africa as the subcontinent country, Indonesia has 17.000 more islands, and 6.000 more are habitant. He still amaze.

Among issues of unity, geographical, economic, and what-not, Indonesian citizen most likely to focus on debate whether eat porridge after stirred is more ethical or eat porridge without stirred is more ethical.

I really love the way u explain geography your telling us facts without being boring

Gua liat di bawah ada yang bilang "Free west papua ",. Like.. wtf ni orang luar liat dari mana sih malah dukung kelompok separatis.

Should I do videos like this for other countries? Let me know which countries I should do! (And yes I did mean to say Jakarta was sinking, not shrinking... although I guess the latter isn‘t necessarily wrong)

Fun fact: the area that was destined for the new capital is actually harsh land. Most of the forest there are gone already, leaving nothing but hills, farm lands and leftover mining land. Only small part is a forest, because the capital needs city forest to reduce carbon emission. The forest is also part of government-owned land and has no protected or conservated animals in there.

Actually, Indonesia has great potential to compete on an international scale. However, Indonesia is lagging behind due to the slow development of human resources. No matter how, I will always love this country, my motherland 🇮🇩🇮🇩

Indonesia- although a republic, still have a ruling monarchy which rules in the province in Jogjakarta. Unique to the province, the governors are not elected but the reigning sultan/sultana

Amazing! I'd love to visit Indonesia some day

Nobody : Australians : *FrEe WeSt PaPuA So We cAn TaKE thEiR ReSouRces JUst LikE TiMoR LesTE*

I love the meaning Indonesia's main islands. Sumatra, some said is derived from Swarnadwipa which means the Island of Gold as back then it's thought to have a large gold reserve when it's just weirdly wealthy because of its kingdom. Java is derived from Yavadwipa, which means Island of Seeds. It boasted it's specialty of ancient time- agriculture. Kalimantan, as seen in video, is derived from Kalimantan, which roughly means Burning Weather Island not precisely because it's hot and humid, but because when the weather changed to and the wind brought the hot air from Australia, the island is quite prone to have a forest fire, even from the ancient time. Sulawesi means Island of Iron, as from ancient time till now, this island boasted its iron mine and production. I seem to remember they used to have a lot of blacksmith there. Papua means "curly" in Malay, but according to another local language near the island, Papua means "The land beneath the setting sun"

Indonesia's geography Pros: - islands - volcanos - sea Cons: - islands - volcanos - sea

I like Indonesia and the people there a lot. Who has the chance to visit should absolutely do so. Semangat Indonesia.

I'm an Indonesian, and I respect your efforts to explain my home country's geography. 👍🏼

I'm from the Philippines and i never been to Indonesia but it is my ultimate dream to visit this country because i can feel the similarities between Philippines and Indonesia, our language itself originated from indo-malay people eho moved to the Philippines long time ago, our culture is most likely the same with Indonesia and Malaysia. So i really am excited to go to Indonesia soon♥️

this series about country is really amazing, you explain it really well, keep up!

I live in Jakarta. The population was 36 million ages ago. This extends to the greater Jakartan region of Jabodetabek. Hard to gauge a population spread over 17558 islands with many tribal peoples living in jungles.

💙 *Europe: driving a car 3 hours can pass through 3 countries* ❤️ *Borneo/Kalimantan, Indonesia: driving a car 10 hours still in the same district or city* 🥱😴🤦🤮

Beside everything... Indonesian people are really kind & good ✨✨✨❤️ Love From India ❤️🇮🇳

"Like it says in the book, we are blessed, and cursed."

Hey Khanubis. I liked the video. Just a suggestion whenever you talk about the islands would you be able to label the map while you talk about them so it is less confusing.

Other countries :We have to get a plane and ship to go to another city and country Indonesian : We have to get on a plane and ship to go to another village (Sorry my english so bad)

I'm from Indonesia, and I'm pretty excited when you talked about my country. Thanks 😁

Hello I'm from Malaysia...I like to see videos about my neighbour countries

Step 1: *make a video about the 4th most populated country* Step 2: *sit back and relax while becoming a millionaire*

Man, you really improved a lot eversince i watch your ASEAN video

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Well done! Please keep up more videos like this.

This needs more views. Indonesia is so interesting.

What the hell was The Netherlands thinking when they colonised this place? Netherlands: [high] so we want one country in two continents

I love your videos man, the work you put in deserves way more views.

Well said. Spot on.

I really enjoy these sorts of geographical studies. Stay well out there everybody, and God bless you friends. :)

Big Smoke: *Like it says in the book. We are blessed and cursed.*

9:20 Indonesia historically did have Empires bringing large parts of today's Indonesian territory under single rule like the Srivijaya Empire & the Majapahit Empire.

I watched the vid on spaghettiroad ... was nice vid man!

All in one video. Really good video.

From Indonesia. I love the way of u explain... 🌴♥

Few weeks ago, indonesian government changed the status of separatist movement in indonesia's papua from "armed chriminal group" to "terorist group" due to their action that resemble terorism and spreading fear among papuan comunity Days before indonesian government decided to mark them as terorist group, the Free West Papua armed group killing unarmed civilians Two teachers, a highschool student and an ojek driver (public transportation using motorbike) and using several villages as hostage. Due to their hostile nature, villagers around puncak jaya regency that close to the hostage village decided not to go far from their house, because they are afraid that if they meet with those armed criminals, they may be killed. Because of this, the villagers are heavily dependend to government support and unable to cultivate their field due to the fear that FWP gave to them. After indonesian government declare military campaign to annihiliate the separatist group and liberate the villages, villagers then have enough confidence to cultivate their field and they celebrate it with comunal harvest since that was harvest time for some of the crops like watermelon, carrot and vegetables

Good video as always

These types of videos are why I subscribed

A very informative, complete n insightful lessons for me as Indonesian.. Thank you🙏🙏🙏 Hiduplah Indonesia Raya..

7:34, if we're talking about volcanic activity. In java there's ancient capital city of Mataram Kingdom which have been buried like Pompeii. But the ruler of Mataram Kingdom at that time is a wise man and already evacuate his citizens to east side of java. So when we tried to dig the site, there's no death bodies. But from archaeological finding it's likely to be a sudden evacuation. Because many foods like rice have been left. If they want to travel far to the east, it's just more make sense if they bring important food source like rice.

love this kind of videos.

Amazing channel!

I looked up what the little extra piece is on East Timor's border. An exclave called Oecusse, with special status in East Timor.

Sometimes in Indonesia people who have migrated have had to wait for a dozen years to return because of the distance from their origin place and the high cost of flights.

I enjoyed the video. It would be interesting if you could post about the Japanese archipelago! I'm Korean

Very interesting video on Indonesia geographical, economic and pollution. I love Indonesia always used admire this country. Thanks.

their advantages: Volcanoes for tourism and strategic location allows Indonesia to trade with China their disadvantage: Volcanoes and China

Lived here for over 10 years, a lot of things still amaze me about this country, especially when you see others close by. Its a modern miracle.

Thst was very informative.

wow this channel deserve more views & subs

Indonesians are going to storm this video, oh boy... If you wanna clickbait Indonesians, just put "Indonesia" in the title or thumbnail. See how well that goes.

The most unique thing in Indonesia is that if some countries have very specific skin colors, such as one specific skin color for that country, the difference is that Indonesia has all skin colors, even on each island has its own distinctive color, so sometimes it's like an Indonesian. we can distinguish people from which tribe or region. And in each region has its own language but our unitary language is Indonesian. Indonesia has 718 regional languages. It's really crazy that I only know my local language, Indonesian, neighboring languages, and Javanese. Haha this is kinda funny.

Regarding the drinking water sourcing problem in Jakarta they have built an open water reservoir on a neighbouring province to store and process rainwater to drink. The capacity is currently only enough to act as an altermative source, there are plans to expand capacity.

Thanks for admin

Indonesia is fascinating though

I'm from Indonesia and thank you for the excellent video. Just for information, there is a new commuter rail betweem Yogyakarta and Solo that opened earlier this year.

interesting video, but the video should be a little longer and mention more of the historical advantages and disadvantages. weird you did not mention Krakatoa volcano when in 1883 it made the loudest sound ever on earth.

Interesting that you dint mention “kampongs” or “kampungs’ Theyre a major part of how low density areas work. Plus, most of the high rises on indonesia is in Jakarta so pretty much every other city in Indonesia (including mine which is called Solo, or Surakarta) is devoid of high rises, except for a minor few so kampungs are a really major part of how most cities work, or the Outer ring of Jakarta works and looks like.

One of the benefit that i feel the most is when there is conflict happening, my family and I just need to cross the sea to another island nearby, waiting for the conflict on my home island ended

2:50 the furthest east island is not Nugini/New Guinea island, it's called Papua island and it shares border with Papua New Guinea country. amazing video btw 👍

You can see indonesia as same as europe with itself part regions, ethnics, character, languages, cultures and background diversities, even for in couple miles distance it can be different social variety, and how it is even still blow my mind as an individual of native indonesian. Thank you.

LANGUAGE FACT!! I also just realized this. Sulawesi, or Sula vesi to be more precise, means molten (or liquid) water in finnish.

3:40 wait, I just realized that I almost got hit by a train because when I cross the road I check "right -left", but when I crossed the train track I should check "left-right" but I checked right first and suddenly a train from left passed

Well it's surely a very great video. As Indonesian I can confirm that this video is very detailed and also a great way to teach people about Indonesia. It contains new facts, future problems, and advantages/disadvantages from Indonesia.

I get used to think that “Indonesia is not really that big” until I see the map of the archipelago superimposed on top of Europe. The distance between Medan and Jayapura roughly the same with the distance between Paris and Teheran. It would be one hell of a journey to explore the entirety of this nation.

as a country with the highest level of active volcano in the world, there are 4 times tectonic earthquakes every day in Indonesia and it can happen anywhere 😳

>least safe aviation >projected to be the biggest in the industry Oh no....

finally. i have waited for four...no, five thousand years for this moment!

Terimakasih sudah menayangkan di negaramu. Thank you so much

For the new capital city; I must say that "Nagari Rimba Nusa" is not its future official name, since the new capital city still has no official name yet. The name "Nagari Rimba Nusa" is actually the name of the city design from some urban planning firm that won the New National Capital Contest (Sayembara Ibu Kota Baru) from the Ministry of Public Works and Housing (PUPR) in 2019. The National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), also in 2019, has clarified that the new capital will only serve as a seat of government like Washington DC is, while Jakarta will remain the economic centre of Indonesia.

The "ngi" sound in Singapore Changi Airport is pronounced not exactly like but similar to the French "gn" sound in Champignon". Also while Singapore doesn't have a land border with Indonesia, it used to be part of a kingdom that is formed in what was once simultaneously Indonesia (Riau islands), Singapore (Pulau Ujong) and Malaysia (Johor) called Riau-Lingga. Edit: it was just the Johor sultanate not Riau-Lingga

We have stunning, isolated, virgin places. But the downside of that is it's hard to get a strong and stable signal in those places.

*Best and worst geography in the world* Poland: Been there, done that

I want to move to Lubuk Basung, North of Padang Sumatera, when I can retire. Love the warm weather & the warmth of the people. Been invited to weddings when visiting friends. Lack of income has meant I haven't been back since December 2011. Miss the place very much. Prefer there than here in South West Sydney. Maybe my friend living next door to Bogor Botanical Gardens can pull a few strings to get me back there soon. I could feed carrots to the kijang in his yard.

Now I need to know who has the best geography in the universe

Fun Fact = im your subscriber and i live in Jakarta, Indonesia and now im scard of what you saying is true because my house is singking a little and your channel geography or etc is helping my knowlegde BTW,(and love your videos BTW)

5:10 the video title is roughly translated into First time onboard the Tidar Pelni Ship, just an infornation

I have a friend that use a ship for her travelling from Surabaya to Papua. Well it needs 7 DAYS! to go there with a ship. No phone signal moreover internet at all when she at the sea. But when the ship docking at Makassar she can use her phone