Indonesia
Our Top Picks For Indonesia
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1 Kelimutu
Multihued crater lakes set atop an ancient volcano
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2 Sumba
Fascinating and isolated island with unique tribal traditions and a rich weaving heritage
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3 Pulau Weh
Undisturbed beaches, visiting whale sharks and sublime diving
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4 Danau Toba
Gracious Batak hospitality and Southeast Asia’s largest volcanic lake
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5 Banda Islands
Sublime snorkelling and pristine coral gardens in history’s fabled Spice Islands
Fast Facts about Indonesia
- Number of airports with paved runways
161
- Number of mobile phones in use
30 million
- Unemployment
10.9%
- Number of islands
17,508
- Inflation
10.4%
- Population
245.5 million
- GDP per capita
US$3,700
- Median age
26.8 years
- Number of airports
668
Our favourite Indonesia Blogs (beta)
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Bali and Lombok - Tourist Paradise and Real Life Experiences in One
Blog: The 4 Season Travel Blog - 23 June 2009
Bali and Lombok is in many ways Asia’s perfect summer travel destination. While Thailand goes through their rainy season over summer, Indonesia actually has it’s dryest months from May to September.
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Show me the way to go home…
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 3 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF8 Indonesia Watch as Jemy, the Kiva Coordinator at my host MFI, Dinari Foundation Bali, takes me on a nail-biting, jaw-dropping white knuckled ride home. This video is just one minute long, but the actual journey took half an hour. *** Zev Lowe started work at DINARI Foundation today. He recently completed his MBA at [...]
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Is a Kiva loan really interest free?
Blog: Kiva Stories from the Field - 1 June 2009
By Zev Lowe, KF 8 Indonesia The US dollar has recently risen significantly against many currencies. When I arrived in Bali to begin my Kiva Fellowship with DINARI Foundation, I received 10,295 Indonesian Rupiah (IDR) for each of my US dollars. This is 10% higher than a year ago, when the US dollar was worth 9,350 [...]
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Introducing Indonesia
Adventure looms large in this vast and steamy archipelago, where the best of Southeast Asia’s spicy melange simmers tantalisingly. Heady scents, vivid colours, dramatic vistas and diverse cultures spin and multiply to the point of exhaustion, their potent brew leaving your senses reeling.
Rippling across the equator for nearly 5000km, Indonesia encompasses more than 17,000 islands, two-thirds of which are inhabited and richly layered with character. On Sulawesi, the elaborate funeral ceremonies and timeless traditions of Tana Toraja are light years from the surfing culture of Lombok. But so too are the mighty saddle-backed Batak mansions of Danua Toba and the volcanic lakes of Sumatra from the mummies and deeply etched gorges of Papua’s Baliem Valley. The resorts and restaurants of Bali pamper precocious style cats, while at the same moment threadbare backpackers are adopted by homestays in Kalimantan.
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Latest headlines for Indonesia
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Profile: Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono
9 July 2009 6:50AM
Profile of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who became Indonesia's first directly-elected president in October 2004
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Indonesia leader set for poll win
8 July 2009 2:30PM
Indonesia's leader Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono looks on course for a clear win in presidential polls, exit polls suggest.
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Indonesian election views
7 July 2009 11:44PM
The BBC's Indonesian service has asked people across the country to give their views on the issues that matter to them most.
