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The culture of Indonesia (Indonesian: Budaya Indonesia) has been shaped by the interplay of indigenous customs and diverse foreign influences.With over 600 distinct ethnic groups, including significant Austronesian and Melanesian cultures, contributing to its rich traditions, languages, and customs, Indonesia is a melting pot of diversity.
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) identifies intangible cultural heritage as the "non-physical traditions and practices that are performed by a people". As part of a country's cultural heritage, they include celebrations, festivals, performances, oral traditions, music, and the making of handicrafts. [1]
Borobudur is the single most visited tourist attraction in Indonesia. [17]Both nature and culture are major components of Indonesian tourism.The natural heritage can boast a unique combination of a tropical climate, a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands, 6,000 of them being inhabited, [18] the second longest shoreline in the world (54,716 km) after Canada. [19]
Cultural properties of Indonesia are those items defined by Indonesian law as of "important value for history, science, and culture", and include both man-made artefacts and natural objects. [1] The cultural properties number more than 8,000 and include ancient Hindu and Buddhist temples , mosques , historic colonial buildings , forts , art ...
5466; Cultural: (i), (v) 2009 This is the only remaining site of the Hindu-Buddhist antiquity in Indonesia, the capital city of the Majapahit Kingdom, covering 11-by-9-kilometre (6.8 mi × 5.6 mi). It was built on flat terrains below three mountains: Penanggungan, Welirang, and Anjasmara.
The discourse on the establishment of the Indonesian Ministry of Culture was put forward since 1945, a number of cultural figures, artists, and community leaders held a cultural conference in December in Sukabumi, West Java. [2] The nomenclature Culture was first used in the Syahrir III Cabinet as part of the Ministry of Education and Culture ...
It is quite difficult to define Indonesian art, since the country is immensely diverse.The sprawling archipelago nation consists of 17,000 islands. [1] Around 922 of those permanently inhabited, [2] by over 600 ethnic groups, [3] [4] which speak more than 700 living languages.
Hinduism was the dominant religion in the country before the arrival of Islam and is one of the six official religions of Indonesia today. [3] Hinduism came to Indonesia in the 1st-century through Indian traders, sailors, scholars and priests. [4] A syncretic fusion of pre-existing Javanese folk religion, culture and Hindu ideas, that from the ...