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This is a list of some of the regions of Indonesia. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. Many regions are defined in law or regulations by the central government. At different times of Indonesia 's history, the nation has been designated as having regions that do not necessarily correlate to the current ...
The United States of Indonesia (Indonesian: Republik Indonesia Serikat, Dutch: Verenigde Staten van Indonesië lit. ' Republic of the United States of Indonesia '; [a] abbreviated as RIS or RUSI, also known as Federal Republic of Indonesia) was a short-lived federal state to which the Netherlands formally transferred sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies (except Netherlands New Guinea) on 27 ...
This was a response to independence movements that had been present in the province since it became part of Indonesia, and occurred alongside the renaming of the province from Irian Jaya to Papua. [ 7 ] : 42–43 [ 8 ] This gave Papua a greater portion of revenue, autonomy outside reserved areas maintained by the central government, and 20 ...
Indonesia, [c] officially the Republic of Indonesia, [d] is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania, between the Indian and Pacific oceans. Comprising over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Guinea, Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state and the 14th-largest country by area, at 1,904,569 square kilometres (735,358 square miles).
The boundary is separated into three segments, with the first two broken by the Timor Gap. The first is between the Australia – Indonesia – Papua New Guinea tripoint at 10° 50' S, 139° 12' E, and the point whether the territorial waters of the two countries touch the eastern limits of the territorial waters claimed by Timor-Leste at 9° 28' S, 127° 56' E.
Territorial waters and claimed exclusive economic zone of Indonesia The Indonesian archipelagic baselines pursuant to article 47, paragraph 9, of the UNCLOS. The territorial waters of Indonesia are defined according to the principles set out in Article 46 of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea. Their boundary consists of ...
The Denpasar Conference of 18–24 December was held to work out the details of a state which to be called the State of the Great East (Indonesian: Negara Timoer Besar). [7] [8] That state was established on 24 December and, on 27 December, renamed the State of East Indonesia (Negara Indonesia Timoer or 'NIT').
North Kalimantan (Indonesian: Kalimantan Utara) is a province of Indonesia. It is located on the northernmost of Kalimantan, the Indonesian part of the island of Borneo. North Kalimantan borders the Malaysian states of Sabah to the north and Sarawak to the west, and by the Indonesian province of East Kalimantan to the south.