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The history of Indonesia has been shaped by its geographic position, natural resources, a series of human migrations and contacts, wars and conquests, as well as by trade, economics and politics. Indonesia is an archipelagic country of 17,000 to 18,000 islands stretching along the equator in Southeast Asia .
With over 280 million people, Indonesia is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the most populous Muslim-majority country. Java, the world's most populous island, is home to more than half of the country's population. Indonesia is a presidential republic with an elected legislature.
1222. Battle of Ganter, Ken Arok defeated Kertajaya, the last king of Kediri, thus established Singhasari kingdom [28] Ken Arok ended the reign of Isyana Dynasty and started his own Rajasa dynasty. 1257. Baab Mashur Malamo established The Kingdom of Ternate in Maluku.
The Indonesian archipelago (Indonesian: Kepulauan Indonesia) is a vast and diverse collection of over 17,000 to 18,000 islands [3][4] located between the Indian and Pacific Oceans in Southeast Asia and Oceania. [5] It is the world's largest archipelago, with five main islands— Sumatra, Java, Borneo (shared with Malaysia and Brunei), Sulawesi ...
This category has the following 35 subcategories, out of 35 total. History of Indonesia by province (20 C) Indonesia history-related lists (2 C, 11 P) History of Indonesia by period (18 C, 1 P) History of Indonesia by topic (12 C)
The economic history of Indonesia is shaped by its geographic location, its natural resources, as well as its people that inhabited the archipelago that today formed the modern nation-state of the Republic of Indonesia. The foreign contact and international trade with foreign counterparts had also shaped and sealed the fate of Indonesian ...
The History of Bali covers a period from the Paleolithic to the present, and is characterized by migrations of people and cultures from other parts of Asia. In the 16th century, the history of Bali started to be marked by Western influence with the arrival of Europeans, to become, after a long and difficult colonial period under the Dutch, an example of the preservation of traditional cultures ...
The comparatively short text of 32 folio-size pages (1,126 lines) contains the history of the kings of Singhasari and Majapahit in eastern Java. Bujangga Manik, an Old Sundanese literature dated from circa late 15th century to early 16th century. [47] It is a travelogue of Prince Jaya Pakuan alias Bujangga Manik, throughout Java and Bali.