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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]
Indonesia is a vast tropical country of sprawling archipelago with extremely diverse culture and demographic make-up with over 600 ethnic groups, [2] and speaking more than 700 living languages. [3] Indonesia has the largest Muslim population in the world.
Arts in Indonesia (12 C, 6 P) Indonesian awards (11 C, 16 P) B. ... Pages in category "Culture of Indonesia" The following 131 pages are in this category, out of 131 ...
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 ...
Indonesia ranked 70 out of 174, Good Country Index (2024). Indonesia hosts 10 UNESCO's World Heritage Sites and holds 12 items UNESCO's Intangible Cultural Heritage. Freedom in the World: partly free (2021).
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).
Tong Tong Fair is the largest cultural festival in the world for Indonesian diaspora. Established in 1959, it is one of the oldest festivals and the fourth largest grand fair in the Netherlands. It is also the annual event with the highest number of paying visitors of the Dutch city of The Hague , having consistently attracted more than 100,000 ...