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Indonesia: Insular Contrasts of the Java Core with Outer Islands

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Southeast Asia: A Ten Nation Region

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Because of its location and character, Indonesia always has been important in Southeast Asia. Its islands and interior seas have facilitated interisland trade in spices and aromatic woods within the Indonesian archipelago and given Indonesia a place in international trade between China and Europe fostered first by Arab and then by European merchants. The archipelago extends some 3000 miles from Aceh on the northern tip of the island of Sumatra in the west to the border of Irian Barat with Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea in the east. Its land area covers some 1.9 million square kilometers. Land and sea area combined covers 9,800 square kilometers with the sea area comprising 81 percent (7.9 million square kilometers) of the total area.1 The international boundary is determined by the archipelagic principle which the Indonesian government adopted in 1957 and which was reaffirmed by the International Convention of the Law of the Sea in 1983 (including a 200-mile exclusive economic zone) and which set a maritime boundary within which the many islands of the country lie (Fig. 7.1). On the basis of population, agriculture, vegetation, soil fertility, and economic activity, the country is divided into two groups: the Inner Islands (Java, Madura, Bali, and Lombok) and the Outer Islands (the rest of the country).

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Cobban, J. (1996). Indonesia: Insular Contrasts of the Java Core with Outer Islands. In: Dutt, A.K. (eds) Southeast Asia: A Ten Nation Region. The GeoJournal Library, vol 34. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-1748-4_8

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