Basic Facts
- Capital City : Jakarta
- Official Language : Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia)
- Form of Government: Presidential Republic (President and VP directly elected by the people every five years, the incumbent is Dr. Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, who is in his second term until 2014)
- National Day: 17th August 1945 (Proclamation of Independence from the Dutch colonization)
- Area : 1,904, 569 km square (15th largest in the world)
- Number of Islands : 17,508 (world’s biggest archipelago)
- Population: est. 230 million (fourth largest in the world)
- Currency : Rupiah (Rp./IDR)
- Time Zones: UTC +7, +8, +9
- Telephone Code: +62
- Country-Code Top Level Domain : .id
- source: http://www.indonesia.go.id