Indonesia occupies most
of the
Malay Archipelago and extends into western
Melanesia, as well. The country has 17,508 islands
officially, with about 6,000 of those inhabited.
Counting tidal islands (periodically submerged) doubles
the island figure, and many islands with no name or the
same names, making it very confusing even to the
government of Indonesia. Man
agement of the
islands sometimes includes a Regency
(Indonesia) covers a small island chain.
Destination of The Month : Feb and March
SUMBA ISLAND
TOURS AND PASOLA FESTIVAL
" Indonesia Unique Culture, Ikats and Horseback
Flighting "
Pasola
is the name of ancient war ritual war festival by
two groups of selected Sumbanese men. They riding
their colorful decorated selected horses fling
wooden spears at each other. This traditional
ceremony held in the way of uniquely and
sympathetically traditional norms, every year in
February and March.
The festival occurs during February in
Lamboya and Kodi. The main activity starts several days
after the full moon and coincides with the yearly arrival to
the shore of strange, and multihued sea worms – Nyale. The
precise date of the event decided by Rato during the
Wulapodu (the month of Pasola the fasting month).
Sumatra(also spelled
Sumatera) is the sixth largest island
in the world (approximately 470,000 km?) and is the
largest island entirely in Indonesia (two larger
islands,
Borneo
and
New Guinea, are
partially in Indonesia).
An ancient name for
Sumatra was Swarna Dwipa, (Sanskrit
for Isle of Gold), apparently based on the fact that
mines in the
Sumatran
highlands were exporting gold from fairly early times.
Java
(Indonesian, Javanese, and
Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia and the site
of its capital city
Jakarta. Once
the centre of powerful Hindu kingdoms and the core of
the
Colonial
Dutch East Indies,
Java now
plays a dominant role in the economic and political life
of Indonesia. Housing a population of 124 million, it is
the most populous island in the world.
Java is also
one of the most densely populated regions on Earth.
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Borneo
is the third largest island in the world and is located
at the centre of Maritime Southeast Asia.
Administratively, this island is divided between
Indonesia, Malaysia and Brunei. Indonesia's
region of
Borneo is called
Kalimantan,
while Malaysia's region of
Borneo
is called East Malaysia or Malaysian
Borneo. Borneo
is surrounded by the South China Sea to the north and
northwest, the Sulu Sea to the northeast, the
Celebes
Sea and the
Makassar Strait
to the east, and the
Java
Sea and Karimata Strait to the south. It has an area of
743,330 km? (287,000 square miles).
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The Portuguese were the first to refer to
Sulawesi
as 'Celebes' however the origins of this name are
unclear. One suggestion is the
Bugis word
si-lebih for 'more islands' - a reference to its shape
suggesting it was more than one island.
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