Asia–Pacific
Indonesia
Capital: Jakarta
- 283MPopulation
- 246MMuslim
- 87%Muslim share
- $4,900GDP per person
- 5.3%Unemployment
- 9%In poverty
- 96%Literacy
- 72Life expectancy
- System
- presidential republic
- In power
- President Prabowo Subianto
- Currency
- rupiah
- In the UN since
- 1,950
Life today
Badminton is religion's twin; a big film industry and huge migration of workers abroad.
Word on the street
WhatsApp and Gojek run daily life; TikTok is the evening square. Street slang: gabut (bored), wkwk (laughing).
Names the world knows
- Sukarno founding president
- Joko Widodo former president
- Nurcholish Madjid reformist scholar
- Pramoedya A. Toer novelist
Did you know?
More Muslims live in Indonesia than in the entire Arab world combined.