Indonesia

The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; Japan occupied the islands from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hostilities, and UN mediation before the Netherlands agreed to transfer sovereignty in 1949. Indonesia's first free parliamentary election after decades of repressive rule took place in 1999. Indonesia is now the world's third-largest democracy, the world's largest archipelagic state, and home to the world's largest Muslim population. Current issues include: alleviating poverty, improving education, preventing terrorism, consolidating democracy after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing economic and financial reforms, stemming corruption, holding the military and police accountable for past human rights violations, addressing climate change, and controlling avian influenza. In 2005, Indonesia reached a historic peace agreement with armed separatists in Aceh, which led to democratic elections in Aceh in December 2006. Indonesia continues to face low intensity armed resistance by the separatist Free Papua Movement.
==Economical characteristics==
* Currency: Rupiah (ISO code: IDR)
* Central bank discount rate: 10.83% (31 December 2008)
* Commercial banks lending rate: 13.6% (31 December 2008)
* Stock of money (M1): $41.71 billion (31 December 2008)
* Quasi money (with M1 makes M2): $131.1 billion (31 December 2008)
===Statistics===
Statistic / Year 	1999 	2000 	2001 	2002 	2003 	2004 	2005 	2006 	2007 	2008
GDP (million USD)World Bank. "Indonesia: GDP", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-30. 	140 001	165 021	160 447	195 661	234 772	256 837	285 869	364 571	431 933	510 730
Govt. debt (% of GDP)World Bank. "Indonesia: government debt", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-30. 	45.208 	 	 	32.224 	29.717 	28.762 	 	 	 	
Govt. revenue (% of GDP)World Bank. "Indonesia: government revenue", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-30. 	18.060 	 	18.699 	17.444 	17.323 	18.366 	 	 	 	
Govt. expenses (% of GDP)World Bank. "Indonesia: government expenses", from World Bank Data. Referenced 2010-09-30.	16.329 	 	 	15.713 	16.258 	16.854 	 	 	 	
Debt to revenue (years) 	2.503 	 	 	1.847 	1.715 	1.566 	 	 	 	
==References==
Note: statistical data was rounded. Different sources may use different methodologies for their estimates. Debt to revenue is calculated by dividing the two variables from their original ('unrounded') values. It represents how long it would a government take to repay its entire debt if it used its whole revenue for this purpose.
==External links==
* Indonesia on Wikipedia
* Central bank of Indonesia
* Country profile (pdf) from the Enterprise Studies page (part of the The World Bank Group)
* Studies from the Library of Congress (1986-1998)
* BBC country profile
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