I think like India, Indonesia has a lot of potential. However, it has a lot of obstacles to overcome and it must also maintain its democratic institutions which are still pretty young.
I think India's institutions, while young, will likely persevere. The system actually maps well onto their society as states have more often than not caved to the broader society than the reverse in India. So they should broadly keep it.
Honestly I’m fine with Indonesia becoming a power. they don’t threaten any countries like China. And they have good relations with a lot of countries. So honestly good for Indonesia.
If USA is serious abt countering china in indo pacific...they need indonesia...that country is the ultimate balance between usa and china.... atleast indonesia is neutral for now
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We passed 1945, 1965, and 1998 without the Balkanization happening. What kind of event would break up Indonesia if the invasion, genocide, or economic crisis didn't work? Sometimes westerners can't accept the concept that together in differences is highly possible to happen.
@@sragen99 I think... I got what you mean back there. But if we said it here rn we might got hot comment from those extremist white senzutsu... just say it safe lol
As an Indonesian, the situation of secession could be happening if things were to go wrong but for now, our sense of Indonesian identity is stronger than regional identity. We usually don't view things in a concrete A or B, whether it's culture, languages, and ethnic backgrounds. Chinese Indonesians will see themselves more as an Indonesian rather than Chinese, ask a Minang/Batak/Ambon/Manado/Bali/etc. person, they will reply they are Indonesian first then their background (ofc if u are a foreigner asking). I personally am kinda fed up with the whole idea that regionalism is still stronger than a nationalist identity because throughout my experience talking with many different people from different backgrounds, they are really friendly and identify themselves as Indonesian. Of course, things will look differently if we talk about religion and Papua issues but overall, Indonesia is more united than ever and will continue to be more and more united in the near future.
Wkwkwk yeah There's also a funny thing we have where basically everybody here *hates* mainland China and the CCP You can get Chinese-Indonesians here going on 10 minute long rants about how China is perverting our country and the world whenever the topic comes out on the news It's hilarious to see 🤣
Because his sources of understanding on nationalism is from european nations perspective which develop national Identity mainly from ethnicity unlike Indonesia which develop its identity throug the suffering under Dutch colonialism and long time trade relarionship. I mean our main slogan is "in differences we are united" which is from Majapahit era writting, as such Indonesian even before colonialism have strong relation between each ethnic groups.
@@forproject0829it's impossible for Philippines to become a country with power like america because china Is currently a threat to us without america china will probably attack us our only advantage is trading and alliances
I like Indonesia so much, much love from the Netherlands (yes, the things we did were bad, but I honestly feel so welcomed by Indonesian people and I cannot express how much that improved my life. Learning the language now and hope to visit soon) you are all amazing. Selamat Malam everyone :)
Let what happend in the past stays in the past . You are not responsible for what happend in the past and us Indonesisn now never feel what our former generations feel. So its not right to hate you instead we are welcome you to work together with us. Sending love from Indonesians
As an Indonesian, I want to explain some correction: 1) 3:49 It's not entirely true about food production is centered among coastline of 3 major Island, especially in Java. Here rice field is way deep into interior of the island. Northern part of Java island is mostly plain with some hills, having a most fertile soil in the country thanks to the volcanism nearby. For the island of Sumatra and Borneo, food production mainly nearby a river since a soil in deep interior isn't really good for planting rice (instead we planting palm oil there) 2) 6:45 By some account is still debated if Majapahit really conquered Nusantara archipelago. Other theory explain if Majapahit mainly used diplomatic power to having control overseas (by having an allies, or vassal states) since they don't even manage to conquered their neighbour in the backyard a.k.a Sundanese (though they manage to conquered Bali with military force) 3) 15:05 Is incorrect to calling inhabitants of Java as "Javanese", they're one of major ethnic mainly living in Central & Eastern Java. There's other major ethics living there need to be considered: Sundanese, Betawi, Maduranese, and other smaller one. Sundanese and Betawi mainly live in Western Java (while Maduranese living in Eastern Java alongside with Javanese) 4) 16:20 Java-centric (by politics and national development) is one of the root that giving rise of separatism here. Usually they're mad due to giving lots of resources to the central goverment but gain only a little. From few separatist movement we managed to solved 2 of them: Free Timor Timur (by giving them Independence as it should be) and GAM/Free Aceh Movement (by giving them more autonomy and all GAM leaders agreed with that in 2005) 5) 16:40 Well honestly that's a real legitimacy of current Indonesian territory: being a successor of Dutch East Indies. Though our education said we're successor of Majapahit Empire as well as their legitimacy (this actually inherited from Budi Utomo's idea about Indonesian nationalism, which actually embrace Javanese imperialism)
While true that other ethnic groups live in Java, the point he's making is that the Javanese are STILL the dominant group in Indonesia. And thus their influence spreads. About 40 percent of the Indonesian population is ethnically Javanese
when he was talking about the difficulties of past coastal civilizations trying to reach deep into island interiors (2:31), i immediately thought: "oh, so it had been only achieved in java so far"
_As In Indonesian, Traveling In Other Part Indonesia Is Like Entering Another Country, Every Vehicle Is Different, The City Look Different, Like Everything Will Almost Look Different._
As an Indonesian, I can confirm. Sometimes, it boggles my mind at how diverse we are. Every time I travel to another city, there is something to it that's just *different* , it truly feels like you're in another country
@@calloflily Like Seriously! We All Know That Every Island Has Different Culture And All That Stuff! But _Actually_ Experiencing It Ourself Is Wilddddd!
Technically, we get the name because Portuguese explorer thought that they landed in some indian nesos (archipelago) So think of us indonesian as a long lost brother 😂
The heavy emphasis on separatism, in the end, is quite jarring. East Timor wasn't supposed to be part of Indonesia in the first place. Supported by the U.S, Indonesia under Soeharto invaded Timor Leste in 1975 under the pretext of anti-communism and decided to eat it. They were an occupied independent country. Separatism in Indonesia is not that big of an issue thanks to the presence of a lingua franca, increasing federalism, and heavy investment in the outer islands. Sacrificing its lust rainforest for development, handling the impact of climate change, creeping fundamentalism, and managing its human resources are more debated topics, especially in the next 50 years. But! This doesn't excuse nor discredit the lack of national discourse on the ever-present racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination. Things are still rotting. The point is, that different groups of people can still make compromises and live together without the need for an ethnostate. Civic and constitutional nationalism exist y'all.
Very good points, but you seem to have failed to understand Indonesian nationalism, and you put it in a European perspective, where ethnics are the root of nationalism. From your perspective, states like Russia and India won't exist. We can all agree here that the root of Indonesia's problem is corruption and other stuff, not ethnic differences (well maybe not west Papua but you get what I'm trying to say here). No hate to you though you are very good!
@@franknwogu4911 I know I know, but I just said European as an example to explain my point, people will think about Europe first when thought about ethnic nationalism. Np bro.
Well, Timor wasn't originaly indonesian, instead it got independence from Portugal and was annexed/invaded by Indonesia, but I got the point in the video
Actually at the first, Portuguese control whole Timor island and some island around, but then they lost battle with the dutch make Portuguese loses territory from Timor island but the place where they landed is still on Portuguese hand
@@summersk11y And then Timor declared Independence and its heading into a communist side (fretilin), And at that time Indonesia was a Pro Anti-Communist government ruled by Sukarno and well you know what happens after that..... (Indonesia Invaded Timor)
As a Filipino dude Indonesia is almost everything I wish my country could be (excpet for the 'x' times more islands and and even more vast) but cannot afford to do so due to our own different geographi and historical circumstances to be able to be "that country everybody is chill with": • because they're not directly in between two powerful countries trying to use their country as a base to influnce/ manipulate/ or just plain strangle the hell out of the other country; • not living in a very high-maintenance geographic location were food production is always getting limited by typhoons no matter how fertile the soil is, infrastructure getting "reset buttoned" by earthquakes as much as in the Philippines; • the colonizers not generally shoving their faith and their lifestyle to the locals' face so they get to keep their own original culture and not antagonize eachother (Mindanao); • and can live normally being themselves and not constantly & toxically trying be "one with the cOoL kIdZ in the block" like trying to be western and having a woke "protagonism complex" (tryna feel like the bida/good guys of a movie) even though we can't afford to and should'nt really be doing so in the first place (although this helps our tourism industry but sometimes the attention seeking backfires at times). It would be interesting for Indonesia to be a regional power that the Philippines can live along with since they are a lot more chill and would like to see itself "helping & hanging out with its long lost cousin" (compared to the two powerful countries trying to influence my country and always tends to think that the world revolves around them), but Indonesia is also a HUUUUUGE economic competitor because whatever the Philippines have, Indonesia terrifyingly has it like 4x even more (export crops, rice terraces, manufacturing, & more exotic culture for tourism, etc.) But I don't want the Philippines to go toxic on its cousin, so my country naturally (sometimes toxically) needs to seek trade and attention elsewhere for its own & everybody's good. Hello austronesian cousins! 😊
The emphasis on separatism is far from accurate though. Those flags the video showed bearing the names "Minahasa, Batak, Dayak, Flores" are completely fictional. I'm a Minahasan Christian, AND INDONESIAN, and I've never seen that flag bearing the name of my ethnic group before. The only separatist movement that exists or had existed are the Papua and Maluku ones. The Maluku was already defeated, and there has never been any more uprisings or issues leading to seccession. I think when foreigners (especially Europeans) look at Indonesia at a glance, and see that we have a lot of things to differentiate between ourselves, they tend to think of the worst is to come. But as a matter of fact, the opposite is true. We are proud of our ethnic backgrounds and we are proud Indonesians. We accept, understand, and are proud of our diversity; and the fact that we are able to coexist, cooperate, and even assimilate in tolerance is a God-given grace. We are grateful for it, we are grateful to be born Indonesian
Indonesia is like this family who is in the middle class if economies. It’s also the Russia of the islands. They’re not that rich but they’re not that poor. Java is the oldest child who has money and the other islands are the younger siblings. Java and Sumatra are the muscle in the family. Tell me what Indonesia is like in your opinions. To travel around each room in the house, they have a zip liner and use a boat. Pls don’t get offended
Why you put Borneo as the muscle of family, clearly Sumatera island is the muscle since they are second economical power for country. You better look at Medan city and Palembang city also Batam, they are the big engine for economy compare to Kalimantan (Borneo) cities such as Balikpapan, Samarinda, Palangkaraya which are not so much stronger than the former.
as a half indonesian and knowing that literally the world has high expectation towards the country is really overwhelming.... we have a lot of things to improve.. i think we're not ready to be the center of attention yet haha too much pressure
True. News that China and Russia trying to get close to Indonesia, honestly worrying me as a citizen because I don't know how our corrupt government will react. It can be good, it can be bad, 50:50 chance is still too big of a bet to me
So true, I actually getting scared of these overexposure they do lately towards Indonesia. I just want our country keep being a peaceful sanctuary rather than being pulled between any "superpower" that exist nowadays..
Because Indonesia was not influenced by European colonizers, even managed to expel them, not a gift like most other colonial countries, Also Indonesia is not affected by Arab Wahhabism
hahah yea i think "culture(s)" sum it up the best, it's Indonesian Culture, but while being a single entity, they're all diverse different from each other, a really great way to put it
I need to point out that Indonesia's nationalism is based on all of the regions common colonial history and not based on ethnic nationalism. Regionalism is also secondary compared to their loyalty to the country itself.
@@adwaye if you really don't get it, we Indonesian share the same struggle and share the same history of being colonized and exploited by the Dutch, share the same blood spilled when we go to war against dutch for our independence in 1945-49 so yeah that's what an Indonesian nationalism is
@@adwaye All 1700 different cultures, all the people from more than 10 thousand islands, all the different ethnic backgrounds and all the different religious background shared the same struggle and worked together to achieve one independent nation without splitting the nation based on those things above that could seperate us. If you are talking about the name of our nation indonesia, yes it never existed before. But historically speaking, the idea of "One United Nusantara Archipelago" or "Indonesia" is already there since the older kingdom of Salakanagara, Tarumanagara, Srivijaya and Majapahit. So "Indonesia" in the idea & in the realisation and not the naming did exist way before colonialism.
@@adwaye because in that era we Indonesians made 1 promises called sumpah pemuda we swear ourselves to live speak and die as Indonesian and because of that event the fight become one fight against colonialism and viola on 17 August 1945 we declared our Independence
I tend to disagree. There was barely any shared history, and the way the colonizers (not only the Dutch, btw) would treat the locals varies vastly between region to region. For example, the plantation slavery in Java would be so different towards Dutch-Minahasan relations in Sulawesi due to the vast difference in local hierarchy, culture, and natural resources. Not even all regions and ethnicities considered themselves colonized. For example, as much as I love West Papua being part of Indonesia, that was completely a political maneuver on Soekarno’s side. Ethnicity-wise, let’s be real, a ton of us, collectively, dislike each other. If anything, that’s a testament of how effective the Indonesian nationalist propaganda has been (hey, it’s worked on me too) given the short time it’s been around.
Just a correction: the “new guinea” is not Indonesia. The island is divided into 2: - Papua - Papua New Guinea Papua is in Indonesia. Papua New Guinea is different country, sharing same island.
The island name is New Guinea, Papua is other name, so Papua island = New Guinea island, shared by two soverign countries, Republic of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
I like the rotting saliva. It's not a fast and deadly acting agent like venoms, but a disabling agent so komodos can just easily catch their preys to eat them alive.
As usual when I see this type of videos they failed understand the idea of Indonesia Nationalism and try to put it into european point of view which is, ethnicity as the sources of nationality. In that logic there shouldnt be India and the US should be divided into smaller states. I think most ID people here will agree if I said most discontent nowdays are rarely targeted because of ethnic conflict but due to government curroption or political actions to earn votes on election.
Can't agree more. If i make a personal list of indonesia's biggest problems i wouldn't even consider unity of the country in the top 10 Indonesia's main challenges: 1. Equal development across the country 2. Competency of (mostly) the lower end of the government (i said the lower end because like it or not jokowi is more than competent running the country so far) 3. Better quality of education(better teachers) 4. Poverty elevations 5. Eradicating corruption in all levels of the society 6. More infrastructure to ease the logistic to the outer islands 7. Islamic extremism 8. More high end manufacturing and leaving exporting raw materials 9. R&D to boost innovation 10. Bringing the economic potential of other islands outside java 11. Better waste management (please don't litter the ocean)
@@faiq026 since higher end of government is more competent than lower one, without balanced competency on every single sectors, it will hamper the development and slow it down also opening too much holes to corruptions and cronysm
sebagai warga Indonesia saya sebenarnya khawatir jika Indonesia menjadi super power. dan itu tidak akan mungkin. karena kami bukan negara yang gemar berperang atau invasionis. kami hanya berharap menjadi negara yang makmur dan damai, tidak perlu menjadi negara super power. tidak perlu menjadi ancaman bagi negara lain. itu saja
@@sovietroll7880 invasi ke timor kan lebih masalahnya si s*harto hamdeh. trus perang ganyang kan karena seharusnya malaysia nyatu sama indonesia sesuai janji kalo ketika mereka malaysia dan indonesia bebas dari penjajahan maka mereka menyatu (katanya president sukarno udh ada janji gitu sama pemimpin malaysia pada saat itu) namun nyatanya, eh malah ngikutin kata inggris dan gk jadi nyatu ama indonesia. kan kyk dikhianati gitu sukarno, makanya president sukarno marah. trus yaudah sih, itu aja kan? lu ngasih 2 contoh kasus itu namun faktanya emg seberapa berdampak 2 kasus itu? udh gitu cuman 2 doang dan lu mau ngebantah kalo indonesia gk suka perang? sangat sangat terlalu sedikit lah. nyatanya Indonesia sendiri adalah negara yang 6 tahun berturut-turut menduduki urutan nomor 1 sebagai negara donatur dan memberikan bantuan gratis pada negara lain.
@@sovietroll7880 1. issue malaysia, saat itu kondisinya di era Soekarno dalam misi pembebasan hegemoni kolonialisme yg baru saja di lancarkan inggris. banyak dari warga malaysia sendiri mendukung Indonesia. namun Indonesia kalah karena dari dalam negeri serangan spionase inggris berita palsu serta suap dan politik adu domba menghancurkan loyalitas kubu militer terhadap Soekarno 2. Timor Leste adalah misi militeri industrial kompleks Amerika yg dalam mencari keuntungan baik politik maupun ekonomi di masa perang dingin terhadap sovyet. saat itu hubungan dekat Amerika dengan Soeharto paska kematian JFK membawa Indonesia berpihak pada Amerika era perang dingin dengan sovyet, namun ketika Sovyet sudah berakhir Soeharto disingkirkan oleh CIA 1998 menggunakan propaganda lewat NGO dan suap terhadap akademisi, mahasiswa dengan titel "agent of change" betapa bodohnya dan bangganya para akademisi saat itu. kesimpulan; karena beberapa pengalaman tersebut, Indonesia tidak mau lagi terseret dalam provokasi perang dan diperdaya oleh negara barat untuk memilih keberpihakan yang sama sekali tidak menguntungkan kepentingan dalam negeri
Mhm As Indonesian i rate my country at -Average Economy -Bad Goverment (they keep putting stupid people on position) -Decent Unity -Decent technology -People view that Military is better than Police (coz police is corrupt and stupid as heck) -Bad education in public school although atleast private school is better in general -Decent Healthcare (not purely free but not very expensive) I view that Indonesia is basically what happen when you merge the world into 1 country, and when entering other ethnic group town/island feels like entering another country because how different it is comparing to your own town.
-Bad Government That's why we, the youth of Indonesia should educate ourselves, so that we may lead this country in the future. We cannot keep relying on these stupid boomers who just "makan gaji buta", they don't even know what they're doing.
Indonesia is the map DLC you will want to buy 👍 Before you Buy (Visit) Pros: - Resourceful - Beautiful Sceneries - Cheap stuff (compared to western) - Chill People - Unique Cultures all over Indonesia - A lot of culinary that you can try (a lot of them open until/pass midnight) Cons: - Polluted air and water - Trash all over the place - Some bad people might fraud you to buying thing way more expensive than their normal price - Transport is not really convenient (Well you can always order online cab now) - Traffic Jam (Chaotic Traffic) - Bumpy roads almost everywhere you go Tell me what I'm missing lol
- Be careful to ask "ga pake cabe, ga pake lada" if you can't eat anything spicy lol. - Incredible History to discover. - Diverse fauna (which can be a pro or a con depending on whether you're an entomology enthusiast or not) - Malaria - Wedding invitation spam if you settle there - Dangdut - Free meat on eid - Don't plan trips on Lebaran - Local KFC-like franchises are the best (labbaik chicken best fried chicken) - Home of martabak - Travel drive like madmen even on mountain roads - Rather safe (at least compared to my home city Paris, Bengkulu was super safe, no contest). - Quality karaokes - For local travel, never chose Lion Air when avoidable
As a Filipino and part of Southeast Asia, i think Indonesia is one of the underrated country. And i think Indonesia has more potential compared to India, because its area scattered around the huge ocean which is wider compared to India. Why i compared it on India? Because they are the one that expected to be rise with China in the future. But my expectation is for the Indonesia!
As a ukrainian, I think Indonesia is a cool country that I hope does well in the future :) Edit: THANKS FOR SO MANY LIKES AND REPLIES NEVER HAD THIS MANY, TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO LIKED THE COMMENT, AND IF YOU LIKED IT, THANK YOU TOO
Ukraine is one of the few countries that stood up for indonesia in the UN against dutch colonization, along with egypt and australia. I hope that war will end soon
Hi I'm an Indonesian. I put this video as a warning. It has been mentioned in some seconds in the last section, Indonesia could easily to be splitted. I hope our generation and the next can sand together to our Indonesia. We are Indonesia. That's correct also about climate change and we destroy our forest for the national resources😭. However, I have trust to my country and absolutely, we can have a better future🦾
Beyond the economics, I'd love to see ID expand it's entertainment industries onto the world stage. After being a big fan of Hololive ID i checked out their pop music scene and it's some good shit.
Agree, as an Indonesian I'm proud of how successful HoloID been doing. And I want to see more people embracing Indonesian pop culture/entertainment more. For me though, music wise I would recommend Coldiac, Galdive, Ikkubaru, Stereowall, Reality Club, and Saint Fiction as my favorite. They make music in English, so a good introduction for foreigners.
Some pretty good films berasal dari Indonesia, The Raid is often considered the best action movie and Iko Uwais is now a pr well known action star, plus pencak silat is getting notoriety too. Impetigore and Potato House were pr high grossing too so it is definitely clear that Indonesian culture is entering the western Mainstream at least somewhat
Not gonna happen anytime soon. Indonesians in general are fiercely isolationist (they don't even bother to export their cuisines abroad!), which is a huge pity since they are just as creative as anybody else. Exporting the cultural elements are still considered as very unpopular move among the populace as well as business people and the government itself - at best it would be regarded as afterthought.
After the Yugoslavia collapse, and after the 1998 crisis, Indonesia is heavily expected to be balkanized. But luckily we arent on that stage yet, especially after the economic boom, post 1998.
Yugoslavia did not have the idea of unity, Yugoslavia only relied on military strength, while Indonesia had the idea of unity, Namely, Pancasila with the slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity an diversity) That's what Soekarno said to Josip Broz Tito, and it was proven that Soekarno's legacy was more successful
Balkan was united because J.B. Tito is equally charismatic like Soekarno. However, he didn't have any unity foundation to back him up like Soekarno had.
@@jokerofmorocco Even for West Papua the support for independence is mostly reserved for militants in remote mountains and vocal activists, and there's a lack of strong political or even military movement that unites it. In the past GAM (Aceh) were far more united and supported by locals, but even them eventually peacefully reintegrate with Indonesia. With current trajectory of development and effort to integrate West Papua I don't see West Papua to ever successfully separate themselves.
@@zeroyuki92 Well for West Papua, almost all ethnic Papuans want independence. Obviously, if they try to fight for it, they'll get brutally murdered by the Indonesian military so lots don't voice their support. Unfortunately, independence in West Papua isn't possible but the main reason is because of the fact that its transmigration policy massmigrated Indonesians from other parts of the country, mostly Java to dilute its native Papuan population.
They are still a new country and their government is still considered as new compared to many europe country that is very experienced at government and diplomacy they can still grow but it will take a long time but we can see the progress now since indonesia is growing fast, is a member of g20 and currently 13th strongest military and for a undeveloped country thats really great
As an Australian, the craziest thing about Indonesia is how many thousands of years they have been trading with the outside world but somehow Australia stayed isolated. Australia is closer to Indonesia than some other parts of Indonesia! lol The other thing I know as an Australian are that the general Indonesian people are friendly and fun. They work hard and are able to take a joke and give one back
but alot of ppl in indonesia no longer likes australia,because you guys falsely accusing indonesia of genocide in papua without a single evidence meanwhile there are millions evidence of the aborigins genocide... we are closer to china now
Indonesians already traded with indigenous Australians, it was Makassar people who made trade contacts, Makassar people also teach many things to the natives of the Australian continent, Makassar people look for sea cucumbers to sell to China, It's amazing that even though the Makassarese were able to conquer Australia but they didn't do it, they preferred to trade while teaching something to the natives of the Australian continent, But when the Europeans came, the Europeans began to carry out many colonial policies by levying taxes on the Makassarese, And continue to increase tax rates, until the Makassar people feel no more profit from selling sea cucumbers, from there the contact between the Makassar people and the indigenous inhabitants of the Australian continent was cut off, then after that the European colonizers made the Australian continent a dumping ground for British criminal convicts, That's when the horror experienced by the indigenous people of the Australian continent, Makassar people are still remembered and considered brothers by the indigenous people of the Australian continent, Come to Darwin's territory and meet the Aboriginal people, Ask them about Makassar people, they will tell you many things about Makassar people, one of which is about the painting of Makassarese outrigger boats
East Timor is never the part of us even historically is never under the shadow of Dutch colonial empire, it was Portuguese, and we made a mistake for colonialized it because of cold war situation (fear of rising communistic regime at East Timor that would bring us on the same situation with Cuba although it's actually not much communistic and moreso socialism or left leaning regime but Cold War mentality became the motivation for Timor Leste invasion). Our true mistake was Sipadan and Ligitan which is now Malaysian island. The thing that i fear the most is the rise of fundamentalism (Indonesia has to be kept as secular at all cost or this country will be separated thus your point of islam as a uniting element for Indonesia is invalid, we had a constitution named Piagam Jakarta which was included an obligation to believe in Islamic god but the constitution changed after proclamation to be more accepting towards other religion, but the problem is our freedom of religion is stricted to 6 state religions and not taking account to Atheism and Agnosticism. It's not fully freedom of beliefs) and i got a mixed feeling when it comes to enviromental situation, people need to feed and a place to settle so the enviromental change on forest regions to be villages or cities is inevitable, unless if you want to genocide us, but the idea of eco-city or eco-society can make balance between the needs of urbanism and environmental preservation. Human resources are also the big issue, we still need to reform education and provide more infrastructures such as network infrastructures, schools, streets, bridges, electricities since there are still many of remote areas that haven't got electricity and proper connection from school to the village, not to mention the quality of electricity itself.
@Off Road Guy nah, that's just shitty point of view. Indonesia is left leaning while maintaining the liberal part of it. You can say we are closer to central and socialism than to communism and capitalism
Actually, it is fine to have other beliefs outside those 6. I mean, a lot of tribes do that and you won't be charges because of that. If I remember correctly, even atheism is actually okay because the point is not in believing in having religion, but rather in having morality
The big problems in Indonesia can be pointed to corruption, inequality, poor human resource, and too much centralized in Java and Jakarta. The gradually increasing lost trust in government has also been an ongoing problem in recent years, with the government often picking solutions that have a "big show" with pretty minimum impact, scapegoating, and focusing on other unnecessary stuff instead
"Unnecessary stuff" you mean developing infrastructure on other provinces Outside of java to spread economic oppurtunity and advocading for more foreign direct investment is "unnecessary"?
The biggest problem is Islam. There are Radical Pseudo Terrorist Islamists hiding in the jungles. And Indonesia is a strict follower of Islamic Law. Islam and Progress are entire opposites. Look at India. They are targeting the Muslims in an effort to turn India into a Secular Nation. Religion is the main thing that holds back progress. The moment Religion stop mattering in the West, the West had the Industrial Revolution and it hasn't stopped from there.
@@ero6056 no, Mandalika, JIS, and many other "mercusuar" project. After they're done, what else? It is just a big political show, even the locals dont benefit much in these project in the long term.
Yes we need more powerful countries in asia to counter china,establish peace and a stable region. All the best to Indonesia for development❤let's join hands and be prosperous together ❣️🙏🤜🤛
just a slight but important correction: the strait of Malacca is shared with Peninsular Malaysia and (sort of by extension) Singapore. So Indonesia does not get full autonomy in things that do and do not pass through it. In fact, the busiest ports in the strait are all Malaysian, only eclipsed by the Port of Singapore (which is technically not part of the Malacca strait). Indonesia's busiest port isnt even in the Malacca strait, its off the Jakarta Bay and typically cuts through the sea between Jawa and Sumatra.
Fun fact the place which is now jakarta used to be an entirely different town the voc burnt down and settled themselves to use as a central trading port for the indonesian archipeligo. Also I myself feel like british india raj and dutch east indies were similar due to the corporation running both but india was ran under direct order from london while indonesia was ran from jakarta. One thing you did not mention in the video is that indeed the dutch owned indonesia but indirectly through voc that was controlled by people who had stockes in it only when voc went bankrupt due to financing wars to seize controll of spices' monopoly the dutch state took over indonesia and had appointed a governor to run it.
Indonesia's forests look something out of the Jurassic Period and a lot of the wild animals living in these forests look so exotic, some almost dinosaur or even alienlike.
You can find both Asiatic animals like elephant, tiger, rhino, etc (in the west region) and Australian animals like marsupial animal, cassowary, etc (in east region). There are also weird endemic animals between them in the middle part of Indonesia.
Losing em slowly though, as with every country during its conversion to an industrial economy. Without active policies to mitigate it by the time we finally get developed country status the islands would be as bald as my dad.
as and indonesian that "let's talk about warship, not indonesian warship although it was island based archipelago you would expected they would have a lot" in 00:51 slap harder than my father belt.
If they try to leverage that strategic position too much against superpowers and regional powers, the powers at be will make sure it becomes a subcontinent again. It’s best for Indonesia to not be too aggressive with how they control this important trade route.
They have a really good chance of becoming wealthy. They can do something similar to Singapore and become another big shipping and processing hub with their natural resources, large population and geography they have big opportunity. It's up to the government to decide Indonesia's fate, hopefully they make the right choice.
Nice perspective. The government here is also capable of using commodities that are booming. Encouraging the development of the digital market. Encouraging the advancement of infrastructure. And a lot of positives. There are criticisms and obstacles but there is hope. Thank you
To all negative comments about Indonesia Indonesia is fantastic country, and i does not have many problem for example look at the poverty Many countries have this problem Much love to Indonesian people 🇲🇷❤️🇮🇩
Quite a 'Murica-centric view. Nationalized industries and centralized control was important to keep the islands united and fend off any colonial takeovers. In this aspect Indonesia was far too vulnerable compared to India in the same 1950s+ era. Somewhere middle he says the economy should be more liberalized and then at the end says they can follow the chinese state-owned industries export model. Not like I'm advocating for any, but the respective country should apply a customized strategy considering its own geo-strategic position. And not be like "unregulated free-markets go brr". As usual at the end he said Indonesia was "unified" into a country by the dutch, even though once upon a time, the Majapahits ruled the same place as well.
I really disagree when someone say indonesia was united becuase of colonialism. There is a lot of empires that united the archipelago that has risen and fall. That is why indonesian identity is strong.
Well it’s more western centric view in general. Most people interpret different history and cultures through there own cultural and historical lens. Plus, the victor writes history and it’s only been W’s for the West for the last 500 years (until recently) so most people are gonna have a western centric view.
There are two types of people: those that click on h0ser's videos because they want to learn about the country he's talking about, and those that see the cute animal and click. I am the second
As an Indonesian I can say we are more united than ever, everyone is connected now through the thing called internet and social media, we now can communicate to our neighbours easily! More connected! And of course we are more diverse, honestly when I think about it Indonesia is such a great country, I don't even know how we manage to keep together but we did. I say from here on out we are going for the sky!
Indonesia is used to be referred as the Southeast Asian version of India due to many exact things (both pros and cons): large population, diverse religion and ethnic groups, a growing economy, and similarly, being embroiled in many troubles relating to territory, religion or people. Indonesia's rise is, akin to India, very turbulent at best, due to its history of struggling to connect all parts together. In some way, if India can rise, then Indonesia can, too. Except that Indonesia does not have nuclear weapons, which India has.
Hmm... Sunda Empire guys... Hohoho... Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan), Lesser Sunda Islands (Maluku, Bali, Nusa Tenggara), and Sahul (Papua)... Actually 'Indonesia' used as name for neutrality... Just kidding...
funfact, majority of indonesian people are billingual (traditional/english & indonesia), and almost 20% of indonesian people are trilingual (traditional,english,indonesia), and still growing.
English is good for overseas chit-chat and buissnes But FUCK YEAH!! I'll take local language all the time if it posibble.... Sound's Good...feel's good
As others have pointed it out, ethnic issues are not exactly the most crucial one in Indonesia. Sure discriminations happen but that happens everywhere. But if you ask an everyday Indonesian what they think about that other race/culture that resides in the other island, they won’t go barbaric and deride that race/culture. In fact, one of the proudest thing to be an Indonesian is to have that diversity. So treating Indonesia as if it’s the Balkans is not exactly accurate. Our sense of unity is one of a kind, perhaps due to emphasis on nationalism and the need for it in order to live in such diverse environment.
Thanks for making an Indonesian video, but once again you REALLY missed a few important points that I think you probably are so ignorant of 🤭 About Indonesia's unity, the country itself is more *stable* than you think, thanks a damn lot to our *national symbol* and *motto*, *The Garuda Pancasila* that holds up the 5 principles of our ideology on a shield, The Pancasila itself and our *"Bhineka Tunggal Ika"*, taken from a *600+ year old* javanese script which roughly translates to *Unity In Diversity*, and Let me tell you it's a powerful line for the people of Indonesia. We as Indonesians have been taught and learnt of how powerful unity is and how catastrophic things could spark up if we decide to be apart from each other and do not set aside our differences. A prime example of how Indonesia fell into the unworthy hands of colonizers that used the exact technique of Divide and Conquer in order to take control of our lands even further. All of those we have been multiply thought as a citizen of a *multicultural* *society* like *Indonesia* and so past events would not be repeated. So everyone would feel a stronger sense of *nationalism* that we already had *deep within* us and a hope that we would stay united even forever. Those, are the reasons of why we are still united until today, and for I hope that it would stay like that for long as a fellow Indonesian citizen that shared the same national identity as to all my beloved- fellow Indonesian countrymen. So, whatever on earth do you mean by islam uniting the country and people when it's only a majority wise for its population. I can see you are *exaggerating* so much about *Indonesia's separatism* when it doesn't even came out on the Indonesian people's mind on the daily basis. Why would it when our government has successfully took down past rebellions like the Free Aceh Movement that seceded in 2004 by an agreement and more like the South Maluku in 1950s. Why would we be so concerned when the state had tried it's best to keep our unity EVEN *without the background reason of* dutch *colonialism* in the archipelago and stick up with our national motto, when the government celebrates all of our "recognized"/ official religions by making them a public holiday that made us into a multicultural society ethnic and beliefs wise. Sure there's still stuff going on with the West Papua rebellions that the government or The *President* himself, have been trying to make things for it like *further developing* the region and it's infrastructures that have said to calm the unrest/rebels. A lot of our fellow Papuans are said to adore him for the effort he did. Even the Garuda bird that i mentioned is a mythological bird from the Hindu religion, an emblem of the world's largest muslim nation/ population by country. Do you see that happening in states like Afghanistan, Pakistan or any other muslim majority states? No single offense to them but you seem to be acting like and you're prolly also gonna be satisfied if we break into smaller pieces like we should be ain't it? I was really expecting this video to talk more about our economic situation today that i am really interested on and wanted a video from you about it as we are currently having a pretty stable and even a higher growth economy despite some inflation and spiked up gas prices and in the middle of todays world's recession that seems to spews everywhere. Our debts are quite low and majority of the people still has food to eat. That way it would match the tittle a bit more about being the Asian economic power. I would say I still do appreciated some points and this video that you've worked on in general and I am also aware that we still have a lot of obstacles to overcome in order to be the strong power we're trying to work on like some that you've mentioned in the video, although with a slight dissatisfaction from the stuff i've just mentioned. - sincerely, your Indonesian viewer 🇮🇩
Westerners are generally unable to comprehend our mindset of unity. For the rest of their (European) history, they have always been presented with a highly tribal nation building, focusing on homogenity. This mindset of tribal superiority over the others is what created the many wars and conflicts that plague their small continent.
belajar kalo komen tu yang intinya sj. kepanjangn orang jd malas baca. ya walaupun literasi perlu ditingkatin, tp siapa yng mau baca komen sepnjng ini yg kemungkinan tdk ada sumber yg terlampir? short your comment. give people more important points than all the story behind it.
@@dystmaspera.1560 intinya yang buat video ini klik bait judul positif tapi isi konten negatif terlalu melebih lebihkan sesuatu yang bahkan tidak terjadi di sini.
@@dystmaspera.1560 apasihh terserah org mau komen sepanjang apa, komen yg ditulis jg bagus kok, semua poinnya tersampaikan dgn baik dan saya baca sampai akhir 🥺 😔
One thing Indonesia really needs is a sports team. Imagine the national unity if they made a world cup. The government should be doing everything in their power to develop sport. It gives your nation a platform on the international stage
tetep pesimis gua😅 itu kan skenario kalo growthnya stabil 5% sampai senggaknya 2040 yang bagi gua susah kalo nggak immpossible. harusnya minimal 7% kalau mau keluar dari middle income trap, tapi seenggaknya pemerintah sekarang nyadar pentingnya infrastruktur jadi masih bisa berharap growthnya naik lebih dari 5% di masa depan.
I was kinda sad to see the South Africa video was only on our economy, I’d love to see one on the history of politics, SA has a hilarious and depressing history of that at the same time
I hope we see more representation of Indonesia in Fantasy Fiction tbh, i would love to see a magical majapahit empire ✨️. Also I hope we see Indonesian Space Colonies* in the future and Indian space colonies too.
13:23 You can represent Singapore as an otter. It's an iconic animal in the island city state and can be seen almost anywhere that has access to rivers and canals.
@@reddragon100 Yes I know. I am Singaporean. But it doesn't make sense for Singapore to be represented by a mythical creature while other countries are represented by real animals
For Indonesia to become a global influence, more Indonesians need to make Video Games, particularly JRPG and Visual Novel-style games that has Indonesian cultural elements in them, as well as Comics and Animation that have interesting storylines too. Are Indonesians up to this challenge of confronting and rivalling the northern East Asian countries in these fields of entertainment ? Please discuss here.
Yeah local comics are on the rise when line app was popular, so does local game. I’ve join some alpha and beta test for android game which is now no longer exist on app store and playstore, sad but at least dreadout was famous thanks to a lot of big time streamers like pewdiepie Creative industry in general still have a lot of challenge and cant get the needed traction to enter and compete in global market just yet even in the age of social media
There were already many attempts of making Indonesian culture as the center of theme/narrative for creative projects, but I think the most successful ones are the one that are much less subtle about them and involving international investment or cooperations. Examples: The Raid (showcasing Indonesia and Silat), DreadOut (local ghosts), HoloID and JKT48 (ID branch of Japanese entertainment companies -- eventually becoming international entertainers), etc. For game, I'm personally anticipating A Space for The Unbound which seems to be a very polished pixel art story based game that has garnered a lot of buzz for the last few years.
The theory of the break up of Indonesia does not make sense anymore. As it has been seen by the younger generation more inclined to be unity of the state rather than regionalization, heck a lot of local ethnic languages are predicted to be extinct in the next decade just because it has no purpose in the Indonesian educational system that used Bahasa Indonesia rather than each their own ethnic languages
And how is that a good thing? Native languages should be preserved. Also part of the reason why separatism isnt as big is because of the settler colonialism going on in Papua where they try to outnumber the native Papuans by mass-migrating Javanese there to dilute their population
@@jokerofmorocco I didn't said anything about language extinction being bad don't I? Also I didn't bring up the Papuan issue because I am not educated in that matter
@@jokerofmoroccoAlso i don't see why migrating to Papua is a bad thing. The whole reason, Indonesia is supporting mass migration into Papua is because it is so sparsely populated. Unlike real settler state like USA, Australia, and Canada. Indonesia does not marginalize papuans and force them into native reservation, and instead view them as equals
@@exelenxius5832 It's bad because the intention of the transmigration policy is to replace the Papuans to make them no longer the majority in their own lands and to make Papua lose its ethnic and cultural distinctiveness by making it the exact same as Java or Sumatra. Javanese should stop breeding like rabbits and implement family planning in Java if they're worried about population density rather than moving to other islands especially West Papua.
Some uneducated idiots don't feel like it. Believe it or not, there are actually small instances where people from both nation still fighting over trivial and unimportant matters as if it was the early 2000s.
Indonesia is not a friendly power to Malaysia though. Many Indonesian consider Malaysia similar to how Germany consider Austria. If a nationalist or populist take control, they may attempt to annex Malaysia again
@@exelenxius5832 germany mostly considers austria as a brother, separated only due to the whims of history, and we could have very well been the same country if things had gone a bit differently 150 years ago
I just love how south east asia just looks unique on the earth map, big lands, big seas, and then u have medium and small size lands just spreads out around there on that one corner of the world.
As an Indonesian, I can say that one reason inflation was SO high back after independence was because of something we call the Lighthouse Project during Sukarno’s era. Indonesia wanted to shine light for the New Emerging Forces (anti colonialist countries) during the Cold War. That project has resulted in things like Semanggi Bridge, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Hotel Indonesia, and more. This has led to corruption and inflation but I’m happy that Indonesia isn’t seen as a weak country now.
Indonesia can be a naval great power, and has the potential to become a powerful country vying with India and China in the region. But they have been historically neutral, and unlike India who also tried the neutrality gig, they are not bordered by an expansionist Great power, so they are free to choose what side they will want in the increasingly Turbulent World.
Indonesia navy is now rank the fourth strongest just below usa,china and russia and almost every month Indonesia is launching new warships because of china nine dash claim in indonesia's natuna island
@@jadennguyen1155 Indonesia global military rank is 15 while the navy already rank the fourth strongest with more than 300 warships and it will continue to become even stronger soon because of the dispute with superpower country like china... indonesia have no other choice to be stronger and vietnam is also doing the same by building up their military
@@yiro6577 sorry bro Like india is itself a weak navel power , but still it has 2 aircraft varrier(though half of size of usa's) lot more destroyer Corvettes and subs But definetly both can be a great navel power and can corporate to lead thr whole indian ocean and west pacific ocean countries for a safer trading route
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on ASEAN as a whole. It’s also a shameless request so we get see the animal avatars of the SEA countries hah!
I wish Indonesia the best from India. I hope as India grows it's power in South Asia, so does Indonesia in Southeast Asia. It would be great to see them someday become a Southeast Asian powerhouse, although much like India, they have to face a lot of problems like oppression of minorities, and the sinking of islands.
I hate when youtuber said indonesia is a us ally or will be one, could maybe but they're planning on for example, russia invade ukraine they will help ukraine visit them and all while still hanging out with putin like besties, same with china and usa.
One correction tho, because of UNCLOS, we cannot charge ships that go through our waters, but in case of emergencies (probably disputes/conflict with other nations) we can close access of our waters temporarily
I think like India, Indonesia has a lot of potential. However, it has a lot of obstacles to overcome and it must also maintain its democratic institutions which are still pretty young.
What if its most important and wealthiest parts want to leave Indonesia?
You’ll find out how democratic it is
You think there would be Biafra-level civil war?
@@0deepak yes
@@lamchunting856 check out democracy index, Indonesia is rated as one of the best democracies in Southeast Asia
I think India's institutions, while young, will likely persevere. The system actually maps well onto their society as states have more often than not caved to the broader society than the reverse in India. So they should broadly keep it.
Honestly I’m fine with Indonesia becoming a power. they don’t threaten any countries like China. And they have good relations with a lot of countries. So honestly good for Indonesia.
If USA is serious abt countering china in indo pacific...they need indonesia...that country is the ultimate balance between usa and china.... atleast indonesia is neutral for now
yes exactly
Thank's , indonesia is friendly country 🇮🇩
I agree with your opinion
We here are China 2.0 almost like them but better, language is easy to learn and a good not hostile country
As a Filipino, I'm extremely proud of our Austronesian brothers and sisters down there. Our seafaring race would now have something to be proud of. Love and respect, from the Philippines.
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Thank's for your love . Salamat Po
Btw itu bukan bendera Indonesia, itu bendera monaco.. kalau bendera Indonesia yang ini🇮🇩..
@@antoverstappenburik3711ya ampun, aku masih susah bedain dua dua bendera nya, sama banget ya 😅😅😅
Love and respect to for Filipino.
love and respect also for the Filipino people, we have had diplomatic relations for 75 years
We passed 1945, 1965, and 1998 without the Balkanization happening. What kind of event would break up Indonesia if the invasion, genocide, or economic crisis didn't work? Sometimes westerners can't accept the concept that together in differences is highly possible to happen.
@@EmpressGaruda well it's always have been ever since we got our independence, and yet we are still here.
@@EmpressGaruda mentality Aussie paranoid..
So agree with your comment.
@@EmpressGaruda The biggest threat comes from within. Mainly those extremists and separatists that terrorize and attack people from time to time.
@@sragen99 I think... I got what you mean back there. But if we said it here rn we might got hot comment from those extremist white senzutsu... just say it safe lol
As an Indonesian, the situation of secession could be happening if things were to go wrong but for now, our sense of Indonesian identity is stronger than regional identity. We usually don't view things in a concrete A or B, whether it's culture, languages, and ethnic backgrounds. Chinese Indonesians will see themselves more as an Indonesian rather than Chinese, ask a Minang/Batak/Ambon/Manado/Bali/etc. person, they will reply they are Indonesian first then their background (ofc if u are a foreigner asking). I personally am kinda fed up with the whole idea that regionalism is still stronger than a nationalist identity because throughout my experience talking with many different people from different backgrounds, they are really friendly and identify themselves as Indonesian. Of course, things will look differently if we talk about religion and Papua issues but overall, Indonesia is more united than ever and will continue to be more and more united in the near future.
Wkwkwk yeah
There's also a funny thing we have where basically everybody here *hates* mainland China and the CCP
You can get Chinese-Indonesians here going on 10 minute long rants about how China is perverting our country and the world whenever the topic comes out on the news
It's hilarious to see 🤣
Because his sources of understanding on nationalism is from european nations perspective which develop national Identity mainly from ethnicity unlike Indonesia which develop its identity throug the suffering under Dutch colonialism and long time trade relarionship. I mean our main slogan is "in differences we are united" which is from Majapahit era writting, as such Indonesian even before colonialism have strong relation between each ethnic groups.
@@mr_amar5002 united in diversity
This is why I dislike his videos on any places that isn't Europe
@@widodoakrom3938 Christian West Papuans to Muslim Malay Indonesians: am I a joke to you?
As a filipino, I am rooting for Indonesia becoming a new power
root for the philippines first lmao
@@forproject0829it's impossible for Philippines to become a country with power like america because china Is currently a threat to us without america china will probably attack us our only advantage is trading and alliances
@@forproject0829can't. Too much corruption
Thanks brother, we both will be ruler of earth, Indonesia x Phlippines!!! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
As a malay, same
I like Indonesia so much, much love from the Netherlands (yes, the things we did were bad, but I honestly feel so welcomed by Indonesian people and I cannot express how much that improved my life. Learning the language now and hope to visit soon) you are all amazing. Selamat Malam everyone :)
Thank you ❤️
Indonesian will welcome you unless you're gay
I appreciate it!
Let what happend in the past stays in the past . You are not responsible for what happend in the past and us Indonesisn now never feel what our former generations feel. So its not right to hate you instead we are welcome you to work together with us. Sending love from Indonesians
There is nothing wrong with you..it's the past..let it be our lesson tigether..rhe world is beautiful..may peace be for the whole world.. brother..
As an Indonesian, I want to explain some correction:
1) 3:49 It's not entirely true about food production is centered among coastline of 3 major Island, especially in Java. Here rice field is way deep into interior of the island. Northern part of Java island is mostly plain with some hills, having a most fertile soil in the country thanks to the volcanism nearby. For the island of Sumatra and Borneo, food production mainly nearby a river since a soil in deep interior isn't really good for planting rice (instead we planting palm oil there)
2) 6:45 By some account is still debated if Majapahit really conquered Nusantara archipelago. Other theory explain if Majapahit mainly used diplomatic power to having control overseas (by having an allies, or vassal states) since they don't even manage to conquered their neighbour in the backyard a.k.a Sundanese (though they manage to conquered Bali with military force)
3) 15:05 Is incorrect to calling inhabitants of Java as "Javanese", they're one of major ethnic mainly living in Central & Eastern Java. There's other major ethics living there need to be considered: Sundanese, Betawi, Maduranese, and other smaller one. Sundanese and Betawi mainly live in Western Java (while Maduranese living in Eastern Java alongside with Javanese)
4) 16:20 Java-centric (by politics and national development) is one of the root that giving rise of separatism here. Usually they're mad due to giving lots of resources to the central goverment but gain only a little. From few separatist movement we managed to solved 2 of them: Free Timor Timur (by giving them Independence as it should be) and GAM/Free Aceh Movement (by giving them more autonomy and all GAM leaders agreed with that in 2005)
5) 16:40 Well honestly that's a real legitimacy of current Indonesian territory: being a successor of Dutch East Indies. Though our education said we're successor of Majapahit Empire as well as their legitimacy (this actually inherited from Budi Utomo's idea about Indonesian nationalism, which actually embrace Javanese imperialism)
While true that other ethnic groups live in Java, the point he's making is that the Javanese are STILL the dominant group in Indonesia. And thus their influence spreads. About 40 percent of the Indonesian population is ethnically Javanese
when he was talking about the difficulties of past coastal civilizations trying to reach deep into island interiors (2:31), i immediately thought: "oh, so it had been only achieved in java so far"
Thats true. But Sumatra has good soil too everywhere, because thay have lots of volcanoes just like in java.
you guys actually really good at this
Maduranese live on theirs own Island called Madura Island
_As In Indonesian, Traveling In Other Part Indonesia Is Like Entering Another Country, Every Vehicle Is Different, The City Look Different, Like Everything Will Almost Look Different._
and also almost all the locals speak with different language, even they can speak with indonesian
You are more like a small continent then just a country and it's impresive
Yeah im from surabaya and used to think bali was a country when i was 8
As an Indonesian, I can confirm. Sometimes, it boggles my mind at how diverse we are. Every time I travel to another city, there is something to it that's just *different* , it truly feels like you're in another country
@@calloflily Like Seriously! We All Know That Every Island Has Different Culture And All That Stuff! But _Actually_ Experiencing It Ourself Is Wilddddd!
Love to Indonesia from India. I would love to visit Indonesia, it’s a really great country which developing at a really fast rate.
Thank you
Your country grows faster than us btw - ~7% versus 5.5%.
@@lontongstroong that is still not enough. We have a long way to go to beat china and become the real leading economics of Asia. Best of luck mate.😃
Technically, we get the name because Portuguese explorer thought that they landed in some indian nesos (archipelago)
So think of us indonesian as a long lost brother 😂
@@ramtosantosa7661 and even your name is like indian
Yeah we are the sister countries
Love from india ♥️
The heavy emphasis on separatism, in the end, is quite jarring. East Timor wasn't supposed to be part of Indonesia in the first place. Supported by the U.S, Indonesia under Soeharto invaded Timor Leste in 1975 under the pretext of anti-communism and decided to eat it. They were an occupied independent country. Separatism in Indonesia is not that big of an issue thanks to the presence of a lingua franca, increasing federalism, and heavy investment in the outer islands. Sacrificing its lust rainforest for development, handling the impact of climate change, creeping fundamentalism, and managing its human resources are more debated topics, especially in the next 50 years.
But! This doesn't excuse nor discredit the lack of national discourse on the ever-present racial, ethnic, and religious discrimination. Things are still rotting. The point is, that different groups of people can still make compromises and live together without the need for an ethnostate. Civic and constitutional nationalism exist y'all.
@@PugkinSoup violent incidents do occur from time to time, but not to the degree that it threatened the unity of the archipelago
@@PugkinSoup Papuan "freedom fighters" when they slaughter teacher and medical staff
@@PugkinSoup its brought up ny four seperatist factions that aren't exactly unified and even are against each other
@@PugkinSoup west papuan separatists are not even a single entity, they are separated into several factions that even hate each others
Yes
A win for Indonesia is a victory for ASEAN! Together we rise as one
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Boooooooooooohhhhh
**Throws tomatoes and eggs** 🍅🥚
Cringelord
Very good points, but you seem to have failed to understand Indonesian nationalism, and you put it in a European perspective, where ethnics are the root of nationalism. From your perspective, states like Russia and India won't exist. We can all agree here that the root of Indonesia's problem is corruption and other stuff, not ethnic differences (well maybe not west Papua but you get what I'm trying to say here). No hate to you though you are very good!
Typically, in these multi ethnics states, they all join together to fight one problem, same here with Indonesia.
I mean in Nigeria ethnic groups matter, its not just a European thing.
@@franknwogu4911 I know I know, but I just said European as an example to explain my point, people will think about Europe first when thought about ethnic nationalism. Np bro.
@@CalvinNoire np
Not everywhere in Europe Ethnicity is the basis of nationality.
Well, Timor wasn't originaly indonesian, instead it got independence from Portugal and was annexed/invaded by Indonesia, but I got the point in the video
only the eastern part of the island. The Dutch took the other half from the Portuguese before... 😅
@@d3thkn1ghtmcgee74 yeah, IK
Actually at the first, Portuguese control whole Timor island and some island around, but then they lost battle with the dutch make Portuguese loses territory from Timor island but the place where they landed is still on Portuguese hand
@@summersk11y they also owned bali but sold it to the Dutch too
@@summersk11y And then Timor declared Independence and its heading into a communist side (fretilin), And at that time Indonesia was a Pro Anti-Communist government ruled by Sukarno and well you know what happens after that.....
(Indonesia Invaded Timor)
As a Filipino dude Indonesia is almost everything I wish my country could be (excpet for the 'x' times more islands and and even more vast) but cannot afford to do so due to our own different geographi and historical circumstances to be able to be "that country everybody is chill with":
• because they're not directly in between two powerful countries trying to use their country as a base to influnce/ manipulate/ or just plain strangle the hell out of the other country;
• not living in a very high-maintenance geographic location were food production is always getting limited by typhoons no matter how fertile the soil is, infrastructure getting "reset buttoned" by earthquakes as much as in the Philippines;
• the colonizers not generally shoving their faith and their lifestyle to the locals' face so they get to keep their own original culture and not antagonize eachother (Mindanao);
• and can live normally being themselves and not constantly & toxically trying be "one with the cOoL kIdZ in the block" like trying to be western and having a woke "protagonism complex" (tryna feel like the bida/good guys of a movie) even though we can't afford to and should'nt really be doing so in the first place (although this helps our tourism industry but sometimes the attention seeking backfires at times).
It would be interesting for Indonesia to be a regional power that the Philippines can live along with since they are a lot more chill and would like to see itself "helping & hanging out with its long lost cousin" (compared to the two powerful countries trying to influence my country and always tends to think that the world revolves around them), but Indonesia is also a HUUUUUGE economic competitor because whatever the Philippines have, Indonesia terrifyingly has it like 4x even more (export crops, rice terraces, manufacturing, & more exotic culture for tourism, etc.)
But I don't want the Philippines to go toxic on its cousin, so my country naturally (sometimes toxically) needs to seek trade and attention elsewhere for its own & everybody's good.
Hello austronesian cousins! 😊
I hope someday ASEAN would be as powerful (but not as evil) as NATO!
@@razmazerz you mean EU?
indonesia and philippines have a lot in similiarity whether in our looks and languanges
Eh cousin! I love your martial art, also I think your traditional textile also beautiful!
Hello too brothers, best hope for Philipines from Indonesia 😊
The emphasis on separatism is far from accurate though. Those flags the video showed bearing the names "Minahasa, Batak, Dayak, Flores" are completely fictional.
I'm a Minahasan Christian, AND INDONESIAN, and I've never seen that flag bearing the name of my ethnic group before. The only separatist movement that exists or had existed are the Papua and Maluku ones. The Maluku was already defeated, and there has never been any more uprisings or issues leading to seccession.
I think when foreigners (especially Europeans) look at Indonesia at a glance, and see that we have a lot of things to differentiate between ourselves, they tend to think of the worst is to come. But as a matter of fact, the opposite is true. We are proud of our ethnic backgrounds and we are proud Indonesians. We accept, understand, and are proud of our diversity; and the fact that we are able to coexist, cooperate, and even assimilate in tolerance is a God-given grace. We are grateful for it, we are grateful to be born Indonesian
Indeed
Europeans when they see one country with diverse ethnic groups co-existing: impossible! They must be dominated or forced, or something!
Agreed as bornean!!
All ethnicities in borneo aren't only nasionalist, but *ULTRA* nasionalist☝️😅
@@mamunarifin7684 YEAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
As a Manado-Javanese descent, I agree with you that I've never seen that Minahasa flag.
Indonesia is like this family who is in the middle class if economies. It’s also the Russia of the islands. They’re not that rich but they’re not that poor. Java is the oldest child who has money and the other islands are the younger siblings. Java and Sumatra are the muscle in the family. Tell me what Indonesia is like in your opinions. To travel around each room in the house, they have a zip liner and use a boat. Pls don’t get offended
Why you put Borneo as the muscle of family, clearly Sumatera island is the muscle since they are second economical power for country. You better look at Medan city and Palembang city also Batam, they are the big engine for economy compare to Kalimantan (Borneo) cities such as Balikpapan, Samarinda, Palangkaraya which are not so much stronger than the former.
indonesia: if malays were dogs
indogs
@@gurunhitam3414 whoops my bad
@Bu$$yBuster actually that’s a great comparison
@@gurunhitam3414 not really, both Borneo and Sumatera hard carry our Per Capita Income (especially East Borneo, Riau, and Riau Islands)
as a half indonesian and knowing that literally the world has high expectation towards the country is really overwhelming.... we have a lot of things to improve.. i think we're not ready to be the center of attention yet haha too much pressure
I agree with that 😅
On the contrary we are
True. News that China and Russia trying to get close to Indonesia, honestly worrying me as a citizen because I don't know how our corrupt government will react. It can be good, it can be bad, 50:50 chance is still too big of a bet to me
True 😂, the most important thing is Indonesian people can thrive and prosper
So true, I actually getting scared of these overexposure they do lately towards Indonesia. I just want our country keep being a peaceful sanctuary rather than being pulled between any "superpower" that exist nowadays..
Indonesia has an amazing culture(s)! It's so diverse and that's why I love it.
sadly the Indonesians, or it's majority and government are trying to destroy it.
Saya suka Indonesia. 🇸🇰❤️🇮🇩
Not everyone gets along tho
Because Indonesia was not influenced by European colonizers, even managed to expel them, not a gift like most other colonial countries, Also Indonesia is not affected by Arab Wahhabism
hahah yea i think "culture(s)" sum it up the best, it's Indonesian Culture, but while being a single entity, they're all diverse different from each other, a really great way to put it
I need to point out that Indonesia's nationalism is based on all of the regions common colonial history and not based on ethnic nationalism. Regionalism is also secondary compared to their loyalty to the country itself.
What does colonialism have to do with, Indonesia did not exist before colonialism.
@@adwaye if you really don't get it, we Indonesian share the same struggle and share the same history of being colonized and exploited by the Dutch, share the same blood spilled when we go to war against dutch for our independence in 1945-49 so yeah that's what an Indonesian nationalism is
@@adwaye All 1700 different cultures, all the people from more than 10 thousand islands, all the different ethnic backgrounds and all the different religious background shared the same struggle and worked together to achieve one independent nation without splitting the nation based on those things above that could seperate us. If you are talking about the name of our nation indonesia, yes it never existed before. But historically speaking, the idea of "One United Nusantara Archipelago" or "Indonesia" is already there since the older kingdom of Salakanagara, Tarumanagara, Srivijaya and Majapahit. So "Indonesia" in the idea & in the realisation and not the naming did exist way before colonialism.
@@adwaye because in that era we Indonesians made 1 promises called sumpah pemuda we swear ourselves to live speak and die as Indonesian and because of that event the fight become one fight against colonialism and viola on 17 August 1945 we declared our Independence
I tend to disagree. There was barely any shared history, and the way the colonizers (not only the Dutch, btw) would treat the locals varies vastly between region to region. For example, the plantation slavery in Java would be so different towards Dutch-Minahasan relations in Sulawesi due to the vast difference in local hierarchy, culture, and natural resources. Not even all regions and ethnicities considered themselves colonized. For example, as much as I love West Papua being part of Indonesia, that was completely a political maneuver on Soekarno’s side.
Ethnicity-wise, let’s be real, a ton of us, collectively, dislike each other. If anything, that’s a testament of how effective the Indonesian nationalist propaganda has been (hey, it’s worked on me too) given the short time it’s been around.
Just a correction: the “new guinea” is not Indonesia. The island is divided into 2:
- Papua
- Papua New Guinea
Papua is in Indonesia.
Papua New Guinea is different country, sharing same island.
The island name is New Guinea, Papua is other name, so Papua island = New Guinea island, shared by two soverign countries, Republic of Indonesia and Papua New Guinea
Iyaa tauu, tapi Provinsi Papua itu terletak di pulau yg namanya New Guinea
Wow having a Komodo Dragon as national animal is so cool
Of course brother... Dragon Force...
Komodos are found at an island not far from Flores called Komodo Island. Never been there personally as an Indonesian but yeah they’re cool
Actually compared to one horned Rhino and Java Eagle, Komodo is quite underated. Anything apart from Java island is underated
I like the rotting saliva. It's not a fast and deadly acting agent like venoms, but a disabling agent so komodos can just easily catch their preys to eat them alive.
Yeah like having actual dinosaur as your country national animal is nice, tho near extinct for some time
As usual when I see this type of videos they failed understand the idea of Indonesia Nationalism and try to put it into european point of view which is, ethnicity as the sources of nationality. In that logic there shouldnt be India and the US should be divided into smaller states. I think most ID people here will agree if I said most discontent nowdays are rarely targeted because of ethnic conflict but due to government curroption or political actions to earn votes on election.
They didn't understand our principle "united in diversity"
True, don't expect more, its funny the title are full of optimism but it contains 90% negative things and pessimism.
Can't agree more. If i make a personal list of indonesia's biggest problems i wouldn't even consider unity of the country in the top 10
Indonesia's main challenges:
1. Equal development across the country
2. Competency of (mostly) the lower end of the government (i said the lower end because like it or not jokowi is more than competent running the country so far)
3. Better quality of education(better teachers)
4. Poverty elevations
5. Eradicating corruption in all levels of the society
6. More infrastructure to ease the logistic to the outer islands
7. Islamic extremism
8. More high end manufacturing and leaving exporting raw materials
9. R&D to boost innovation
10. Bringing the economic potential of other islands outside java
11. Better waste management (please don't litter the ocean)
Brother they can't understand our nationalism Asian type of nationalism are different I am Indian I understand your feelings.
@@faiq026 since higher end of government is more competent than lower one, without balanced competency on every single sectors, it will hamper the development and slow it down also opening too much holes to corruptions and cronysm
sebagai warga Indonesia saya sebenarnya khawatir jika Indonesia menjadi super power. dan itu tidak akan mungkin. karena kami bukan negara yang gemar berperang atau invasionis. kami hanya berharap menjadi negara yang makmur dan damai, tidak perlu menjadi negara super power. tidak perlu menjadi ancaman bagi negara lain. itu saja
Exactly just keep it humble and rational...
Tidak gemar berperang.
Perang Ganyang Malaysia
Invasi ke Timor Leste
LOL
@@sovietroll7880 invasi ke timor kan lebih masalahnya si s*harto hamdeh. trus perang ganyang kan karena seharusnya malaysia nyatu sama indonesia sesuai janji kalo ketika mereka malaysia dan indonesia bebas dari penjajahan maka mereka menyatu (katanya president sukarno udh ada janji gitu sama pemimpin malaysia pada saat itu) namun nyatanya, eh malah ngikutin kata inggris dan gk jadi nyatu ama indonesia. kan kyk dikhianati gitu sukarno, makanya president sukarno marah. trus yaudah sih, itu aja kan? lu ngasih 2 contoh kasus itu namun faktanya emg seberapa berdampak 2 kasus itu? udh gitu cuman 2 doang dan lu mau ngebantah kalo indonesia gk suka perang? sangat sangat terlalu sedikit lah. nyatanya Indonesia sendiri adalah negara yang 6 tahun berturut-turut menduduki urutan nomor 1 sebagai negara donatur dan memberikan bantuan gratis pada negara lain.
@@sovietroll7880 1. issue malaysia, saat itu kondisinya di era Soekarno dalam misi pembebasan hegemoni kolonialisme yg baru saja di lancarkan inggris. banyak dari warga malaysia sendiri mendukung Indonesia. namun Indonesia kalah karena dari dalam negeri serangan spionase inggris berita palsu serta suap dan politik adu domba menghancurkan loyalitas kubu militer terhadap Soekarno
2. Timor Leste adalah misi militeri industrial kompleks Amerika yg dalam mencari keuntungan baik politik maupun ekonomi di masa perang dingin terhadap sovyet. saat itu hubungan dekat Amerika dengan Soeharto paska kematian JFK membawa Indonesia berpihak pada Amerika era perang dingin dengan sovyet, namun ketika Sovyet sudah berakhir Soeharto disingkirkan oleh CIA 1998 menggunakan propaganda lewat NGO dan suap terhadap akademisi, mahasiswa dengan titel "agent of change" betapa bodohnya dan bangganya para akademisi saat itu.
kesimpulan; karena beberapa pengalaman tersebut, Indonesia tidak mau lagi terseret dalam provokasi perang dan diperdaya oleh negara barat untuk memilih keberpihakan yang sama sekali tidak menguntungkan kepentingan dalam negeri
@@sovietroll7880sekarang udah tobat
Mhm
As Indonesian i rate my country at
-Average Economy
-Bad Goverment (they keep putting stupid people on position)
-Decent Unity
-Decent technology
-People view that Military is better than Police (coz police is corrupt and stupid as heck)
-Bad education in public school although atleast private school is better in general
-Decent Healthcare (not purely free but not very expensive)
I view that Indonesia is basically what happen when you merge the world into 1 country, and when entering other ethnic group town/island feels like entering another country because how different it is comparing to your own town.
Lmao
-Bad Government
That's why we, the youth of Indonesia should educate ourselves, so that we may lead this country in the future. We cannot keep relying on these stupid boomers who just "makan gaji buta", they don't even know what they're doing.
@@muhammaddaffaarvianda5050 "don't even know what they're doing"
COUGH johnny piring ama kominfo COUGH
If there is corruption, then how can public schools be better
Without the economy, police and Education part you could say the Same about germany
I traveled to Bali Indonesia and it was the best vacation I've ever had.
Indonesia is the map DLC you will want to buy 👍
Before you Buy (Visit)
Pros:
- Resourceful
- Beautiful Sceneries
- Cheap stuff (compared to western)
- Chill People
- Unique Cultures all over Indonesia
- A lot of culinary that you can try (a lot of them open until/pass midnight)
Cons:
- Polluted air and water
- Trash all over the place
- Some bad people might fraud you to buying thing way more expensive than their normal price
- Transport is not really convenient (Well you can always order online cab now)
- Traffic Jam (Chaotic Traffic)
- Bumpy roads almost everywhere you go
Tell me what I'm missing lol
also corruption
Sucky inflation
- Be careful to ask "ga pake cabe, ga pake lada" if you can't eat anything spicy lol.
- Incredible History to discover.
- Diverse fauna (which can be a pro or a con depending on whether you're an entomology enthusiast or not)
- Malaria
- Wedding invitation spam if you settle there
- Dangdut
- Free meat on eid
- Don't plan trips on Lebaran
- Local KFC-like franchises are the best (labbaik chicken best fried chicken)
- Home of martabak
- Travel drive like madmen even on mountain roads
- Rather safe (at least compared to my home city Paris, Bengkulu was super safe, no contest).
- Quality karaokes
- For local travel, never chose Lion Air when avoidable
- subtle racism
As a Filipino and part of Southeast Asia, i think Indonesia is one of the underrated country. And i think Indonesia has more potential compared to India, because its area scattered around the huge ocean which is wider compared to India. Why i compared it on India? Because they are the one that expected to be rise with China in the future. But my expectation is for the Indonesia!
Wow that is so cool 😁
You know Philippines government visit to Indonesia in this year?
@@prussiagermanindonesia oh u mean the son of a dictator with a luxurious lifestyle?
@@prussiagermanindonesia Yeah, i think they might have a cooperation.
@@iceteazen Ignore this guy, its full of nonsense.
@@jayceeanjisiel2996 that's like saying ignore the facts
As a ukrainian, I think Indonesia is a cool country that I hope does well in the future :)
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Ukraine is one of the few countries that stood up for indonesia in the UN against dutch colonization, along with egypt and australia. I hope that war will end soon
@@faiq026 thank you!
Hey stay safe you out there in Ukraine.
@@timiocomesimios Same
@@faiq026 um wat ukraine didnt exist then lol
Hi I'm an Indonesian. I put this video as a warning. It has been mentioned in some seconds in the last section, Indonesia could easily to be splitted. I hope our generation and the next can sand together to our Indonesia. We are Indonesia.
That's correct also about climate change and we destroy our forest for the national resources😭. However, I have trust to my country and absolutely, we can have a better future🦾
Beyond the economics, I'd love to see ID expand it's entertainment industries onto the world stage. After being a big fan of Hololive ID i checked out their pop music scene and it's some good shit.
Agree, as an Indonesian I'm proud of how successful HoloID been doing. And I want to see more people embracing Indonesian pop culture/entertainment more. For me though, music wise I would recommend Coldiac, Galdive, Ikkubaru, Stereowall, Reality Club, and Saint Fiction as my favorite. They make music in English, so a good introduction for foreigners.
@@giraffestreet Excellent! Cant wait to check them out thanks!
Some pretty good films berasal dari Indonesia, The Raid is often considered the best action movie and Iko Uwais is now a pr well known action star, plus pencak silat is getting notoriety too. Impetigore and Potato House were pr high grossing too so it is definitely clear that Indonesian culture is entering the western Mainstream at least somewhat
@@TheGribblesnitch yooo I've actually seen the raid, and I loved it.
Not gonna happen anytime soon. Indonesians in general are fiercely isolationist (they don't even bother to export their cuisines abroad!), which is a huge pity since they are just as creative as anybody else. Exporting the cultural elements are still considered as very unpopular move among the populace as well as business people and the government itself - at best it would be regarded as afterthought.
After the Yugoslavia collapse, and after the 1998 crisis, Indonesia is heavily expected to be balkanized. But luckily we arent on that stage yet, especially after the economic boom, post 1998.
Yugoslavia did not have the idea of unity, Yugoslavia only relied on military strength, while Indonesia had the idea of unity, Namely, Pancasila with the slogan Bhinneka Tunggal Ika (Unity an diversity) That's what Soekarno said to Josip Broz Tito, and it was proven that Soekarno's legacy was more successful
Balkan was united because J.B. Tito is equally charismatic like Soekarno. However, he didn't have any unity foundation to back him up like Soekarno had.
In Yugoslavia, almost all regions want independence, in Indonesia, only one region, West Papua, wants independence
@@jokerofmorocco Even for West Papua the support for independence is mostly reserved for militants in remote mountains and vocal activists, and there's a lack of strong political or even military movement that unites it. In the past GAM (Aceh) were far more united and supported by locals, but even them eventually peacefully reintegrate with Indonesia. With current trajectory of development and effort to integrate West Papua I don't see West Papua to ever successfully separate themselves.
@@zeroyuki92 Well for West Papua, almost all ethnic Papuans want independence. Obviously, if they try to fight for it, they'll get brutally murdered by the Indonesian military so lots don't voice their support. Unfortunately, independence in West Papua isn't possible but the main reason is because of the fact that its transmigration policy massmigrated Indonesians from other parts of the country, mostly Java to dilute its native Papuan population.
They are still a new country and their government is still considered as new compared to many europe country that is very experienced at government and diplomacy they can still grow but it will take a long time but we can see the progress now since indonesia is growing fast, is a member of g20 and currently 13th strongest military and for a undeveloped country thats really great
As an Australian, the craziest thing about Indonesia is how many thousands of years they have been trading with the outside world but somehow Australia stayed isolated. Australia is closer to Indonesia than some other parts of Indonesia! lol
The other thing I know as an Australian are that the general Indonesian people are friendly and fun. They work hard and are able to take a joke and give one back
but alot of ppl in indonesia no longer likes australia,because you guys falsely accusing indonesia of genocide in papua without a single evidence meanwhile there are millions evidence of the aborigins genocide... we are closer to china now
Indonesians already traded with indigenous Australians, it was Makassar people who made trade contacts, Makassar people also teach many things to the natives of the Australian continent, Makassar people look for sea cucumbers to sell to China, It's amazing that even though the Makassarese were able to conquer Australia but they didn't do it, they preferred to trade while teaching something to the natives of the Australian continent, But when the Europeans came, the Europeans began to carry out many colonial policies by levying taxes on the Makassarese, And continue to increase tax rates, until the Makassar people feel no more profit from selling sea cucumbers, from there the contact between the Makassar people and the indigenous inhabitants of the Australian continent was cut off, then after that the European colonizers made the Australian continent a dumping ground for British criminal convicts, That's when the horror experienced by the indigenous people of the Australian continent, Makassar people are still remembered and considered brothers by the indigenous people of the Australian continent, Come to Darwin's territory and meet the Aboriginal people, Ask them about Makassar people, they will tell you many things about Makassar people, one of which is about the painting of Makassarese outrigger boats
Clearly, it was the European colonizers who made Australia isolated because it was used as a dumping ground for British royal convicts
Indonesian working hard?
LOL ...
Well maybe they'll work hard under strict supervision. But once you slacks off, santai dulu laaah ...
@@fajaradi1223 Compared to Australians, yes, hard working! lol
East Timor is never the part of us even historically is never under the shadow of Dutch colonial empire, it was Portuguese, and we made a mistake for colonialized it because of cold war situation (fear of rising communistic regime at East Timor that would bring us on the same situation with Cuba although it's actually not much communistic and moreso socialism or left leaning regime but Cold War mentality became the motivation for Timor Leste invasion). Our true mistake was Sipadan and Ligitan which is now Malaysian island.
The thing that i fear the most is the rise of fundamentalism (Indonesia has to be kept as secular at all cost or this country will be separated thus your point of islam as a uniting element for Indonesia is invalid, we had a constitution named Piagam Jakarta which was included an obligation to believe in Islamic god but the constitution changed after proclamation to be more accepting towards other religion, but the problem is our freedom of religion is stricted to 6 state religions and not taking account to Atheism and Agnosticism. It's not fully freedom of beliefs) and i got a mixed feeling when it comes to enviromental situation, people need to feed and a place to settle so the enviromental change on forest regions to be villages or cities is inevitable, unless if you want to genocide us, but the idea of eco-city or eco-society can make balance between the needs of urbanism and environmental preservation. Human resources are also the big issue, we still need to reform education and provide more infrastructures such as network infrastructures, schools, streets, bridges, electricities since there are still many of remote areas that haven't got electricity and proper connection from school to the village, not to mention the quality of electricity itself.
@Off Road Guy nah, that's just shitty point of view. Indonesia is left leaning while maintaining the liberal part of it. You can say we are closer to central and socialism than to communism and capitalism
Actually, it is fine to have other beliefs outside those 6. I mean, a lot of tribes do that and you won't be charges because of that. If I remember correctly, even atheism is actually okay because the point is not in believing in having religion, but rather in having morality
+1 for marble machine music
this fits the channel so well
The big problems in Indonesia can be pointed to corruption, inequality, poor human resource, and too much centralized in Java and Jakarta. The gradually increasing lost trust in government has also been an ongoing problem in recent years, with the government often picking solutions that have a "big show" with pretty minimum impact, scapegoating, and focusing on other unnecessary stuff instead
spot on… i was waiting for a genuine substantive comment along these lines 😊
"Unnecessary stuff" you mean developing infrastructure on other provinces Outside of java to spread economic oppurtunity and advocading for more foreign direct investment is "unnecessary"?
The biggest problem is Islam.
There are Radical Pseudo Terrorist Islamists hiding in the jungles.
And Indonesia is a strict follower of Islamic Law.
Islam and Progress are entire opposites.
Look at India. They are targeting the Muslims in an effort to turn India into a Secular Nation.
Religion is the main thing that holds back progress.
The moment Religion stop mattering in the West, the West had the Industrial Revolution and it hasn't stopped from there.
@@ero6056 no, Mandalika, JIS, and many other "mercusuar" project. After they're done, what else? It is just a big political show, even the locals dont benefit much in these project in the long term.
@@askarsasongkojati51 same thing happens in south asia, namely bangladesh
As a portugueseI I can say you truly captured the portuguese essence by putting caralho in the video
I like your Bendera ( flag)
Jendela ( window)
Meja..pita..minggu..bola..
banko..boneka..geraja. keju...etc...and Ronaldo 👍haha..
Faltou o "foda-se" para ficar completo.But, anyway, nice to notice something about us.😂😂😂😂
Yes we need more powerful countries in asia to counter china,establish peace and a stable region. All the best to Indonesia for development❤let's join hands and be prosperous together ❣️🙏🤜🤛
just a slight but important correction: the strait of Malacca is shared with Peninsular Malaysia and (sort of by extension) Singapore. So Indonesia does not get full autonomy in things that do and do not pass through it. In fact, the busiest ports in the strait are all Malaysian, only eclipsed by the Port of Singapore (which is technically not part of the Malacca strait). Indonesia's busiest port isnt even in the Malacca strait, its off the Jakarta Bay and typically cuts through the sea between Jawa and Sumatra.
Fun fact the place which is now jakarta used to be an entirely different town the voc burnt down and settled themselves to use as a central trading port for the indonesian archipeligo. Also I myself feel like british india raj and dutch east indies were similar due to the corporation running both but india was ran under direct order from london while indonesia was ran from jakarta. One thing you did not mention in the video is that indeed the dutch owned indonesia but indirectly through voc that was controlled by people who had stockes in it only when voc went bankrupt due to financing wars to seize controll of spices' monopoly the dutch state took over indonesia and had appointed a governor to run it.
Indonesia's forests look something out of the Jurassic Period and a lot of the wild animals living in these forests look so exotic, some almost dinosaur or even alienlike.
You can find both Asiatic animals like elephant, tiger, rhino, etc (in the west region) and Australian animals like marsupial animal, cassowary, etc (in east region). There are also weird endemic animals between them in the middle part of Indonesia.
Losing em slowly though, as with every country during its conversion to an industrial economy. Without active policies to mitigate it by the time we finally get developed country status the islands would be as bald as my dad.
I love how this channel uses animals to represent the countries
He used to use countryballs but one time he decided to use animals and everyone says this in the comments sections of almost all his vids
@@danshakuimo You don’t need put emotions in animals unlike Country-balls. That’s one of the reasons
umm, komodo balls? anyone?
I think CountryBalls is a bit too Overused
FACT: The PKI at one point was the third-largest communist party in the world after China and the Soviet Union.
Make sense when you have a large population, but yeah.
as and indonesian that "let's talk about warship, not indonesian warship although it was island based archipelago you would expected they would have a lot" in 00:51 slap harder than my father belt.
Indonesia’s a great place, i got a friend there, from your northern neighbor. 🇵🇭
hi neighbors 🙋
hey soooooooo wanna eat burger rice (im also indo and dont ask why i love that combination)
Any county that produced "The Raid: Redemption" is okay in my book.
too bad there wouldn't be the 3rd movie
79 year Fredom from 🇳🇱
Happy independence for our country!🇮🇩
Rise of indonesia, Rise of nusantara!🦅🇮🇩
If they try to leverage that strategic position too much against superpowers and regional powers, the powers at be will make sure it becomes a subcontinent again. It’s best for Indonesia to not be too aggressive with how they control this important trade route.
Great input, thanks!
For sure. It's important for rising powers to be mindful that current powers are always going to watch the throne
They have a really good chance of becoming wealthy. They can do something similar to Singapore and become another big shipping and processing hub with their natural resources, large population and geography they have big opportunity. It's up to the government to decide Indonesia's fate, hopefully they make the right choice.
Nice perspective. The government here is also capable of using commodities that are booming. Encouraging the development of the digital market. Encouraging the advancement of infrastructure. And a lot of positives. There are criticisms and obstacles but there is hope. Thank you
hope this guy makes a video about Malaysia, would really love to watch it!
Do Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 (My Country) next please 🙏, it is also an Asian Panther.
Kazakhstan filtration system a marvel to behold👌🏻
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I sure hope Indonesia is the Next Great Asian Power, I am hoping it would become a High-Income Developed Country soon :)
maybe in your grandchildren’s lifetime
@Leo I The Thracian you are from🇵🇭.
I think in other comment
Aamiin
To all negative comments about Indonesia
Indonesia is fantastic country, and i does not have many problem for example look at the poverty
Many countries have this problem
Much love to Indonesian people
🇲🇷❤️🇮🇩
Quite a 'Murica-centric view. Nationalized industries and centralized control was important to keep the islands united and fend off any colonial takeovers. In this aspect Indonesia was far too vulnerable compared to India in the same 1950s+ era. Somewhere middle he says the economy should be more liberalized and then at the end says they can follow the chinese state-owned industries export model. Not like I'm advocating for any, but the respective country should apply a customized strategy considering its own geo-strategic position. And not be like "unregulated free-markets go brr".
As usual at the end he said Indonesia was "unified" into a country by the dutch, even though once upon a time, the Majapahits ruled the same place as well.
I really disagree when someone say indonesia was united becuase of colonialism. There is a lot of empires that united the archipelago that has risen and fall. That is why indonesian identity is strong.
Well it’s more western centric view in general. Most people interpret different history and cultures through there own cultural and historical lens. Plus, the victor writes history and it’s only been W’s for the West for the last 500 years (until recently) so most people are gonna have a western centric view.
Bro is Canadian
The Muricans think only their country origin is valid and ex colonials don't have the same nationalism
They're wrong.
@@franknwogu4911 Canadian western UK same thing, different food.
Dutch VOC still richest company in the world,,
I'm sure Indonesia can be better with proper leaders
Setuju poin ini. Rusia dan seisi Eropa menikmati kejayaan VOC lewat kepemilikan saham. Kita berpotensi.
Hoser: sponsors world of warships
Me who already had the game: I am 4 Parrallel universes ahead of you
There are two types of people: those that click on h0ser's videos because they want to learn about the country he's talking about, and those that see the cute animal and click.
I am the second
As indonesian what I can say is Indonesia needs to get rids the corrupt elites first
As an Indonesian I can say we are more united than ever, everyone is connected now through the thing called internet and social media, we now can communicate to our neighbours easily! More connected! And of course we are more diverse, honestly when I think about it Indonesia is such a great country, I don't even know how we manage to keep together but we did. I say from here on out we are going for the sky!
Indonesia is used to be referred as the Southeast Asian version of India due to many exact things (both pros and cons): large population, diverse religion and ethnic groups, a growing economy, and similarly, being embroiled in many troubles relating to territory, religion or people. Indonesia's rise is, akin to India, very turbulent at best, due to its history of struggling to connect all parts together. In some way, if India can rise, then Indonesia can, too. Except that Indonesia does not have nuclear weapons, which India has.
India has more potential than indonesia by far, so just because India can rise to the top does not mean indonesia can, india is far more powerful
@@IndoManiac90 no, both have pretty much same problem
@@IndoManiac90 btw indonesia is not like india, dirty n lot of child begging for money on street with face like a ghost 👻
@@IndoManiac90 a casual stupid comment from indian, not suprissed
Hmm... Sunda Empire guys... Hohoho... Greater Sunda Islands (Sumatra, Java, Kalimantan), Lesser Sunda Islands (Maluku, Bali, Nusa Tenggara), and Sahul (Papua)... Actually 'Indonesia' used as name for neutrality...
Just kidding...
As a Portuguese, I love the use of the word "Caralho!" it describes our adventures in a nutshell!!
Portugal, caralho!! 🇵🇹 🇵🇹 🇵🇹
7:43
😂😂😂😂 Tugas espalhados pelos cantos do TH-cam assim como pelos cantos do mundo.Portugal caralho!!
funfact, majority of indonesian people are billingual (traditional/english & indonesia), and almost 20% of indonesian people are trilingual (traditional,english,indonesia), and still growing.
English is good for overseas chit-chat and buissnes
But FUCK YEAH!!
I'll take local language all the time if it posibble....
Sound's Good...feel's good
Westerners trying to comprehend unity in diversity challenge (Impossible)
Yes
Yes like islam can live with other religions 🥰🥰
@@AyuwushSharmacry
@@kko5779 Did the truth hurt you lil bro
@@AyuwushSharmaLol says it's a lie that all religions live peacefully in Indonesia with a Muslim majority😂
*_Off course INDONÉSIA it's not malay, because malay it's just sub ethnicity in the country, we are INDONESIAN!!!_*
🇮🇩❤️🇮🇩
*_INDONÉSIA RAYA!!!_*
👌😎👍
As others have pointed it out, ethnic issues are not exactly the most crucial one in Indonesia. Sure discriminations happen but that happens everywhere. But if you ask an everyday Indonesian what they think about that other race/culture that resides in the other island, they won’t go barbaric and deride that race/culture. In fact, one of the proudest thing to be an Indonesian is to have that diversity. So treating Indonesia as if it’s the Balkans is not exactly accurate. Our sense of unity is one of a kind, perhaps due to emphasis on nationalism and the need for it in order to live in such diverse environment.
Love your stuff H0ser
9:34 “I’ll make you bend the knee in round two like Nagasaki.” Thanos
Im so proud of my country.🇮🇩
Thanks for making an Indonesian video, but once again you REALLY missed a few important points that I think you probably are so ignorant of 🤭 About Indonesia's unity, the country itself is more *stable* than you think, thanks a damn lot to our *national symbol* and *motto*, *The Garuda Pancasila* that holds up the 5 principles of our ideology on a shield, The Pancasila itself and our *"Bhineka Tunggal Ika"*, taken from a *600+ year old* javanese script which roughly translates to *Unity In Diversity*, and Let me tell you it's a powerful line for the people of Indonesia. We as Indonesians have been taught and learnt of how powerful unity is and how catastrophic things could spark up if we decide to be apart from each other and do not set aside our differences. A prime example of how Indonesia fell into the unworthy hands of colonizers that used the exact technique of Divide and Conquer in order to take control of our lands even further. All of those we have been multiply thought as a citizen of a *multicultural* *society* like *Indonesia* and so past events would not be repeated. So everyone would feel a stronger sense of *nationalism* that we already had *deep within* us and a hope that we would stay united even forever. Those, are the reasons of why we are still united until today, and for I hope that it would stay like that for long as a fellow Indonesian citizen that shared the same national identity as to all my beloved- fellow Indonesian countrymen.
So, whatever on earth do you mean by islam uniting the country and people when it's only a majority wise for its population. I can see you are *exaggerating* so much about *Indonesia's separatism* when it doesn't even came out on the Indonesian people's mind on the daily basis. Why would it when our government has successfully took down past rebellions like the Free Aceh Movement that seceded in 2004 by an agreement and more like the South Maluku in 1950s.
Why would we be so concerned when the state had tried it's best to keep our unity EVEN *without the background reason of* dutch *colonialism* in the archipelago and stick up with our national motto, when the government celebrates all of our "recognized"/ official religions by making them a public holiday that made us into a multicultural society ethnic and beliefs wise.
Sure there's still stuff going on with the West Papua rebellions that the government or The *President* himself, have been trying to make things for it like *further developing* the region and it's infrastructures that have said to calm the unrest/rebels. A lot of our fellow Papuans are said to adore him for the effort he did.
Even the Garuda bird that i mentioned is a mythological bird from the Hindu religion, an emblem of the world's largest muslim nation/ population by country. Do you see that happening in states like Afghanistan, Pakistan or any other muslim majority states? No single offense to them but you seem to be acting like and you're prolly also gonna be satisfied if we break into smaller pieces like we should be ain't it?
I was really expecting this video to talk more about our economic situation today that i am really interested on and wanted a video from you about it as we are currently having a pretty stable and even a higher growth economy despite some inflation and spiked up gas prices and in the middle of todays world's recession that seems to spews everywhere. Our debts are quite low and majority of the people still has food to eat. That way it would match the tittle a bit more about being the Asian economic power. I would say I still do appreciated some points and this video that you've worked on in general and I am also aware that we still have a lot of obstacles to overcome in order to be the strong power we're trying to work on like some that you've mentioned in the video, although with a slight dissatisfaction from the stuff i've just mentioned.
- sincerely, your Indonesian viewer 🇮🇩
Westerners are generally unable to comprehend our mindset of unity. For the rest of their (European) history, they have always been presented with a highly tribal nation building, focusing on homogenity. This mindset of tribal superiority over the others is what created the many wars and conflicts that plague their small continent.
Wow panjang banget bro
belajar kalo komen tu yang intinya sj. kepanjangn orang jd malas baca. ya walaupun literasi perlu ditingkatin, tp siapa yng mau baca komen sepnjng ini yg kemungkinan tdk ada sumber yg terlampir?
short your comment. give people more important points than all the story behind it.
@@dystmaspera.1560 intinya yang buat video ini klik bait judul positif tapi isi konten negatif terlalu melebih lebihkan sesuatu yang bahkan tidak terjadi di sini.
@@dystmaspera.1560 apasihh terserah org mau komen sepanjang apa, komen yg ditulis jg bagus kok, semua poinnya tersampaikan dgn baik dan saya baca sampai akhir 🥺 😔
One thing Indonesia really needs is a sports team. Imagine the national unity if they made a world cup. The government should be doing everything in their power to develop sport. It gives your nation a platform on the international stage
Yep soft power is quite usefull. Just look at south korea and Japan.
We're strong on badminton
Sports is already quite a big thing here. Football, badminton, lots of big stadiums and motogp circuit
indonesia soccer team sucks i have to admit that
Ever heard about badminton?
Indonesia is world class in badminton
This video made me alot hopeful about this country, when I wasn't before
tetep pesimis gua😅 itu kan skenario kalo growthnya stabil 5% sampai senggaknya 2040 yang bagi gua susah kalo nggak immpossible. harusnya minimal 7% kalau mau keluar dari middle income trap, tapi seenggaknya pemerintah sekarang nyadar pentingnya infrastruktur jadi masih bisa berharap growthnya naik lebih dari 5% di masa depan.
I was kinda sad to see the South Africa video was only on our economy, I’d love to see one on the history of politics, SA has a hilarious and depressing history of that at the same time
the only south african should be proud of is nelson mandela and elon musk😅
@@yiro6577And Tyla
@@yiro6577And Tyla.
I'm still waiting for the:
*Iran vs the Future* video
I hope we see more representation of Indonesia in Fantasy Fiction tbh, i would love to see a magical majapahit empire ✨️. Also I hope we see Indonesian Space Colonies* in the future and Indian space colonies too.
13:23 You can represent Singapore as an otter. It's an iconic animal in the island city state and can be seen almost anywhere that has access to rivers and canals.
why not a lion i mean its in the name
@@rifqimujahid4907 Because lion is already used for another country.
@@syncout9586 It is mythical creature sea lion.
The name of city originate from Sanskrit word Singa meaning lion and Pura meaning city
@@reddragon100 Yes I know. I am Singaporean. But it doesn't make sense for Singapore to be represented by a mythical creature while other countries are represented by real animals
@@syncout9586 Scotland is getting represented by unicorn.
Otter is used for Canada already
how don’t you have a million subs yet??
For Indonesia to become a global influence, more Indonesians need to make Video Games, particularly JRPG and Visual Novel-style games that has Indonesian cultural elements in them, as well as Comics and Animation that have interesting storylines too. Are Indonesians up to this challenge of confronting and rivalling the northern East Asian countries in these fields of entertainment ? Please discuss here.
Yeah local comics are on the rise when line app was popular, so does local game.
I’ve join some alpha and beta test for android game which is now no longer exist on app store and playstore, sad but at least dreadout was famous thanks to a lot of big time streamers like pewdiepie
Creative industry in general still have a lot of challenge and cant get the needed traction to enter and compete in global market just yet even in the age of social media
There were already many attempts of making Indonesian culture as the center of theme/narrative for creative projects, but I think the most successful ones are the one that are much less subtle about them and involving international investment or cooperations.
Examples: The Raid (showcasing Indonesia and Silat), DreadOut (local ghosts), HoloID and JKT48 (ID branch of Japanese entertainment companies -- eventually becoming international entertainers), etc. For game, I'm personally anticipating A Space for The Unbound which seems to be a very polished pixel art story based game that has garnered a lot of buzz for the last few years.
Ah man, i always wanted to develop a shooter game :(
Please consider making a video on ''Algeria vs the future'' or Morocco vs the Future
The theory of the break up of Indonesia does not make sense anymore. As it has been seen by the younger generation more inclined to be unity of the state rather than regionalization, heck a lot of local ethnic languages are predicted to be extinct in the next decade just because it has no purpose in the Indonesian educational system that used Bahasa Indonesia rather than each their own ethnic languages
And how is that a good thing? Native languages should be preserved. Also part of the reason why separatism isnt as big is because of the settler colonialism going on in Papua where they try to outnumber the native Papuans by mass-migrating Javanese there to dilute their population
@@jokerofmorocco I didn't said anything about language extinction being bad don't I? Also I didn't bring up the Papuan issue because I am not educated in that matter
@@jokerofmoroccoUnified language is good as it creates a unified national identity.
@@jokerofmoroccoAlso i don't see why migrating to Papua is a bad thing. The whole reason, Indonesia is supporting mass migration into Papua is because it is so sparsely populated. Unlike real settler state like USA, Australia, and Canada. Indonesia does not marginalize papuans and force them into native reservation, and instead view them as equals
@@exelenxius5832 It's bad because the intention of the transmigration policy is to replace the Papuans to make them no longer the majority in their own lands and to make Papua lose its ethnic and cultural distinctiveness by making it the exact same as Java or Sumatra. Javanese should stop breeding like rabbits and implement family planning in Java if they're worried about population density rather than moving to other islands especially West Papua.
5:57 that moscow image is pure XD
Somewhat appropriate this video is after one on Russia being screwed with how Java has more people than Russia.
I like how you represent the countries as animals
As a Malaysian I honestly feel glad we can have another friendly power in the SEA region
Some uneducated idiots don't feel like it.
Believe it or not, there are actually small instances where people from both nation still fighting over trivial and unimportant matters as if it was the early 2000s.
Indonesia is not a friendly power to Malaysia though. Many Indonesian consider Malaysia similar to how Germany consider Austria. If a nationalist or populist take control, they may attempt to annex Malaysia again
@@exelenxius5832 Keyword : if
Yes, such a threat does exist but I don't feel like it is extremely plausible after Sukarno's attempt
@@exelenxius5832 germany mostly considers austria as a brother, separated only due to the whims of history, and we could have very well been the same country if things had gone a bit differently 150 years ago
I just love how south east asia just looks unique on the earth map, big lands, big seas, and then u have medium and small size lands just spreads out around there on that one corner of the world.
Wew, finally my country
As an indonesian yes the weather here is extreme its sunny and than rainy and than sunny again
As an Indonesian, I can say that one reason inflation was SO high back after independence was because of something we call the Lighthouse Project during Sukarno’s era. Indonesia wanted to shine light for the New Emerging Forces (anti colonialist countries) during the Cold War. That project has resulted in things like Semanggi Bridge, Gelora Bung Karno Stadium, Hotel Indonesia, and more. This has led to corruption and inflation but I’m happy that Indonesia isn’t seen as a weak country now.
LETS GOOO! I’ve been wanting this video for soo long 😊.
Kemuliaan bagi Indonesia 🇮🇩 🇮🇩🇮🇩
i was like "Wha-? another indonesian analysis?"
nice. 3:20 I was giggling in irony about the cutting trees part.
Indonesia can be a naval great power, and has the potential to become a powerful country vying with India and China in the region.
But they have been historically neutral, and unlike India who also tried the neutrality gig, they are not bordered by an expansionist Great power, so they are free to choose what side they will want in the increasingly Turbulent World.
Indonesia navy is now rank the fourth strongest just below usa,china and russia and almost every month Indonesia is launching new warships because of china nine dash claim in indonesia's natuna island
@@yiro6577 lol bro stop making stuff up. indonesian does not possess that strong of a military
@@jadennguyen1155 Indonesia global military rank is 15 while the navy already rank the fourth strongest with more than 300 warships and it will continue to become even stronger soon because of the dispute with superpower country like china... indonesia have no other choice to be stronger and vietnam is also doing the same by building up their military
@@yiro6577 sorry bro
Like india is itself a weak navel power , but still it has 2 aircraft varrier(though half of size of usa's) lot more destroyer Corvettes and subs
But definetly both can be a great navel power and can corporate to lead thr whole indian ocean and west pacific ocean countries for a safer trading route
The wintergatan marble machine music was👌🏻
I have visited more than 50 countries, and Indonesia has by far some of the nicest people. All the power to Indonesia 🇮🇩 💪
I would be interested to hear your thoughts on ASEAN as a whole. It’s also a shameless request so we get see the animal avatars of the SEA countries hah!
I wish Indonesia the best from India. I hope as India grows it's power in South Asia, so does Indonesia in Southeast Asia. It would be great to see them someday become a Southeast Asian powerhouse, although much like India, they have to face a lot of problems like oppression of minorities, and the sinking of islands.
Sir can you tell me how there is oppression of minorities in India.
As a person from Indonesia im glad ur are talking about my country
Indog proud
@@ryany4n Malingsial be like:
overproud
I hate when youtuber said indonesia is a us ally or will be one, could maybe but they're planning on for example, russia invade ukraine they will help ukraine visit them and all while still hanging out with putin like besties, same with china and usa.
as an indonesian im just gonna say "Ada indonesia coy!"
as an Indonesian, not having a traditional continent to be living on really feels weird 💀
(also, I like the Angklung playing in the background)
One correction tho, because of UNCLOS, we cannot charge ships that go through our waters, but in case of emergencies (probably disputes/conflict with other nations) we can close access of our waters temporarily