Demographics of Indonesia

100 years ago the number of orangutans were estimated to be around the 230,000, but now that number has dropped drastically. There are only thought to be 54,000 Bornean orangutans left, and 6,600 Sumatran orangutans remaining. Which makes a total of 60,600 orangutans left in existence. With the population suffering from a 75% drop in just 100 years, the rate of decline is unsustainable and the orangutans are in grave danger of ceasing to exist. This is all due to illegal poaching, trading, and…

1.1 Case Study Sumatera has one of the largest rain forests in Indonesia as well as in South East Asia. Sumatera Forest basically has peat soil type that caused easier to burn. Estimated between 7.3 to 9.7 hectares are covered by peat lands or roughly a quarter of the entire area of peat lands in the tropics (Hisyam, Damanik, Anwar, 1984). Sumatera Forest Fires are the one of the serious problem in Indonesia. It happened almost every year. However, some of the biggest were happening in 1982,…

complications as a result. As it stands Southeast Asia is in a position where it is almost impossible to reverse its’ air quality quickly, it will take many years for some reversal to start to show. The problem of this terrible pollution originated in Indonesia but it is heavily affecting the surrounding Southeast Asian countries as…

mass killing of a specific ethnic group. The Indonesian genocide was an invasion by Indonesia on East Timor. East Timor is a country that was a Portuguese colony up until 1975 when the country gained its independence from Portugal and Indonesian control in the West. Right before the invasion, President Ford was reported to have visited Indonesia, which has been assumed to have symbolized his permission for Indonesia to invade the East Timor country. This invasion has killed an estimated…

right next to Indonesia. The country was previously known to be a colony of Portugal. But centuries before the Europeans walked up its shores, East Timor was occupied by waves of migrants such as Chinese, Arab and Gujerati with its local inhabitants. The location was known for its prized valuable, the sandalwood. By 1566, the Portuguese had settled on a nearby island to enhance the sandalwood trade, soon followed by the Dutch who gained control of what we now know as Indonesia. For over 2…

Assignment #2: Representations of the Dutch and Indonesian in Never the Twain The question of the portrayal of race in Abdoel Moeis’ novel Never the Twain is a complicated one, requiring a treatment of both the portrayal of the Dutch and Indonesian communities as well as the specific circumstances of the principal characters: Corrie and Hanafi. In the book, the Dutch and Indonesian communities are shown to be both inclusive and insular, welcoming interracial interaction and influence, yet…

only produced by the flame of trees, but also smouldering peat releasing huge carbon and persistent smoke (Gaveau 2014). Consequently, Indonesia’s carbon stock degradation reaches 217,000 tonnes per year (FAO 2011) Some parties get benefits from Indonesia deforestation like big palm-oil company and small scale farmers because of the lower cost they get in freeing the land than by sustainable method (Howes and Wyrwoll 2012). However, costs of deforestation of course highly affected on local and…

Traffic In Jakarta Have you ever imagined being stuck in traffic worse than New York? If you haven’t, then you’ve never been to Jakarta. The capital city of Indonesia that is home to roughly ten million people has to endure in such distress in their daily commute that has to travel twice less of an average speed in New York said Greenfield. This traffic is greatly caused by the impacted population that the city has to accommodate, the lack of public transportation and the slow-growth of roads…

My motivation for pursuing a Ph.D. in Political Science at UC San Diego (UCSD) emanates from my lifelong goal to be a leading scholar in the fields of International Relations and Comparative Politics, teaching and conducting research at a major research university. UCSD’s Department of Political Science’s model of cross-disciplinary work, ethos on close mentoring and supervision, emphasis on methodology and multivariate analysis, wealth of world-class faculty across subfields, combined with the…

CHAPTER I 1.0 INTRODUCTION 1.1 ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND PT Astra International is the biggest independent manufacturing company in south Asia. This company was established in 1957, the company is located in Jakarta, Indonesia before 1990’s, and this company name was PT Astra International Incorporated. There are several types of businesses that were developed by PT Astra International. They developed their businesses all over the world and they are engaged in many types of product and services,…