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Exploring Indonesia: Quiz on Culture, Geography, and History

Test your knowledge about Indonesia's culture, geography, and history with this engaging quiz. Learn about significant landmarks, cultural elements, and historic events that shaped the nation.

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1 What does the following picture show?  Map of Indonesia   Soekarno, Indonesia's founding president   The critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan, a great ape endemic to Indonesia.

2 What does the following picture show?  Mount Semeru and Mount Bromo in East Java. Indonesia's seismic and volcanic activity is among the world's highest.   A wayang kulit shadow puppet performance as seen by the audience   The critically endangered Sumatran Orangutan, a great ape endemic to Indonesia.   Jakarta, the capital of Indonesia and the country's largest commercial center

3 From the seventh century CE, the powerful ________ naval kingdom flourished as a result of trade and the influences of Hinduism and Buddhism that were imported with it.

4 How many square miles is Indonesia in area?

5 What is the area of Indonesia in square km?

6 What is the native name for Indonesia?

7 What is the currency of Indonesia?

8 ________ (Jawa Timur) – Surabaya

9 [52] The deadliest killed 202 people (including 164 international tourists) in the ________ resort town of Kuta in 2002.

10 Following bankruptcy, the VOC was formally dissolved in 1800, and the government of the Netherlands established the ________ as a nationalized colony.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the drama film Obama Anak Menteng, a fictionalized recreation of Barack Obama's boyhood in Indonesia, was originally intended to première during his planned state visit.
  • the Australian Army's 1965–6 secret incursions into Indonesia during Australia's involvement in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation were not officially acknowledged until 1996.
  • the Indonesian Muslim organization Muhammadiyah has over 29 million members and manages several universities.
  • the Indonesian political party Permai was also a mystical religious movement.
  • the Indonesian Murba Women's Union ran programmes to help women start batik and weaving household industries.
  • the Indonesian Dayak Unity Party was dissolved in 1959 when President Sukarno issued a ban on ethnic political parties.
  • the anti-communist Indonesian killings of 1965–66 resulted in more deaths than any other event in Indonesian history.
  • the 9th-century Sambisari Hindu temple (pictured) in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, was buried five meters underground for centuries.
  • in the midst of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, the Indonesian Murba Party pledged to send volunteers to Cuba.
  • in the Ottoman expedition to Aceh starting in 1565, the Ottoman Empire provided military support to Aceh (modern Indonesia) against the Portuguese.
  • more than 100 gamelan ensembles (a musical performance group of Indonesian origin) have been formed in the U.S. since the first was established at UCLA in 1958.
  • one of the statues at the erotic temple Candi Sukuh (pictured) in Java, Indonesia, is a 1.82 m (6 feet) standing phallus with four balls placed below the tip.
  • the 2008 Indonesian film Love was a remake of the 2006 film Cinto.
  • over 100 million people in Indonesia lack access to safe water and more than 70 percent of the country’s 220 million population relies on water obtained from potentially contaminated sources.
  • the Aketajawe-Lolobata National Park on Halmahera island of Indonesia, is considered vital for 23 endemic bird species.
  • the Bar-winged Prinia (pictured) is a common passerine bird endemic to western Indonesia.
  • the government of Indonesia did not provide funding for its national team until one month prior to the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics.
  • the extensive mangrove destruction in Malaysia and Indonesia is a major threat to the endangered roughnose stingray.
  • the marine life of Wakatobi National Park (pictured) in Indonesia is threatened by overfishing and blast fishing.
  • the resignation of Sri Mulyani Indrawati as finance minister of Indonesia caused its stock exchange to drop by 3.8% and its currency value to drop by 1%, and was the fourth most talked about topic in Twitter.
  • the word "Indonesia" was first used in print by Sam Ratulangi, a high school science teacher who briefly held the post of Governor of Sulawesi and was posthumously awarded the title of National Independence Hero.
  • the tail of the Indonesian Long-tailed Starling can be longer than its body.
  • the confidential academic paper more commonly known as the "Cornell Paper", which detailed an abortive 1965 coup d'état attempt in Indonesia, was eventually published in 1971 to avoid any misconception of its contents.
  • the bark of Kleinhovia hospita is used to treat hair lice in Indonesia.
  • the Nusa Kambangan, "the Alcatraz of Indonesia", has held a son of former President Suharto and terrorists of the 2002 Bali bombing.
  • the Channel-billed Cuckoo (pictured) of Australia, New Guinea and Indonesia is the world's largest brood parasite.
  • the Liga Indonesia is the top football league in Indonesia .
  • the Suramadu Bridge, connecting the islands of Java and Madura, will become the longest bridge in Indonesia when completed in 2008.
  • the apparent disparagement of Singapore as a "little red dot" by former Indonesian President B.J. Habibie has come to be used by Singaporeans with pride.
  • the Tropenmuseum shared thousands of images (example pictured) from Indonesia with the world.
  • in the 1950 confidence vote for the Indonesian Natsir cabinet, the National People's Party was the sole party without ministers of its own to support the government.
  • in one Indonesian legend, Prince Panji's vanished bride disguised herself as a man and became king of Bali.
  • Berbak National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia, forms part of the largest undisturbed swamp forest in southeastern Asia, and the peat swamp forest with the greatest number of palm species.
  • Ali Murtopo laid down the party platform for Sekber Golkar, which was instrumental to the party's success in the 1971 legislative elections and the transition to the New Order in Indonesia.
  • Bromo Tengger Semeru National Park, located in East Java, is the only conservation area in Indonesia that has a sand sea.
  • Bunaken National Park (pictured) in the north of Sulawesi island of Indonesia, located near the centre of the Coral Triangle, provides habitat to 390 coral species.
  • George McTurnan Kahin was expelled by Dutch authorities while conducting research in Indonesia for his dissertation on the country's struggle for independence.
  • Gatot Soebroto, who would become a leader in the Indonesian independence movement, was expelled from elementary school for fighting.
  • stems and sheaths of Korthalsia palm trees, named after Dutch botanist P. W. Korthals who first collected them from Indonesia, can be made into rope.
  • Indonesian women's rights organisation Gerwani was banned when General Suharto became President in 1965.
  • Indonesia's first flag flown was fashioned by its first first lady Fatmawati.
  • Indonesia and Papua New Guinea share a 760-kilometre (470 mi) border that has raised tensions and ongoing diplomatic issues over many decades.
  • Indonesia's largest container terminal, handling more than 3.5 million TEU's of freight in 2007, is in the Port of Jakarta.
  • Indonesian freedom fighter Ernest Douwes Dekker is related to the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker and volunteered on the Boers' side during the Second Boer War in South Africa as a youth.
  • Indonesian politician Ibnu Parna, leader and the sole MP of the communist Acoma Party, was killed in the 1965 massacres.
  • Indonesian journalist, S. K. Trimurti, who often used a pseudonym in her reporting to avoid arrest by Dutch colonial authorities, later became the country's first minister of labor.
  • Isidore van Kinsbergen had to dig and to clean for four months before he could take the first picture of the 9th century Indonesian Buddhist monument of Borobudur (pictured) in 1873.
  • Kassian Cephas, a court photographer of the Yogyakarta Sultanate, was the first indigenous person from Indonesia to become a professional photographer.
  • Obama Anak Menteng (Obama, the Menteng Kid), a novel about Barack Obama's childhood in Indonesia, was written in just four days.
  • Wasur National Park is part of the largest wetland in the Papua province of Indonesia, and due to its high biodiversity is sometimes referred to as the "Serengeti of Papua".
  • a recent oil discovery in Bojonegoro is the biggest in Indonesia for three decades and one of the biggest reserves in Indonesia.
  • as the world's third largest democracy, Indonesia's 2004 legislative election was the most complicated in the world.
  • in 1693 Sheikh Yusuf of Makassar, Indonesia, was exiled by the Dutch East India Company to South Africa, where he established the first Muslim community in the Cape.
  • despite its name, the Togian White-eye, a species of bird endemic to the Togian Islands of Indonesia, lacks the white eye rings typical of its genus.
  • Tobelo is the capital of the North Halmahera Regency in Indonesia.
  • Teluk Cenderawasih National Park is the largest marine national park in Indonesia.
  • Manusela National Park in Indonesia protects 14 endemic birds including the threatened Salmon-crested Cockatoo (pictured).
  • Larantuka is an Indonesian district known for Roman Catholic Holy Week processions.
  • Otto Soemarwoto’s work as director of the Institute of Ecology has been cited as a primary influence on the resettlement strategy during Indonesia's Saguling Dam project.
  • Prambanan, on Java, is the largest Hindu temple in Indonesia.
  • Sumitro was a prominent Indonesian General in the early years of General Suharto's New Order, but retired after student riots in Jakarta in 1974.
  • Semar, although depicted as a clown in Indonesian wayang shadow puppetry, is said to be the guardian spirit of Java and a god in human form.
  • Bandung in Indonesia was dubbed the "Paris of Java" (Parijs van Java) in the 1920s due to the European ambience of Braga Street.
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