Indonesia
Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country located in Southeast Asia and in Oceania. Indonesia has 17,508 islands. With a population of about 238 million people, which makes it the fourth largest country in terms of population, it is also the largest country with a Muslim majority and the largest Australian country in the world. Java, home to more than half of the country's population, is the largest inhabited island in the world. The Indonesian archipelago has been an important trading area since the seventh century during the era of Srivijaya, and later, during the era of the Majapahit Empire through trade with China and India. Local rulers gradually absorbed foreign religious and political cultures from the first centuries AD, and Hindu and Buddhist kingdoms flourished. Indonesian history has been affected by foreign powers due to the country's important natural resources. Muslim merchants brought Islam, and European powers were k...