Background: The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early 17th century; the islands were occupied by Japan from 1942 to 1945. Indonesia declared its independence after Japan's surrender, but it required four years of intermittent negotiations, recurring hostilities, and UN mediation before the Netherlands agreed to relinquish its colony. Indonesia is the world's largest archipelagic state. Current issues include: alleviating widespread poverty, preventing terrorism, continuing the transition to popularly-elected governments after four decades of authoritarianism, implementing reforms of the banking sector, addressing charges of cronyism and corruption, and holding the military and police accountable for human rights violations. Indonesia has been dealing with armed separatist movements in Aceh and in Papua.
April 15th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Komodo After a few days travelling we ended up in Gili air island, close to Lombok, Indonesia. Here we settled for a couple of nights, and sampled some of the fine cuisine. We heard of a liveaboard boat that ... 5 photos[full story]
November 23rd 2007Asia » Indonesia » Komodo
Today has been the most amazing day of my travels in Indo so far!
This morning on the way to the first dive site we stopped off at Rinca Island. This is one os the 3 islands in the National Par ... 5 photos[full story]
February 28th 2008Asia » Indonesia » Komodo Dag allemaal,
Het is al lang geleden dat we nog eens een internetverbinding tegengekomen zijn, vandaar onze afwezigheid in blog-land. Onze excuses voor de verjaardagen die we zonder mailtje voorbi ... 25 photos[full story]
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