“It’s the fourth largest country in the world and the third largest democracy - - “
You are joking, right?
I did not know that until this morning.
“You are joking, right?”
It’s a surprise isn’t it, one of the biggest populations and a territory (including seas) that stretches the equivalent of from Alaska to Bermuda but most people would be hard pressed to locate Indonesia on a map or name one pertinent fact about it (other than on FR where everyone “knows” Obama was born there).
I lived there for years and my old man asked me once, “So where is Indonesia exactly? Is it near Singapore?”
Singapore is a tiny dot compared to Indonesia but more people know about it than its enormous neighbour.