Lately I was somewhat sad to see some Indonesian citizens in the country that started to be my "Japanese" and "Korean-koreaan" and I also still sad when he saw many Indonesian citizens abroad who "colonized "right to life simply because they are Indonesian citizens. Those who have been mentioned above as if losing his pride of Indonesia. Here is a post that can hopefully raise their pride back over Indonesia.
Here are 10 things to make the most of the thousands of Indonesian citizens proud
1 Badminton
Sport that originated in England has a lot of it the name of Indonesia in the international sports world. This is the first time that sports provide an Olympic gold for Indonesia at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Total Indonesia won 6 gold, 5 silver and 5 bronze in the last 5 Olympics. Indonesia not only has a name in the Olympic badminton, but also in the Thomas Cup and Uber. In the second event of this international badminton Indonesia managed to become 13 times champion Thomas in the implementation of the Thomas Cup 25 times and 3 times in the 22 times champion Uber Uber Cup implementation.
2 Crude Oil
Indonesia is rich in resources, one of which is the black gold. Based on 2008 data, Indonesia is an OPEC country with the highest number 9 oil production with a production of 0,004 barrels per capita. Indonesia also occupied the same position in crude oil reserves among OPEC countries with a reserve of 0.05 barrels per capita.
3 Indonesian Language
"We Indonesian youth pledged to uphold the national language, Indonesian." An excerpt of the oath that the youth can bring Indonesian spirit into a language learned in 45 countries around the world. Indonesian also be a second language for the residents of Ho Chi Minh City which is the capital of Vietnam and in Australia, Indonesian has become the fourth popular language. Not only global in the real world, the Indonesian language is also global in the virtual world, the evidence speak Indonesian Wikipedia has been ranked 26 out of 250 wikipedia foreign language in the world and ranks 3rd in Asia after Japanese and Chinese, besides Indonesian into 3 languages most widely used in post in wordpress posts.
4 Gross National Product
Although many Indonesian citizen be "maid" in other countries, but in fact Indonesia is a country rich in financial terms. Indonesia proved to be in ranked 16th richest in the world according to the CIA World Factbook in 2009 to $ 968,500,000,000 Wealth Indonesia. Total wealth is even exceed the amount of the wealth of Australia, Saudi Arabia, Taiwan, and Malaysia, which is the destination countries for Indonesian people earn money (read: TKI)
5. Education
Indonesia is a country with a fairly good education. Indonesia has 2,700 colleges, 14,500 courses, and 1.9 million students. This is the number of students number 9 in the world. Indonesia also has talented human resources in the international level. The proof, in the year 2009 alone Indonesia won an Olympic medal in chemistry, biology, physics, and computer. For the Chemistry Olympiad 2009, Indonesia won 1 silver 3 bronze, biology Olympiad 2009 won 1 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze, math olympiad for elementary school students Indonesia won 10 gold, 9 silver and 5 bronze, as well as for computer olympiad Indonesia won 2 silver medals and 1 bronze.
6 Most Beautiful Places
Indonesia merupaka an emerald in the equator. So Beautiful Indonesia to the extent of this area of the Earth that Indonesia has 3 of the most beautiful places in the world. Three places that are listed in the "100 most beautiful places world". Third place is the island of Bali which is ranked 26th, Borobudur at rank 49 and rank 66 Komodo Island.
7 The world's largest Islamic population
Indonesia has a Muslim population of 240 271 522 and is the largest Islamic population in the world. They have played a major role in the history of this nation from the many Islamic fighters who occupy an important role in the independence of Indonesia, MUI Halal certificate which is used in 33 countries,
8. Batik
Yes, this is the cultural heritage of the archipelago which had become a "controversy" with neighboring countries. Batik is one of the Cultural Heritage for Humanity Oral and Nonbendawi which has been recognized by the UN cultural body UNESCO. There are so many shades of batik in Indonesia, such as batik Toraja, Flores, Java, Papua, etc.. Batik is known worldwide, even Microsoft boss Bill Gates wealthy was not embarrassed to wear batik.
9 Freedom of speech
This is one of the things we should be very thankful in Indonesia. Still remember in our memory in elections (year did ya?) That goes smoothly. Let us compare it to Malaysia's racist against ethnic Malay ethnicity aside, Singapore is not giving a voice alternative to the government, Thailand is still a conflict between Thaksin group with his opponent, and the Philippines ranked as the country with no war with the highest threat to journalists. We also vividly remembers the predicted demo followed by 40,000 people on January 28, 2010 which took place without any serious problems. What we are given freedom in Indonesia.
10 Military
Although Indonesia is a peace-loving country, but the greatness of the Indonesian military can not be doubted. Of data from the World Military Ranking strengh just issued in February 2009, the Indonesian military were ranked 14th among 42 military power in the world. Indonesia's military strength is stronger than any other country in Southeast Asia, and the military is the 5th most powerful in Asia. Indonesian military forces consists of 316,000 active military personnel, military personnel reserve of 400,000, a population of 237 512 352 and a budget of $ 4.74 billion for defense. Wow !!!
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