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Indonesia is a physically a big country. It has 13.000+ islands, 250 million citizens and stretches as far from London to Moscow, from san Francisco to New York. It aspires to be a global player and already a respected regional power, big in Asean and APEC, with considerable influences over its neighbors, including New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Since its independence in 17 August 1945, Indonesia have developed and changed in so many ways. Its economy have soared, took a major hit and then recovered itself, slowly climbing into the ranks of major economies in the world, even admitted to the elite G20 group. Indonesia is even predicted to be the 6 th biggest in economy in 2030. Its political system have been molded, pushed and pulled to multiple directions. indonesia have tried liberal system and a central-lead and socialist minded system before setting into Pancasila democracy system, neither liberal nor special, but a combination of both. |
