Indonesia is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia, comprising 17,508 islands. The country’s official name is the Republic of Indonesia. It is the world’s largest island country, with more than thirteen thousand islands, and the fifth most populous country, with over 260 million people. The region now comprising the country has been inhabited by humans since at least the fourth century BC.
The country’s formative period began in the fourteenth century, when the trading port of Sunda Kelapa was founded …