The Republic of Indonesia is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia that consists of more than 17,000 islands. It is the world’s fourth most populous country with over 260 million people, and the most populous Muslim-majority country. The country’s history is marked by struggle for independence against Dutch colonialism, and since achieving independence in 1949, Indonesia has been a multi-party democracy.
The Dutch began to colonize Indonesia in the early seventeenth century, and by the late nineteenth century, the Netherlands …