Where is Indonesia on the map? This island country is located in Southeast Asia, east of Sumatra and west of Papua New Guinea. The country is made up of thousands of islands, including Java, Sumatra, Borneo, and Sulawesi.
The first inhabitants of Indonesia were the Negritos, who arrived more than 30,000 years ago. The Malays arrived in the first few centuries AD, and the Portuguese were the first Europeans to explore the region in the 16th century. The Dutch began …