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INDONESIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A republic in southeastern Asia on an archipelago including more than 13,000 islands; achieved independence from the Netherlands in 1945; the principal oil producer in the Far East and Pacific regions
Synonyms:
Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
country; land; state (the territory occupied by a nation)
Meronyms (parts of "Indonesia"):
Krakatao; Krakatau; Krakatoa (a small volcanic island in Indonesia between Java and Sumatra; its violent eruption in 1883 was the greatest in recorded history)
Indonesian Borneo; Kalimantan (the part of Indonesia on the southern side of the island of Borneo)
Moluccas; Spice Islands (a group of island in eastern Indonesia between Celebes and New Guinea; settled by the Portuguese but taken by the Dutch who made them the center for a spice monopoly, at which time they were known as Spice Islands)
Celebes; Sulawesi (a mountainous island in eastern Indonesia)
Sumatra (a mountainous island in western Indonesia)
Java (an island in Indonesia to the south of Borneo; one of the world's most densely populated regions)
Bali (an island in Indonesia to the east of Java; striking volcanic scenery; culture is known for elaborate dances and rituals and for handicrafts)
Timor (an island in Indonesia in the Malay Archipelago; the largest and most eastern of the Lesser Sunda Islands)
Meronyms (members of "Indonesia"):
Indonesian (a native or inhabitant of Indonesia)
Domain member region:
pesantran; pesantren (a Muslim school in Indonesia operated by religious leaders; produces young militants skilled in jihad)
gamelan (a traditional Indonesian ensemble typically including many tuned percussion instruments including bamboo xylophones and wooden or bronze chimes and gongs)
Mujahedeen Kompak (a militant Islamic militia that was formed in 2005 by hardliners who split from Jemaah Islamiyah)
Holy War Warriors; Laskar Jihad (a paramilitary terrorist organization of militant Muslims in Indonesia; wages a jihad against Christians in Indonesia; subscribes to the Wahhabi creed of Islam)
Holonyms ("Indonesia" is a part of...):
Southeast Asia (a geographical division of Asia that includes Indochina plus Indonesia and the Philippines and Singapore)
Austronesia (islands of central and South Pacific (Indonesia and Melanesia and Micronesia and Polynesia))
Holonyms ("Indonesia" is a member of...):
OPEC; Organization of Petroleum-Exporting Countries (an organization of countries formed in 1961 to agree on a common policy for the production and sale of petroleum)
ASEAN; Association of Southeast Asian Nations (an association of nations dedicated to economic and political cooperation in southeastern Asia and who joined with the United States to fight against global terrorism)
Derivation:
Indonesian (of or relating to or characteristic of Indonesia or its people or languages)
Context examples:
A country in southeastern Asia, comprising a group of islands and including the eastern half of the island of New Guinea, between the Coral Sea and the South Pacific Ocean, east of Indonesia.
(Papua New Guinea, NCI Thesaurus)
Limiting meat consumption and user-fee strategies may not work in countries with very low per capita meat consumption like Indonesia.
(Eat less meat to cut drug resistance, SciDev.Net)
Denotes the inhabitants of Indonesia, a person from there, or their descendants elsewhere.
(Indonesian, NCI Thesaurus)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
In contrast, deforestation in Latin America, insular South-East Asia (which include Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Timor Leste) and Madagascar derived low agricultural benefits and high environmental costs.
(Most countries lose out with forest-to-farm conversions, SciDev.Net)
A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia, about halfway from Australia to Sri Lanka.
(Cocos (Keeling) Islands, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)
An archipelago in the Indian Ocean, south of Africa, about one-half the way from Africa to Indonesia and south of the Maldives.
(British Indian Ocean Territory, NCI Thesaurus)
An Australian-administered island in the eastern Indian Ocean south of Java, Indonesia.
(Christmas Island, NCI Thesaurus)
Denotes a person from any of the islands in the western pacific encompassing the area from the Philippines in the west, Indonesia to the south west, Papua New Guinea and Melanesia to the south, and Polynesia to the south-east and east.
(Micronesian, NCI Thesaurus)
Countries and regions most impacted by changes in MJO behaviour are the Maritime Continent region, including Indonesia, the Philippines, Papua New Guinea, parts of Malaysia, northern Australia, West Pacific, Amazon basin and southwest Africa, where rainfall is increasing, the study says.
(Global disasters linked to warming Indo-Pacific seas, SciDev.Net)
