• A Southeast Asian country consisting of many islands in the Malay Archipelago; population 257,600,000 (estimated 2015); languages, Indonesian (official), Malay, Balinese, Chinese, Javanese, and others; capital, Jakarta (on Java).

  印度尼西亚（东南亚国家，由马来群岛的许多岛屿组成，2009年估计人口240, 271, 500；语言包括印度尼西亚语 官方语言、马来语、巴厘语、汉语、爪哇语等；首都为位于爪哇岛上的雅加达；原称DUTCH EAST INDIES 1949年前）

  Former name (until 1949) Dutch East Indies

Indonesia consists of the territories of the former Dutch East Indies, of which the largest are Java, Sumatra, southern Borneo, western New Guinea, the Moluccas, and Sulawesi. The Dutch established control over the area in the 17th century. Independence was won in 1949, although Irian Jaya (now the province of Papua) was not handed over until 1963. An attempted communist coup was crushed by the army in 1965 and East Timor was annexed in 1976. The end of the 20th century saw the introduction of democratic elections and the gaining of full independence by East Timor. In 2004 more than 200,000 people were killed when an earthquake off the coast of Sumatra led to a tsunami that caused devastation in many countries around the Indian Ocean