Ocean transport has been the most important mode of transport in international trade. Two-thirds of the world total volume and over 80% China’s imports and exports now are transported by sea.Ocean transport has many advantages. The first advantage is the easy passage since about 70% of the...
The complex ethnic structure is the result of several great migrations many centuries ago, largely from Asia. The Chinese constitute by far the greatest majority of the nonindigenous population; they number about 2 to 3 million and play an important role in the country's economic life. There ...
Two-thirds of the population lives on Java, which together with Madura accounts for 7 percent of the country’s area and has a population density of more than 500 per km. The lowest population density is on Kalimantan (less than 10 per sq km), on the Moluccas (11 per sq km), and ...
“China will overtake the USA to become the largest world economy in 2017,”predicts the Euromonitor International. The global market research group writes: “By 2020 there will be a major shift in the global balance of economic power compared to 2010….Emerging economies will rise in importanc...
Sumatra produces about two-thirds of the country’s rubber, out of a total output of 800,000 tons (1971, estimate). Indonesia is the world’s second largest copra producer, after the Philippines. Coconut palms are grown in all areas of the country, but most of the export production comes...