Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world by population, with a total of more than 270 million people. It is an independent republic and a member of the G20, the international forum that brings together the world’s major economies. Indonesia is the largest UN peacekeeping troop contributor among the 15 UN Security Council members.
The first people in Indonesia arrived about 40,000 years ago when sea level was lower and it was joined to Asia by a land bridge. Then at the end of the last ice age about 10,000 BC, a new wave of people came. At first, they hunted animals, collected shellfish, and gathered plants for food. By about 2,500 BC they learned to grow crops such as
In terms of retail sales in Indonesia, FMCG is now continuing to grow after being hampered in 2020 by the pandemic. In fact, both FMCG and cigarette sales for example have recovered to a level that is higher than pre-pandemic levels. However, most of the category growth is reflecting the new normal. Healthcare and pharma categories driven by
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Indonesia - Colonialism, Revolution, Independence: Remains of Homo erectus (originally called Pithecanthropus, or Java man) indicate that the ancestors of humans already inhabited the island of Java roughly 1.7 million years ago, when much of the western archipelago was still linked by land bridges. Some 6,000 years ago a rapid postglacial rise
Indonesia’s economic output has grown by a respectable 4.9% a year since the turn of the century, well above the global average of 3.6%. But its expansion has been overshadowed by faster-growing
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