Provinces of INDONESIA explained
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WHEW. Sheesh 38 provinces. That's quite a lot! Thanks to all the Indonesian geograpeeps that helped / are featured in this video!
Also...... Hehe, "Fakfak" ....ENJOY!
The Village of papua island .
I just came back from Indonesia to Malaysia on the 17th i went to Bali
Indonesian: Aku Di Sumon Oleh Kamu Geography Now Gara2 Aku Orang Indo English:I Am Sommend By You Geography Now Cuz I Am Indonesia
@@user-nl7gt4zx5p aku juga orang Indonesia juga bang
Too many provinces actually and it's still growing.
Even just still in one country, Indonesians always experience culture shock when visiting different cities because each cities has their own unique culture, dialect, food ect 😅
But they all want to end an apostate.
@@PROVOCATEURSKIndonesia is unique nation, an unitary republic country with federation style, according in our constitution we adhere the principles of centralization & decentralization, every provinces have own regional autonomy system (otonomi daerah) which is every provinces have own authority to govern their self and still receive the state funds from the central government (Jakarta) for development.
Certain provinces such as Aceh, Jakarta, Yogyakarta and all provinces in Papua are given special/privilege autonomous status (otonomi khusus/istimewa) so they have their own authority, constitution and government more flexible than another provinces and receive more funds than others to boost the development, to preserve the culture, etc, if you have been in Indonesia you will know this fact
@@wahyuukrs9851 they are the same, mosly arabswannabe
As a Malang native who neighbors Madura-dominant cities (Surabaya, Probolinggo, Situbondo), the stark contrast of urban Malang lifestyle and agricultural & traditional Madurese diaspora lifestyle in East Java still has me in awe.
@@richarddawkins4607 bootleg muslims😂
Yoo calling Medan the Indonesian "Gotham City" is wild😂
Tahun ini medan lagi viral dengan kesempatan dalam kesempitanyyya
Wild but he wasn't wrong 😮💨
Ya begal, penjarahan, bullying sudah lumrah disana. Wkwk
Fact
Habibi come to Medan 😁😁🤣 please bolt down your fences tight
Thank you for making this and clarifying "there's no one type of Indonesian".
As a multi-ethnic Indonesian born and raised in Bandung, with a Sundanese dad from Tasik and a half Malay & Chinese mom from Palembang, the struggle I faced when foreigners asked what Indonesia's culture is like is real. Growing up in multiple cultures, languages & even cuisines, it's like which one am I supposed to tell them. Or when they ask me something about a certain region in Indonesia and I tell them I don't know, the amount of "Aren't you Indonesian" or "Shouldn't you know since you're Indonesian from Indonesia" and I just died a little inside. It's almost like having an identity crisis of "am I a fake Indonesian because I don't know every single detail of our hundreds of different cultures?". Anyways, I love my diverse country and people and will forever be proud to call myself Indonesian :')
At least you were born in multi ethnic family. I was born in Javanese family but I hardly have Javanese characteristic since I grew up in Jakarta, the multi-ethnic city. When I studied in Yogyakarta, I found how non-Java I was.
They are not even that different cultures both Sundanese and Malays culturally influenced by Javanese like most of the western Indonesia ethnic groups.
@@kunderemp Jayakarta was established by Javanese goverment in the time of Banten sultanate which the sole purpose to imitate a most famouse western Java port by the name of Sunda kelapa. This Jakarta place should have been a Javanesised city.
@@davidivory3234 Amazing. There are so many things wrong in your last sentence. It just prove that you have no idea about Sunda, Jakarta, Betawi, Javanese, or Melayu.
And before you defend yourself, I grew up in Jakarta, spent my holidays in Bandung (Sunda), studied in Yogya after my high school, spent times in the border of Java and Sunda during college holiday.
@@kunderemp
Betawi are actually Javanese speaking people in origin some places in Betawi society is a merged community of foreign origins such as Chinese, India, Arab and local Sunda. The reason they speak Malay because the Dutch implied Malay Johor as the Batavia official language and throughout Dutch East Indie and British East Indie this is the time when Malay language becomes wide spread. Sundayana (Pajajaran) lost battle to Demak and Demak vassalage states of Cirebon and Banten hence the nothern coastal West Java are mostly Javanese speaking people in their old dialect form.
I like how Indonesia is a transition zone between Australia/Melanesia and Southeast Asia. Can be seen in the wildlife, plants, and people as well.
yes Australia is actually the same as the Melanesian race, when people from Europe came there and took over and called the native Australians animals,And the fact is that the first people to come to Australia were Indonesians from Makassar. They first interacted with indigenous Australians
@@peachnaise5221Recently they figured out not only makassar but they identified the boat type to be moluccan as well. Thats understandable basically people from around the area were visiting australia.
That makes sense as the pacific islanders migrated to Australia and the other islands from asia.@@peachnaise5221
it’s called Wallace Line
Yup goes right through the middle of Indonesia @@OkhyBonk
When Indonesia said the motto is "unity in diversity", they aint kidding! People, languages, cuisines, clothes, houses, cultures, traditions, musical instruments, flora, fauna, etc. So many differences and scattered over 18,000 islands, yet united as one! Truly incredible! Long live Indonesia! ❤️🤍
Nope
@@anthoniusbudkay8538wdym "nope"?
@@brevorik6649 he meant that he's jealous with Indonesia bcs his country can't even stand united even tho his country have similar races 🤣
@@ah5904sounds like Balkan
@@imanuelc143 do you mean Balkans are split bcs they can't stand united?
fun facts: several Indonesian kingdoms once received status as special regions because of their services in helping Indonesian independence, such as Kutai, Surakarta Hadiningrat, etc. Unfortunately, only Yogyakarta remains as a special region, the only region in Indonesia that adheres to a monarchy system,and before becoming a unitary state, Indonesia had the status of a federal state.
You need to check our history well. Indonesia independence was on 17th August 1945, NOT 1949. From the first declaration of Indonesia. *INDONESIA ADOPT UNITARY STATE* . It even STATED in our UUD/Constitution 1945. The federation state was MADE by DUTCH to dividing and pitting the Indonesian. Thankfully, this is not last long bcs many federation states leaders and the people don't really want *FEDERAL STATUS* so on 17th August 1950. They declared *REUNIFICATION* of The Unitary of Republic of Indonesia. Exactly in time with Indonesia Independence ceremonial!
@@ah59041949. 1945 Independence only propaganda so Indonesia doesn't look their independence as a gift, but de facto and de jure.. 1949.
As a Dutchie this was interesting. We have many streets named after the Indonesian islands and regions.
Well I mean the Dutch colonized us from 1800s to 1942 and that's why they use Indonesian names
@@ParalyzedTank Yes, and thus Dutch people are very familiar with names like Lombok, Atjeh, Maluku, Sulawesi, Sumatra etcetera.
@@erikthehalfabee6234oh wow, never heard abt it before! So awesome! 😮
Quick, how do you make the polders? Maybe we can salvage Jakarta.
@@YataTheFifteenth polders are made by converting Sweetwater. Jakarta would have to enpolder the open sea, we've only once done that with a bay
2:27 Hi barb
Im from medan, north sumatra. I want to correct the population for North Sumatra, medan’s population is about 2 million and the province’s population is about 15 million. North sumatra is actually the most populated province outside of java.
Additionally, there are more ethnic groups in north sumatra like malay, javanese, chinese, indian (tamil), and others. I, myself am batak mandailing, malay, and acehnese.
Medan is like a cultural melting pot of batak, malay, chinese, and others. Medan founded by a batak, was the capital of the malay kingdom of deli, have chinatown and little india. And yeah sadly Medan is known as gotham of indonesia cause of crime, corruption, etc :)
Yes, Medan is a fascinating place. I'm from Jakarta and everyone here equates Medan with Batak even though it's originally a Malay city where the largest ethnic group is actually the Javanese or Jawa Deli.
Also, hope you don't mind me asking this, but what do you think of Mandailing people who don't consider themselves Batak?
@@mapk1516 if u count all the batak subgroup as one, batak is the largest ethnic group but if you differentiate the subgroup then javanese become the largest. The javanese in medan even have a their own name, “Pujakesuma” or putra jawa kelahiran sumatera which means sumatra born javanese
For real, I'm not sure why it's like that but I think most people just assume that North Sumatra is mostly Batak people anyways. @@mapk1516
How soon do you think it'll be before a rich guy in a bat suit starts fighting the crime and corruption in Medan?
@@ajs787 hopefully soon lol
I’m from Greece and I love Indonesia 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇮🇩 . I went to Bali 2 moths ago and it was incredible! I definitely want to travel through the rest of Indonesia. Also a friend of mine was in Palangkaraya for the city mountain biking world championships and he had a lot of fun!
We call your your country as "YUNANI" instead of Greece, so different isn't it? 😅
Love Greece and its culture back 🇮🇩❤️🇬🇷
Great! Palangkaraya is actually considered the boring place, because of the nothingness there, but of course, natural and cultural aspects of it is exciting. fact, Palangkaraya was destined to be the new capital of Indonesia in the 60s due to its central location. It is one of the newly designed cities of Indonesia.
@@halkerensthey actually not call themselves as greece. I think the endonym, or how they call themselves is "Hellas"
Which came from the ‘Ionians’ through Arabic
As a person who has an extreme interest in Indonesia for what seems like no reason, this further drives my interest in Indonesia! Love from Los Estados Unidos!
Love to you too my American brother
Fun fact: There's a very short period where we are a Federal Parlementary state called United States of Indonesia
You are a sincere person and thanks for being interested in this beautiful country😊
Me too! Love from Sudafrica (?) I think that’s what it would be in Spanish haha
Timestamp (Indonesian name of the provinces in parenthesess):
===Sumatra===
1:47 Aceh
2:22 North Sumatra (Sumatera Utara)
2:53 Riau
3:16 Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau)
3:57 West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat)
4:35 Jambi
5:07 South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan)
5:43 Bangka Belitung Islands (Kepulauan Bangka Belitung)
6:19 Bengkulu
6:53 Lampung
===Java===
7:47 Banten
8:20 SCR of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta)
8:57 West Java (Jawa Barat)
10:01 Central Java (Jawa Tengah)
10:45 SR Yogyakarta (DI Yogyakarta)
11:24 East Java (Jawa Timur)
===Kalimantan===
12:36 West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat)
13:12 Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah)
14:06 South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan)
14:54 East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur)
15:24 North Kalimantan (Kalimantan Utara)
===Nusa Tenggara===
16:17 Bali
17:13 West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat)
17:53 East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur)
===Sulawesi===
18:59 West Sulawesi (Sulawesi Barat)
19:31 South Sulawesi (Sulawesi Selatan)
20:06 Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara)
20:39 Central Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tengah)
21:06 Gorontalo
21:41 North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara)
===Maluku Islands===
22:39 Maluku
23:28 North Maluku (Maluku Utara)
===Papua===
25:09 Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya)
25:57 West Papua (Papua Barat)
26:38 Central Papua (Papua Tengah)
27:14 Papua
27:56 Highland Papua (Papua Pegunungan)
28:33 South Papua (Papua Selatan)
PHEW... ALL SORTED AND DONE
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You forgot 26:30 Fakfak
@@SetiKt Fakfak is not a province, bro. It's a town 🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
Love Indonesia from New Zealand! 🇳🇿❤🇮🇩
right back at you bro 🇮🇩❤️🇳🇿
Thx dude 😇. ❤️ from 🇮🇩 too
Thank you sir
i would love to visit your country for alpaca
Love New Zealand from Indonesia! 🇮🇩❤🇳🇿
Indonesia never fails to amaze me. One small fact: we share one ethnicity with Indonesia and that is the Sangir people in North Sulawesi. Another one: Ternate island in North Maluku and Ternate City in Cavite province have a historical relationship during the Spanish colonial period.
Love and interests from the Philippines 🇵🇭🤜🤛🇲🇨
Also the Sama-Bajau people. They can be found in Indonesia, The Philippines, Malaysia, and Brunei
Ternateno migrated to Cavite around 1660s to help Spanish and Luzons from the threat of Koxinga of Taiwan. They brought with them their language, a beautiful mix (creole) of three different languages: Portuguese, Malay and Ternate.
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🇮🇩🤢🤢🤢
Minahasan here! Historically and linguistically our tribes shares origin with ancient Philippines tribes. There was even a saying in our community that "our ancestors came from the far north land" which noted as the land beyond the Sangirese region. Though Sangirese might have more connection towards the Philippines due to its location and the fact that they had a whole kingdom, while our tribes remained as independent states before the arrival of Portuguese and Spanish.
However, I noticed much of similarities in our culture and traditional clothing with the Ifugao people in the Northern Philippines. There are also many similarities with the current day Philippines such as celebration of Christmas (We are majorly Christian and we celebrated Christmas by September and usually ended in early February) though the modern culture might have just been similarities that we have as Asean countries
As someone who’s Egyptian and extremely loves Indonesia I see this as a huge win 😌thanks barb for explaining geography in general in a funny and good way.😭
I wanna visit Egypt too
No thank you.
Sbntar lagi bkn hanya agama mereka yg datang mengahancurkan jatidiri kita merekapun jg akan merubah wajah kita sprti mereka arab bnyk berdtngn ke sini. Ini jelas penjajahan melalui agama dan migrasi.
@@davidivory3234 i don’t speak Indonesian ☠️
@@davidivory3234klu orang Kristen gmn bang?
Fun fact! Nusa Tenggara directly translates to "the southeastern islands" which pretty much sums up our love of naming places by their location.
Minangkabau have a tradition of "Rantau" which when a young adult Minangkabau man who didn`t get any land inheritence (because it goes to the daughter, traditionally) sets out to any other provinces to find prosperity and stay there. that`s why they were everywhere (you can find any padang restaurant in every province), popularice rendang, and one of the setting for most of their popular story: Malin kundang.
I am one of those men trying to find a chance in Bogor, hope i can finally get a job. wish me luck~
best of luck with everything you do Uda.
Wait so that the reason you guys are everywhere😂
oh so that's the reason you are in all provinces of Indonesia😂
Interesting!
Sebagai Wargi Bogor
Mugia , anjeuna bisa mendapatkan Peluang Pekerjaan(padamelan)
Di negeri Kami Parahyangan
java was pretty much like bali, colourful and rich local culture.
but now more like a rabs than southeast asians.
too many megaphone and closeminded ppl.
As Indonesia is the one and only SEA country with 3 different time zone in one country , Thats why time is rather chaotic here
It used to have 4 :(
Yeah and we tends to ignore the time
@@ar-rys6330 I think 4 is more suitable. Banyuwangi and Aceh is almost 1 hour apart.
There was a preposition to clean up the mess and make everything UST+8 but it was scrapped.
And also an unknown country
Hi, Indonesian living in Germany with Balinese heritage here! Thank you Barbs for covering the province of my parents, and to address the current problem they are facing - yes, Bali is currently really overwhelmed with tourists and no one does anything to cope with it. Unfortunately, while you are correct about there are other places in my home country worth visiting, it is not always easy to reach those places and tourism in Indonesia is HUGELY trend-based! This means people will go where people are also going. I recall last decade people flocked to Karimun Jawa in Central Java, then suddenly the trend shifted to Bangka-Belitung, then nowadays people are going to Labuan Bajo (East Nusa Tenggara) and Bali because the celebrities are going there.
I hope this changes soon! As an Indonesian myself I highly encourage fellow Indonesians to not just flock at one place, our country is rich in landscape and there are more to visit than just Bali 😅
Greetings from Germany!
No one does anything about it cause Bali's economy depends on tourism
@@newbabies923 he just dislike how over crowded the place is, not abolishing tourism.
@@newbabies923 We just can't deny that the multiethnic Indonesians do share this one bad habit, lazyness. Udah keenakan dengan ekonomi pariwisata jadi ga ada niat buat nge-diversifikasi ekonomi lain di Bali. Padahal potensi Bali tuh gede banget.
@@kaisar5450 udh susah, karna semakin kesini semakin banyak lahan agricultural yg diubah menjadi tempat resort pariwisata, jdi mau tdk mau ya ekonomi utamanya dari tourism
cringe, there are 280 million people in Indonesia, do you ACTUALLY thinking that no one goes to Lake Toba, or any other touristy places in Indonesia?
Hi Barb,
Tari Pendet is from Bali not Lampung, in Lampung they have Tari Sembah, Tari Sekura and the most popular Tari siger panguten 7:23
And not to forget Tari Bedana.
scrolling comment section just to find this comment because im a confused indonesian lol
i think Lampung have Bali Immigrant. Could some Lampung people explain this?
@@yafiyanuarekasatria6181 lampungnese here, there have been a lot of javanese and balinese transmigrants since the colonial era, but there are no sources that claim tari pendet was created in lampung. Idk why they say pendet is famous in lampung, surely those transmigrants can bring and perform their dances here but tari pendet is culturally very balinese (they are the minorities here, so there's zero bali cultural fest or something like that), and I have never seen any tari pendet performed near me, but I do see a lot of tari sembah and bedana dancers on daily basis though (I did bedana a lot when I was in high school, and my besties are traditional dancers until now) which makes sense, since that is the actual lampungnese dances.
Thank you for the comment, I am a Balinese and suddenly I am confused ...
I remember when we had 27 provinces and taught at school that each province has their distinct traditional costume, musical instrument, and dance. Growing up, the provinces split every now and then just like you said, I always forget how many there are and what is the capital of each provinces. Thank you for forcing yourself to wrap this huge amount of information around your head. Even for Indonesians, Indonesia is too big, but they rarely conprohend it.
It’s crazy too because it seems like you guys keep splitting up every eight or so years into new stuff. Like come on, how many will you end up with? 😂
@@GeographyNowhahaha😂 every year our population grow bro. So many people need government assistance, so Jakarta as the central power gave more power to subdivisions provinces who no longer had the power to accomodate it's people needs 😊 that's why it keep split up every year
@@GeographyNow the most likely to split next maybe madura island from east java because the province is too big and madura people is different ethnic than the javanese. but not soon because the now government already put on hold every 'movement' on splitting the province.
@@GeographyNow ~ fingers crossed we won't add another province in a couple of years 🤞unless the new capital is finished and would be granted special capital region status
When people talking about provinces, what comes first to my mind is "27". Elementary school topic that weirdly sticks on my brain eventhough it's not relevant anymore.
As a geology student, I would like to talk about the finding of diamond in South Kalimantan. So apparently, the diamonds that are found in that province is a placer deposit which means that the main source of the diamonds are located somewhere else. Until now, many geologists are still debating the exact location of the main source of diamonds found in South Kalimantan because the geological features where diamonds are formed (Kimberlite pipes) cannot be found on the island of Kalimantan. Some even say that the main source are probably located in Indochina region, especially Vietnam.
makes sense since they were a single landmass called Sundaland thousands of years ago.
Meteor maybe
wait omg this is so intersting!!! can you please explain more ? like why do they think its all the way in vietnam
@@waadalsafi2103 I haven't found any reliable refference about that but one of my professor did mention about the probability of Vietnam being the location of the diamonds primary source
@@afl6786 I think there's a very small chance of the diamonds are from meteorite impact since meteorites are usually made of metal element like iron, nickel, etc. and not carbon. Also, as far as I know, the only natural way that diamonds can be formed are the carbon molecules has to be under very high pressure and temperature, and also the formation of diamonds are located >160 km below earth's surface. It needs a lot of energy to make a volcanic eruption powerful enough to push all of the magma and diamonds from far below to the earth surface.
Fyi, Provinces in Indonesia (38) are the same level as states in the US (50) or provinces in China (23) or Region in Philipines (17) which is level 1 regions, different from term provinces in the Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam, in Indonesia they are equivalent to level 2 regions named Kabupaten, the number of Kabupaten in Indonesia is 416.
Ohhhh thanks for the answer that's been on my mind hahaha
pin this!!
The last time I learned this at school Indonesia had like 32 provinces
YOU GUYS KEEP DIVIDING!!! 🤣🤣
@@GeographyNowwe do a little mitosis every now and then
@@GeographyNow Don't worry it will increase later on lol 😂
Last time I learned it was 33, then several yeard later it's 34. THEN in 2022, 4 more were formed
@@GeographyNowthere will be more, maybe after IKN
Even Indonesian itself don't know if we've already have 38 provinces...
Many older generation stuck in 27 provinces knowledge back in soeharto era when the
27th province east timor joining the country
And some 30ish y.o ppl still only knowing that we have 34 provinces just like the text book tell us
Papuan Geography lover here.
Your tribal customary Map is almost close to perfection.
Animha and Meepago region within Indonesian maps tend to overlap, however your map shows a better picture of that.
Regards.
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He got most info on Papua provinces wrong though, except maybe South Papua.
1:05 Wait I thought there were 1,340 ethnic groups in Indonesia, alongside with 700 languages that scattered across the vast 18,000 islands. Also a fun fact Indonesia have the world's largest numbers of both Austronesians and Melanesians in the world (makes sense considering Indonesia's population of 280 million the 4th largest in the world).
Another fun fact about Indonesia is that the Indonesian language is a madeup language created by Indonesian nationalist in 1928. It's mainly based on Riau Malay but got a lot of mixture of Dutch, Malay, Javanese, Portuguese, Banjarese, Arabic, Minangkabau, etc. The purpose of the language is genius because it means to unite the very diverse people of Indonesia under one language that's not in favour of only one ethnic group.
austronesia, polinesia, melanisia
Thanks 👍
Fun fact, La Galigo, which is considered the longest literary work in the world, comes from the province of South Sulawesi. The most complete original manuscript of La Galigo is stored in the Leiden University Library, Netherlands. and also La Galigo is recognized as a Memory of the World by UNESCO.
Because La Galigo written in the 18 century an era where paper easy to acquire and cheap.
@@davidivory3234The story existed long before that, over time it began to be recorded in writing, but because paper doesn't last long, it was often re-copied.
@@fathirrabbany La Galigo is a sastra vernacular based and is not even from a real story but merely a legend something similar to the story of Hang Tuah in Peninsular and Panji in Java, and there is no evidence re-written and such. There is no evidence of writting cultures in whole Sulawesi prior to 16 CE.
@@davidivory3234from something that cheap (paper) became something special ❤ La Galigo recognized as memory of the world by unesco is special enough
Awesome
Barbs may not be pregnant, but he never fails to deliver amazing contents for us to watch ❤🔥🇮🇩
I like the way you worded it. It sounds as if there is a chance that he might be pregnant.
Barbs is pregnant and he never fails to deliver amazing content 🙌❤
I thought i only found this kind of comments on flamingo/albert videos, i was wrong
What pregnancy have to do with that?😂😂
Oh my damn this comment 🤣🤣🤣🤣
a lot of Love to Indonesia from Bangladesh... I wish to visit Indonesia one day.
Wow! Excellent. A non-patronising rundown of a complex non-western country.
It is still a bit...most info on papuan provinces are wrong except South Papua, which are generally correct.
Thank you Barb for making this video. I realized that Indonesia doesn't really get enough spotlight in the global stage. I mean we are the 4th largest country (population) in the world + country with the most Muslim in the world. I admit that we don't have a lot of diaspora worldwide. Maybe only in Netherlands, Malaysia and Saudi Arabia that have more than 500k Indonesian diaspora. I wish with this video, people around the world can know more about my country. Terima Kasih Geografi Sekarang
love the Geografi Sekarang
Cause your country has no worldwide achievements that's why it's still unknown
Geografi Sekarang 😭 no fricking way
It's probably be better for us to be still unknown tbh, since we still didn't create anything usefull yet for the world rn 😅
Invisibility = less intervention
Plus we still recovering from the damage that has been done by the "new order" government
Indonesian diaspora is small Compared to other countries with large population.Specially in The Western countries.
3:57 Fun fact: there’s a regency in West Sumatra called Mentawai Island. The people on those islands (the Mentawais) have a very distinct culture from the Minangkabau (those on the mainland of West Sumatra).
The Mentawais have cool tattoo artwork and other interesting stuffs. You should definitely look that up!
Also, Mentawai is a popular spot among surfers!
Mentawai islands : Siberut island, sipora, north Pagai, and south pagai, and a lot of small islands
@@ekamaulana5948 and lot of them are quake-prone, unfortunately.. 🥲
Ah yes, Mentawai.. The Bali of Sumatra 😊
My conclusion to this as an Indonesian is, our country is rich in history, stories, resources, cultural and heritage, geographical variations, it's hard to compile all into one video and Paul has done a great job sharing this with the world. I am proud of my country and may Indonesia prosper and grow well ❤
I am from PNG, but I learn alot about Indonesia from this video. Thank you very much.
8:17 The magic is known as Debus. Some bandits are known to practice it so they're immune to sharp weapons when fighting
Thank you for explaining
This is what I love about Southeast Asia... We may have different religions and influenced by many cultures yet we still held similar animist beliefs... (Talismans, spirit houses, big trees home to elementals) conforming with the standards of our religions is only a current trend and some practice it to the extreme, is eroding our Southeast Asianized version of worship that respects our local culture...
Wuuuiiiihhhh ............. thank you for that! I am German and have been living in Indonesia since 2001, and "even I" still learned a lot from your video. One minor correction, maybe: Krakatoa (1883) was not the largest ever recorded volcano eruption; this title goes to Tambora on the island of Sumbawa (eruption 1815). And another "smart-aleck" thing :) ...... the Ministry of Home Affairs occasionally publishes a new count of islands ...... so, currently -status 2022- they say it is 17,001 islands (not more than 18,000 as you say). But again, many thanks for this informative and entertaining video!!! Really appreciate it!
Wkwkwkwkw, the "wuiih"..😂
As Indonesian, you got stamp of approval sir!
@@v-alfred no need to call them "sir"
Your description of all provinces of Indonesia is spot-on. With assists from Indonesian Geograpeeps and some sneaky bit of inside-joke. However, many details I think is missed, so may I add it.
1.The largest ethnic group in North Sumatra and West Kalimantan is Malay, I think.
2. You forgot to mention Nias people who inhabited Nias island in NS. They're famous for their warrior armors, their architecture(even used as Duval's inspiration of "One Piece"), and the maturity ceremony by leaping a rock(hombo batu)
3. I have to add some obscure ethnic groups from Sumatra. Chiefly Mentawai(WS), Anak Dalam(Jambi), and Enggano(Bengkulu). Mentawai are famous for their tattoo pattern, Anak Dalam are the one who living in the forest and threatened by deforestation, and Enggano have the one of most unique language in Austronesian family.
4. There are Osing people also, in East Java. Yet another subgroup among Javanese people, mostly living in Banyuwangi peninsula.
And that's it. Once again, thank you for the video you made.
Don't forget to mention Betawi, i'm half Betawi and it makes me sad 🥲 however, i can get that, and Pendet Dance is not from Lampung.
No, The largest ethnic group in West kalimantan is Dayak
I'm from north sulawesi and i'm a minahasan i would like to ad that we the minahasan are also devided in several tribes each with their own dialect but we still understand each other. Our ancestors united the tribes to become minahasa.
As for the traditional dance beside kabasaran we also have katreli and maengket dance. In minahasa there is a phrase I YAYAT U SANTI wich is a call for war that comes with the kabasaran dance it means a call for all tribes to gear up and defend the minahasa land
I wanna add and correct something:
1. North Sumatra: Even Batak is the biggest ethnics group in north Sumatra. But in Medan it is not a case. Because Medan is Melting pot from various ethnics group such as Malay, Javanese, Batak, Chinese, Minangese, Aceh and etc. And also the original people of Medan is Malay, they even has a sultanate which call Deli Sultanate until Indonesia Independence. But right now Malay not much as before, because many Batakese come to Medan forom highland north Sumatra near Toba and Javanese come from Java when Dutch colonial era, mostly to work in oil palm field. And also because Java island is so populate. So right now Javanese and batakese become the biggest ethnic group in Medan.
2. South Sumatra: Palembang itself also sub ethnic of Malay. But become is different from Malay in Malaysia and Riau. Palembang language has influence from Java because Srivijaya founder is from Syailendra dynasty from Mataram kingdom in Java, that escape because civil war with Sanjaya dynasty. And from the appearance, people in Palembang and Lampung has some kind of Chinese/east Asian appearance, mainly because Srivijaya has good relationship with many chinese dynasties from Tang to Song. So many Chinese come to Palembang. Even most well known Palembang street food which is pempek, it's has influence from Chinese food.
3. Lampung: Javanese people in Lampung had come to Lampung long time before independence. Mostly come there in early 20th century, in Dutch colonial era. Mostly for farming. And also to improve the javanese people economy, because Java is so populated so hard to farming. Tari pendet is from Bali, not from Lampung.
4. Banten: Bantenese ethnic actually is Sundanese. Thie clasification to make Bantenese its own ethnics come from their history and proud of Banten Sultanate. But yeah Banten people still use Sundanese language, but different accent from mainly Sundanese language in near Bandung. 53% of Banten Province lives in greater Tangerang which still in Jakarta Metropolitan Area.
5. Jakarta has its own people that call Betawinese. Actually Betawinese at first is sundanese, but because Jakarta (Batavia at that time) is has become the melting pot. So many ethnics from all across Nusantara(Indonesia) comes there and mix their languange and culture. And then become Betawi language and culture as we know today. Right now mainly Betawi lives in the suburbs of Jakarta. Because their sold their land in Jakarta to migrants, because Jakarta has become so crowded and many people come to Jakarta. Eventhough right now Javanese is the largest ethnics group, but Betawi accent still mainly use in Jakarta Metropolitan area. And mostly the 2nd and so on generation of Java in jakarta, cant talk Javanese language fluently. Jakarta Metropolitan area itself has more than 33 million Poeple, thats make Jakarta Metropolitan Area become the 2nd biggest metropolitan in the world after Tokyo.
6. West Java: 14 million from 50 million of West Java population live in suburbs of Jakarta (BoDeBek), which include 3 cities (Bekasi, Bogor and Depok city) and 2 regencies (Bekasi and Bogor). Bekasi city which is the largest city in west java also located just next to Jakarta in Jakarta Metropolitan area.
7. East Java: Battle of Surabaya isn't between Indonesia and Dutch. But between Indonesia and ally force, mainly British force which include India muslim and hindu, and gurkha force. Some indian Muslim force defected to Indonesian force. Once they found out that their enemy was Muslim too. This battle was so brutal, and even killed General AWS Mallaby.
8. West Kalimantan: Eventhough West Kalimantan the largest ethnics is Dayak. But the most influence ethnics is Malay, they even had many Malay kingdom such as Pontianak and Sambas sultanate. Until now the decendant of pontianak sultanate still live in Pontianak.
9. Cental Kalimantan: Kaharingan religion is incorporating into Hinduism, in 2nd president era. Because at that time Indonesia goverment only recognized 5 religion (Islam, protestant, catholic, hinduism, budhism). So many of traditional religion and chinese religion had to fit into one of the 5 recognized religion.
10. South Kalimantan: Even Banjarmasin is not the biggest cities in Kalimantan. It has the only metropolitan area in Kalimantan, which called Banjar Bakula. Which also include the biggest city of Banjarmasin, the new capital city of Banjarbaru and town of Martapura (known for diamond town). The airport of south Kalimantan located in Banjarbaru. The distance between Banjarmasin and Banjarbaru is just 30 Kilometer, which so ideal to make metropolitan area.
11. South Sulawesi: Bugis is well known as good sailor. They even sail to Australia before european go there, and also until Madagascar also. Many politician in Malaysia also descendant of Bugis people, such as current prime minister Muhyiddin Yasin and former deputy prime minister Ismail Abdul Rahman.
12. North Sulawesi: Biggest Jewish Menorah statue also located in North Sulawesi
Also for number 1: Batak people known as Lawyers or Musician (especially Singer).
@rezaalan3991 It's not the case with Mandailing people. They known to serve in miltary or politics. If u consider mandailing as batak people
@@hashfiputraza9850 ah yes, many notable people from Mandailing take charge in government and military position.
Wrong on the North sumatra, the largest ethnic group is malay, batak is the sub ethnicity of malay. Batak is NOT an independent ethnic, let's put that right
bruh batak isn't malay. malay mostly muslim, but batak not. and the culture also different. malay mostly live in coast, but batak is in highland. in batak itself has 6 sub ethnics of batak which is toba, mandailing, karo, simalungun, pakpak and angkola.
Look, Thailand has 76 provinces and the Philippines has 82, and they’re so much smaller than Indonesia even if you combine the two. If you think about it, 38 provinces is not a lot when you consider Indonesia has an area that covers roughly the same distance between London to Tehran.
BTW there’s so many factual errors, including by your Indonesian sources themselves, but thank you anyways for this video! Cheers!🍻 🇮🇩
When u keep the government structure smaller.. it would be easier and effective to managed so stay positive. NCR Metro Manila has 16 cities lead by 16 different majors, while DKI jakarta leads by 1 governor. To integrate transport system would be easier for jakarta than metro manila, why? because u only need jakarta government to do the job, while metro manila will require central government to do the job. Smaller structure may decrease the level of corruptions and save national budgets, no need to spend more money for government workers
Still Filipinos, Thai, Vietnamese, Malaysians are related and brothers
Indonesians are genetically closer to Melanesians, Papuans, Solomon Islands, etc
@@paranoya733 I can understand the logic behind your argument, I really do, but in reality we in Indonesia know that the creation of more administrative divisions is the way to create more opportunities for corruption.
@@kilanspeaks I never said it didn't 😁
@@user-zd9cv6wc8hMalays and Indonesians are close to eachother and Filipinos as well, what you said is completely wrong
Hi barb! I am your subscriber from Jambi city. But actually I am not a Jambi Malay. My mother is Javanese and my father is Lampungese, but I was born in Jambi speaking Jambi Malay everyday and doing Jambi traditions. It's so confusing!
😂 But this is what we love about our country. It's so diverse and vibrant!! Love from indonesia 🇮🇩🇮🇩🇮🇩
14:07 South Kalimantan used to be the capital city of one of the biggest kingdom in Kalimantan, Banjar Sultanate. Yes, the term "Banjar" is used as a nation until Banjar Sultanate fell completely on 1904 to the Dutch.
Thats why Banjar Language become lingua franca, because Banjar Kingdom teritory(including vassal) at it peaks was almost the same size as Indonesian Borneo Island.
7:12 While Krakatoa has its own deadly eruption, in the island of Sumbawa, there's Mount Tambora, which produced the largest eruption in the world back in 1815 and made 1816 the year without a summer
Regardless, good video ❤
On the island of Sulawesi there are thousands of megalithic sites from BC as well as hundreds of ancient paintings, the most famous of which is a pig deer painting that is more than 40,000 years old, making it the oldest ancient painting in the world
There are plenty too in coastal Southwest Papua and West Papua can be seen using boats, though sadly no study yet on the age, its less well studied. Consists of hand paint and reptile-man hybrid.
Unpopular opinion but I think you can visit the current capital Jakarta to see the true face of our country. Not a very touristy place but lots of museums and monumens to understand our history and country better. But yeah it's got a lot of traffic problems and very crowded as it's the largest city in the whole Southeast Asia (the 2nd largest in the world after Tokyo by metropolitan population of 35,000,000 people).
Fun fact about Jakarta, it's also the diplomatic capital of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) which is like the Southeast Asian version of European Union as it hosts the ASEAN headquarters building and embassies to ASEAN.
It is now the ASEAN headquarters, not a secretariat anymore
im born and raised in a small village deep inside a borneo island (central borneo), i learn to speak dayak language first before learning indonesia language, i learn alot about indonesia in my school days, also making online friends from another states, askin them about how is life on their areas, learning about the stereotypes from media, something like madura people are like this, batak people are like that, etc.. and about 5 years ago im worked as a distribution manager for my company, and it's allow me to visiting a lot of state across indonesia, first i went to banjarmasin which still in borneo island, it feels quite different but i kinda expecting it, nothing stroke me about the environment or the culture, but then i went to singkawang, aceh, riau, medan, palembang, padang, jakarta, bandung, solo, jogja, malang, surabaya, bali, and lombok, after went to all of those states im finally realized that indonesia indeed a beautiful countries, every state are like country inside a country, different culture, different food, different language, different religion, even different appearances.. that's the very moment that i am proud to be indonesian, and ill go to kupang and labuan bajo next month, ive been doing this almost 5 years, and still haven't visiting all states of indonesia 😂
Great video! If you wanna visit again, Yogyakarta, Labuan Bajo or Medan are great starting choices. I mean it's difficult to choose really. Because even for me, an Indonesian, i only visited a total of 12 provinces, and about 20 cities. Even for locals, our country is too dang big to explore. Cheers!!
how about 10.000 tourist attractive, and non tourist attractive, should we give them the list from sabang to merauke? 😆😆😆
And Bandung
We even have TV shows dedicated to explore many previously unknown places in Indonesia, catered to Indonesian audiences.
I have been a long subscriber of you Barbs, since your A's countries. Btw, i am from Manado, the capital of North Sulawesi. Fun facts, North Sulawesi is a home for the cool endemic black macaques called Macaca Nigra (or local calls Yaki) and also the smallest primate of the world, Tarsier that is unique to this area. (Philippines have their own Tarsier, but if i'm not mistaken, ours is smaller. issa cutie!) and most famously, the living fossil of Coelacanth fish was found here!
Also, Manado is well known for our tourism industry, mainly for divers. Our region is peaceful and offer high tolerant to diversity, it is one of the most tolerant region of Indonesia, after Bali ofc. Bunaken Marine Park hosts high marine biology diversity in the world with easy access and definitely worth a visit, we got frequent direct flight From Singapore that is served by Low Cost carrier Scoot. The entire area of the north Sulawesi peninsula tip is so full of beautiful diving/snorkling spots and islands, each with their own unique sea creatures and of course natural beauties.
The Minahasan never formed a kingdom, it is the kingdomless part of Indonesia, and there's a saying that the our head is our own king. It is one of the most democratic place in Indonesia pre-colonial and ofc the first region in Indonesia that has our own representatives in colonial government called Minahasaraad in ealry 1900s! Besides that, our most well known hero is Dr. Gerungan Saul Samuel Jacob Ratulangi, aka Sam Ratulangi, he's one of the first Indonesians that was awarded with a Doctoral Degree in Europe in 1919. He was the first governor of Sulawesi Island. Yes another fun fact! the whole Sulawesi Island and its attached small islands used to be one province when Indonesia Proclamated our Independence in 1945.
Dont forget to mention that N.Sulawesi is the only place in Indonesia that got their own synagouge and jews population that can pratice their faith “openly”, also the giant menorah monument and the christ statue on top of the hill just like what they have in rio de janeiro
I love north Sulawesi, one if my relative is a manadonese chef and BOI, the food he made is just too good
I like Manado City as well, Megamas region and others is just superb, Manado City is hand down one of the best waterfront city in Indonesia
@@rifqiabdillah_ yeah it's full of roller coaster fun facts
@@briantarigan7685 food is so ingrained in every indonesian XD i think this is the reason why all the perantaus always miss home! What food did you like the most of his cooking?
The only thing i love about the waterfront thingy is the blue sky and sea and the mountain island view. never taking it for granted
ngl this video made me wanna visit indonesia 🇮🇩 😗 seems like a lot of places to visit but 😂 it looks beautiful
My job is a success then!
@@GeographyNow💯
I'm agree that "Papua Barat Daya" should be rename to "Papua Barat Laut". It's more acceptable because it located on the northwest of Papua.
6:38 Actually Bengkulu / Bencoolen was swapped with Melaka / Malacca, not Singapore in the Anglo-Dutch treaty of 1834.
i read that Bengkulu and Belitung were swapped with both Melaka and Singapore. but dunno which one is right
Yes also as part of the agreement, the British would stop any protests on the Dutch occupying Belitung while the Dutch would stop protesting British presence in Sg. @@riangiar1448
it's both Melaka and Singapore (was called Temasik at that time)
yes. Bengkulu swap with Malacca. The British withdrew its opposition to the occupation of the island of Billiton by the Netherlands.
The Netherlands withdrew its opposition to the occupation of the island of Singapore by the British.
Finally, thanks Barbs for ur video abt the provinces of Indonesia. I hope u make a filler week abt the states and federal territories of Malaysia.
Love Indonesia from Malaysia.
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Hello neighbor, and also sibling
@@advanceringnewholder Hi to u too my Indonesian brother
yassss do Malaysia next!! 😍
let the Indonesian know that Malaysia is also a very diverse country. even Malay is quite different to each other, like, loghat Johor and loghat Utara sounds like different langage lol
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Hello, Barbs, Indonesian here & Sundanese here. One thing that I want to add more about Bandung is :
1. Bandung is like the "Paris van Java", because we have lots of fashion outlets & boutiques with an affordable price and good quality too.
2. Beautiful woman. It's simply because our parents teaching us how to become attractive to the men, like how to apply the makeup. 😂
3. A polite person, because since we were children, our parents or the older generation teaching us how to speak politely and stay humble to other people. And we have lots of Sundanese formal language.
4. Gold digger. This is another example of Sundanese people when it comes to personality, especially for a women. We're like, umm, have to married rich wealthy men for a better life in the future. 😅 (not all the women are like that, depending what kind of person is she..).
5. Cool & nice weather. Unlike in Jakarta, which is hot & humid weather.
6. Home of the artist, singer, and comedian. Such as : Rossa, Nicky Astria, Ariel Noah, etc.
7. Culinary, like Soes Bandung, Mie Kocok, etc.
Btw, I'm 80% Sundanese, and 10% Sumatera (from Tapaktuan, Aceh) and half Dutch descent. And Bandung is my second hometown, especially from my Dad's family. 😊
Sorry if it's too long..
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This is crazy. Thank you for doing this, Barb. I learned more about my own country in 30 minutes rather than in my whole geography class😅
As someone from East Kalimantan. I feel very happy to see another video featuring Indonesia again since the last one ❤🤍
As a lampungnese I know for sure that tari pendet is NOT famous around here, cause that is a very specific balinese culture (so, quite a misinformation right there)... sure there are a lot of bali-javanese transmigrants here but tari cangget, bedana, melinting and sembah are far more popular (and more lampung-y) than pendet. Also no mention of kopi lampung, tons of beautiful beaches, krui international surfing event, aksara lampung/kaganga and massive siger crown?? That sucks! but thanks for mentioning the tempraments, as we are quite loud and easily angered. Love y'all❤
he should talk about kopi lampung and gedung siger
@@dadarmwndefinitely, barb didnt even mention any lampung culture at all. Just a mere history and nature, and a completely wrong traditional dance. If he portrays lampung as land of carjackers/begals and unfixable highways, then that would be more entertaining, relevant and factual.
Agree..
I dunno why Barb say tari pendet is from Lampung..
I know that many Balineese is migrated to Lampung, but I never heard that Lampung claimed to be the source of tari pendet
@@ahmadganteng7435 I have never seen any tari pendet performed near me, so how is that even part of lampung culture?? but I always see the REAL lampung dances like tari bedana, cangget and sembah on a daily basis. And for sure there is no sources about that online, so idk how they managed to conclude that it was from lampung... Thankfully I could ask my besties who are traditional dancers about this weird claim.
Take it easy. Mistake is bound to happen. Errare humanum est, to err is human.
As someone who has Indonesian ancestry on my father's side, I am so far only aware of my Riau and Bugis heritage, and who knows what other mixes there are on that side. Having grown up in Singapore, I barely know any of these cultures, other than what I've read or seen in various media or heard from my family members. Hope to one day be able to explore these heritage in Indonesia itself.
This was such an interesting episode, I’m going to have to watch it a few times! Much love to Indonesia!
Hi! I’m Minangnese that born in Palembang. So I want to clarify some of the misconception here as well as some more fun facts.
1. Provinces in Sumatera long time ago is more simplified. So a lot of culture is mixed. For example Jambi culture is close to South Sumatera but got mixed with Malay. Bengkulu culture is a mixed between South Sumatera and West Sumatera. And Lampung culture is mixed as well. Things like pempek (fish cake from South Sumatera) and Songket is shared with other provinces but with a little differences.
2. West Sumatera is known for FOOD! You can never come across bad restaurant in West Sumatera, otherwise they will be in bankrupt in a few months. And because of our Matrilineal culture, a lot of men merantau (exploring outside the provinces) and later opening “Padang” Restaurant. So our food is spread across nation and beloved by many. But still eating in West Sumatera will be much tastier.
3. Music scene in Sumatera is bang-on! Most Bataknese people gifted with beautiful voices. A lot of our singers is Bataknese. And karaoke culture is spread across the island, especially during wedding. Our aunties aren’t shy to sing a song or two. Minangnese-pop also well known in the community. South Sumatera also has folk songs thats sometimes displayed in our local tv channel.
4. South Sumatera nicknamed as Venice city of Indonesia. Because our city is packed with small rivers with Sungai Musi (second longest river in Indonesia) as main river. But because of some nasty dark past, those river is blocked off. But still there’s so many rivers here. And the main transportation used to be a boat (ketek; in Indonesian can means armpit but it’s just the boat machine sounds like).
5. There’s a unique wedding customs from a part of Minangnese people. The bride is the one giving money to “buy” the groom. This is only apply if both of them is from Pariaman.
6. In western we see brides and groom cutting a wedding cake. But in South Sumatera we “tear” a whole chicken. Whichever got the bigger side is the one dominating in their relationship. 😂
7. West Sumatera have well known dances. The one that the performers shatter plates and step on those shattered plates. We call it tari piring (plates dance).
8. Almost forgot about Minangnese flag in 4:29 😂. Indonesian on social media always jokes whenever they see those flags they acted like they arrived in Germany. But it’s actually Minangnese flag (marawa) that have meanings to it.
9. Sriwijaya Empire monarch is actually Javanese monarch descendants. Hence why old Palembangnese language is closer to Javanese. And 5:07 adapt to Javanese names.
10. This place 5:38 is like a hotspot during Chinese holidays. I heard they’re matchmaking here during festivals. And linked to famous legends about love story of Chinese man and Palembangnese woman.
11. Some unique matrilineal customs in West Sumatera. Every girls get their own bedroom but boys sleep in the living room. Once they old enough 4:27 they used to get educated in local mosque and sleep in there.
12. Minangkabau traditional houses can be recognized by how many windows + 1 main door in the house. For example the house got 2 windows and 1 door we call it 3 ruang. It’s always 3 or 5 for common house, 7 is like rare and 9 is for the royal palace. My dad side family has 7 ruang house so the house is preserved by local goverment.
I have a question about Palembang Malays. Do you have to live in Palembang to be considered Palembang Malay? Or can you live in the outlying regions of South Sumatera and still consider yourself Palembang Malay?
I ask because I met someone here in Jakarta who is from the Dempo region but he considers himself Palembang Malay.
@@mapk1516because it’s just too complicated to explain 😂. And the people who heard it just received it by it is. When they explained where they actually come from, most Jakartans won’t know where exactly the place is.
It’s like when you introduce yourself as Indonesian to foreigners but they don’t know where Indonesia is. But once you mentioned Bali, they instantly knows.
@@mapk1516 id say yes bcus my dad is palembangese but live outside of palembang
batak people also stereotypically known to have loud voices and very argumentative, hence being stereotyped as lawyers.
Lampung descendant here. I wanna correct or add something.
Lampung culture and ethnics is different from Palembang People. Lampungese has its own culture and tradition. They even had its own kingdom whose name is Kepaksian Sekala Brak. Lampung ethnics even has 2 sub etnics, which is Lampung Seibatin and Lampung Pepadun. Lampung people and Palembang can't understand each other, when they use their own language. And must remember that Lampung had been conquered by Banten Sultanate, so they have its own culture and language that influence from Bantenese/sundanese banten people. That not the case with Palembang. So that is why I said Lampung it's different from Palembang/South Sumatra.
Damn, thankyou for your dedication to made this video. Indonesia is HUGE and you explained it well
It was so much information, lol I tried my best
@@GeographyNow another fun fact forgot to be mentioned. We are the 2nd largest country in terms of languages. While this is fascinating for me, I was surprised that the number 1 country with the most languages is actually our neighbour, Papua New Guinea. Lesser population more languages🙃
OMG please do the Philippines 😂. It has more administrative divisions😂. We have 81 provinces that were group into 17 regions filled with wonderful people
Fyi, Provinces in Indonesia (38) are the same level as states in the US (50) or provinces in China (23) or Region in Philipines (17) which is level 1 regions, different from term provinces in the Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam, in Indonesia they are equivalent to level 2 regions named Kabupaten, the number of Kabupaten in Indonesia is 416.
@@gilardi567so? What yours point? You don't have to compared Indonesia and the Philippines since we all know that Indonesia has more lands but has more active volcanoes which makes the surrounding land not safe to live
@@BisayangdakoVlogzLol, i saw this Pinay account in every comsec... He just wants to explain that the provinces in Indonesia and the Philippines are not comparable, 'bcz one Philippine province's equivalent to a single region (region in a province) in Indonesia. The point he wants to make is that the term "province" has different meanings in Indonesia and the Philippines, 'bcz the Indonesian provinces are similar to the US states in terms of administrative level and size.
Since Indonesia is much larger than the Philippines, and if we use the Philippine definition of province, Indonesia would have more than 400 provinces. This shows the diversity and complexity of Indonesia as a country.
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@@BisayangdakoVlogz I'm just giving information, that the term province in Indonesia is different from the term province in the Philippines. Even though Indonesia has many volcanoes, it is very safe to live. Volcanoes usually erupt over a long period of time, it can be once every 20 years, 50 years, or even 100 years and it only impacts areas around a distance of 1 to 5 km. The island of Kalimantan does not have volcanoes, Jakarta and the northern part of the island of Java are safe from earthquakes and volcanoes.
I sadly didn’t have the chance to continue learning Indonesian and only did so for one semester in college, but because it was an intense “you have to speak, and I will make you have a conversation with me without any English - I know that you want to learn and won’t just sit there in silence” kind of class, I actually learned quite a lot, and have sadly forgotten much in the years since due to lack of practice, but I could get it back if I had to.
As a fluent French speaker who lived there for a couple years, I was shocked that Indonesians aren’t particular about pronunciation or grammar, because it’s a second language for most of them anyway. As the only non-Indo European language that I even learned some of, it opened my eyes somewhat to how the country works, and how other societies without a dominant ethnic/linguistic majority do as well.
Even if the professor embarrassingly laughed when I embraced it a little too much and asked for a bribe during a skit in class
THANK'S BRO, FOR PROVIDING YOUR REVIEW ABOUT 38 PROVINCES...
GREETINGS FROM ACEH INDONESIA !🇮🇩
Sometimes it's hard to identify Indonesians or Indonesians culture, Because we are so diverse, too diverse.
"Bhineka Tunggal Ika" ✊🇮🇩
Sending love from Tangerang! Thank you for making this episode!
Hi Barb, thanks for this video, a great one for featuring my country again. Obviously, it must be hard one to be featured, but really appreciate for it. Thank you again so much.
I am from Toraja, and I wanna talk about it a little bit. Actually, it is fun when some people know my place and commonly say that it is where people "partying", but for the dead (well it's not a party like usual thing, rather a ritual ceremony called Rambu Solo. It is actually a complicated event often occur in Toraja, so when people visit there, they will see it directly as part of the live of its people. Well that may the reason why this event become the tourist affection). Obviously there are other things that worth to be see in there, but this one is hard to miss.
Place recommendation if you want to visit this country again: overall every places in Indonesia are recommended (sorry can't be specific because it is hard to chose as every places have their own uniqueness and worth to be visited)
20:35 noo why didn't you talk about the hangul script used for the cia-cia/butonese language😭. but still thanks for making this video, you did a great job
Some more things need to be mentioned here:
• There's an ongoing joke, Bekasi is on another planet
• People living in either Banten, Jakarta, or West Java when traveling to either Yogyakarta, Central, or East Java, they'd basically say, "We're going to Java"
• Aceh is a marijuana producer
• The presence of Minangkabau people outside West Sumatra can be detected by the presence of Padang Restaurant
• Buginese people have five genders
• Everytime you hear a news (mostly outside pundits) about teens being publicly caned for certain offences, it's only happened in Aceh, never happened in the rest of Indonesia
• Osing people of East Java is heavily associated with witchcraft
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For the second point as i grew up in jakartan and sundanese area
Those concept as simple as centr java, yogya and east java are javanese dominated area, so sundanese and jakartan here call those region as java (not as an island)
Plenty wrong infos on provinces in papua...but some indonesian got it wrong anyway though.
Five genders? Are kidding me? What kind of genders they are? As indonesian i never heard abt it bfore? Care to tell me a little bit, please? 😢
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You did such an awesome job informing us about Indonesia! Wow! Impressive work.
Indonesia is so diverse that even I who have been living in four island, seven provinces, still found facts which I didn't know.
PS: Barb, I proposed West Sumatra to visit. Historically, some of founding father was born there including several prime ministee and the first vice president. It has beautiful lake, Danau Maninjau. It has Mentawai Island where its indigeneous people have their traditional tattoo. And of course, in West Sumatra you'll find a lot of variety of Rendang food.
Finally! I actually have a fun story with Indonesian people, being a Latino myself. 🇮🇩🇨🇱
Jadi, pertama kali, saya orang Chile, Amerika Selatan. Saya sudah bejalar bahasa Indonesia selama lebih dari empat tahun (iyah, lama bngt njir) jadi sudah bertemu dan bertemanan sama baaaanyak orang Indo di internet, TAPIIII lama-lama ini saya juga sering dipanggil "Bang Messi".
Alasannya, setahu saya, itu karena saya penutur asli bahasa spanyol dan saya juga orang Amerika Latin, yang terkenal (baaanget) dengan sepak bolanya (dan, sayangnya, lagu "Despacito"). Jadi teman² yang cowok sering memanggil saya "Lapi ngapain, bang Messi?" dan "¿Qué mirás bobo?" (Yg si Messi bilang sama pemain timnas Belanda di Piala Dunia). Itu sering banget ke titik beberapa kali saya memperkenalkan diri sebagai "gw Messi".
Indonesia itu dunia kecil dalam dunia kita, tidak ada "semacam" orang Indonesia aja, ada baaaaanyak budaya, bahasa, dan fakta yg menarik banget sama gw. Setelah belajar bhs indo, satu²nya yg gw bisa lakukan itu berterima kasih sama orang indo atas persahabatan dan kebaikannya. Gracias indos 🤍🇮🇩🇨🇱🤍
TL;DR = I get called Messi very often just because I speak Spanish
Wah bahasa Indonesia kamu bagus sekali hampir mendekati native Indonesia, salam hangat dari Lampung, Indonesia ❤
Njirr orang Chile udah pake bahasa lu gue aja 🤣
i envy chileans ‘cause y’all have magellan penguins and _local_ _Gymnocalycium_ cacti. indonesia has no native cactus species
Gila bahasa indonesia bagus sekali sudah berkata(lo,gue,banget) keren 👏👏
@@wahyuukrs9851 Makasi banget bang, salam hangat dari Valdivia, Chile Selatan! 🙌🏼🇨🇱🤍🇮🇩
Medan is Gotham. Yeah, that's because of how high of crimerates there.
My HS friend is from Medan, and she said "the center of the city is quite safe, the rest? Pray you don't get a problem." she said that after she lost her phone, motorcycle, money, and underwear to 4 different person in a day. I'm more concerned about why someone stole underwear.
i just want to say, i suggest to you to not knowing about the last thing.
Visit every main land is a good start. u've done batam. probably get to Bandung, or Yogyakarta as java representative, balikpapan as kalimantan representative, Manado as Sulawesi representative, Ambon as maluku representative, and fakfak as papua representative.
what to do in fak fak? XD
@@ronzac55 baku naik
Thank you for all the information!
Its crazy how diverse this country is!
I’m Singaporean, but have extended families from both paternal and maternal sides in Riau Islands. Batam is too urbanised. If you want a taste of small town vibe, visit the rest of the larger Riau Islands such as Bintan and Karimun. Bintan has a large extinct volcano, and Tanjung Pinang’s culture is a mixture of the natives and Chinese immigrants, many of whom had settled in the Riau Islands for hundreds of years.
I have been waiting for you to finally do the provinces of Indonesia and here it is about time
Indonesia is is seriously underrated tbh, I guess because these days they keep a low profile geopolitically speaking
true 👍
It will active again in geopolitic when Prabowo take the duty 😎
We are so grateful that you have created & uploaded such an interesting topics of Indonesia's provinces.
This is gonna mind blowing all people around the world...!
Hi Barb thank you for this video! as an Indonesian I learnt something new from this
if you should come back to Indonesia, I suggest you to go to the Moluccas, especially the Banda Neira... gosh the nature is so beautiful there. other islands in the Moluccas also have beautiful beaches which are not known among foreigners
once again thank you for this video
have a great day
as someone from lampung i don't think we are temperamental, we just sounded like angry all the time 😂😂😂😂
btw Thank you for the video Barbs 🇮🇩❤️
too many megaphone, arabwannabe and closeminded ppl.
Maaf Emang kenyataannya gitu tapi oknum 2nya aja sih soalnya ku pernah punya teman orng Lampung
Soalnya kalo translate jadi "begal" susah dan malah tambah masalah 😂
Emang itu kenyataannya,Banyak orang Lampung yg tempramental.. apalagi yg gak pernah campur sama suku lain yg diem di kampung gak pernah kemana mana,sama pendatang khususnya org Jawa rasis bgt, memandang rendah bgt kayaknya..tapi cuma jago kandang doang kalau org Lampung,di luar melempem ..beda sama org Batak ..klo org Batak mirip org Jawa gak pilih2 kerjaan & gak gengsian ... pdhl klo diliat lebih keras org Batak klo dipikir tp msh bisa diajak kompromi klo org Batak (itu menurut pengalaman gw)
@@aryw8634 mental tempe itu bang hahahha jago di kandang doang
thank you, Barbs!
I appreciate this video so effin' much!!
if you ever go to Indonesia, pretty sure that you will be landed in Jakarta.
to simulate travel the Indonesian provinces, there is a place called "Taman Mini Indonesia Indah", translate to "Beautiful Indonesia's Mini Garden".
as a jakartan, I can say it is the cheapest way to vibing Indonesia.
and for culinary stuff you must visit "Mangga Besar" area and Sabang street
The coats of arms of each state are all amazing, such a rich country, Thanks for sharing the vídeo
Love them, each tells a cool story, like the Komodo dragon on E Nusa Tenggara
Thank you, besides of provinces, each regencies and cities have their coat of arms too which are pretty cool as well you can google it or check in Wikipedia, just for information we have 416 regencies and 98 cities, even me as Indonesian can't remember some stuffs of them 🥴🤯
Most of them contain the images of "Padi dan Kapas" (A stalk of rice and a stalk of cotton combined together) which is like the must-have symbol in Indonesia-template regional coat of arms
I literally loved the video!! An amazing way to understand the depths and hidden yet interesting things of this big and complex country!! Thank you very much Paul !!! You’re still many years on, one of my Top 3 UA-cam channels !! It’s incredible how can you keep up with such quality still, with such competition nowadays in UA-cam!! 😁😁
Thanks, I really appreciate it
Like you said Indonesia has a alot of Islands, even myself as an Indonesian sometimes wondering "how the hell are we still a one country?" Lmao. Anyways if you ever wanna visit Indonesia again Barbs, i suggest you go to Yogyakarta for traditional sites, Lombok for the beaches (if you're tired of Bali) and obviously Jakarta for its modernization and there's also some famous historical sites there too.
i’m indonesian and i also think that indonesia is a miracle country, with 1.340 ethnicities, spans from asia to oceania, and 700+ languages we can stand still in a one country with one lingua franca, the bahasa indonesia. it’s crazy to think about.
Easy because Dutch
and the Power of Indonesian Ideology : Pancasila. That's the only reason we are still united in one Country 😊
And have like most largest islands in the world. Each Island could've made its own country, but choose not to (well except East Timor which then become Timor Leste)
@@KeRush2also the motto "Bhinekke Tunggal Ika" which means "Unity in Diversity"
꧋ꦩꦠꦸꦂꦤꦸꦮꦸꦤ꧀ꦱꦩ꧀ꦥꦸꦤ꧀ꦔꦼꦤ꧀ꦢꦶꦏꦤ꧀ꦧꦧꦒꦤ꧀ꦆꦤ꧀ꦢꦺꦴꦤꦺꦱꦶꦪ꧉
Terima kasih sudah membahas tentang Indonesia
Thank's for talking about Indonesia
bro XD
And you americans must learn this, that bali is not a country, and Indonesia is a country that bali is part of Indonesia.
yess another indonesian episode. greetings from indonesia( i was also one of the people that emailed you about provinces of sumatra)
6:40 correction: they swapped with Malacca, not Singapore
Also love Indonesia from Malaysia!🇲🇾🇮🇩
Sending love back to you brother 🇮🇩❤️🇲🇾
Hi hi sok tau loe bro... Memang bengkulu di tukar dengan singapura....
@@rizal_ngetopditukar dengan malacca bang... ngatain org sok tau tp salah😂
@@uraijutha4088 yang ada belanda bilang di tukar dengan tumasik (singapura) gak ada tuh belanda bilang tukar dengan malaka
@@rizal_ngetopBengkulu ditukar dengan malaka dan tumasik.
well I highly appreciated, and thanks for high quality content about my country. hope you guys all the best.
I feel like these province videos give us a good glimpse of what the country videos would have been like (in terms of length/depth/detail) if they had been made today rather than years ago.
It was only 27 provinces when I learned geography at school. Feel very old now😂
26 provinsi + timor Timur (timor leste) 😂😂😂😂😂
Lahir zaman Orde Baru pastinya. Saya juga.. 🤣
33 provinsi gua waktu sd
Older than you when the Indonesian people live with eight provinces
@@Tamochiki1403 wow. Lahir Zaman Bung Karno.
Hy Barbs, thank you so much for the video !!! It’s really great to see a foreigner explained the beauty of our 17,000 islands and 38 provinces, which many not only foreigners but also Indonesian don’t really know about what we have in our beautiful country, and I believe probably many Indonesian can not name every provinces.
I actually sent you an email to offer to help you with video, but apparently you have too many emails in your inbox.
I am Minangkabau person who grew up in Bekasi that you mentioned as the largest city in West Java and is actually a city with mix of culture from Betawi (Jakarta) and Sundanese (West Java).
The only thing that would have been a nice addition for West Sumatera bit is the mention of Mentawai Islands, a part of West Sumatera but totally different culture, instead of Minangkabau they have local Mentawai tribe with distinct semi nomadic hunter gatherer lifestyle.
Mentawai also known for the best surfing spot in the world.
The reason why marriage between Sundanese and Javanese is considered to be cursed stem from the bubat incident. It was literally a red wedding, the Sundanese royals are House Stark and Majapahit is House Frey.
Extra history actually covered this event in their Majapahit series, you can check it out for more details.
Side note: it was believed that the King of Majapahit, Hayam Wuruk actually loved the Princess of Sunda but his Prime Minister, Gadjah Mada opposed. It was more like an unplanned red wedding more than anything.
Medan is called 'Gotham' due to how dangerous it is. Also we jokingly call it Medan Perang (battlefield).
Actually, there is one thing that needs to be discussed when we discuss East Java. Namely Madurese people (they're 4th largest people in Indonesia). Maybe you saw Madura from the picture of Suramadu Bridge in the video. One of the things that people might forget about Madurese people is satay (yes, that's right, it's a famous food) and the interesting regional clothes and the language which is different from Javanese people. Mator Sakalangkong (Thank you in Madurese)
Klan M
maduranese is also often known for the "maduramart" / warung madura, small grocery stores that open 24 hours a day.
East Java is where you can find soooo many good food in "Java" region! IMO, if you compare the foods in Jogja or Semarang with foods in Surabaya, Surabaya is the absolute winner!
@@dadarmwnmostly because Central Javanese prefer sweet foods while the rest of Indonesia prefer saltier foods.
I believe Madura should be its own province
Wow finally my country Indonesia 🇮🇩 As Indonesians, let me tell other facts that did not mentioned in the Video
Aceh = The most affected area during 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami, and they have many tourism sites to commemorate Tsunami disaster there
North Sumatra = Medan also have percentage of Indian-descent people. Many of North Sumatra is talking "too loud" by people in Java Island. So it make them looks "Angrier"
West Sumatra = Minangkabau known by Rantau (wandering) culture, They go to other city and many of them opened "Padang" restaurant which provides Minangkabau food in cheap prices. Bukittinggi is also Capital of Indonesia during Dutch Invasion in 1945-1949
Riau Island = Home of "Gurindam" or Malay Poem, have sea dispute with China at Natuna Sea area and illegal fishing problem
Jambi = Have highest point in Sumatra, Mount Kerinci
South Sumatra = Home to 2018 Asian Games, co-cities with Jakarta. Known by Pempek Food which have unique Submarine shape
Bangka Belitung = Known by Martabak Bangka, and Belitung Island is popular sites after it was place for the most popular novel story in Indonesia "Laskar Pelangi"
Lampung = Also known controversially by "Begal" or Banditary problem. In one time I have heard oral news that a truck which parked outside the house can be lost in the middle of the day and no one knows who steal it. Although for this story is maybe not true but many of Indonesians hear this story once
Banten = Black Magic, it is also called "Debus". While the people who have this magic is practically "unharmed" by sharp things such as Wood block and Knife
Jakarta = Known by Betawi People. Also popular as where of "Indonesian slang language" come from. For example "Lo" to replace "Kamu" (You in english) and "Gue" to replace "Saya" (I in english)
West Java = Popular by Tea plantation, Many of Jakartans go there for just chilling in weekend which caused traffic moved to Bandung in Saturday and Sunday
Central Java = Tegal area in Central Java is known for similiar "Rantau" culture in West Sumatra. They also opened "Warung Tegal" in other cities which also provides traditional home made food with Cheap Price
Yogyakarta = In one time Yogyakarta has replaced Jakarta as capital city during Dutch Invasion in 1945 until 1949, Sultan gave Indonesian government a save place to works and giving "all of Yogyakarta Sultanate" money for Indonesian Government during Dutch Invasion
East Java = Home to Bromo Tengger National Park with picturesque Desert valley with Bromo and Semeru mountain
West Nusa Tenggara = Lombok Island is the home of Mandalika Circuit which hosted 2023 MotoGP World Series
Central Kalimantan = in the past, Soekarno hava a dream to make Palangkaraya as future capital of Indonesia. Which also influenced the decition to move Indonesian Capital to Kalimantan Island
Southeast Sulawesi = They have Wakatobi Island which popular among divers. Southeast Sulawesi also have Cia-Cia ethnic group with Cia-Cia language which written in Korean Hangul Script because the pronounciation is more likely as Hangul pronounce rather than Latin or Arabic script
South Sulawesi = Also known as location of Centre point of Indonesia. Have the second largest Jesus statue in the world, Buntu Burake Jesus Statue
And All of Papua's Province have autonomy status, which gave them more "independent" governance and special allowance in National GDP to boost development there
mount kerinci is also the tallest volcano in indonesia
Thank you Barb, Thank you, Geography Now team... this is a great video, I always enjoying your contents
just adding, Palembang is also a type of Malay, just like Jambi is a type of Malay. The difference in South Sumatra is that not only Palembang is a type of Malay, but Musi, Semendo, Gumay, Ogan, Basemah, Pasemah are a type of Malay too.
Komering is a bit different from the others, but they have been assimilated and have a mixture of Malay from Palembang
Komering have a clan, so mereka bukanlah Melayu.
Neither Jambi and Palembang are Malay. Historically the civilised Malay already driven out to Peninsular and some were eradicated by the king of Java Bhatara Tamaril.
Indragiri/Indragiri people (Riau) were also not Malay because of the Johor influences the local has accepted the Malay cultures along with its Johor Malay language.
No they are not Malay. If you can conclude them as Malay then you should also conclude them as Javanese.
@@davidivory3234 😅😅I'm from Musi, so the Musi dialect is almost the same as Palembang and can even be combined with standard language with the Musi dialect. so we don't have our own language, neither do Ogan, Gumay, Semendo, Pasemah, Basemah. but not with Komering because they have their own language
@@yumiyuki5851 In the 10-60s, the people you mentioned still had their own language, but the rapid influence of Malay Islam was too strong, they had forgotten their native language and now only follow and use Malay.
Very informative video from a Filipino "Indonesia" fan. Thank you so much for this one. Of all the provinces in Indonesia, I really love these provinces: North Sumatra, North Sulawesi and Yogyakarta
🇮🇩❤️🇵🇭 brothers, always
Hello from Yogyakartan
Filipinos🇵🇭real brothers in SEA are Thais🇹🇭Vietnamese🇻🇳and Malaysians🇲🇾
Indonesians are more closely related to Melanesians, Papuans, Solomon Islands, etc
@@user-zd9cv6wc8h Agree to disagree. Indonesians and Filipinos are both mainly Austronesians. Western Indonesians have nothing to do with melanesians
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Edit: However we do consider mainlanders as brothers in ASEAN despite some differences in cultures
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@@runbulletproof5920 western indonesians are part of Melanesian group dumbo just like how Palau(which is part of philippine islands back then) is part of Micronesian group