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INDONESIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indonesia mean? 

INDONESIA (noun)
  The noun INDONESIA has 1 sense:

1. 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 regionsplay

  Familiarity information: INDONESIA used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


INDONESIA (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting spatial position

Synonyms:

Dutch East Indies; Indonesia; Republic of Indonesia

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 


An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus/CDISC)

A type of cigarette that is made in Indonesia.

(Clove cigarette, NCI Dictionary)

An island group in the North Pacific Ocean, about three-quarters of the way from Hawaii to Indonesia, west of the Marshall Islands and north of the Solomon Islands.

(Micronesia, Federated States of, NCI Thesaurus)

First identified in Taiwan, Malaysia and Indonesia in the early 1990s, TR4 has since spread to Africa and now threatens the vast banana plantations of Latin America.

(GM tech expands with more crops to more countries, SciDev.Net)

The low pressure, or cyclonic air circulation, normally found in the western tropical Pacific and Indonesia, associated with a large, deep layer of warm ocean water.

(Indonesian Low, NOAA Paleoclimate Glossary)

A group of islands in the Indian Ocean, south of Indonesia and west of Christmas Island.

(Cocos (Keeling) Islands, NCI Thesaurus)

The large-scale, multidisciplinary study on palm oil plantations, in the Jambi province in Indonesia, compared the yield associated with decreased versus conventional use of fertilisers, and with mechanical versus herbicide-based weed control.

(Greener palm oil possible without sacrificing profit, SciDev.Net)

It also emphasizes the critical role of tropical forests, such as those in the Amazon, Congo and Indonesia, as regions with the greatest potential to store additional carbon.

(Study Suggests Trees' Potential to Slow Global Warming in Next 100 Years, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

That includes roughly 600 million people in Indonesia, Cambodia, Myanmar, Bangladesh, Laos and several other nations, mainly in Southeast Asia, the report said.

(Planet-Warming Gases Make Some Food Less Nutritious, Study Says, Steve Baragona/VOA)

Scientists from the World Mosquito Program (WMP), who conducted the trials in Australia, Brazil, Indonesia and Vietnam, told that Wolbachia works by inhibiting reproduction of the viral pathogens while inside the mosquitoes.

(Bacteria-infected mosquitoes slash dengue cases, SciDev.Net)



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