8 The Transmigration Scheme is one of the world's largest planned resettlements of people ever organized

9 Young people are a vital mission field

a) Students in universities

b) School children

10 The work of missions has been blessed of God despite the obstacles of geography, bureaucracy and the spirit world

a) Visas

b) Innovative ministry alternatives

c) Missionaries who are serving in animistic areas

d) The great lack of missionaries in Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara and Sulawesi to be filled

e) The wide variety of international mission organizations working in Indonesia

11 Supportive ministries:

a) Bible translation. The Bible Society and other groups are involved in over 100 translation projects across the country

b) Literature. There is an insatiable appetite for good Christian literature,

c) Missionary flying

d) The use of traditional art forms,

e) The JESUS film

f) Practical ministries

g) Christian radio

h) Audio ministry

Politics

Colonial rule by Portuguese (1511-1605), Dutch (1605-1942, 1945-9), British (1807-1815) and Japanese (1942-45).

Religion

Monotheism and communal peace are the basis for the stated government ideology of Pancasila.

Churches in Indonesia

Missionaries from Indonesia

an est. 3,000 of which over 70 are in 22 foreign countries.

Expatriates in Indonesia

an est. 1,000+ in over 100 agencies.

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Geography

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Area 1,919,317 sq.km. The Republic's 17,000 islands (4,000 inhabited) stretch 6,400 km of land over 9.5 million sq.km of the Indian/Pacific Oceans, with 23 provinces, 2 special regions and the capital district.

Population (2000) 212,991,926 +1.44%AGR

Capital Jakarta 12.2 mill.

Peoples

Major peoples – using preferred Indonesian spelling. See under regions below for more detail.

Indo-Malay 94%.

Chinese 4%.

Papua peoples 1.2%.

Other 0.8%.

Literacy 83.8%; rising steadily. Official language Indonesian (Bahasa Indonesia). Its increasing use is both unifying the nation and lessening the importance of smaller languages to the younger generation. All languages 726; 18 spoken by more than one million speakers; 247 spoken in Papua. Languages with Scriptures 20Bi 38NT 77por.

Economy

Increasingly diversified economy based on oil, gas, forest products, agriculture and textiles, with large reserves of many minerals. HDI 0.681; 105^th/174. Public debt (2000) 99% of GNP. Income/person $450 (1.4% of USA).

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