Culture

Indonesia

Indonesia has a very diverse culture, including over 300 ethnic groups in Indonesia, each with their own customs, traditions, and dialects. Pictured above is a Javanese woman participating in an Indonesian culture parade.

Over 700 indigenous languages are spoken across Indonesia, but Bahasa Indonesia is the national language (pictured above).

Indonesia has the world's largest Muslim population with over 87% of the countries population identifying as Muslim. That is 12.7% of the world's Muslim population.

Even though Indonesia's rich natural resources lead the country to being one of the G20 group of leading economies, about half of Indonesia’s population lives on less than $2 USD a day.

The beautiful island of Bali is home to the majority of Indonesia's small Hindu population. It is here that they perform Wayang Kulit, or shadow puppets, as well as beautiful dance performances and Hindu-influenced sculpture.

Based off of the belief that the six vices – anger, confusion, jealousy, drunkenness, desire, and greed – enter the body through the top six teeth, almost everyone in Bali have their teeth filed to rid the demonic ends.

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