Terrain: mostly coastal lowlands; larger islands have interior
mountains
Natural resources: petroleum, tin, natural gas, nickel, timber,
bauxite, copper, fertile soils, coal, gold, silver
Land use: arable land: 8% permanent crops: 3% meadows and pastures: 7% forest and woodland: 67% other: 15%
Irrigated land: 75,500 sq km (1989 est.)
Environment:
current issues: deforestation; water pollution from industrial wastes,
sewage; air pollution in urban areas
natural hazards: occasional floods, severe droughts, and tsunamis
international agreements: party to - Biodiversity, Climate Change,
Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Nuclear Test
Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83,
Wetlands; signed, but not ratified - Desertification, Marine Life
Conservation, Tropical Timber 94
Note: archipelago of 13,500 islands (6,000 inhabited); straddles
Equator; strategic location astride or along major sea lanes from
Indian Ocean to Pacific Ocean
@Indonesia:People
Population: 203,583,886 (July 1995 est.)
Age structure:
0-14 years: 32% (female 32,548,039; male 33,485,810)
15-64 years: 64% (female 65,394,816; male 64,914,362)
65 years and over: 4% (female 4,027,367; male 3,213,492) (July 1995
est.)
Population growth rate: 1.56% (1995 est.)