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Indonesia is one of the very few nations on earth to span such a broad spectrum of world history and human civilization - from its ancient Hindu-Javanese temples to Bali's modern luxury resorts, and from the stone-age lifestyle in West Papua (Irian Jaya) to the immense metropolis that is Jakarta. The country's motto, Bhinneka Tunggal Ika, or Unity in Diversity, is no mere slogan. The population of nearly 220 million people is derived from 300 ethnic groups who speak over 250 distinct languages. The common element is the national language of Bahasa Indonesia, very similar to Malay. |
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| Java Man and Peking Man are now recognized as members of the species Homo erectus, a direct ancestor of people who inhabited the Old World about 1.7 million to 250,000 years ago. Many fossils of this type have been discovered in Central Java, some more than a million years old. |
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