I believe that Indonesia does have a gymnastics team. But, she will not be able to compete for them unless she is a citizen. So if she remains a US citizen, she will be competing for the US in the Olympics, but for her gym at smaller meets. You can continue training by finding a gym that will take her on. Training in a foreign country will NOT effect her eligibility, but it may make it a bit more confusing for you. She will still be able to compete in any meets in Indonesia, and a few international ones in the USA. Good Luck!

There is a lot of investment from other countries in Indonesia and people want to invest more in Indonesia .America and Australia also have investment .Tea companies and other company's employ indonesia.In a nation disaster people want to look after investments .David

yeah...there are many volcano in indonesia.. but, thousands are exaggerated,.. about 150 volcano, 127 still active..

one big eruption can't destroy indonesia..indonesia is quite large.. even if all that volcano erupted.. there still two biggest island in indonesia with no volcano.. borneo an papua..

First, to address the actual question;

Since Indonesia became a thriving democracy in the late 90's after the fall of Suharto, they have created a series of policy decisions in order to decentralize the country. The previous answer was correct in stating that many times countries will focus on the large cities and Indonesia was no different, focusing much of its political power, capital and will all in Jakarta. Since this decentralization front (Desentralisasi), a lot of regions and local governments have had their powers increased from having more say in how money is distributed to having a stronger say in the style of law and governance. Some have even been given special status as "Special Autonomous Regions" such as Aceh. While some of these actions have had negative consequences such as new means of corruption, others have enabled Indonesia to remain one nation, but allow each region to retain its own individual culture.

The enforcement of laws in Indonesia is generally done by the national police force (PolRI) as well as local police forces. Certain units of PolRI, such as Detachment 88 (in charge of counter terrorism) have been exemplars and done a wonderful job. Others, less so. This is mostly due to funding issues. There is often corruption in the police force, but the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) have done much in recent months to try and stem this.

As for supplying different islands; many Indonesians live a subsistence form of living, in that they create all they need themselves. This hardly encourages economic and social mobility in their lives, but it does give them a comfortable living style. This does have the benefit of making many Indonesian communities self sufficient That said, Indonesia's supply chains are not the most efficient and infrastructure development has been a major priority in the Yudhoyono administration.

Second, on a brief side note to address the other previous answer's comment regarding Indonesia as a third world country;

It is no longer deemed "third world" and has been upgraded to emerging market. Indonesia has one of the most thriving economies in the world and should not be taken lightly. They still have a long ways to go in areas such as poverty reduction, but the strides they have already taken are phenomenal and unprecedented in such a short amount of time.

Dude, USA is pretty far away from Indonesia... You need to post your question in Yahoo!Answer Indonesia to get a response.

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There are significantly large areas of forest in Indonesia that are being lost as native forest is cleared by large multi-national pulp companies and being replaced by plantations. In Sumatra millions of hectares of forest have been cleared often under the command of the central government in Jakarta who comply with multi national companies to remove the forest because of the need to pay off international debt obligations and to develop economically. In Kalimantan the consequences of deforestation have been profound and between 1991 and 1999 large areas of the forest were burned because of uncontrollable fire causing atmospheric pollution across South-East Asia. Every year, forest are burned by farmers (slash-and-burn techniques are used by between 200 and 500 million people worldwide)[42] and plantation owners. A major source of deforestation is the logging industry, driven spectacularly by China and Japan.

The main independence movement, the Indonesian Nationalist Party (PNI), emerged in the 1920s under the leadership of Ahmed Sukarno. It was thoroughly suppressed by the Dutch and remained largely underground until the Dutch East Indies were overrun by the Japanese during World War II. The Japanese installed a puppet PNI government for the duration of their occupation. Following the Japanese defeat in 1945, the PNI declared independence. This was quickly challenged by the Dutch who dispatched a military expeditionary force to Indonesia and arrested Sukarno. However by 1949, under international pressure, they were forced to concede the country’s sovereignty.

The colonial powers had depleted much of Indonesia’s wealth while contributing little to its development. The Sukarno government had a massive development task ahead of it. It also had to forge a national consciousness among dozens of mutually suspicious tribes and ethnic groups. The leaders chose as their national motto the phrase Bhineka Tunggalika, meaning ‘unity in diversity’.

The new Government planned a federal structure for the country, but in 1950 reverted to a unitary state. This concentrated political and economic power in Java, and produced resentment elsewhere. Sukarno’s growing authoritarianism at home was accompanied by an activist foreign policy which attracted, in particular, the enmity of the USA and its allies, who were suspicious of Sukarno’s Cold-War neutrality.

Economic difficulties further fuelled the growth of the opposition, in particular the powerful Indonesian Communist Party (PKI). In September 1965, a coup was launched by sections of the army with full PKI support. The immediate political struggle, which the Government eventually won, was one of the closest in recent history. With discreet support from the Western powers, the army Chief of Staff, General Suharto, backed Sukarno, and saved the regime. Between 400,000 and one million were massacred by the army in the aftermath of the coup. Sukarno was now politically crippled and, in March 1967, was replaced by Suharto.

Suharto remained as President until his (forced) resignation in May 1998. Under the Suharto government, the army always held ultimate political power while a technocrat class was left to run the country day-to-day. The Golkar (Partai Golongan Karya) party was established as the regime’s official political vehicle. Until the fall of Suharto in 1998, Golkar and its candidates won every election with with comfortable majorities.

The regime brought Indonesia relative peace and stability and steady economic growth. Manifestations of Muslim fundamentalism – Indonesia is the world’s largest Muslim country – were rigorously controlled by the Government: both Sukarno and Suharto adhered to a policy of allowing religious diversity as a guarantor of social stability, although attempts to enshrine this formally in an official doctrine of Pancasila were dropped and the Government introduced various stop-gap pro-Islamic policies.

Sukarno’s foreign policy was determinedly neutralist: Indonesia was a founding and active member of the Non-Aligned Movement. His successor, Suharto, steadily tilted his country towards the West and joined the pro-Western ASEAN bloc (Association of South East Asian Nations). From the mid 1980s onwards, he also made some efforts to improve relations with the Soviet Union and China.

The trigger for the fall of Suharto was the Asian financial crisis of 1997. Indonesia suffered particularly badly, as the structural flaws in the economy were laid bare As thousands were thrown out of work, months of rioting and protest followed. The army, which was already struggling with several insurgencies on Indonesia’s outlying territories (see below), began to show signs of dissent. In May 1998, once the influential Muslim leader Amien Rais and various senior military figures had lent their voices to the clamour already demanding Suharto’s departure, the President was left with little choice but to resign (years of bottled-up resentment at the extended Suharto clan’s general freeloading and wholesale corruption also played its part in this scenario).

Suharto’s deputy, Jusuf Habibie, took over until presidential elections were held under new rules in November 1999; national assembly elections were held five months earlier, in June. These saw Golkar pushed into second place by the principal opposition party, the Partai Demokrasi Indonesia Perjuangan (PDIP, the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle) headed by the daughter of former President Sukarno, Megawati Sukarnoputri.

The fastest way takes 3 weeks by mail. You would be able to do it faster in person in the US but I am not sure for Indonesia. Call the National Passport Information Center and ask 1-877-487-2778

Indonesia is a funny country and please do not expect too much about the beaches, even Bali now is very filthy, and Banda Naira, Ambon, North Sulawesi, even Bangka Island and some parts of Java do have excellent beaches, but...they have no facilities, and people will charge you too much and do not count on the seasons....Now, is very hot, in one place, in other places, will be funny, flood, and even riots and locals small wars...not safe...but you are always welcome, and...please bring companies, never come alone. Believe me!! Beware of their locals, women especially,...they will pretend that they will also coming from somewhere, and then you two will chit chat..and so on...and at the end, they will rip you off...so, please come with your groups and never get any involvement with them...I have lost some good people in life, because of them....

It depends where you're flying into and whether they've updated their immigration rules. I have family in Indonesia so visit frequently and was there from Feb to April this year.

There was a new visa 'rule' from Feb this year- now you can buy a 30day VOA and on the visa it will say 'extendable'.

I flew into Denpassar in Feb but they only issued me with a single 30day visa- however this was only a few days after the changes were made. I left the country 30 days later and I flew into Bandung where I was given an extendable visa- I know that it's set up in Jakarta as well. With the new extendable visa you just need to visit a local immigration office, pay the fee and they'll extend your visa.

Otherwise I've always applied for a 60day visa in the UK. If you go to the Indonesian embassy in Bangkok they can probably issue a 60day visa- might be worth phoning them to find out. Or phone the Embassy in London and get visa advice before you go.

Now it's not impossible to extend a visa but it is a hassle to have to visit immigration. Don't forget, you need a departure ticket to enter Indonesia or they might make you buy one on the spot.
Hope that helps!