Provinces of INDONESIA explained

WHEW. Sheesh 38 provinces. That's quite a lot! Thanks to all the Indonesian geograpeeps that helped / are featured in this video! Also...... Hehe, "Fakfak" ....ENJOY!

Even just still in one country, Indonesians always experience culture shock when visiting different cities because each cities has their own unique culture, dialect, food ect 😅

fun facts: several Indonesian kingdoms once received status as special regions because of their services in helping Indonesian independence, such as Kutai, Surakarta Hadiningrat, etc. Unfortunately, only Yogyakarta remains as a special region, the only region in Indonesia that adheres to a monarchy system,and before becoming a unitary state, Indonesia had the status of a federal state.

Thank you for making this and clarifying "there's no one type of Indonesian". As a multi-ethnic Indonesian born and raised in Bandung, with a Sundanese dad from Tasik and a half Malay & Chinese mom from Palembang, the struggle I faced when foreigners asked what Indonesia's culture is like is real. Growing up in multiple cultures, languages & even cuisines, it's like which one am I supposed to tell them. Or when they ask me something about a certain region in Indonesia and I tell them I don't know, the amount of "Aren't you Indonesian" or "Shouldn't you know since you're Indonesian from Indonesia" and I just died a little inside. It's almost like having an identity crisis of "am I a fake Indonesian because I don't know every single detail of our hundreds of different cultures?". Anyways, I love my diverse country and people and will forever be proud to call myself Indonesian :')

When Indonesia said the motto is "unity in diversity", they aint kidding! People, languages, cuisines, clothes, houses, cultures, traditions, musical instruments, flora, fauna, etc. So many differences and scattered over 18,000 islands, yet united as one! Truly incredible! Long live Indonesia! ❤️🤍

Minangkabau have a tradition of "Rantau" which when a young adult Minangkabau man who didn`t get any land inheritence (because it goes to the daughter, traditionally) sets out to any other provinces to find prosperity and stay there. that`s why they were everywhere (you can find any padang restaurant in every province), popularice rendang, and one of the setting for most of their popular story: Malin kundang. I am one of those men trying to find a chance in Bogor, hope i can finally get a job. wish me luck~

Yoo calling Medan the Indonesian "Gotham City" is wild😂

I like how Indonesia is a transition zone between Australia/Melanesia and Southeast Asia. Can be seen in the wildlife, plants, and people as well.

Timestamp (Indonesian name of the provinces in parenthesess): ===Sumatra=== 1:47 Aceh 2:22 North Sumatra (Sumatera Utara) 2:53 Riau 3:16 Riau Islands (Kepulauan Riau) 3:57 West Sumatra (Sumatera Barat) 4:35 Jambi 5:07 South Sumatra (Sumatera Selatan) 5:43 Bangka Belitung Islands (Kepulauan Bangka Belitung) 6:19 Bengkulu 6:53 Lampung ===Java=== 7:47 Banten 8:20 SCR of Jakarta (DKI Jakarta) 8:57 West Java (Jawa Barat) 10:01 Central Java (Jawa Tengah) 10:45 SR Yogyakarta (DI Yogyakarta) 11:24 East Java (Jawa Timur) ===Kalimantan=== 12:36 West Kalimantan (Kalimantan Barat) 13:12 Central Kalimantan (Kalimantan Tengah) 14:06 South Kalimantan (Kalimantan Selatan) 14:54 East Kalimantan (Kalimantan Timur) 15:24 North Kalimantan (Kalimantan Utara) ===Nusa Tenggara=== 16:17 Bali 17:13 West Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Barat) 17:53 East Nusa Tenggara (Nusa Tenggara Timur) ===Sulawesi=== 18:59 West Sulawesi (Sulawesi Barat) 19:31 South Sulawesi (Sulawesi Selatan) 20:06 Southeast Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tenggara) 20:39 Central Sulawesi (Sulawesi Tengah) 21:06 Gorontalo 21:41 North Sulawesi (Sulawesi Utara) ===Maluku Islands=== 22:39 Maluku 23:28 North Maluku (Maluku Utara) ===Papua=== 25:09 Southwest Papua (Papua Barat Daya) 25:57 West Papua (Papua Barat) 26:38 Central Papua (Papua Tengah) 27:14 Papua 27:56 Highland Papua (Papua Pegunungan) 28:33 South Papua (Papua Selatan) PHEW... ALL SORTED AND DONE

I’m from Greece and I love Indonesia 🇬🇷 ❤️ 🇮🇩 . I went to Bali 2 moths ago and it was incredible! I definitely want to travel through the rest of Indonesia. Also a friend of mine was in Palangkaraya for the city mountain biking world championships and he had a lot of fun!

As a Dutchie this was interesting. We have many streets named after the Indonesian islands and regions.

As a person who has an extreme interest in Indonesia for what seems like no reason, this further drives my interest in Indonesia! Love from Los Estados Unidos!

I remember when we had 27 provinces and taught at school that each province has their distinct traditional costume, musical instrument, and dance. Growing up, the provinces split every now and then just like you said, I always forget how many there are and what is the capital of each provinces. Thank you for forcing yourself to wrap this huge amount of information around your head. Even for Indonesians, Indonesia is too big, but they rarely conprohend it.

As a geology student, I would like to talk about the finding of diamond in South Kalimantan. So apparently, the diamonds that are found in that province is a placer deposit which means that the main source of the diamonds are located somewhere else. Until now, many geologists are still debating the exact location of the main source of diamonds found in South Kalimantan because the geological features where diamonds are formed (Kimberlite pipes) cannot be found on the island of Kalimantan. Some even say that the main source are probably located in Indochina region, especially Vietnam.

As someone who’s Egyptian and extremely loves Indonesia I see this as a huge win 😌thanks barb for explaining geography in general in a funny and good way.😭

Fun fact! Nusa Tenggara directly translates to "the southeastern islands" which pretty much sums up our love of naming places by their location.

2:27 Hi barb Im from medan, north sumatra. I want to correct the population for North Sumatra, medan’s population is about 2 million and the province’s population is about 15 million. North sumatra is actually the most populated province outside of java. Additionally, there are more ethnic groups in north sumatra like malay, javanese, chinese, indian (tamil), and others. I, myself am batak mandailing, malay, and acehnese. Medan is like a cultural melting pot of batak, malay, chinese, and others. Medan founded by a batak, was the capital of the malay kingdom of deli, have chinatown and little india. And yeah sadly Medan is known as gotham of indonesia cause of crime, corruption, etc :)

As Indonesia is the one and only SEA country with 3 different time zone in one country , Thats why time is rather chaotic here

Hi Barb, Tari Pendet is from Bali not Lampung, in Lampung they have Tari Sembah, Tari Sekura and the most popular Tari siger panguten 7:23

Fyi, Provinces in Indonesia (38) are the same level as states in the US (50) or provinces in China (23) or Region in Philipines (17) which is level 1 regions, different from term provinces in the Philippines, Thailand or Vietnam, in Indonesia they are equivalent to level 2 regions named Kabupaten, the number of Kabupaten in Indonesia is 416.