Yesterday evening Friday, June 26, 2009, upon issuance of George Pernoud "Thalassa" on the channel France 3, he was released a report entitled "Indonesia: Islands counters" Marie David and Najib Dhoum (production Mano a Mano ). This report was devoted to cartographers, geographers Staff Republic of Indonesia, in charge of the official maps of the country. Recall that the Republic of Indonesia has about 237 million inhabitants, which are divided into numerous separate groups ethnically, linguistically and religiously. The geography of Indonesia highlighted several archipelagos usually grouped as follows:
- the Sunda Islands to the west, themselves divided between the major islands of the probe while in the West (Sumatra, Java, Borneo , Sulawesi) and the small islands of the Sunda chain of islands lying south of the country from Bali to Timor
- the Moluccas in the East, whose main islands are North Halmahera, Seram in the center and the Aru Islands and islands in the South Tanimbar,
- New Guinea to the east.
The country is organized into a succession of four levels of territorial government units which are, from largest to smallest unit:
- 1st level: Provinsi (Provincial),
- Level 2: the kabupaten (department) and kota (city),
- Level 3: the kecamatan (district)
- 4th level, by region or province: kelurahan (shared), the desa (village), the Gampong (village Aceh), the Nagare (village in Minangkabau country East Sumatra), the kampung (village in Papua).
Nothing to envy the French administrative division ...
(Source Wikipedia ) Here's the synopsis
reportage de France 3 on the counters of islands:
"Indonesia is the largest archipelago in the world. This huge state has never known exactly how many of its islands, and thus ignores the precise limits of its territorial waters. In 2002, Indonesia and the Philippines, one of his many neighboring countries, competed for the affiliation of two islands, Sipadan and Ligitan. The conflict was resolved before the court in The Hague, which granted the islands in the Philippines. This dispossession has raised awareness in Indonesia of the importance of its territorial boundaries. Since 2005, Indonesia embarked on a great census of the islands and they are numerous. Early estimates indicate 17 000 islands (precisely 17 508 islands of which about 6,000 inhabited). The work begins with a compilation of existing maps, and teams of geographers go "on area" to verify the existence, position and shape of each island listed ... The adventure leads geographers to meet populations often isolated islands ... The great census is far from a story ... still plagued by religious conflicts and nationalist claims, the count of islands is essential to the cohesion of country ".
Until the Republic of Indonesia has completed the identification of its" island heritage, "and if you want to discover this country and its chain of islands, more or less well known, you can visit the site of Badan dan Survei Koordinasi Pemetaan Nasional (National Coordinating Agency for Surveys Mapping years) offering to download geographic data to 1 / 1000000 Arc-Info format, readable with software from ESRI, or transformed into other formats.
Moreover, the official website of the Indonesian Government Bakosurtanal.go.id you find a map of Indonesia with photos georeferenced maps:
By clicking on the pictures numbered, you can find extracts satellite images of certain islands or in other cases of pictures taken from the sea:
Finally, the Indonesia-tourism.com site, oriented towards tourism as its name implies, you can discover section devoted to maps across the Indonesian archipelago, and which are freely downloadable in mid and high resolution, as well as satellite images taken from Google Maps contact:
(Islands North Sulawesi - North Sulawesi)
Somehow, this story and the story he tells, from Paul Valery give wrong when he wrote in "Eyes on the world today" in 1945 "The Time finite world begins ". In Indonesia, it seems, more than 60 years after the time of the finite world, that is to say who is known, bounded, which is more to explore, believed to have mapped every angle, the time of this world is not yet started ...
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