History UsefulNotes / Indonesia

* Tea is usually served plain or with sugar. Tea with milk is rarely served outside of some restaurants. Iced tea is sold in bottles, mostly by the tea company Sosro, leading to the famous slogan "Apapun makanannya, minumnya Teh Botol Sosro!" (Whatever you're eating, drink Sosro bottled tea!)[[hottip:* :A common way of spoofing it is by putting the slogan on a picture of Sumanto, a convicted cannibal.]]. Bottled iced tea is incredibly popular thanks to the hot tropical climate, and is recommended by Croatian pianist Maxim.

!Some trivia about Indonesia

* "Bakso" (meatballs) and "siomay" (dumplings) are often sold on roadsides on wagons as one of the most common sources of income for the lower class. Be careful though, they're usually sold quite close to the exposed water canals, which are full of garbage.

* Another kind of food made of soy is "tempe", made by boiling some soy several times and fermenting it. It's often used as a substitute for meat in poorer areas. Indonesian tofu ("tahu") is usually harder than the foreign ones.

* Perhaps the most popular branch of Indonesian cuisine is Padangnese (west Sumatra) cuisine, usually sold in the so-called "rumah Padang", distinguishable by food plates stacked on each other on the front window. Padangnese cuisine tend to be very spicy and high in cholesterol, so be careful.

* Even though the current government is supposedly democratic, pissing off fundamentalist Muslims (who make up quite a lot of Indonesia's Muslim population), opening pornographic sites, or quoting something about Timor Leste out of a foreign history book isn't all that good for your health.
* Indonesia invaded East Timor (now Timor Leste) in 1975, left in 1999, and kept everything secret. If you want to write about it, do it in [[MoralEventHorizon other]] [[HighOctaneNightmareFuel/RealLife pages]].

* In case you haven't gotten it yet, many Indonesian Muslims do not think very highly of Westerners. There are many examples of somewhat xenophobic behaviors against Westerners, among them is not allowing cops to touch the bodies of the Bali bombers [[hottip:* :You know, the ones who killed 200+ people, mostly Australians.]] after their execution. Why? [[YourTerroristsAreOurFreedomFighter Because they were committing jihad against the Western swines, dumbass]]. And no, donation programs aren't going to cut it.

** "ParaPencariTuhan" is one of the good ones though. Not that it doesn't have any cliches at all...
*** To be fair, many older sinetrons like ''Keluarga Cemara'', ''Si Doel Anak Sekolahan'', even ''Kedasih'' have both the staying power and preservation from SeasonalRot.

That being said, Indonesia also boasts a whole damn lot of resources around the world, [[OrSoIHeard or so they say]]. One of the so called Wonders of the World, Borobudur temple, is also located in Indonesia.

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* [[GermansLoveDavidHasselhoff Indonesians love (especially kids who grew up on the eighties or nineties)]] KyojuuTokusouJuspion, DaiSentaiGoggleFive, KamenRiderBlack and KamenRiderBlackRX (The last one has an affectionate re-translation that is still enjoyed to this day: Ksatria Baja Hitam (Black Iron Knight). ''{{Naruto}}'' was hugely popular in 2006. The Malaysian animated series ''Upin & Ipin'' is wildly popular, mostly because [[YouNoTakeCandle Malaysian sounds hilarious in Indonesian]], especially when spoken by two bald village boys.

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* Casanova: Soekarno. In his life, he's had about 10 wives, [[{{Polyamory}} some of them he took in as a new wife without bothering to divorce the previous one first]].

As it turned out, Suharto was actually using a very stealthy iron-fisted, corrupt government, which lasted for 32 years. Any who opposed them would be silently put to death. The economic growth also turned out to be mired with corruption and depended on international debts. When the economic crisis of 1997 hit, Indonesia obviously suffered big time. College students demanded that Suharto step down. This resulted in another tragedy where government snipers killed four Trisakti University students. People got mad. Mass demonstration occured, and worse, many Chinese houses and stores were burned down during the chaos for... [[ForTheEvulz some reason]]. To quell the chaos, Suharto had no choice but to immediately step down, replaced by his vice-president B.J Habibie. Sadly all of Suharto's efforts to build up Indonesia, despite his horrid methods, were forgotten and he ended up being demonized by his own country... and even the world, being put on the same level as rulers like the Philippines' Ferdinand Marcos.

** There's a boatload of other places that can be considered tourist attractions in Indonesia, even some places that foreigners frquent yet locals thought little of it.

** Indonesians have been throwing insults to anything Malaysian for quite a while after they patented several Indonesian cultural items, such as batik (the method of forming patterns on fabric by scribbling hot liquid wax, dying it, and boiling off the wax, which as you might've guessed [[CaptainObvious isn't native to Indonesia]]). Between the "culture stealing" and Sukarno's support for the communist guerrillas, [[{{Understatement}} Indonesia doesn't like Malaysia very much]].

* Indonesia's military force is called the TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia, Indonesia National Army). The branches are TNI Angkatan Darat (Army), TNI Angkatan Laut (Navy) and TNI Angkatan Udara (Air Force). They have several spec ops groups, most notably Kopassus (Korps Pasukan Khusus). The spec ops units are notorious for friendly fire incidents in Timor Leste, friendly fire incidents in Aceh, friendly fire incidents during training [[hottip:* :Just kidding, but it's more likely than you'd like to believe.]], atrocities against Malaysian civilians, atrocities against East Timorese civilians, atrocities against Acehnese civilians, and probably shooting protesting college students. [[SarcasmMode Indonesian equipments boast very high reliability, and in some cases, abilities not present in their foreign counterparts. For example, during several trainings in the 80s (or is it the 90s?), several APCs were able to ]] [[ExactWords dive underwater for a very long stretch of time. So long, in fact, that said APCs still haven't resurfaced]]... [[GhostShip yet]].[[hottip:* :The most recent accident involving TNI's military equipments was in May 2009, when a C-130 Hercules carrying about 100 soldiers crashed into a village in East Java, killing almost everyone on board and several villagers. If you ask an Indonesian about this, [[ViewersAreGoldfish there's a pretty high chance they would just say "What?"]]]]

** As for sniper rifles, they mostly use the Remington 700, HK [=G3SG1=] and the [[ShurFineGuns much-hated]] [[IsraelisWithInfraredMissiles Galil-Galatz]][[hottip:* :Where did they get it from? [[{{Discontinuity}} Let's not talk about that]].]]. The special forces also use the PGM Hecate II, a .50 caliber French bolt-action rifle.

** A common occurence in Indonesian soaps is that whenever someone needs to diet, they will [[ChandlersLaw call in a random car to maim that someone]], for [[KarmicDeath karma]], [[{{Wangst}} angst]] or [[ForTheEvulz evulz]]. Really, Indonesian soap cliches can become a trope page on its own...

* If you're watching an Indonesian soap ("sinetron"), odds are it involves a YamatoNadeshiko maid brutalized in an over-the-top manner by her boss (if not that, then it would be a YamatoNadeshiko woman/girl brutalized in an over-the-top manner by her mother/sister, who seems to be either jealous or lust for mostly money and power), absurdly good-looking high school students getting maimed by traffic accidents, religious {{Aesops}}, infallible, religious, but impoverished children or a boy getting weird superpowers. It's not all that uncommon to [[ClicheStorm find all of them in a single series]].

** A common occurence in Indonesian soaps is that whenever someone needs to diet, they will call in a random car to maim that someone, for [[KarmicDeath karma]], [[{{Wangst} angst]] or [[ForTheEvulz evulz]]. Really, Indonesian soap cliches can become a trope page on its own...

** A common occurence in Indonesian soaps is that whenever someone needs to die, they will call in a random car to maim that someone, for [[KarmicDeath karma]] or [[ForTheEvulz evulz]]. Really, Indonesian soap cliches can become a trope page on its own...