Is Indonesia should be considered in Asia?

Question

Why is Indonesia is in Asia when the country itself is separated from the Asia mainland?

Answer 1

Yes it is yet considered Asia because Indonesia even it is separated from Asia mainland it's culture,political and traditions have similarity to those Asian countries and also we followed  what we called Asian boundaries such as boundaries of Africa and Asia is the Isthmus of Suez and the Red Sea,Asia and Europe is conventionally considered to run through the Dardanelles, the Sea of Marmara, the Bosporus, the Black Sea, the Caucasus Mountains, the Caspian Sea, the Ural River to its source, and the Ural Mountains to the Kara Sea near Kara, Russia.

Answer 2

Yes, Indonesia is considered an Asian nation because of all the continents, it is nearest to Asia both geographically and culturally.

Answer 3

Indonesia is not exactly said to be in 'Asia.'

There are many nations around a piece of ocean called 'the South China Sea.' On a map it is easy to see that Indonesia is south east of that sea. If you continue through Indonesia you will come to Australia. So Indonesia could either be considered north west Australia, which would be a silly idea, or south east Asia. Of course, people chose to place it in south east Asia.

:-D Now it is known as part of Southeast Asia. It just makes sense. It is just the way things are on a map - direction wise.

Answer 4

The greater part of Indonesia is geoloigically part of Asia as the major islands are part of the vast extension of SE Asia called the Sunda Shelf. See article from Wikipedia

Geologically, the Sunda Shelf is an extension of the continental shelf of Southeast Asia, covered during interglacials by the South China Sea, which isolates as islands Borneo, Sumatra Java and smaller islands. During glacial periods, the sea level falls, and great expanses of the Sunda Shelf are exposed as a marshy plain. The seas and bays that cover the Sunda Shelf are less than 100 m deep.

Steep undersea gradients separate the Sunda Shelf from the Philippines, Sulawesi and the Lesser Sunda Islands, where the dividing line, passing between Bali and Lombok, is marked by a major discontinuity in fauna that is known as the Wallace Line from Alfred Russel Wallace, the biologist who first recognized it in the 19th century.

Answer 5

From a geographical point of view Indonesia's only partly in Asia.  The southeasterly islands are in Australasia.  There's a rough dividing line between the continents called the Wallace Line, and it's based on the faunas; typically southeast Asian to the west and typically Australasian to the east.  This representative division runs down from Malaysian and passes between the islands of Borneo and Sulawesi and then between Bali and Lombok.

Answer 6

Yes, it is in the southern part of Asia.

Answer 7

Yes. It is really separated from mainland but the culture, people, language and flora and fauna do have similarities with the mainland which makes it a part of it.

Answer 8

Yes, what is commonly called Asia these days more often refers to the Asia-Pacific. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asia-Pacifi...

Answer 9

It's part of South-East Asia. China, Mongolia etc.. are considered North-East Asia. Saudi-Arabia, Iran, Iraq are considered Middle East. Philippines, Indonesia, Malaysia etc.. are considered as South-East Asia.

Answer 10

I do not see the reason why you should get this doubt at all! I give these points for your kind perusal.

1.  Where do you put them instead, do you want to claim for Australia? Sumatra is nearer to Singapore, cheek by jowl than Papuanugini to Australia's York peninsula.

2.  If islands are not associated with the continent nearby, what will be the fate of British Isles ("the country itself separated from European mainland" in your own words), Iceland, Sicily, Corsica, Sardinia(again "the country itself separated from European mainland" in your own words), Madagascar, Cuba and other Caribbean Isles and Japan to give you a few examples?  

3.  Terms like 'Asia Pacific', 'Middle East' is all Anglo-Saxon balderdash. Don't allow these terms to dominate your thought processes and confuse you. Think rationally.

4.  People of Indonesia are not of European stock or Red Indians of North America. They are culturully and otherwise, part and parcel of Asia. If they have nothing in common with Tartars, Turks or Uighurs, it is because 'Asia' is too big a continent it is 6 times Australia (Australia is less than half of Russia that has only quarter of its area in Europe with the rest in Asia), 5 times Europe, one and a half times Africa, twice North America or thrice South America. An average European can distinguish between another European (of a different Nationality) and a Turk (Anatolian stock) but he cannot comprehend the range and physiognomy of diverse Asians. You can't apply the same yardstick to Asia, as you would with Europe. One can't sacrifice 'Geography' because of the limitations of his comprehension!