Indonesia

Indonesia spans thousands of islands and hundreds of ethnic groups and languages, the largest being the Javanese; Indonesian serves as the unifying national language.

It is the world's most populous Muslim-majority nation, though officially pluralist, with Christian, Hindu (notably in Bali), Buddhist, and other minorities.

Society

Indonesia has rising literacy and a young, growing population with an expanding middle class, even as development varies widely across its far-flung islands.