Main Idea
The definition of a FRAGMENTED COUNTRY.
What is a country that is physically divided into different pieces?
There are many islands.
Does Indonesia have 17000 islands?
Indonesia has a motto.
What countries motto is "Diversity in unity"?
Makes it difficult for countries to become united.
What do geographic and ethnic divisions do?
The islands are very different.
1. Are some densely populated and others rural?
2. What are the islands called Java and Sumatra?
3. Are some urbanized and others have large plantations?
Some of the people are in conflict.
What are the Malays and Chinese?
There are FRAGMENTED COUNTRIES in Southeast Asia.
Are Malaysia, Indonesia, and the Philippines FRAGMENTED COUNTRIES?
There are a lot of languages and ethnic groups in Indonesia.
Are there over 700 languages and 300 ethnic groups?
Groups in Sumatra and Borneo fight for this.
What is independence?