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This is a list of Indonesian Did You Know items for Indonesian portal. The top 5-6 items will be listed in the portal. Periodically, the first item will be put at the bottom of the list, thus allowing the rotating mechanism. If you want to add more items, then please add at the bottom of the list in the Next Items section. Please remember that the corresponding article of the DYK should be available.

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• ... that when a noble Torajan dies, their body could be kept for years to allow the deceased family to raise money for the death feast?

• ... that the matriarchal society of Minangkabau in West Sumatra has been considered the largest and most stable matrilineal society in the modern world?

• ... that Indonesia is known as the "emerald of the equator" because 57% of the area is covered by forest?

• ... that the Babirusa or Pig-deer (pic), an endangered pig-like animal native to Sulawesi and surrounding islands has two pairs of tusks: the upper canines of the male babirusa are so curved and enlarged that they emerge through the flesh, by way of holes, to pass through the top of the snout. (Image:Babirusa.jpg)

• ... that Balinese people only have one of four names: Wayan, Made, Nyoman, and Ketut? If they have a fifth child it will start all over again with Wayan.

• ... that the Hooded Pitohui is a songbird of New Guinea with black and orange plumage. This species and its two close relatives, the Variable Pitohui and the Brown Pitohui, are the first documented poisonous birds.

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• ... that Bunaken (pic) is one of the most popular underwater vacation destinations in Indonesia? And that it has around 70 genera of corals compared to 10 in Hawaii? (Image:Bunaken3.jpg)

• ... that there is a lake called Kelimutu Lake or Danau Tiga Warna (three colors lake) in East Nusa Tenggara? It has three colors and changes periodically every year.

• ... that Puncak Jaya (pic) is the highest point in Indonesia? The mountain is located in Papua and reaches 5,039 m (16,532 feet) above the sea level. (Image:Puncak_Jaya_icecap_1936.jpg)

• ... that Indonesia has more than 300 ethnic and language groups?

• ... that Mount Tambora on the Sumbawa island violantly erupted in 1815 and caused a global effect which is known as the year without a summer in 1816? (Image:Tambora_volc.jpg)

• ... that Javanese people have no family name? In fact, many Javanese have only a single name, for example Sukarno and Suharto.

• ... that Gajah Mada, the prime minister and military leader of Majapahit Empire, has taken an oath not to take any food containing spices before he conquered Nusantara? And yes, he did.

• ... that the traditional stone jumping in Nias is a manhood ritual to see a young man leaping over the 2 metres high of thick stone tower even with a sword in his hand?

• ... that in Madura there is a traditional bull race in which a young boy jockey sits in a simple wooden sled pulled by a pair of bulls over a course of about 100 metres, the race lasting 10-15 seconds?

• ... that if you can touch the finger and toe of a particular buddha through the holes in one of the stupa (pic) at the top of Borobudur, then you will have good luck?

• ... that a population of orangutans found in the 1990s used feeding tools regularly?

• ... that until the mid 19th century, the Banda Islands were the only source in the world of the spices nutmeg and mace?

• ... that the tarsier has the longest continuous fossil record of any primate? Once found in Asia, Europe and North America, they are now only found on a number of South East Asian islands including the Philippines, Sulawesi, Borneo, and Sumatra.

• ... that Lake Toba in Sumatra was the site of a supervolcanic eruption, the largest volcanic eruption within the last two million years? The eruption plunged Earth into a volcanic winter, the average global temperature was decreased by 3 to 3.5°C for several years, and caused a planet-wide die-off of plants and animals.

• ... that on Flores island there are two archeological finds of different insular dwarfism species: one is Homo Floresiensis, a 1 meter tall diminutive Homo species, nicknamed the hobbit, and the other one is Stegodon, a pre-historic dwarf elephant?

• ... that the red sky background of the famous Norwegian painting, The Scream, shows the worldwide effect of the 1883 Krakatoa eruption?