[20220407]IF10247_印度尼西亚.pdf

https:/crsreports.congress.gov Updated April 7, 2022IndonesiaOverview With over 270 million citizens, Indonesia is the most populous country in Southeast Asia, the worlds most populous Muslim-majority nation, and the worlds third-largest democracy (after India and the United States). It has the worlds 16th-largest economy and the 10th-largest when ranked by purchasing power parity. It straddles important sea lanes and borders the Strait of Malacca, one of the worlds busiest trade routes, as well as the Indian Ocean and the South China Sea. Over the past two decades, Indonesia has become a robust democracy, holding four direct presidential elections, each considered by international observers to have been largely free and fair. In the most recent, held in April 2019, President Joko Widodo was reelected to a second five-year term. The U.S.-Indonesia relationship has broadened in recent years, with closer military and counterterrorism cooperation and a range of new educational, environmental, and energy initiatives that were initiated in the Obama Administration. However, Indonesias foreign policy is guided by its historical role as a leader of the Non-Aligned Movement, and successiv