LTTE's people smuggling ships included MV Ocean Lady, which appeared in October 2009 off Canada's British Columbia coast with 76 Tamil asylum seekers ; MV Sun Sea, arrived in August 2010 off British Columbia, with 492 asylum seekers and MV Alicia, carrying 80 illegal immigrants, but was intercepted by Indonesian authorities in July 2011, allegedly heading towards Canada or New Zealand.

In more recent years, the Indonesian film industry has also become an international force in the genre, with the Iko Uwais starring films Merantau ( 2009 ) and The Raid: Redemption ( 2011 ).

* 1935 – W. S. Rendra, Indonesian poet and playwright ( d. 2009 )

* 1940 – Abdurrahman Wahid, Indonesian politician, 4th President of Indonesia ( d. 2009 )

The Indonesian law No. 24 year 2009 Chapter III Section 25 to 45 mentioned specifically about Indonesian language status.

" In April 2009, The Economist published an article on Indonesian democracy with the title " Beyond the crossroads ".

* September 17, 2009, Noordin Top was killed in a raid by Indonesian police in Solo, Central Java.

In 2009, Bailey presented a project about the explorer and naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace, in the form of an Indonesian travelogue.

* Noordin Mohammad Top ( 1968 – 2009 ), Malaysian / Indonesian Muslim extremist

* Universitas Indonesia remains as one of the top 50 most prestigious universities in Asia by QS World University rankings for two consecutive years ( 2009 – 2010 ) and the only Indonesian university on the list.

# Universitas Indonesia remains as one of the top 50 most prestigious Universities in Asia by QS World University rangkings for two consecutive years ( 2009 – 2010 ) and the only Indonesian University on the list.

UNESCO designated Indonesian batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity on October 2, 2009.

After the UNESCO recognition for Indonesian batik as intangible world heritage on October 2, 2009, Indonesian administration has asked Indonesians to wear batik on Friday, and wearing batik every Friday is encouraged in all government offices and private companies ever since.

In 2009, an exhibition of Dunham's textile batik art collection ( A Lady Found a Culture in its Cloth: Barack Obama's Mother and Indonesian Batiks ) toured six museums in the United States, finishing the tour at the Textile Museum.

In August 2009, Greenpeace claimed that Fonterra was implicated in the destruction of Indonesian and Malaysian rainforests, causing deaths of orangutans and increased global greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2009, LaPaglia played the part of Roger East, a real life Australian journalist, in the political thriller Balibo, about the killing in 1975 of five Australian journalists by the Indonesian Army in the town of Balibo, East Timor.

Indonesian 2009 Silat movie Merantau is one of Indonesian efforts to introduce silat to international scene.

In July 2009, Lyle got into a very public row with Colin Montgomerie where he unfavourably compared Montgomerie's actions at the Indonesian Open four years previously with his own actions in not completing a round at the 2008 Open Championship.

FC Seoul's 2009 AFC Champions League campaign began with a 2 – 1 win over Indonesian side Sriwijaya FC.

For the first time, the Indonesian phenomenon with millions of fans, Slank, rocked this year ’ s Java Jazz Festival 2009!

* 2004 – The first Indonesian presidential election is held.

# Setting a Central Indonesian National Committee ( Komite Nasional Indonesia Poesat / KNIP ) to assist the president prior to election of a parliament.

It had lost to the Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle in the 1999 legislative election.

Based on the final allocation of seats in the People's Representative Council, Golkar, the Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle, the National Awakening Party, the United Development Party, the Democratic Party, the Prosperous Justice Party, and the National Mandate Party were qualified to submit candidates for the country's first direct presidential election later in the year.

In the 1999 legislative election, the Indonesian Democratic Party – Struggle ( PDI – P ) won the largest number of seats in the People's Representative Council ( DPR ) and became the largest faction in the People's Consultative Assembly ( MPR ), the legislative body responsible for electing the President.

* Indonesian legislative election, 2004

Of the 236 members, only 204 took their oaths of office on 20 August, and only 170 voted in the election of the speaker, which was narrowly won by Sartono of the Indonesian National Party ( PNI ).

He was unsuccessful as Golkar's presidential candidate in the Indonesian presidential election, 2009 and was unable to secure his party's nomination as their candidate in the Indonesian presidential election, 2014.

The party had many key governmental posts from 1945 on and won the largest share of votes in the first Indonesian general election in 1955.

After the fall of President Suharto in 1998, the part was revived and contested the 1999 legislative election as the Indonesian National Party Marhaenism.

In the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, the party won 2. 1 % of the popular vote and 12 out of 550 seats, but in the 2009 legislative election, the party won 1. 5 percent of the votes, less than the required 2. 5 percent electoral threshold, meaning it lost all its seats in the People's Representative Council.

In the 2004 Indonesian legislative election, the party won 1. 2 % of the popular vote and 5 out of 550 seats.

The Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs, Labor's Laurie Brereton, was vocal in highlighting evidence of the Indonesian military's involvement in pro-integrationist violence and advocated United Nations peacekeeping to support the East Timor's ballot.

During 1998 and 1999 Brereton highlighted evidence of the Indonesian military's involvement in pro-integrationist violence in East Timor and was a strident advocate of United Nations peacekeeping to support East Timor's independence ballot.

East Timor's 30 August 1999 ballot in favour of independence after 24 years of Indonesian occupation resulted in a wave of violence from militia groups and pro-integration factions within the Indonesian military.

He exposed the failure of the Australian Government, despite being forewarned, to prevent widespread Indonesian military-backed militia violence in the former Portuguese colony of East Timor during the territory ’ s 1999 independence ballot.

The country's strategic sea-lane position fostered inter-island and international trade ; trade has since fundamentally shaped Indonesian history.

Eruptions at the volcano since 1927 have built a new island at the same location, named Anakrakatau ( which is Indonesian for " Child of Krakatoa ").

It is important to note the spelling changes in the language that have occurred since Indonesian independence.

The Maluku Islands formed a single province since Indonesian independence until 1999 when it was split into two provinces.

There is a long history of geological study of these regions since Indonesian colonial times ; however, the geological formation and progression is not fully understood, and theories of the island's geological evolution have changed extensively in recent decades.

The Visayans were thought to have kept close diplomatic relations with Malaysia and Indonesian kingdoms since the tribal groups of Cebu were able to converse with Enrique of Malacca using the Malay language when the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan arrived in 1521.

The Malaysian government reportedly offered their apologies, which was rejected by the Indonesian tourism minister, since the apology was given informally by phone, the Indonesian tourism minister demanded a written apology to make it more accountable.

* June 15, 2007, Indonesian police announced the capture of Zarkasih, who was leading Jemaah Islamiah since the capture of Hambali.

Noam Chomsky has referred to the 1975 Indonesian invasion and occupation of East Timor as the worst instance of genocide relative to population since the Holocaust.

After the World War II and during Indonesian National Revolution ( 1945 — 1949 ) and afterwards, kroncong was associated with patriotism, since many of Indonesian poets and patriotic songs authors uses kroncong and somewhat jazz fusion as the genre of their works.

Canada has since contributed much to the development of Sepak Takraw world-wide, with Engel authoring 3 Instructional Sepak Takraw Books and helping produce 5 Sepak Takraw DVD's, while STAC does the publishing ... the most notable book being " Sepak Takraw 101-The Complete Coaching / Instructional Manual for Sepak Takraw ( Kick Volleyball )", the 3rd Edition of which has also been translated and published in the Indonesian Language and released in Indonesia through a government Education project.

* An Indonesian version debuted on the antv at April 2006 ( now airs back since April 28, 2010 ), as Super Deal 2 Milyar ( Super Deal Two Billions ).

Five out of the six Indonesian presidents since 1945 have been of Javanese descent.

A parallel tradition has since been developed in Victoria Park for Indonesian domestic servants in Hong Kong.

On 23 January 2011 the Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation ( CVGHM ) ( Pusat Vulkanologi dan Mitigasi Bencana Geologi ) reported that since 19 December 2010 volcanic ash and incandescent material had been thrown up by eruptive activity resulting in a heavy rain of material that fell around the crater.

: The Indonesian Centre for Volcanology and Geological Hazard Mitigation ( CVGHM ) reported on 13 January 2011, that deformation using tiltmeter measurements indicated an inflation at rate of 5 micro radians between 25 November 2010 and 14 December 2010 and a relatively stable since 15 December 2010 both on Radial Components and Tangential Components.

There is a long history of geological study of these regions since Indonesian colonial times ; however, the geological formation and progression is not fully understood, and theories of the geological evolution of the islands changed extensively during the last decades of the 20th century.

Saigon cinnamon, only having become available again in the United States since the early 21st century, has an intense flavour and aroma and a higher percentage of essential oils than Indonesian cassia.

The Indonesian throughflow ( ITF ) is important to global climate since it provides a low-latitude pathway for warm, fresh water to move from the Pacific to the Indian Ocean and this serves as the upper branch of the global heat conveyor belt.