Considering that this is currently the 3rd most populous country

>>3071950
The Year of Living Dangerously was filmed there.

>>3071950
Lots of spices were produced there. Also they invented mi goreng.

Fuck no

>>3071950
Some Papuan tribes were practicing cannibals. And some uncontacted tribes still live there.

>>3071950
>Considering that this is currently the 3rd most populous country in the world
That's not America you dumbass.

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>>3071950
I'll never get how they never figured out there was a gigantic continent full of resources and primitive, easy-to-enslave people right below them.

>>3071950
It have the largest Buddhist temple in the world

>>3072193
Have you ever been to the Northern Territory? The Indonesians never bothered with it because it's an abject shithole of absolutely no value to anybody

>>3071950
>Considering that this is currently the 3rd most populous country in the world

It's not.

>>3072193
They knew about it alright, but it wasn't more attractive than any of the other frontier territories next door (Kalimantan, Papua etc)

>>3071950
Papuan genocide

>>3071950
Its fourth and there have been several maritime empires but it never had much influence on regions outside southeast asia. But it is an interesting mixture of several cultures

Specerijen

>>3071950
They had interesting kingdoms in the medieval era.

Would've been interesting if they stayed Hindu. Saw an old documentary from the 60s about Hinduism in Bali and it's sick

>>3072753
Do Bali women still go around topless? Was looking at vintage photos and got an accidental boner.

>>3072186
>United States
>country

>>3071950
My Asian ancestors come from there :3

Basically Negritos formed the basis for maritime culture. Eventually other people's migrated east into the Eastern Indian subcontinent introducing many crops and customs.

Later Austronesians migrated to Island Southeast Asia and mixed bringing rice they started following monsoonal winds as trade expanded between southeast and South Asia.

We have evidence of this with Austronesian ship manufacturing in Maldives. We also have evidence of cloves and other spices from island Southeast Asia in Mesopotamia.

Eventually these people came to the east african coast as traders and raiders, they sold cinnamon near Kenya and kept it's true asian origin secret from Arab and European trade.

Anyways it's really great history, just not a lot written down.

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>>3071950
t. history pleb with no knowledge of maritime empires, indian ocean trade or magic swords

>cucked by hindus
>cucked by arabs
>cucked by dutch
Not really, except owning some spices

>>3072193
>full of resources

keks

>>3072193
>easy to enslave
Abos are the most worthless slaves, unless you want a cattle industry, they were pretty good at droving

>>3072193
Indonesians knew Australia existed but didnt give a shit about it.

>>3072210
>because it's an abject shithole of absolutely no value to anybody
Well yeah but so was Indonesia

>>3071950

I suppose you never heard of WW2?

>>3074273

Indonesia had oil.

A bunch of commies were killed there during the 1960s.

>>3074298
Was CIA behind this?

>>3072171
>mi goreng.
Was created by Chinese migrants. You can also find it Malaysia and Singapore.

>>3074525
Yes. more culpable than behind tho

>>3074525
he wasn't alone

>>3072193
They knew about it, anon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makassan_contact_with_Australia

>>3074525
They didn't start it off, but when the shit really started hitting the fan, the US embassy took the lists of commies they'd been compiling and handed them over to the death squads.

>>3074278
Who gave a fuck about oil in pre-modern times?

>>3071950
Nah, we were never relevant. Chinks and Aussies, leave us alone now. We're not your colony.

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>>3072193
Because everyone in Southeast Asia benefitted from trade that the Spice Route represented. It was literally like the Silk Road except on water.

Since nobody of any importance ever came from Southwest, the people living in the Indonesia, or Malaysia, and the Philippines didn't bother expanding there.

>>3073150
WE WUZ MERCHANTZ

>>3075190
Maritime people can't be good merchants anon?