Education
According to Indonesian law, all children are required to attend at least six years of elementary school. The country's school system is patterned after that of the Dutch, with secondary school curricula divided into mathematics, languages, and economics. Approximately 74 percent of Indonesians aged 15 or older are literate.
Economy
Despite the position of Indonesia as a major world exporter of petroleum, natural gas, tin, and rubber, most of the people remain tied to subsistence agriculture, fishing, and forestry. Business or industrial undertakings owned by Indonesians have been few, with production concentrated on export commodities. To rectify the imbalance of a colonial economy, the government nationalized foreign-owned enterprises in the early 1960s. Under the stabilization policies of the government and with large amounts of foreign aid, the Indonesian economy, which verged on bankruptcy before 1966, has shown a remarkable recovery. A five-year plan for 1979 to 1983 aimed to increase employment opportunities, raise food production, establish a more equitable distribution of wealth, and attain a yearly economic growth rate of 6.5 percent. The five-year plan for 1984 to 1989 had a more modest annual growth target of 5 percent, as declines in prices for Indonesia's primary commodities forced the government to scale down its ambitions. The estimated annual budget in the late 1980s included $10.5 billion in revenue and $13.9 billion in expenditure.
Climate
The climate of Indonesia is tropical, with two monsoon seasons—a wet season from November to March and a dry season from June to October. The weather is more moderate between monsoons. The northern parts of the country have only slight differences in precipitation during the wet and dry seasons. Humidity is generally high, averaging about 80 percent yearly; the daily temperature range (about 20° to 32° C/about 70° to 90° F at Jakarta) varies little from winter to summer. Rainfall in the lowlands averages about 1780 to 3175 mm (about 70 to 125 in) annually and in some mountain regions reaches about 6100 mm (about 240 in).
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