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Poster Key

1. Palapa-C, third generation Indonesian communications satellite, also used for regional communications
2. Indonesian national flag
3. Muslim mosque
4. Christian church
5. Hindu-Bali temple
6. Buddhist Borobudur temple
7. Indonesian of various ethnic groups in their traditional costumes
8. Minangkabau, West Sumatra, house
9. Irian grass-roof house
10. Jakarta city skyline
11. Balinese dancer
12. Liquified natural gas tanker, specifically designed for export
13. One-horned rhinoceros from Java (Rhinoceros sundaicus)
14. Komodo dragon (varanus komodoensis) from Komodo Island
15. Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris)
16. Royal butterfly from Sulawesi (Troides rhadamantus)
17. Species of dragonfly
18. Rafflesia patma, one species of the Rafflesia family, biggest flower in the world
19. Sea garden corals and plants
20. Clown anemone fish (Amphiprion ocellaris), a most popular aquarium sea fish
21. Arowana or Asian bony-tongue fish (Scleropages formoses) is the most expensive freshwater fish in the world. A
good specimen costs thousands of dollars.
22. Calanthe orchids; unlike other orchids which grow on trees, these orchids grow on the forest soil.
23. Woman farmer planting rice seedlings on wet rice field
24. Rice seedlings
25. Oxen pulling plows
26. A sculptor carving wooden statue
27. Batik cloth
28. Wayang leather puppet
29. Male lesser bird of paradise (Paradisae minor), one of 42 different species of the birds of paradise family. Thought
to be the birds which provide the feathers for the angels in paradise by people in Europe, when the explorer
Magellan brought several samples of them as a gift from the King of the Moluccas to the King of Spain in 1522.
30. Coconut tree
31. Terraced wet rice field
32. CN-250 Gatotkaca, Indonesian-made fly-by-wire airplane
33. Male bekantan proboscis monkey (Nasalis larvatus) from Kalimantan. Because of its fleshy pendulous nose,
reddish face, and fine, fawn-colored fur, the local people call it the Dutch monkey.
34. Female and male orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus), or a man of the forest in Indonesia language,found only in parts
of Sumatra and Kalimantan. Male orangutan is enormously strong and of immense size, weighing up to 200 pounds
and, when standing up, is as tall as a medium-height man. Their ability to imitate human expressions endear the
orangutans to people.
35. Woman doing batik printing
36. National monument in Jakarta

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