<p>Indonesia profile</p><p>Focus Questions</p><p>1. Describe the BtN story to another student. 2. Compare Indonesia’s population with Australia’s. 3. Why is Indonesia an important trading partner of Australia? EPISODE 19 4. Why do a lot of Australians visit Indonesia? TH 5. Describe some recent troubles in Indonesia. 28 JULY 2009 6. In terms of religion, most people in Indonesia are… 7. Describe recent changes to politics in Indonesia. Learning Area 8. What are some of the changes to lifestyle Lily and Frank have had since Society and moving to Indonesia? Environment 9. Name three facts that you now know about Indonesia since watching the BtN story. 10. What was surprising about this story? Key learning Students will Indonesia profile develop a deeper Students will be researching information comparing aspects of Australia and understanding of Indonesia and its Indonesia to complete the table below. There are web links at the end of this relationship with activity sheet to support students with their research. Students can add to the Australia. following list:</p><p>Indonesia Australia Population Government Poverty rate Exports Imports Religion</p><p>Ask students to summarise in a paragraph some of the similarities and differences between Indonesia and Australia. Encourage students to share their summaries. Tourism is important to Indonesia’s economy. Discuss with students how tourism in Indonesia (particularly Bali) has been affected by recent terrorist attacks. Record their responses and discuss how tourists can be encouraged to visit Indonesia. Students will need to design a webpage or travel brochure and decide what information is important to include. The following can be used as a guide to . students’ research:  History  Geography (labelled map)  Religion</p><p>© ABC 2009  Culture  Currency and conversion rates  Attractions Discuss with students the importance of using images in their travel brochures/ web pages. Encourage students to share their final products with the class.</p><p>Reflection What aspects of your webpage or travel brochure worked well? What would you do differently next time?</p><p>Further investigations</p><p>Look at the interviews with Indonesian kids Fitriana and Cantya at the following website http://www.katw.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=43 What were the similarities and differences with your life? Was there any surprising information in the interviews?</p><p>Research Australia’s aid program to Indonesia. What does the aid program aim to do? The following AusAID website will help students with their research. http://www.ausaid.gov.au/country/country.cfm?CountryId=30</p><p>8 Related Research Links ABC News – Trade, tourism `wounded by Jakarta blasts’ http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/19/2629850.htm</p><p>BBC Country profile – Indonesia http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/country_profiles/1260544.stm</p><p>Global Education – Indonesia http://www.globaleducation.edna.edu.au/globaled/go/pid/645</p><p>Australian Government - AusAID in Indonesia http://www.indo.ausaid.gov.au/</p><p>Indonesian web links for teachers and students http://www.teachers.ash.org.au/jmresources/countries5/Indonesia.html</p><p>Embassy of Indonesia – Children’s page http://kids.embassyofindonesia.org/aboutIndonesiacover.htm</p><p>Kids around the world – Indonesia http://www.katw.org/pages/sitepage.cfm?id=43</p><p>© ABC 2009</p>