September
28, 1950
Indonesia Admitted to United
Nations
Indonesia was admitted as
the 60th member state of the United Nations.
The United Nations (UN) is
an intergovernmental organization to promote international co-operation. A
replacement for the ineffective League of Nations, the organization was
established on 24 October 1945 after World War II in order to prevent another
such conflict. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193.
The UN has six principal
organs: the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly); the Security
Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security); the Economic
and Social Council (ECOSOC) (for promoting international economic and social
co-operation and development); the Secretariat (for providing studies,
information, and facilities needed by the UN); the International Court of Justice
(the primary judicial organ); and the United Nations Trusteeship Council
(inactive since 1994).
Indonesia is a sovereign
state in Southeast Asia, an archipelago comprising thousands of islands. Indonesia has an estimated population of over
255 million people and is the world's fourth-most-populous country and the
most-populous Muslim-majority country. Indonesia
consists of hundreds of distinct native ethnic and linguistic groups. The
largest – and politically dominant – ethnic group is the Javanese. Despite its large population and densely
populated regions, Indonesia has vast areas of wilderness that support the
world's second highest level of biodiversity. The country has abundant natural
resources, yet poverty remains widespread.
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