Indonesia Etc.: Exploring the Improbable Nation

How do you make 260 million people on 6,000 islands feel like they are all the same nation? Elizabeth Pisani takes a look at post-independence Indonesia: The Guardian

“Exploring the Improbable Nation” is the subtitle of Elizabeth Pisani’s Indonesia Etc. At first, I thought this ill‑advised, as I think you can make a case for all nations being improbable in their own ways. But I soon saw that she had a point, and it would even have been fair to call it something like the Really Improbable Nation or the Ludicrously Improbable Nation.