Indonesia has to be the least culturally relevant country relative to its size. 4th most populated in the world, biggest Muslim nation, huge archipelago, but what is it really known for? Palm oil? A tsunami in 2004? Huge country just chilling there with no bearing on the world.

@GunnerTas It’s not particularly centralised, disparate groups, loose affiliations. So doesn’t really do power projection. It’s also very poor in large parts.

@GunnerTas Revolting

@redrabbleroz Having a big diaspora helps heaps. It means even tiny places like Jamaica can still have a huge cultural presence despite a very small population within the country itself.

@GunnerTas One problem is that the diaspora are majority of ethnic Chinese origin ... The ones I've met in Australia have all talked about how Chinese Indonesians are discriminated against in Indonesia and as a result they don't hold ethnic Indonesian culture in high regard ...

@GunnerTas A substantial number of Dutch people have small amounts of “Indo” ancestry from what I have seen.

@GunnerTas "Not to throw shade or anything" but this is just thinly-veiled racism, broh.

@GunnerTas I've had Thai food plenty of times and we can thank the Philippines for It's the Nutshack, and Vietnam had the whole US invasion thing, but also Pho, but I only met two Indonesian people in my entire life

@GunnerTas I know significantly more about those three countries than I do Indonesia

@GunnerTas They have a big diaspora in the Netherlands

@GunnerTas Indonesia has some high class badminton players who won the Olympics

@GunnerTas There’s a diaspora in the Netherlands

@GunnerTas Actually, their product(+islands) are pretty well known. People just don't link it to Indonesia. It also doesn't help that Indonesia and India have a similar name. Indonesia is a non-block country, so the Western world don't really interact with Indonesia.

@GunnerTas My brother, we were the best in badminton for decades and one of our diaspora had a key role in the team that invented AstraZeneca's COVID-19 vaccine. 🤷🏻‍♂️

@GunnerTas indonesia is quite prominent in badminton but badminton is relatively not as popular in the west also there isnt a lot of indo diasporas bc there wasnt a historic event that caused a wave of migration (eg china, vietnam) + people often mistaken us for chinese/filipinos LMFAO

@GunnerTas We are (used to) good at Badminton

@GunnerTas Indonesia is so underrated. Especially the music. Indopop needs more love

@GunnerTas I love Indonesia. If you’d been there you’d know that was in the past. You’d turn bullish. Indonesia is rising in nearly all aspects you mentioned.

@GunnerTas I answer your statement, dude!

@GunnerTas facts lol, look viet with their pho, ph with their jollibee, thai with their mango sticky rice, the closest thing that indonesian food reach the global market is indomie ngl