Indonesia

The central figure of the ASEAN nations. She's smart, acts quickly, but avoids conflict like the plague. 

Indonesia is a majority Muslim country, but don't think that it isn't a huge melting pot of cultures and religions. 

Basic Information

Official Name: Republic of Indonesia/Republik Indonesia
Capital and Largest City: Jakarta

Government: Unitary presidential republic

Languages Spoken: Official: Indonesian,  indigenous languages: 718
She speaks Indonesian and a part of every indigenous language, but none fluently.
She can read and write the Latin, Balinese, Batak, Javanese, Jawi-Pegon, Lontara, Ulu, Sundanese, and Cia-Cia scripts.

 

Global Influence: Indonesia holds quite a lot of influence as the largest economy in Southeast Asia and the fourth most populous country in the world. It plays an important role in regional organizations like ASEAN and the G20. Indonesia's also important in Islamic and developing-world forums.

Human Name: Annisa Sari
Alias/Nicknames: Anni (by closest friends),


Exists Since: 1602 (formation of the Dutch East India Company)
Actual Birthday/Celebrates on: 20th March (Dutch East India Company Founding)/17th August (since 1945)

Visual/Mental Age: 22/25

Gender/Pronouns: Female (she/her)

Appearance

Basic:
She has dark brown, almost black hair, brown eyes and tan skin. She's 154cm tall and weighs 60kg.

Tattoos/Piercings: None,

Birthmarks:
She has a birthmark on her torso representing each of the larger islands her country is made up of. She has a birthmark on the right side of her chin, representing mount Bromo. She has a pink spot on her right lower arm, representing Komodo Island.

 

Scars:
She has quite a few burn scars from every major vulcanic eruption that happened in her country. She also has a large burn scar on her left hand and upper arm from the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815. Alongside several scars on her back from Dutch colonisation, that have faded. And some around her neck, that haven't faded, from Japanese occupation. Alongside more scars from events later in her history.

 

Clothes:
She tends to wear modest but western clothing, alongside a hijab. She likes to wear whatever's fashionable to her in the moment.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Personality

Voice:
She talks rather fast, with a medium pitch, and sometimes stutters.


Body Language:
She speaks a lot with her hands, but tends to keep her arms to herself. Otherwise, she's rahter unexpressive in terms of body language.

 

Core Motivations: To prove diversity can be a great thing (as in, it makes her who she is and it makes her country unique). To protect her people. And to be respected without changing herself.

Core Fears: Being seen as weak and/or incapable. Being under someone's control again.

 

Emotional Expression: She's more reserved, but tends to appear happy to those around her, even when she's not and especially when she's upset or angry. However, she is quite a happy person in general, so most times it's not an act.

Humor Style: She has an old people type humour, only disliking the "my wife/women" jokes. But she prefers stand-up comedians over most forms of comedy.

Communication Style: She's rather polite, but as direct as possible while staying polite.

Social Approach: She's warm to those around her and has a collectivist approach.

Trust & Relationships: She doesn't trust others easily, from the start, she's had issues with trust, but they became amplified in WW2. She still struggles to trust anyone, but she still has many friends and allies.

Approach to Knowledge & Learning: She's usually enthusiastic about learning new things and tries her best to understand things from all viewpoints, but often gets stuck in her initial views on the subject. She likes to learn new things a lot.

Work Ethic & Discipline: She's very hardworking, but knows how and when to relax. However, she also micromanages those around her and struggles to stop doing it.

Creativity & Innovation: Her creativity is rather structured, following formulars rather than being truly creative most of the time. But that 10% when she does something non-structured, it's always amazing. Outside of that, her creativity tends to have mediocre results, as she doesn't work on one project long enough if she's just following steps.

Attitude Toward Rules & Tradition: She's very much a rule follower, when the rules don't hurt people, if they do, well, she doesn't exactly follow those rules anymore. But what she loves is tradition, she loves traditional arts, festivals and anything else. Tradition is the foundation of who she is, she feels.

Unusual Habits: She taps her fingers on surfaces when she's thinking, without noticing.

Bad Habits: She tends to forget to brush her hair without a reminder on her phone, since it's usually hidden anyways. She tends to clench her teeth too harshly when happy.

Pet Peeves: She hates it when people just touch her in general, because she's much rather they ask for permission, especially if they're a man. Having to shake hands with men in particular.

 

Likes:
motorcycles, poetry, pantun and syair poetry especially, wood carving,

Dislikes:
cold, grilling food, those who judge others,

Favourite Hobbies & Pastimes:
reading and writing pantun and syair, swimming, hiking,

Other Hobbies:
She has a fear of larger amounts of fire. She's alright with candles, but anything more and she starts to panic, remembering her recurring nightmares. She's also a practicing Muslim and loves to learn about other religions to see the similarities with her own belief system.

 

Other:
She knows how to make pottery and is quite good at it, but she only really likes painting it. Cooking, while she's good at it, is not something she enjoys very much, but she does it a lot regardless. She has bad lungs due to the bad quality of air there. She's also an Animist.

Overall
She's a polite and diplomatic person, who values compassion and community highly. However, despite her forward-thinking nature, she tends to get stuck in a rigid thought system and struggles with flexibility. She highly values freedom, and has a defiant, but charismatic and ambitious nature, with a strong sense of justice. However, she also tends to micromanage those who work with her, but hates confrontation and would rather accept insults than retaliate, to appear as kind as she wants to be (and is), though this does contrast with her inner feelings, as she's quick to anger and has a high temper due to volcanic activity. She's also quite unpunctual, and at times blinded by her ambitions, but also very patriotic.

Strengths:
defiant, strong sense of justice. diplomatic, compassionate, forward thinking, charismatic, ambitious, proud and patriotic,

Weaknesses:
overly defiant at times, struggles with flexibility, overly ambitious at times, micromanages, unpunctual,

Decision-Making Style: She tries to make decisions as logical as possible, but tends to make emotional decisions regardless.

General Disposition: She's more of an optimist, but also a realist. She feels that in the grand scheme of things, minor actions account to a lot, and every action you take is important.

Energy Level: She tends to be calm, but high energy.

Approach to Conflict: She's very diplomatic, trying her best to prevent any kind of conflict.

Comfort Zone vs. Adventure: She prefers stability but is also drawn to change and adventure, even if it isn't her favourite thing.

Typical Mood Swings & Triggers: She tends to get angry at slight inconveniences, never enough to let it out on others, but enough to get annoyed and feel the need to scream internally. Really, anything can set her off, but only her very closest friends notice the slight changes in her when she does get angry. 

Coping Mechanisms & Stress Responses: She tends to respond by first ignoring it, until she's alone and then tries her best to come up with a plan to fix whatever's wrong, however, only if there is a solution. She also goes to her close friends for help if needed, to show that she's capable of accepting help when needed.

 

Favourite Colors & Why: She loves the colour green, any shade of it, because it reminds her of her country's nature, and natural beauty.

Favourite Foods & Drinks: She loves anything traditional, such as tumpeng, goreng, gado-gado and satay. Her favourite flavour types are savory and spicy when it comes to food, however, when it comes to drinks, she prefers the sweet and at times sour. She loves sweet teas, and icy cool fruity drinks.

Favourite Music Genre & Artists: She loves gamelan and other more traditional music, as well as various sub types of pop music, especially J-pop, American-pop and pop rock. Koes Plus is her favourite musical group.

Favourite Animals & Why: Komodo dragons and orangutans, because she finds both uniquely beautiful, and representing her nature, which she loves so much, perfectly when paired together. 

Favorite Season & Weather: She doesn't have a favourite season, but her favourite weather is rain, as it makes her feel like a kid again, when she's walking through the rain, or sitting under a covering, reading poetry.

Favourite Places: Aynwhere in her country, she just can't decide which she likes the most.

Other

National Flowers: Melati Putih (Jasminum sambac), Anggrek Bulan (Phalaenopsis amabilis), and Padma Raksasa Rafflesia (Rafflesia arnoldii),

National Animal & Meaning: Komodo Dragon, Javan hawk-eagle, Asian arowana,

Common Colors in National Identity: Red and white.

Popular National Mottos/Phrases: Unity in Diversity,

Flag Colours & Symbolism: Red and white, based on the banner of the 13th century Majapahit Empire in East Java.

National Myths & Legends: Ande Ande Lumut, Calon Arang, Lanun, Dewi Sri, Ken Arok and Ken Dedes, Lutung Kasarung, Sang Kancil, Rangda, and Toyol are some examples.

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