Due to Indonesia's emergence into an archipelago where its inhabitants, though of one similar ancestry, were separated by seas and therefore lost contacts, have caused the individual development of cultures, including their languages and their growing into diversification. Nevertheless, the population of Indonesia has been reclassified, not so much on the basis of their racial origins, but more so on the basis of their linguistic identities caused by mentioned diversification, into four ethnic groups. A pure classification according to their racial origins is difficult to realize due to their inter-marriages.

When World War II broke out in Europe and spread to the Pasific, the Japanese occupied the Dutch East Indies as of March 1942, after the surrender of the Dutch colonial army following the fall of Hongkong, Manila and Singapore.

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The first proof of the earliest inhabitans of Java was discovered by Dr. Eugene Dubois in 1890. Fossils of the "Java Man" (Pithecanthropus Erectus) dating back 500.000 years were followed by other findings in later year. Migration movements to Indonesia have been traced back to 3.000. 500 B.C. of Mongoloid stock from China and Tonkin introducing New Stone, Bronze, and Iron Age cultures and the Austronesian language.
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The most important pillar of Indonesian-German relations is not abstract, but it is the people who stimulate and bring to life a partnership - or even better - a friendship between Indonesia and Germany.

The principles underlying Indonesia's foreign policy were expounded for the first time by Mohammad Hatta on September 2, 1948 at Yogyakarta in Central Java. In a session of the Working Group of the Central National Committee of Indonesia (KNPI), the forerunner of the Indonesian Parliament, Vice-President Hatta, concurrently Prime Minister and Minister of Defense of the young Republic, clarified the Government's stand on various domestic and international issues.