1 As an archipelagic state, Indonesia's geographic heterogeneity and its unique historical development have given rise to the pluralism in the ethnic group, religion and culture of the country.

2 Throughout this sprawling archipelagic country, loggers are wiping out centuries old tropical rain forests.

3 Holly Chan is a member of Oxfam's Archipelagic Southeast Asia team.

4 This regime refers to precedent that an archipelagic country enjoys sovereignty over its archipelago and its waters, and also regulates what rights other countries have in its waters.

5 Holly Chan assists Oxfam Hong Kong's projects in Archipelagic Southeast Asia and wrote this article during a field trip to Timor-Leste.

6 Besides the exclusive economic zone, the emergence of the regime of archipelagic States also reflects the result of such a compromise.

7 The rudimental guide of the plate-tectonic theory landing on continent is the archipelagic arc-basin system between the oceanic lithosphere and continental lithosphere.

8 If sounding data or predicted weather data are available, the model may be suitable to provide sea surface wind forecast in application of environmental problems for archipelagic waters.

9 In the theory and the legalization of the regime of archipelagic states and the archipelagic principles, both the Philippines and Indonesia play an important role.

10 At the Ocean Flour Committee of 1973, Britain and other archipelagic countries proposed bills.

11 The paper presents a review of the value of archipelagic ocean model, archipelago model of intraplate orogenesis and composite arc-basin system tectonics since plate tectonic landing.