Why is Indonesia cursed?

[Whelan]

From the tsunami back in 2004, to the most recent earthquakes and now a plane crash. It seems Indonesia is always having crap happen. I'm sure it happens everywhere too but the news seems to love Ind. for some reason.

[ajflan]

I think its less curse, and more geographic location. As for the plane crash... just bad luck.

[BlueCrush]

Yeah, haven't you heard of the Indonesian Octagon?It's like the Burmuda Triangle, only larger. Has more sides.

[ajflan]

Huh, never heard of it. Then again I don't pay much attention in my classes.

[BlueCrush]

LOL!

[GMJAP]

For one thing, it's huge. Over 17,000 islands and it's the world's fourth largest country (population wise).Considering that it's all islands you can guess that it's in a very geologically active area - volcanos, earthquakes, tsunamis are all part of this.It's also a borderline 3rd world country - with that many people and not much money, transportation disasters (ferry sinkings are common) are going to happen relatively frequently.

[Whelan]

I do remember ferry sinkings in the news as well. I know it is a geologically active place due to where it sits and that they are islands (i.e. old volcanos). Thanks Geo 101 at URI, lol!But I guess it just seems freakish that alongside all those natural occurences that all these things like ferries, plane crashes happen as well and as often. But like you said, it's a practical 3WC so things are more run down and less reliable.