Indonesia vs Malaysia (life, country, places, people)

[Azrain92]

What do you think of both of these country in terms of:
Development
Cities
Cultural scene
Scenery
Natural beauty
Beaches
Food
People
Entertainment
Places to visit
Ease of travel

[Coach Rajko]

Interesting... would it be Malaysia?

[Pavement Pounder]

Malaysia for everything except 'people', if you mean how friendly they are, and 'nature scenery', although it's not like Indonesia is much 'better'/different.

[stevania01]

What do you think of both of these country in terms of:
Development : Malaysia / Indonesia
Cities : Malaysia Kuala Lumpur but do not underestimate Jakarta
Cultural scene : Indonesia
Scenery : Malaysia / Indonesia
Natural beauty : Indonesia
Beaches : Indonesia
Food : Indonesia / Malaysia
People: Indonesians of course
Entertainment : Indonesia
Places to visit : Malaysia
Ease of : Malaysia /Indonesia

[Susu Enrico]

Development M
Cities M
Cultural scene I
Scenery M
Natural beauty I
Beaches I
Food M/I
People I
Entertainment M/I
Places to visit I
Ease of travel M

Malingsia and Indog

[Goshio22]

Originally Posted by Susu Enrico

Development M
Cities M
Cultural scene I
Scenery M
Natural beauty I
Beaches I
Food M/I
People I
Entertainment M/I
Places to visit I
Ease of travel M

Malingsia and Indog

Lol nice one but i would put Nightlife (Entertainment) Indonesia, and in terms of scenery depends on what kind of scenery so i need to OP to be more specific, there are what the other ones had that the other doesn't like for example Borobudur vs Penang old town.

I like that Malingsia vs Indog, how did you know about that lmao.

Originally Posted by Pavement Pounder

Malaysia for everything except 'people', if you mean how friendly they are, and 'nature scenery', although it's not like Indonesia is much 'better'/different.

Not that different? you mean the overly palm plantation scenery in Malaysia? yeah but you won't get to see this in Malaysia: http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-c...9/01/bali1.jpg

Obiviously the natural scenery of Indonesia are superior, with vast amount of volcanoes, thousands of islands and beautiful marine parks like Raja Ampat.

[penshoppe]

Development - Malaysia
Cities - Malaysia
Cultural scene - Indonesia
Scenery - Malaysia/Indonesia
Natural beauty - Indonesia
Beaches - Indonesia
Food - Malaysia
People - Indonesia
Entertainment - Malaysia
Places to visit - Indonesia
Ease of travel - Malaysia

Malaysia = 6
Indonesia = 6

It's a tie!

[Pavement Pounder]

Originally Posted by Goshio22

Lol nice one but i would put Nightlife (Entertainment) Indonesia, and in terms of scenery depends on what kind of scenery so i need to OP to be more specific, there are what the other ones had that the other doesn't like for example Borobudur vs Penang old town.

I like that Malingsia vs Indog, how did you know about that lmao.



Not that different? you mean the overly palm plantation scenery in Malaysia? yeah but you won't get to see this in Malaysia: http://travel.spotcoolstuff.com/wp-c...9/01/bali1.jpg

Obiviously the natural scenery of Indonesia are superior, with vast amount of volcanoes, thousands of islands and beautiful marine parks like Raja Ampat.

Malaysia has the northern part of Borneo, don't forget, including Kinabalu/the Crocker range, beaches, coral reefs, rainforest, and of course the massive Niah and Mulu caves. Virgin limestone karats, rain forests.etc are a highlight of the peninsula, so it's not like Malaysia misses out.

[Goshio22]

Originally Posted by Pavement Pounder

Malaysia has the northern part of Borneo, don't forget, including Kinabalu/the Crocker range, beaches, coral reefs, rainforest, and of course the massive Niah and Mulu caves. Virgin limestone karats, rain forests.etc are a highlight of the peninsula, so it's not like Malaysia misses out.

Hmm your writing style reminds me of someone, but it might just have been me.

Anyway Indonesia still wins, the rainforest of Borneo are rivaled by its counterpart in the south, Sulawesi and Papua, Papua and Sulawesi even have this cute tree kangaroo: http://wild-facts.com/wp-content/upl...e-kangaroo.jpg nawwwwwwww. Indonesia is the well known spice isles that offers much more divers biodiversity ranging from its exotic spices to deep rainforest and huge raflesia flower.

Biodiversity: Indonesia > Malaysia

Landscapewise Indonesia have thousands of mountains, Kinabalu mountain are nothing as comparison of its Indonesia's hundreds of volcanoes:

"Hobits" cave in Flores: http://humanorigins.si.edu/sites/def...on-2008_lg.jpg
Toraja landscape: http://www.jumbo.at/Asien/800/Torajaland_Langhaus.jpg
Rinjani: http://www.asiaworldindonesia.com/wp...njani-view.jpg
Bromo: http://bromoflexible-tour.com/wp-con...nung-Bromo.jpg
Dieng Plateau: http://images.fineartamerica.com/ima...-u-hamburg.jpg
Three colored lake (lake kelimutu: http://save-our-green.com/allpost/wp...eKelimutu3.jpg

And they really are just a few out of the 17000 islands.

Landscape: Indonesia > Malaysia

Beaches, Indonesia has plenty of small isles and the beaches on the off beaten track are plenty and undiscovered all clean and white sanded, Raja Ampat is also arguably the king of all diving spots:



So again Indonesia > Malaysia on this matter, your statement saying Indonesia and Malaysia's natural scenes being almost similar is simply too ignorant, Indonesia is huge diverse archipelago consisting isles and volcanoes compared to Malaysia that mostly sticks with the mainland and north borneo only.

[Pavement Pounder]

^ I agree Indonesia wins in biodiversity and diversity of scenery, but I'm also talking about accessibility. It's way easier for tourists to see the wild parts of Sarawak and Sabah versus Kalimantan. It's hard to access Sulawesi, or West Papua. Most of Indo just isn't that accessible for tourists, more the adventurous type. Malaysia is still a mega-diverse country, and boasts almost as much as Indonesia is a smaller area.