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Indonesia has embarked on the additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask of counting its islands in additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask to better protect its territory and marine additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask. It hopes to locate and name an additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask 1,700 islands in time for the UN Conference on the Standardization of Geographical Names in August. Indonesia wants to claim additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask and fishing rights in the waters surrounding the islands, additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask of which its additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask also claim. The Indonesian government says additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask fishing in its waters is costing billions of dollars in lost additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask each year. A fisheries spokeswoman told the BBC: "Sixty per cent of islands in Indonesia don't have a name or officially have additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask status, so they can easily be taken or claimed by another country."

Indonesia is the world's additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask archipelago. At the last UN additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask on geographical names in 2012, Indonesia registered 13,466 islands. A law in 1996 estimated that the additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask of islands was 17,508. The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea defines an island as, "a additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask formed area of land, surrounded by water, which is still exposed at additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask tide". A spokesman from Indonesia's Ministry of Marine Affairs and Fisheries explained the scale of the additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask the counting team had. He said: "We have to visit every additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask of these islands, and then we note the additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask, the name, the meaning of the name, the additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask of the land and describe the landscape and its geographical history…all that in great additionalconferencecoordinatesdetailhighhistoryillegallargestlegalmanynaturallyneighborsnumberoneorderresourcesrevenuesovereigntytask."