Indonesia the world, extending from east to west and from north to south. According to the country's Coordinating Ministry for Maritime Affairs, Indonesia has 17,504 islands (16,056 of which are registered at the UN), scattered over both sides of the equator, and with about 6,000 of them are inhabited. The largest are Java, Sumatra, Borneo (shared with Brunei and Malaysia), Sulawesi, and New Guinea (shared with Papua New Guinea). Indonesia shares land borders with Malaysia on Borneo, Papua New Guinea on the island of New Guinea, and East Timor on the island of Timor, and maritime borders with Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam,
Brunei–Malaysia border Malaysian press reports, saying the Limbang Question was never discussed during negotiations for the Exchange of Letters. Malaysia subsequently said the Limbang Question will be settled once the survey and demarcation of the boundary between the two countries is completed. Finally on 2009, with the report from Brunei media, they announced an end to claim over each other's land, and said to resolve issues related to their maritime borders. In terms of boundary delimitation in general, the Letters of Exchange provided for the ending of the dispute by virtue of Brunei agreeing to affirm the five historical border agreements. For