1.   But too often we tend to dismiss this region as one entity, one vast archipelago with a common background and common culture and common attractions.

2.   City dwellers are the principal victims, although Indonesian sailors traveling across the vast archipelago country have carried the virus to remote islands.

3.   East Timor makes up one-half of the island of Timor in the remote, isolated southeastern corner of the vast Indonesian archipelago.

4.   Missile technology, for example, has been seeping out of what was a vast archipelago of military research institutes and defense plants in the Soviet Union.

5.   Over the years, the Indonesian military gained a widely acknowledged reputation for brutality as it suppressed rebellions in its vast archipelago.

6.   Director General of Air Communications Zainuddin Sikado said the planned subsidy was of national importance to provide a fast means of transportation to connect the vast archipelago.

7.   Her greatest challenge will be holding together the vast archipelago nation which her expansionist father helped create.

8.   In the two weeks he has been president, he has brought changes once thought impossible in this vast archipelago.

9.   Indonesian investigators have yet to find any evidence that terrorist organizations have opened accounts in banks across the vast archipelago.

10.   News from remote areas of this vast archipelago nation often reaches the capital several days later.