About Riau Province

Riau is a province of Indonesia, located the center of sumtera island along the strait of malacca The provincial capital and largest city is Pekanbaru. Other major cities includes Dumai,Bangkinang, and Siak sri indrapura

Riau is one of the richest provinces in Indonesia. This province is rich with natural resources, particularly petrolium and natural,lags,rubber and palm oil

The province was once heavily forested lowlands, but with palm oil plantations and logging being major industries it is losing around 2,000 square km of forest per year. In 2005 the forest cover was down to 33% (or 27.000 square km) from 78% (or 64.000 square km) in 1982. Being a province with a predominantly low relief, the coastal regions are rapidly losing land to the ocean.

The Riau islands were part of Riau until 2004, when they were made into a separate province.

The dialect of Indonesian spoken in this region is said by many linguists to be one of the simplest languages in the world, possessing neither noun declensions, nor temporal distinctions, nor subject/object distinctions, nor singular/plural distinction, nor word order of any kind.

source: wikipedia