The sawing and drilling is almost equally intense in the minuscule archipelago nation of Bahrain, just off the Qatari coast.

It is in fact a mountainous island in the South Pacific, part of the very populous and highly authoritarian archipelago nation of Indonesia.

Smaller than California and bereft of many natural resources, the archipelago nation sees the deep as a repository of biological and mineral riches and is making preparations to mine them both.

As the strongest Government institution in Indonesia, it may hold the key to the future of this sprawling archipelago nation.

Mrs. Megawati is a conservative nationalist who is likely to give Indonesia's military a freer hand in crushing dissent and suppressing separatist movements in the archipelago nation.

"It is not impossible anymore if Indonesia as archipelago nation has civilization as advanced as the ancient Egyptian civilization, even in the much older", said Danny H. Natawidjaja.

Encouraged by the World Bank and other international relief organizations, the Government has paid for the resettlement of these millions in more remote and far-flung islands of this archipelago nation.

Mrs. Santiago could very well lose the election since she lacks the political machine needed to deliver - and, traditionally, to buy - votes in this far-flung archipelago nation.

John Paul arrived here after two days in the off-shore archipelago nation of Cape Verde, like this country a former Portuguese colony.

Land of rich culture and biodiversity, the archipelago nation of the Philippines is a breathtakingly beautiful country.