>>58954615Light just based it on the fact that real-life Indonesia is fuckhuge compared to the real-life counterparts of every previous region. But there's nothing actually indicating that GF will keep the same scale for the game itself. Just compare Unova and Sinnoh being about the same size in-game, despite Hokkaido being over 5 times bigger than the New York Metropolitan Area.
In fact, the recently-leaked 3D model and location list of the Gen 10 archipelago indicate that it shouldn't be significantly larger than Paldea at all.