"Tidak banyak pohon di gurun."

Translation: There are not many trees in the desert.

[laviedulinguiste]

In English, the statement beginner "There are" is needed to make this a full sentence. "There are not many trees in the desert".

[S9N1t]

Could someone please explain how this is a full sentence in Indonesian? I am wanting to put in the word 'ada'. Is it that 'tidak' can mean 'there is/are not', ie it kind of includes the 'ada'?

Or I gather, from laviedulinguiste's comment, that the original English translation did not include 'There are', which implies that maybe the Indonesian sentence is not actually complete?

[dini07my]

Tidak ada banyak pohon di gurun.
There is/are not : tidak ada