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Indian Indonesians

Indian Indonesians

Indian-Indonesian community in Sri Mariamman Temple, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia.
Total population
Official: 120,000 (2010)[A]
Regions with significant populations
Majority in Medan and Deli Serdang, significant populations found in Surabaya, Banda Aceh, Jakarta, Bandung, Denpasar, Padang, Palembang, Surakarta, Bogor and Semarang
Languages
Mainly: Indonesian  • Tamil Also: · Javanese · Punjabi · Hindi · Urdu · Minangkabau · Gujarati · Sindhi · Telugu  · Sundanese · Balinese  · English
Religion
Predominantly Hinduism (40%) • Islam (30%) Significant minorities Buddhism (18%) • Christianity (10%) Others Sikhism • Jainism (2%) [2]
Related ethnic groups
People of Indian origin, Malaysian Indians

Indian Indonesians are Indonesians whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indians but also Indonesians with other South Asian ancestries (e.g. Pakistanis, Bangladeshis, etc.). According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there were about 120,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012.^[3] Most of them were concentrated in the province of North Sumatra and urban areas such as Banda Aceh, Surabaya, Medan , and Jakarta. However, it is quite impossible to get correct statistical figures on the Indian Indonesian population, because some of them have merged and assimilated with the indigenous population to become indistinguishable from native Indonesians.^[4]

Cuisine[edit]

List of notable Indonesian Indians[edit]

See also[edit]

• Desi
• Klingalese
• Mardijker people
• Non-resident Indian and Overseas Citizen of India
• Tamil diaspora
• African Indonesians
• Arab Indonesians
• Chinese Indonesians
• Indonesian Eurasians
• List of Indonesians

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Other sources[edit]

• J.L.A. Brandes, 1913, Oud-Javaansche oorkonden: nagelaten transscripties van wijlen J.L.A. Brandes; uitgegeven door N.J. Krom. Batavia: Albrecht. (Old Javanese inscriptions, bequeathed by the late J.L.A. Brandes, edited by N.J. Krom).
• Jan Gonda, 1952, Sanskrit in Indonesia. New Delhi: International Academy of Indian Culture.
• Page of the Indian Embassy in Jakarta on Indonesia
• Nilay Kothari
• There has never been Indian Kings whose expansion in the South-east Asia known to be of a Sanskrit Speaking. The Raja-raja Chera, Chola, Pandia and the rest of the Kings whose ruler-ship established in this part of the world are of the South Indian Kings.

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