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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%)
Significant minorities
Islam (30%) • 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]

An old Indian enclave in Pasar Baru, Jakarta, Indonesia
Shri Mariamman Temple in Kampung Madras, Medan, Indonesia
Portrait of an Indian family in Sumatra, 1920s
  1. ^ Sandhu, K. S.; Mani, A. (December 18, 1993). Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint 2006). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 9789812304186. Retrieved December 18, 2017 – via Google Books.
  2. ^ Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M Sairi Hasbullah, Nur Budi Handayani, Agus Pramono. Demography of Indonesia's Ethnicity. Singapore: ISEAS: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2015. p. 273.
  3. ^ "Sorry for the inconvenience". Mea.gov.in. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
  4. ^ Sandhu, S; Mani, A, eds. (2006). Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint ed.). ISBN 9789812304186. Retrieved August 10, 2015.


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