Indian Indonesians
Indian Indonesians are Indonesians whose ancestors originally came from the Indians 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. 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.
Indian-Indonesian community in Sri Mariamman Temple, Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia. | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| Official: 120,000 (2010) | |
| 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 • Telugu Also: · Javanese · Punjabi · Hindi · Urdu · Minangkabau · Gujarati · Sindhi · Sundanese · Balinese · English | |
| Religion | |
| Majority: Hinduism (40%) Minority: Islam (30%) • Buddhism (18%) • Christianity (10%) • Sikhism • Jainism (2%) | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| People of Indian origin, Malaysian Indians |