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]
 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 |
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Cuisine
editList of notable Indonesian Indians
edit| Name | Notes |
|---|---|
| Ayu Azhari | Indonesian actress. |
| Charles Tambu | Indonesian politician. |
| D. Kumaraswamy | Indonesian Hindu reformer and Tamil community leader in Indonesia. |
| Farouk Afero | Indonesian film actor |
| Gurnam Singh | Indonesian athlete, won three gold medals in the 1962 Asian Games in athletics. |
| Harbrinderjit Singh Dillon | Indonesian politician. |
| Kimmy Jayanti | Indonesian model and actress. |
| Kobalen A.S | Indonesian politician |
| Manoj Punjabi | Indonesian cineaste and media tycoon and founder of MD Pictures and MD Entertainment production houses. |
| Musa Rajekshah | Indonesian entrepreneur and politician |
| Nataraja Ramakrishna | Indonesian dance guru |
| Nuruddin ar-Raniri | Sultanate of Aceh politician |
| Raam Punjabi | Indonesian cineaste and media tycoon and founder of the Multivision Plus production house, uncle of Manoj Punjabi. |
| Ram Soraya | Indonesian Entrepreneur, movie producer and the owner of production house Soraya Intercine Films. |
| Sarah Azhari | Indonesian actress, model and singer. |
| Sri Prakash Lohia | Indonesian billionaire businessman. |
| Swami Anand Krishna | Indonesian spiritual humanist. |
| Wijay | Indonesian football player for PSMS Medan. |
See also
editNotes
editReferences
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Sorry for the inconvenience". Mea.gov.in. Retrieved December 18, 2017.
- ^ Sandhu, S; Mani, A, eds. (2006). Indian Communities in Southeast Asia (First Reprint ed.). ISBN 9789812304186. Retrieved August 10, 2015.
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.
