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Indian Indonesians

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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

Cuisine

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List of notable Indonesian Indians

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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

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Notes

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  1. ^ The actual number of Indonesians of full or partial Indian descent is unknown as a great portion of the community has merged with the rest of the population therefore making it sometimes impossible to gather accurate statistical figures within Indonesia.[1]

References

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  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.

Other sources

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  • 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.