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Following independence, the term was normally used to distinguish indigenous Indonesians from citizens of foreign descent (especially Chinese Indonesians). Common usage distinguished between pribumi and non-pribumi. [5] Although the term is sometimes translated as "indigenous", it has a broader meaning than that associated with Indigenous peoples.
Many of them also held dual citizenship. As of 2011, an estimated 124,000 Indos live outside the Netherlands (including Indonesia). [15] Japanese: Japanese people who initially migrated to Indonesia after the defeat of the Japanese empire in World War II. In the years following, the percentage of Japanese people decreased as they had migrated ...
According to the official Indonesian national linguistic data, there are at least 428 living languages (and 37 Papua-based isolate languages) natively spoken by the Papuans in Indonesia alone, [9] making it the most linguistically diverse community in Indonesia. Many of these languages are non-Austronesian hence called Papuan languages by ...
Mentawai (also known as Mentawei and Mentawi) people are the native people of the Mentawai Islands (principally Siberut, Sipura, North Pagai and South Pagai) about 100 miles from West Sumatra province, Indonesia. They live a semi-nomadic hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the coastal and rainforest environments of the islands and are also one of the ...
The culture of Indonesia (Indonesian: Budaya Indonesia) has been shaped by the interplay of indigenous customs and diverse foreign influences. With over 600 distinct ethnic groups , including significant Austronesian and Melanesian cultures, contributing to its rich traditions, languages , and customs, Indonesia is a melting pot of diversity.
The new classification categorized 1,331 coded ethnicities from the census into more than 600 groups instead of just 31 in the initial classification, [4] completely dissolved the placeholder "ethnic groups from X" categories to better capture the diversity of Indonesia's ethnic demography, [5] corrected misplaced groups and subgroups, [6] and ...
The Kangean people (Kangean: Oréng Kangéan; Indonesian: Orang Kangean; IPA: Indonesian:, Javanese: [kaˈŋe(j)an]) is an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Indonesian island of Kangean and its surrounding islands. [3] The Kangeanese population of c.125,840 [4] live mostly on the island of Kangean, making up c.90% of the island's population.
Moluccans are the Austronesian and Papuan-speaking ethnic groups indigenous to the Maluku Islands (also called the Moluccas), Eastern Indonesia. The region was historically known as the Spice Islands, [4] and today consists of two Indonesian provinces of Maluku and North Maluku. As such, "Moluccans" is used as a blanket term for the various ...