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List of people from West Sumatra: Individuals on this list are either native-born West Sumatra or emigrants who have chosen West Sumatra as their permanent home. Actors
Native Indonesians, also known as Pribumi (lit. ' first on the soil ' ) are Indonesians whose ancestral roots lie mainly in the archipelago and consist of various ethnic groups , predominantly of Austronesian and Melanesian descent.
Minangkabau people (Minangkabau: Urang Minang or Urang Awak; Indonesian or Malay: Orang Minangkabau; [5] Jawi: منڠكبو ), also known as Minang, are an Austronesian ethnic group native to the Minangkabau Highlands of West Sumatra, Indonesia.
Almost 95% of all Indian Indonesians are living in the province of North Sumatra. Indos: Indos or Eurasians are people of mixed native Indonesian and Dutch/European ancestry. They emerged in the Dutch East Indies colonial era. Today, less than one million Indonesians with varying degrees of mixed ancestry can trace their ancestors to Europeans ...
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 Batak languages (Karo, Pakpak, ... American Baptist missionaries to the Batak, were cannibalized in 1834. ... To the south of North Sumatra are the Muslim ...
Sakai is a tribal community in Indonesia, traditionally living in the interior of Riau, Sumatra. [1] Some of them still lead a nomadic and hunter-gatherer lifestyle in the remote interior of Sumatra, while most settled into major cities and towns in Sumatra with the rise of industrialization. [2] There are various theories of their origin.
Nias people are an ethnic group native to Nias, an island off the west coast of North Sumatra, Indonesia. In the Nias language, the Nias people are known as Ono Niha, which means 'descendants of humans'. [2] Nias island is known as Tanö Niha, with Tanö meaning 'land' in the Nias language.