Indonesian American
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| Indonesian American |
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| Total population |
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100.000-200.000[citation needed] |
| Regions with significant populations |
| California, Northeast, West Coast |
| Languages |
| American English, Indonesian, Javanese, Chinese, Hakka, Indian, Dutch, |
| Religion |
| Predominately Muslim. Some Christianity, Buddhist, and Hinduism. |
| Related ethnic groups |
| Indonesians, Filipino Americans, Other Austronesians groups (Dayak, Malays, Meratus Dayak and other non-Muslim Pribumi), Chinese Indonesians, Indoneisans, Dutch Indonesians |
Indonesian Americans are Americans of Pribumi, Chinese Indonesian, Dutch Indonesian, Indian Indonesian descent or ancestry. Indonesian Americans are the sixth largest Southeast Asian ethnic group in the United States behind Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Laotian Americans, Cambodian Americans, and Thai Americans. Although Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, Indonesian Americans constitute a minority in the makeup of Asian Americans. A principal reason is that Indonesia and the U.S. were never engaged in war and most Indonesian American ancestors came from The Netherlands.
According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are approximately 70,000 Indonesian Americans. About 3,000 Indonesian nationals immigrate to the United States annually.
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[edit] Demographics
The majority of Indonesian Americans reside in large cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, New York, and Chicago.
Most Indonesian Americans adhere to one of the five main world religions. The majority of Indonesian Americans are either Christian or Muslim.
[edit] Trivia
In the Silicon Valley region of Northern California, there are many professional Indonesian American engineers in the high tech industry that are employed in companies such as Cisco Systems, KLA Tencor, Google, Yahoo, Sun Microsystems, and IBM.
Partahi Lumbantoruan, one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, is Indonesian.
[edit] Notables
[edit] Experts on Indonesian Anthropology
[edit] Experts on Indonesian Politics
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Asian Genes This website discusses the genetic distance of different Asian groups.
- US Census 2000 foreign born population by country
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