Indian Indonesians
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Indian Indonesians Indian Indonesians are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis etc. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are about 100,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012. Most of them are concentrated in Medan and in the Javanese cities of Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung. Various people from the Indian subcontinent have frequented the Indonesian archipelago since the prehistoric era. In Bali, for example, remains of potteries from the 1st centuries C.E. have been recovered. In fact, the name Indonesia itself comes from the Latin Indus "India" and Greek nxsos "island" which literally means the ‘Indian archipelago’. From the 4th and 5th centuries onwards, Indian cultural inf...