Talk:Demographics of Indonesia
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What part of Islam does the muslims of Indonesia belong to - would be good to have that stated I believe. I can not find any reference to this in the CIA factbook, though its listed for other muslim nations, like Pakistan, Afghanistan etc. Ulflarsen 20:20, 5 Feb 2005 (UTC)
- If I'm not mistaken, most Indonesians are Sunni (although my experience is that if you would ask them, most of them wouldn't know what to anwser). MartijnL 07:48, 23 August 2005 (UTC)
- Most of them never cocerned (even know) with sunni-shi'a divergence. Indonesian muslim almost never affected by shi'a.Aditthegrat 17:47, 15 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Bahasa
The article says that Bahasa Indonesia is a form of Malay and has spread through the archipelago since independence. But as far as I know, it has been a lingua franca for centuries for the entire region, including present-day Malysia. So the two languages are just two manifestations of the same language which has been around for a long time before independence. Something that did spread after independence was the new Indonesian spelling that was based on the Dutch writing of the language. But I don't really know enough about this to change the text.
Related to this is the demography, about which I will put up a posting in the Indonesia talk page. One thing that is ignored is the enormous cultural diversity in Indonesia, which is not surprising given the amount of islands. Which was the reason for the emergence of the lingua franca. DirkvdM 18:40, 16 August 2005 (UTC)
