Indonesian American

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Indonesian Americans are Americans of Indonesian descent. Indonesia is an archipelagic nation in the region of Southeast Asia. Indonesian Americans are among the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group in the United States after the Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Cambodian Americans, and Thai Americans. Although Indonesia is the fourth largest population in the world, there are far fewer proportions of Indonesian Americans when compared to other Asian Americans. One core reason is that the U.S. and Indonesia was never in a military conflict. The absent of such conflict is due to Indonesians being able and successful in eliminating and purging every communist from the country. Their population, as recorded in the US Census 2000, is approximately 70,000 and about 3,000 Indonesian nationals immigrate to the United States annually.

Contents 1 Life in America 2 Cultural profile 3 Notables 4 See also 5 External links

[edit] Life in America

The majority of Indonesian Americans reside in large cities such as Los Angeles, San Francisco, Houston, New York, and Chicago. San Francisco holds an Indonesian festival annually on August 17, which celebrates Indonesia's independence and its culture.^[1]

In the Silicon Valley region of Northern California, there are numerous professional engineers of Indonesian descent in many high tech companies such as Cisco Systems, KLA TENCOR, Google, Yahoo, SunMicro, and IBM to name a few.

There are also some Indonesian Americans serving in the US Military and who have served in the post 9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

[edit] Cultural profile

Most Indonesian Americans believe in a Supreme Being and adhere to one of the five main world religions. The majority of Indonesian Americans in the United States are either Christian or Muslim though there are small minorities of Hindus (mainly Balinese) and Buddhists.

Some Indonesian Americans are of Dutch origin as Indonesia was its colony for 350 years. Many Indonesian Americans also have Chinese ancestry, thus can be categorized as Chinese Indonesian American.

[edit] Notables

• List of Indonesian Americans

[edit] See also

• Demographics of Indonesia
• Asian Americans

[edit] External links

• Asian Genes This website discusses the genetic distance of different Asian groups.
• US Census 2000 foreign born population by country
• Indonesia Day

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