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- Indonesia has been described as one of the most heterogeneous countries in the world. As of 2020, the Indonesian population is 270.2 million and consists of 1,331 ethnic groups who speak 718 languages and dialects.
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Mar 19, 2010 · While the United States debates what multiculturalism is, what it should be, and whether it is even a desirable goal, Indonesia appears to have gone a long way towards conceptualizing and implementing a national vision of multi-ethnic coexistence.
Despite all this, Indonesia remains a unified state with a multi-faith, multi-ethnic and multicultural society. Its current diversity typology has been strongly influenced by three major factors: Ethno-racial groups, such as the Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, Malay, Batak, Banjar, Dayak, Buginese and many others, including non-native ...
As a result, modern-day Indonesia has a multicultural, multilingual and multi-ethnic society, [1] [2] with a complex cultural mixture that differs significantly from the original indigenous cultures.
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Indonesian cultures are very different from Western cultures as there exists a difference in experience, belief-systems, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, spatial relations, and much more. Moreover within Indonesian itself there exists a multitude of different cultures. This makes Indonesia a complex country, and therefore an interesting coun...
In this series of columns we try to unfold something related to Indonesia's cultures, histories, politics and economy, moving a bit away from the mainstream topics and columns in our other sections. These columns are useful to those who take an interest in a wide variety of disciplines with regard to Indonesia. Each column can be regarded a startin...
The Politics section contains a detailed overview of Indonesia's political history stretching from the pre-colonial period when Indonesia can be labelled a fragmented patchwork of indigenous states, to the long colonial period when the archipelago gradually transformed into a political unity, the independent Soekarno government in which politics do...
The emergence of Indonesia's integrated national economy was not a quick, natural process but rather a long and artificial one, shaped largely by pressures from foreign oppressors and then culminated in the centralized state of Suharto's New Order regime. This section covers the present state and structure of Indonesia's economy and discusses a num...
Religion plays an important role within Indonesian society and in the daily lives of the people. Indonesia is the country with the largest Muslim population in the world but it also contains millions of people that adhere to other main world religions as well as more traditional animist belief systems. This section gives a description of the main r...
The demographic composition and economic performance of any given country usually have a causal relationship as a young population would generally imply a potentially large workforce while a large mid-aged population (in their 40s and early 50s) would generally imply a potentially large consumer force. In this section attention is drawn to Indonesi...
Oct 26, 2024 · ‘Indonesia’ is a singular term that names a particular nation, but there’s nothing uniform about its culture. There are at least 300 ethnic groups in Indonesia, each with their own set of customs and distinctive cultural objects.
Apr 11, 2020 · Using Blum’s definition of multiculturalism, the author says that Indonesian society is not yet a multicultural society either, although its national motto is “unity in diversity”. Some facts are given for this.
Jul 1, 2013 · Indonesia is a large country with diverse ethnic groups and the study seeks to investigate the self in relation to ethnicity.
