Indonesian Americans

Indonesian American

Regions with significant populations
California, Northeast, West Coast
Languages
American English, Indonesian, Chinese
Religion
Christianity, Buddhist and small Hinduism & Muslim Community
Related ethnic groups
other Asian Americans

Indonesian Americans are Americans of Indonesian descent. Indonesian Americans are the fifth 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.

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.

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. Other religions include Buddhist Hindu (mainly Balinese).

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.

There are also some Indonesian Americans serving in the U.S. military and who have served in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Partahi Lumbantoruan, one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, is Indonesian.

Notables

• List of Indonesian Americans

See also

• Demographics of Indonesia
• Indonesians in Hong Kong
• Indonesians in Japan

External links

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