Talk:Indonesian Americans

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As with the other Foo American articles, this article needs to discuss their arrival in the US, settlement and achievements.

Most of the first- and second-generation Indonesian-Americans I've met in the NY/NJ area are children of people who were local staff at the Embassy in Washington, or the Consulate and Mission to the UN in New York. Some others were children of people who were in the Dutch Merchant Marine but "jumped ship" and got American citizenship much later. I don't know why there has never been a serious study of Indonesian-Americans in academic journals, such as Indonesia (published by Cornell's SEAP) or elsewhere RahadyanS 05:41, 29 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Editing

I'm editing the info where it says that Indonesian are the fourth largest. CanCanDuo 06:25, 1 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Indonesian Christians in the NJ/NY/CT Area

There should probably be an article on the various Protestant denominations attended by Indonesians in the tristate area, including Baptist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Pentecostal, etc. RahadyanS 13:24, 12 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

suggestions

There's a lot conceptual and/or stylistic error in this page

1. "Indonesian Americans are among the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group in the United States, after Filipino Americans, Vietnamese Americans, Laotian Americans, Cambodian Americans, and Thai Americans."

I don't think this syntax works. "Largest" does not work. You could do it as "Indonesian-Americans are the 5th largest ...etc.

2. "Socioeconomic" refers to social and economic status quo of Indoensian Americans It doesn't work if people just put trivial information such as "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."--Vircabutar 05:53, 12 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]