Indonesian Americans
| 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, there are far fewer Indonesian Americans compared with other Asian American groups; a principal reason for these low numbers is that the United States and Indonesia were never engaged in military conflict. 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. San Francisco holds an Indonesian festival every August 17 to celebrate Indonesia's independence and Indonesian culture.[2]
There is an especially large concentration of Indonesian Americans in the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire (especially Loma Linda) regions of Southern California
Most Indonesian Americans adhere to one of the five main world religions. The majority of Indonesian Americans are either Christian or Muslim. Other religions includeBuddhist 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
See also
References
- ^ "US demographic census". Retrieved 2007-04-28.
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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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