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Indonesian American
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| Indonesian American |
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100.000-200.000 |
| Regions with significant populations |
| California, Northeast, West Coast |
| Language(s) |
| American English, Indonesian, Chinese, Hakka, Indian, Dutch, |
| Religion(s) |
| Christianity, Buddhist, Hinduism, Islam |
Indonesian Americans are Americans of Pribumi, Chinese Indonesians, Dutch Indonesians, Indian Indonesians descent or ancestry. Indonesian Americans are the sixth 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. A principal reason is that Indonesia and the U.S. were never engaged in war.
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.
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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.[citation needed]
Most Indonesian Americans adhere to one of the five main world religions. The majority of Indonesian Americans are either Christian or Muslim.
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.
Partahi Lumbantoruan, one of the victims of the Virginia Tech massacre, is Indonesian.
- Asian Genes This website discusses the genetic distance of different Asian groups.
- US Census 2000 foreign born population by country
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| East Asian | Chinese · Japanese · Korean · Mongolian · Taiwanese |  |
| South Asian | Bangladeshi · Indian · Indo-Caribbean · Nepalese · Pakistani · Sri Lankan · Tibetan (otherwise considered Central Asian) | |
| Southeast Asian | Burmese · Cambodian · Filipino · Hmong · Indonesian · Laotian · Mien · Thai · Vietnamese | |
| Other | Asian Latino · Eurasian · Amerasian · Turkish | |
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