Back Hindu di Indonésia BEW ইন্দোনেশিয়ায় হিন্দুধর্ম Bengali/Bangla Hindouisme en Indonésie French इण्डोनेशिया में हिन्दू धर्म Hindi Hindu di Indonesia ID Hindoisma ao Indônezia Malagasy ഇന്തോനേഷ്യയിലെ ഹിന്ദുമതം Malayalam इंडोनेशियातील हिंदू धर्म Marathi इन्डोनेसियामा हिन्दु धर्म Nepali Индуизм в Индонезии Russian
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| Total population | |
|---|---|
 4,728,954 (2023)[1][2]1.68% of population | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Bali | 3,682,484 |
| Central Kalimantan | 155,595 |
| West Nusa Tenggara | 128,600 |
| Lampung | 127,903 |
| Central Sulawesi | 109,308 |
| East Java | 107,971 |
| North Sumatra | 88,346 |
| Religions | |
| Hinduism Balinese Hinduism, revival of Javanese Hinduism (majority) and traditional indigenous religions identified as Hindus (minority) | |
| Scriptures | |
| Vedas, Upanishads, Puranas, Itihasa (mainly Ramayana & Mahabharata) and others | |
| Languages | |
| Sacred Sanskrit Spoken Languages Indonesian (official), Balinese, Javanese, Dayak, Sundanese, Tenggerese, Osing and other Indonesian languages | |
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Hinduism is the third-largest religion in Indonesia, based on civil registration data in 2023 from Ministry of Home Affairs, is practised by about 1.68% of the total population, and almost 87% of the population in Bali. Hinduism was the dominant religion in the country before the arrival of Islam and is one of the six official religions of Indonesia today.[3] Hinduism came to Indonesia in the 1st-century through Indian traders, sailors, scholars and priests.[4] A syncretic fusion of pre-existing Javanese folk religion, culture and Hindu ideas, that from the 6th-century also synthesized Buddhist ideas as well, evolved as the Indonesian version of Hinduism.[5] These ideas continued to develop during the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires.[6] About 1400 CE, these kingdoms were introduced to Islam from coast-based Muslim traders, and thereafter Hinduism, which was previously the dominant religion in the region, mostly vanished from many of the islands of Indonesia.[7][8]
Indonesia has the fourth-largest population of Hindus in the world, after India, Nepal and Bangladesh.[9] Though being a minority religion, the Hindu culture has influenced the way of life and day-to-day activities in Indonesia.[10] Outside of Bali, many adherents of traditional indigenous religions identify as Hindus in order to gain official recognition.
- ^ "Religion in Indonesia".
- ^ Muslim 244 Million (87.1), Christianity 29.4 Million (10.5), Hindu 4.73 million (1.7), Buddhist 2 million (0.7), Confucianism 76.019 (0.03), Folk and others 99.045 (0.04), Total 280.725.428 Million
- ^ Religious Freedom Report - Indonesia U.S. State Department (2012)
- ^ Juergensmeyer, Mark; Roof, Wade Clark (2012). Encyclopedia of Global Religion. SAGE Publications. pp. 557. ISBN 978-0-7619-2729-7.
- ^ "Mahayana Buddhism: Buddhism in Indonesia". www.buddhanet.net. Archived from the original on 12 November 2020. Retrieved 7 February 2021.
- ^ Cox, Murray P.; Nelson, Michael G.; Tumonggor, Meryanne K.; Ricaut, François-X.; Sudoyo, Herawati (22 July 2012). "A small cohort of Island Southeast Asian women founded Madagascar". Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 279 (1739): 2761–2768. doi:10.1098/rspb.2012.0012. ISSN 0962-8452. PMC 3367776. PMID 22438500.
- ^ Campo, Juan Eduardo (2009). Encyclopedia of Islam. Infobase Publishing. pp. 72. ISBN 978-1-4381-2696-8. OCLC 1126059704.
- ^ Kahin, Audrey (29 October 2015). Historical Dictionary of Indonesia. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 3–5. ISBN 978-0-8108-7456-5.
- ^ "Indonesia". U.S. Department of State. Retrieved 4 May 2021.
- ^ Focus on Indonesia. Information Division, Embassy of Indonesia. 1977. pp. 21. OCLC 2116026.