The main ethnic groups in Indonesia

The most populous ethnic group in Indonesia is Javanese, which is the main ethnic group in this country. Javanese is the mother tongue and official language, and English is also the business language. The basic residents of Indonesia in Southeast Asia. Including 100 ethnic groups. Most of them belong to Mongolian Malays, and a few belong to nigro-Australian nigri Tuo, Vader and Papua-melanesians. There are more than 100 national languages in Indonesia, which form a unified Indonesian language on the basis of Malay. 1945 is designated as the national language and belongs to the Indonesian family of Austronesian languages. Some words, originally Arabic letters, are now Latin letters. English is a second language. Most people believe in Islam, and a few believe in Christianity, Hinduism and other religions.

The complex situation of Indonesians in ethnic composition, ethnic types, language and religion is gradually formed by the impact of many immigration waves in history and the influence of foreign cultures. Due to the different time and place of immigration, different immigrant groups bring different cultural and life characteristics, and the degree and situation of integration with newly arrived residents are also different. After many times of differentiation and integration, many different nationalities have gradually formed. Moreover, in the process of their further development, these ethnic groups have continuously integrated and absorbed the lineages and cultures of Indians, China, Arabs, Persians and Europeans who immigrated later. The economy is dominated by agriculture, planting rice, corn, kapok, rubber, oil palm and sisal.