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Indian Indonesians ((タミル語:இந்தியர்கள் இந்தோனேஷியா); (ヒンディー語:इंडोनेशिया में भारतीयों); (インドネシア語:Orang India Indonesia)) are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore, this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis etc. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are about 120,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012.〔(Indian Ministry of External Affairs - INDIA-INDONESIA RELATIONS )〕 Most of them are concentrated in Medan (North Sumatra) and Jakarta. However, it is almost impossible to get correct statistical figures on the Indian indonesian population, because the greater part of them have merged and assimilated with the indigenous population to become undistinguishable from native Indonesians. ==History== Various people from the Indian subcontinent have frequented the Indonesian archipelago since the prehistoric era. In Bali, for example, remains of potteries from the first centuries C.E. have been recovered. In fact, the name Indonesia itself comes from the Latin ''Indus'' "India" and Greek ''nêsos'' "island" which literally means the ‘Indian archipelago’. From the 4th and 5th centuries onwards, Indian cultural influences became more and more visible. The Sanskrit language was used on inscriptions. However, since the 7th century onwards, the Indian scripts were used more and more to write down indigenous languages which by now already contained many loans not only from Sanskrit, but also various prakrit and Tamil. In addition to that, indigenous Indonesians began to embrace Hinduism and Buddhism. It is believed that various Indian people also settled in Indonesia, mixed and assimilated with the local population. Because in the 9th century in an inscription from Central Java the names of various Indian people (and Southeast-Asian people) are mentioned: :''() ikang warga kilalan kling ārya singhala pandikiri drawiḍa campa kmir'' () (Brandes 1913:1021). :() the civilians of which one has the use are: people from Kalinga, Aryas, people from Pandiya kera = Pandiyas , Keralites ), Dravidians, Chams, and Khmer () Later on with the rise of the Islam, the Islam was brought to Indonesia by the Arabs from the 11th century onwards, first not to replace the existing religious systems, but to complement them. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Indian Indonesians」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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