How many Sundanese are there in Indonesia?
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How many Sundanese are there in Indonesia?
about 32 million
Sundanese, one of the three principal ethnic groups of the island of Java, Indonesia. The Sundanese, estimated to number about 32 million in the early 21st century, are a highland people of western Java, distinguished from the Javanese mainly by their language and their more demonstrative approach to Islam.
What is the largest people group of Indonesia?
Javanese people, native to the island of Java, is the largest ethnic group in Indonesia with more than 95.2 million people, make up 40 percent of the total population. Javanese population spread all over the country, but is highly concentrated in Java and Bali Islands.
What are the 3 largest ethnic groups?
Black and African Americans make up the second largest group in the United States, but the third largest group after White Americans and Hispanic or Latino Americans (of any race).
What race is an Indonesian?
Some 300 ethnic groups call Indonesia home, but most (45 percent) of Indonesians are Javanese. In addition, 14 percent are Sundanese, 7.5 percent Madurese, 7.5 percent coastal Malays, and 26 percent are of other ethnic groups. There are more than 700 languages and dialects spoken in the archipelago.
What is Sundanese famous for?
Sundanese has developed the fermentation method to create distinct foodstuffs. Fermentation was employed either for making fermented food such as oncom, making sauce such as tauco (adopted from Chinese Indonesian cuisine), or sweet snack foods such as peuyeum which are tapai made from rice or cassava.
What are the 3 biggest religious groups in Indonesia?
Islam (86.7%)
What race are you if you are from Indonesia?
2010
| Ethnic group | Population (millions) | Percentage |
|---|---|---|
| Javanese | 95.217 | 40.06 |
| Sundanese | 36.705 | 15.51 |
| Malay | 8.754 | 3.70 |
| Batak | 8.467 | 3.58 |
Where did Indonesian people originate from?
The history of ancestral migration started 72,000 years ago when a group of Homo sapiens or modern humans travelled south from the African continent to the Arabian peninsula towards India. The descendants of this first wave of people arrived to what is now the Indonesian archipelago around 50,000 ago.
What do the Sundanese people eat?
Snacks
- Surabi, traditional rice flour pancake in sweet coconut sugar syrup or topped with spicy oncom mixture.
- Tahu Sumedang, fried tofu snack.
- Tahu gejrot, slightly fermented fried tofu snack with slices of shallots, chilli, and garlic in spicy-sweet sauce.
- Bala-bala, fried dough snack made from various chopped vegetables.
Who were the first Indonesians?
Austronesian people, who form the majority of the modern population, are thought to have originally been from Taiwan and arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE. From the 7th century CE, the powerful Srivijaya naval kingdom flourished bringing Hindu and Buddhist influences with it.
