Overview of the presence and role of Hinduism in Indonesia
Hinduism in Indonesia Hinduisme di Indonesia
A puja ceremony at Besakih Temple in Bali, Indonesia.
Total population
4,692,548 (2022)[1] 1.7% 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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Hindu distribution in each Indonesian province (red) the map including Kaharingan
Hinduism is the third-largest religion in Indonesia, based on civil registration data in 2022 from Ministry of Home Affairs, is practised by about 1.69% 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.[2] Hinduism came to Indonesia in the 1st-century through Indian traders, sailors, scholars and priests.[3] 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.[4] These ideas continued to develop during the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires.[5] 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.[6][7]
Indonesia has the fourth-largest population of Hindus in the world, after India, Nepal and Bangladesh.[8] Though being a minority religion, the Hindu culture has influenced the way of life and day-to-day activities in Indonesia.[9] Outside of Bali, many adherents of traditional indigenous religions identify as Hindus in order to gain official recognition.
^"Jumlah Penduduk Menurut Agama" (in Indonesian). Ministry of Religious Affairs. 31 August 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2023. Muslim 241 Million (87), Christianity 29.1 Million (10.5), Hindu 4.69 million (1.7), Buddhist 2.02 million (0.7), Folk, Confucianism, and others 192.311 (0.1), Total 277.749.673 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.
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