Chinese identity
Identifying someone in Indonesia as a member of the Chinese (orang Tionghoa) ethnic group is…
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Chinese identity
Minangkabau identity
The Minangkabau--who predominate along the coasts of Sumatera Utara and Sumatera Barat, interior Riau, and…
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Minangkabau identity
Indonesian Climate
The main variable of Indonesia's climate is not temperature or air pressure, but rainfall. The…
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Indonesian Climate
Javanese identity
There were approximately 70 million Javanese in the early 1990s, the majority of whom lived…
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Javanese identity
Sundanese identity
Although there are many social, economic, and political similarities between the Javanese and Sundanese, differences…
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Sundanese identity
Tradition and Multiethnicity in Indonesia
This article give some background to the complex traditions and multiethnicity of the young Indonesian…
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Tradition and Multiethnicity in Indonesia
Principal Ethnic Groups of Indonesia
For centuries the many thousands of islands and mountainous terrain have separated groups of people…
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Principal Ethnic Groups of Indonesia
Toraja identity
One minority group that has been successful in gaining national and international attention is the…
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Toraja identity
Weyewa identity
The Weyewa inhabit the western highlands of Sumba, Nusa Tenggara Timur Province, where they cultivate…
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Weyewa identity
Asmat dance, Papua indonesia
Asmat identity
The approximately 65,000 Asmat people of the south-central alluvial swamps of the Papua Province are…
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Asmat identity
Tanimbarese identity
In the southeastern part of Maluku Province lived more than 60,000 residents of the Tanimbar…
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Tanimbarese identity
Balinese identity
There is probably no group in Indonesia more aware of its own ethnic identity than…
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Balinese identity