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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@clacke@libranet.de (2026-08-24 21:34:54)
I spoke to a guy the other week who casually mentioned that sure, most Indonesians are Muslim, but he's Chinese Indonesian, so his family is Catholic.

I would have loved to go further down this conversation branch, but that's not where we went.

According to him there are Buddhist Chinese Indonesians too, but at least in the Jakarta area, the Catholics seem more common.
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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@clacke@libranet.de (2026-08-25 11:19:35)
It's difficult to find this kind of demographical matrix of ethnicity and religion, and Indonesia itself doesn't track ethnicity in its census.

The Wikipedia page on Chinese Indonesians says:





Religion
Predominantly:
Buddhism, Christianity, ConfucianismMinority:
Taoism, Islam, Hinduism, and others

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@clacke@libranet.de (2026-08-25 11:32:03)
The Ministry of Religious Affairs grants official status to six religions: Islam, Protestantism, Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism. A 2006 civil registration law does not allow Indonesians to identify themselves as a member of any other religion on their identity cards.
... you list your religion on your identity card. 🤯


According to an analysis of the 2000 census data, about half of Chinese Indonesians were Buddhists, and about one-third Protestant or Catholic.