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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.

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clacke: exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛@clacke@libranet.de (2026-08-25 11:32:11)
The first wave of conversions occurred in the 1950s and 1960s, and the number of ethnic Chinese Christians during this period quadrupled. The second wave followed after the government withdrew Confucianism's status as a recognized religion in the 1970s. Suharto endorsed a systematic campaign of eradication of Confucianism. As the result, many Chinese in Jakarta and other parts in Java island are mostly Christian, meanwhile in non-Java cities like Medan, Pontianak and other parts in Sumatra and Borneo island are mainly adherents to Buddhism, and some of them still practising Taoism, Confucianism and other Traditional Chinese belief.
There's the confirmation of the anecdote.