Orang Indonesia di Australia | |
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Total population | |
87,075 (born in Indonesia, 2021) [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide | |
Religion | |
Majority Christianity, with significant minorities of Muslim and Buddhism and small minorities of Hinduism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Indonesians, Overseas Indonesians, Cocos Malays, Malaysian Australians |
Indonesian Australians ( Indonesian: Orang Indonesia di Australia) are Australian citizens and residents of Indonesian origin. 48,836 Australian residents declared Indonesian ancestry on the 2011 Australian Census, while 63,160 stated they were born in Indonesia.
Despite the proximity of the two countries (they share a maritime border), Australia’s Indonesian diaspora community is relatively small. According to the University of Melbourne, Australia is merely the 19th most popular destination for Indonesian migrants. [2]
As early as the 1750s, that is prior to European colonisation, seamen from eastern Indonesian ports such as Kupang and Makassar regularly visited Australia's northern coast, spending about four months per year there collecting trepang or sea cucumbers to trade with China. [3]
Beginning in the 1870s, Indonesian workers were recruited to work in colonial Australia, with almost 1,000 (primarily in Western Australia and Queensland) residing in Australia by federation. [4] The pearl hunting industry predominantly recruited workers from Kupang, and sugar plantations recruited migrant labourers from Java to work in Queensland.
Following federation and the enactment of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, the first in a series of laws that collectively formed the White Australia policy, most of these migrants returned to Indonesia. [5]
Beginning in 1942, thousands of Indonesians fled the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and took refuge in Australia. Exact landing statistics were not kept due to the chaotic nature of their migration, but after the war, 3,768 repatriated to Indonesia on Australian government-provided ships. [6]
In the 1950s, roughly 10,000 people from the former Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), who held Dutch citizenship and previously settled in the Netherlands, migrated to Australia, bypassing the White Australia policy. [7] [8] Large numbers of Chinese Indonesians began migrating to Australia in the late 1990s, fleeing the political and economic turmoil in the aftermath of the May 1998 riots and the subsequent fall of Suharto. [9]
Between 1986 and 1996, the Indonesian-Australian community increased to 12,128. According to the Immigration Museum (Melbourne), many migrants were either students on temporary visas. However, other migrants came under either family reunion or skilled migration programs.
In 2010, Scotts Head, New South Wales opened the first and only English- Indonesian bilingual school in Australia. [10] As of 2016, the Indonesian-born population of Victoria was estimated to be 17,806. [4] As of 2016, Australia is the single most popular destination for Indonesians seeking an undergraduate education abroad. [11]
Though Islam is the majority religion in Indonesia, Muslims are the minority among Indonesians in Australia. [13] In the 2006 Australian Census, only 8,656 out of 50,975 Indonesians in Australia, or 17%, identified as Muslim.
However, in the 2011 census, that figure rose to 12,241 or 19.4%. [14] Indonesian communities in Australia generally lack their own mosques, but instead typically attend mosques established by members of other ethnic groups. [13] In contrast, more than half of the Indonesian population in Australia follows Christianity, split evenly between the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant denominations. [15]
In 2016, 24.0% from Indonesian Australians population (73,217 people in 2016) identified as Catholic, 18.9% as Muslim, 10.0% as Buddhist, 9.2% as Atheist and 8.3% as Other Christian. [16]
In 2021, 23.4% from Indonesian Australian population (87,075 people in 2021) identified as Catholic, 19.3% as Muslim, 11.2% as Atheist, 10.4% as Buddhist and 9.4% as Other Christian.
Orang Indonesia di Australia | |
---|---|
Total population | |
87,075 (born in Indonesia, 2021) [1] | |
Regions with significant populations | |
Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Adelaide | |
Religion | |
Majority Christianity, with significant minorities of Muslim and Buddhism and small minorities of Hinduism | |
Related ethnic groups | |
Indonesians, Overseas Indonesians, Cocos Malays, Malaysian Australians |
Indonesian Australians ( Indonesian: Orang Indonesia di Australia) are Australian citizens and residents of Indonesian origin. 48,836 Australian residents declared Indonesian ancestry on the 2011 Australian Census, while 63,160 stated they were born in Indonesia.
Despite the proximity of the two countries (they share a maritime border), Australia’s Indonesian diaspora community is relatively small. According to the University of Melbourne, Australia is merely the 19th most popular destination for Indonesian migrants. [2]
As early as the 1750s, that is prior to European colonisation, seamen from eastern Indonesian ports such as Kupang and Makassar regularly visited Australia's northern coast, spending about four months per year there collecting trepang or sea cucumbers to trade with China. [3]
Beginning in the 1870s, Indonesian workers were recruited to work in colonial Australia, with almost 1,000 (primarily in Western Australia and Queensland) residing in Australia by federation. [4] The pearl hunting industry predominantly recruited workers from Kupang, and sugar plantations recruited migrant labourers from Java to work in Queensland.
Following federation and the enactment of the Immigration Restriction Act 1901, the first in a series of laws that collectively formed the White Australia policy, most of these migrants returned to Indonesia. [5]
Beginning in 1942, thousands of Indonesians fled the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies and took refuge in Australia. Exact landing statistics were not kept due to the chaotic nature of their migration, but after the war, 3,768 repatriated to Indonesia on Australian government-provided ships. [6]
In the 1950s, roughly 10,000 people from the former Dutch colony of the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia), who held Dutch citizenship and previously settled in the Netherlands, migrated to Australia, bypassing the White Australia policy. [7] [8] Large numbers of Chinese Indonesians began migrating to Australia in the late 1990s, fleeing the political and economic turmoil in the aftermath of the May 1998 riots and the subsequent fall of Suharto. [9]
Between 1986 and 1996, the Indonesian-Australian community increased to 12,128. According to the Immigration Museum (Melbourne), many migrants were either students on temporary visas. However, other migrants came under either family reunion or skilled migration programs.
In 2010, Scotts Head, New South Wales opened the first and only English- Indonesian bilingual school in Australia. [10] As of 2016, the Indonesian-born population of Victoria was estimated to be 17,806. [4] As of 2016, Australia is the single most popular destination for Indonesians seeking an undergraduate education abroad. [11]
Though Islam is the majority religion in Indonesia, Muslims are the minority among Indonesians in Australia. [13] In the 2006 Australian Census, only 8,656 out of 50,975 Indonesians in Australia, or 17%, identified as Muslim.
However, in the 2011 census, that figure rose to 12,241 or 19.4%. [14] Indonesian communities in Australia generally lack their own mosques, but instead typically attend mosques established by members of other ethnic groups. [13] In contrast, more than half of the Indonesian population in Australia follows Christianity, split evenly between the Roman Catholic Church and various Protestant denominations. [15]
In 2016, 24.0% from Indonesian Australians population (73,217 people in 2016) identified as Catholic, 18.9% as Muslim, 10.0% as Buddhist, 9.2% as Atheist and 8.3% as Other Christian. [16]
In 2021, 23.4% from Indonesian Australian population (87,075 people in 2021) identified as Catholic, 19.3% as Muslim, 11.2% as Atheist, 10.4% as Buddhist and 9.4% as Other Christian.