Malay Indonesian
A Riau Malay couple enjoying the traditional Gambus. The background panel incorporated the palettes of Malay tricolour.
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| Total population | |
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( Indonesia 8,789,585 (2010 estimate)) |
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| Regions with significant populations | |
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South Sumatra: 2,139,000 Riau: 1,880,240 West Kalimantan: 1,259,890 Bangka-Belitung: 936,000 Jambi: 914,660 Riau Islands: 600,108 North Sumatra: 582,100 Lampung: 269,240 Jakarta: 165,039 Bengkulu: 125,120 Central Kalimantan: 87,222 |
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| Languages | |
| Malay (Varieties of Malay), Indonesian | |
| Religion | |
| Sunni Islam (predominantly), also nondenominational Muslim | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Malays, Minangkabau, Acehnese, Banjarese, Betawi. |
Malay Indonesians (Malay and Indonesian: Melayu Indonesia; Jawi script: ملايو ايندونيسيا) are ethnic Malays living throughout Indonesia as one of the indigenous peoples of the island nation. Indonesia has the second largest ethnic Malay population after Malaysia. Historically, Indonesian, which is the national language of Indonesia, was derived from the Malay language spoken in Riau archipelago, a province in eastern Sumatra. There were a number of Malay kingdoms in Indonesia that covered the islands of Sumatra and Kalimantan, such as Srivijaya, Melayu Kingdom, Sultanate of Deli, Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura, Riau-Lingga Sultanate, Sultanate of Bulungan, Pontianak Sultanate, and the Sultanate of Sambas.
There have been various Malay kingdoms there were based on the island of Sumatra: from the Melayu Kingdom, Srivijaya, Sultanate of Deli, Sultanate of Siak Sri Indrapura and Riau-Lingga Sultanate.
In the Pontianak incidents during the Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies, the Japanese massacred most of the Malay elite and beheaded all of the Malay Sultans in Kalimantan.
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