Indian Indonesians are a group of people who live in Indonesia and whose ancestors originally came from the Indian subcontinent. Therefore this term can be regarded as a blanket term for not only Indonesian Indian proper, but also Indonesian Pakistanis etc. According to the Indian Ministry of External Affairs, there are about 100,000 people of Indian origin as well as 9,000 Indian nationals living and working in Indonesia as of January 2012. Most of them are concentrated in Medan (North Sumatra) and in the Javanese cities of Jakarta, Surabaya and Bandung.
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“The Indian remarked as before, “Must have hard wood to cook moose-meat,” as if that were a maxim, and proceeded to get it. My companion cooked some in California fashion, winding a long string of the meat round a stick and slowly turning it in his hand before the fire. It was very good. But the Indian, not approving of the mode, or because he was not allowed to cook it his own way, would not taste it.”
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