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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