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  poptime '''81,587'''<br><small>03 % of the US population</small></br>1
  popplace California , Northeast , West Coast
  langs American English , Indonesian , Chinese
  rels Christianity , Buddhist and small Hinduism & Muslim Community
  related other Asian American s


Indonesian Americans are Americans of Indonesia n descent. Indonesian Americans are among the largest Southeast Asian ethnic group in the United States, after Filipino American s, Vietnamese American s, Laotian American s, Cambodian American s, and Thai American s. Although Indonesia is the fourth most populous country in the world, there are far fewer Indonesian Americans compared with other Asian American groups; a principal reason for these low numbers is that the United States and Indonesia were never engaged in military conflict. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, there are approximately 70,000 Indonesian Americans. About 3,000 Indonesian nationals immigrate to the United States annually.


SOCIOECONOMICS

The majority of Indonesian Americans reside in large cities such as Los Angeles , San Francisco , Houston , New York , and Chicago . San Francisco holds an Indonesian festival every August 17 to celebrate Indonesia's independence and Indonesian culture.http://www.indonesianday.com

There is an especially large concentration of Indonesian Americans in the San Gabriel Valley and Inland Empire (especially Loma Linda) regions of Southern California

In the Silicon Valley region of Northern California , there are many professional Indonesian American Engineers in high tech companies such as Cisco Systems , KLA Tencor , Google , Yahoo , Sun Microsystems , and IBM .

There are also some Indonesian Americans serving in the U.S. military and who have served in the post-9/11 wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.

Partahi Lumbantoruan, one of the victims of the Virginia Tech Massacre , is Indonesian.


DEMOGRAPHICS

Most Indonesian Americans adhere to one of the five main world religions. The majority of Indonesian Americans are either Christian , Buddhist or Muslim , though others are Hindu (mainly Balinese )

Most Indonesian Americans are Chinese and thus can be categorized as Chinese-Indonesian-American.


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