Demography of Indonesia's Ethnicity / / Aris Ananta, Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M. Sairi Hasbullah.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Asian Studies Contemporary Collection eBook Package
• VerfasserIn: Ananta, Aris,; Nurvidya Arifin, Evi,; Sairi Hasbullah, M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Singapore : : ISEAS Publishing, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (384 p.)

Indonesia, the largest country in Southeast Asia, has as its national motto "Unity in Diversity." In 2010, Indonesia stood as the world's fourth most populous country after China, India and the United States, with 237.6 million people. This archipelagic country contributed 3.5 per cent to the world's population in the same year. The country's demographic and political transitions have resulted in an emerging need to better understand the ethnic composition of Indonesia.This book aims to contribute to that need. It is a demographic study on ethnicity, mostly relying on the tabulation provided by the BPS (Badan Pusat Statistik; Statistics-Indonesia) based on the complete data set of the 2010 population census. The information on ethnicity was collected for 236,728,379 individuals, a huge data set.The book has four objectives: To produce a new comprehensive classification of ethnic groups to better capture the rich diversity of ethnicity in Indonesia; to report on the ethnic composition in Indonesia and in each of the thirty three provinces using the new classification; to evaluate the dynamics of the fifteen largest ethnic groups in Indonesia during 2000-2010; and to examine the religions and languages of each of the fifteen largest ethnic groups.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- TABLES -- FIGURES -- FOREWORD -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 CHANGING INDONESIA: An Introduction -- 2 COMPLEXITY OF STATISTICS ON ETHNICITY: Concept, Data and Method of Analysis -- 3 THE NEW CLASSIFICATION: Uncovering Diversity -- 4 ETHNIC DIVERSITY: New Demographic Evidence -- 5 THE FIFTEEN LARGEST ETHNIC GROUPS: Age-Sex Structure and Geographical Distribution -- 6 CHANGE IN SIZE AND COMPOSITION OF ETHNIC GROUPS: Indonesia, 2000-2010 -- 7 RELIGION AND LANGUAGE: Two Important Ethnic Markers -- REFERENCES -- Appendices -- Index -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS