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I did not know this, Indonesia is the world's largest muslim majority country? Time for another deep dive.
You want a real bad one? Read into what Indonesia is doing (with tacit support and direct arming from the west) to the Papuans
Looks like the papuans are fighting against the corrupt gov, but it says the US aided Indonesia until '92?
I don't know anything about this conflict, thanks
Excellent documentary about the legacy of violence in Indonesia https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2375605/?ref_=ext_shr
Oh I watched that, that's actually the first time I learned anything about indonesia, that there was a coup by gangsters. What a startling and troubling doc. And that crazy scene at the end where one of the guys starts to crack while they're making a doc of their crimes? Yeawow.
Only in Lemmy whenever Indonesia mentioned, someone would inevitably post "the act of killing" as if it's still relevant. It's like mentioning Khmer Rouge when someone mention Cambodia. This shit was almost 60 years ago. People who were involved are already dead by now, and Indonesia hasn't been an authoritarian state for almost 30 years now.
Yes, Indonesia has been the world's largest muslim country for well over a decade.
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Thank you, Sporcle
It’s got a fascinating history, over 300 million Muslims and also home to over 300 religions. They have a long history of coexistence.
Islam spread to indonesia by trade and missionaries. They outnumber Arabs but still many people falsely assume all Muslims are Arab.
300 million Muslims? I still haven't made it to Indonesia, I usually do my research on site when I travel. By "They outnumber Arabs", do you mean that the 300 million Muslims in Indonesia number all Arab Muslims? Aren't there like a billion?
Only 10% of Muslims are Arab, and there’s nearly 2 billion Muslims worldwide. It’s a common misconception.
Wow. Okay. So Islam started in the Middle East... I've never studied the demographics, so I'm just trying to put this together now with Indonesia being the largest majority Muslim country, so Islam started in the middle east but then it just exploded and it's everywhere sort of distributed equally around the world?
Did that happen with other major religions? Cuz with Christianity, we have Italy, Europe, US, and then with Judaism we have Israel, Western Europe, US.
But with Judaism and Christianity the largest proportion of followers still follow a track from the area where the religion started, right?
Is that the same with Islam?
Well the Middle East has one of the highest concentrations of Muslims in the world (Saudi Arabia is 90% Muslim) but most Muslims are outside the Middle East, in Asia and Africa. (China has twice as many Muslims as Saudi.) The religion grew mainly through trade and missionaries.
That's really interesting. I guess I just didn't realize until now that the population of Indonesia was almost 8 times the size of Saudi Arabia. The more you know.