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Malay Indonesians

Melayu Indonesia ملايو ايندونيسيا
A Riau Malay couple enjoy the playing of Qanbus musical instruments. The background panel incorporated the palettes of Malay tricolour.
Total population
11,553,791 (2020 data)[1]
Regions with significant populations
Indonesia:
South Sumatra	3,139,000
Riau	2,880,240
West Kalimantan	1,259,890[2]
Bangka Belitung Islands	936,000
Jambi	914,660
Riau Islands	600,108
North Sumatra	582,100
Lampung	269,240
Jakarta	165,039
Bengkulu	125,120
Central Kalimantan	87,222
Languages
Native: Malay languages Standard Malay Old Malay (historical) Bangka Malay[3] Deli Malay Jambi Malay[4] Pontianak Malay Riau Malay[5][6][7][8][9][10][11] [12] Sambas Malay[13] Also: Indonesian (Standard Indonesian, Colloquial Indonesian) English (Standard English, Australian English) Arabic (Standard Arabic, Saudi Arabic)
Religion
Predominantly Islam (mainly Sunni) (98.77%) Minorities[14] Christianity (mainly Protestant and Roman Catholic) (0.98%) Buddhism (mainly Mahayana and Vajrayana) Confucianism (mainly Konghucu) Hinduism Others (0.25%)
Related ethnic groups
Malay Singaporeans Malay Malaysians Malay Thais

Malay Indonesians (Template:Lang-ms; Jawi: اورڠ ملايو ايندونيسيا; Template:Lang-id) are one of the Indonesia's indigenous ethnic groups native to eastern hemisphere of Sumatra island (mainly Riau and Jambi) and its adjacent regions (mainly in the Riau Archipelago).^[15] Malay Indonesians are the ancestor of global Malay population that can be found all around the world.

Early definition of the Malay ethnic identity dates back to the 14th century when the Melayu Kingdom (a kingdom based in central–eastern Sumatra, part of modern-day Indonesia's province of Jambi) started to dominate most of the eastern regions of Sumatra island along the Malacca Strait. Melayu Kingdom itself is a successor kingdom from the ruins of the Srivijaya empire after its downturn. Originally, the Malay people are actually a sub-group or part of the Minangkabau nation's clans, but due to civil war between each clans, the Malay people started to defined themselves as separate distinct group during the heyday of Melayu Kingdom. The Arabization also play significant roles to defining the Malay identity, thus sometimes they are also known as 'Arabized Minangkabau' (similar concept to Arabized Berber).

Although the Srivijaya empire isn't a Malay empire, but the history of Malay people identity whose arise during the heyday of Melayu Kingdom can't be separated from it. For instance, in the Sejarah Melayu (lit. 'Malay Annals'), the history of Malay rulers are commonly attributed to Palembang as the origin of most Malay kings; the Malay Annals itself regarded as the most valuable written native source to unreveal or traced the history of the Malay people, the manuscript mainly written using the Arabic script due to strong Arabization influence within the Malay community itself.

The favor and adherence for Arabization within the Malay community were growing rapidly and it causes some local kingdoms to adopt new aspirations to change their monarchy system into the sultanate, which adapted from the monarchy system adhered by most Arabs in the Middle East. The influence of Arabization can also be seen or examined clearly within the Malay culture, from the cuisine or culinary, the dances, the songs, to the way how Malay people dress.

Malay culture in general are mostly the direct copy or adaptation of another cultures, mainly taken from the Arab culture (or Middle East in general) due to its strong Arabization adherence.

• Andrea Hirata, Indonesian author
• Raja Ali Haji, a 19th-century historian, member of the royal house of Riau-Lingga and Selangor and National Hero of Indonesia

• Tuanku Sultan Otteman II – a former Sultan of Deli, in which the kingdom's capital was Medan, in North Sumatra.
• Sultan Ma'mun Al Rashid Perkasa Alamyah – 9th Sultan of Deli Sultanate
• Sultan Hamid II – former Sultan of the Pontianak Sultanate
• Pangeran Ratu Winata Kusuma of Sambas – heir to the Sultanate of Sambas
• Sultan Syarif Kasim II – 12th Sultan of Siak Sultanate

• Marzuki Alie – speaker of the People's Representative Council, 2009–2014 term
• Hatta Rajasa – the Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs in the Second United Indonesia Cabinet. Previously, he was the State Secretary, Minister of Transport and Minister for Research and Technology in the Mutual Assistance Cabinet (2001–2004).
• Amir Hamzah – an Indonesian poet and National Hero of Indonesia.
• Hamzah Haz – an Indonesian politician. He is the head of the United Development Party (PPP) and served as the ninth Vice-President from 2001 until 2004.
• Yusril Ihza Mahendra – former chairman of the Crescent Star Party
• Alex Noerdin – the 15th Governor of South Sumatra
• Muhammad Lukman Edy – the former Minister for Acceleration of Disadvantaged Regions in 2007/2009
• Muhammad Sani – the 2nd Governor of Riau Island
• Rizal Nurdin – the 15th Governor of North Sumatra
• Rusli Zainal – the 13th Governor of Riau
• Tantowi Yahya – Indonesian TV presenter turned politician.

• Ariel Peterpan – the lead singer vocalist^[16] of Indonesian band Noah
• Carissa Putri – Indonesian model and actress
• Revalina Sayuthi Temat – Indonesian actress, popularly known for her work in Bawang Merah Bawang Putih
• Titi Kamal – prominent Indonesian actress and singer
• Farah Quinn – celebrity chef

• Malay Singaporeans

• Ananta, Aris; Arifin, Evi Nurvidya; Hasbullah, M Sairi; Handayani, Nur Budi; Pramono, Agus (2015). Demography of Indonesia's Ethnicity. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 978-981-4519-87-8.

• Malay dialects of Indonesia
• Jambi Explorer
• MelayuOnline

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