Indonesians in Taiwan

{{Infobox ethnic group|

| group = Indonesians in Taiwan
{{lang|id|Orang Indonesia di Republik Tiongkok}}
{{lang|zh|在臺印度尼西亞人}}

| population = 301,549 with Indonesian nationality (November 2024)

| image = Toko Mini Makanan Indonesia 20130707.jpg

| caption = Indonesian food shop in Hsinchu City

| popplace = Taipei, Kaohsiung, Taoyuan

| langs = Indonesian, Javanese, Sundanese, English language, Hakka Chinese, Mandarin Chinese or Hokkien Chinese

| rels = Majority Sunni Islam
minorities of Hinduism{{·}}Buddhism{{·}}Christianity

| related = Various ethnic groups in Indonesia

}}

Indonesians in Taiwan form one of the island's larger communities of foreign residents. There are 144,651 people who have nationality of the Republic of Indonesia reside in Taiwan as of December 2010.{{cite web|url=http://www.immigration.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1095285&ctNode=29699&mp=1|title=Statistics|publisher=National Immigration Agency, ROC|accessdate=2011-02-13|language=Chinese|archive-date=2017-01-18|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170118070427/http://www.immigration.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=1095285&ctNode=29699&mp=1|url-status=dead}} This includes 19,554 males and 125,097 females, with 136,679 people serving as foreign laborers.

26,980 Indonesians (many of them with Chinese ancestry, such as Hakka people){{cite web|author=林柔辰, 湯九懿|url=http://140.115.170.1/Hakkacollege/big5/network/paper/paper72/02_01.html|script-title=zh:台灣客家文化研究新面向─張翰璧教授與東南亞女性移民|work=NCU Hakka College E-Paper|accessdate=2011-06-20|date=2008-01-05|language=Chinese|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110810141223/http://140.115.170.1/Hakkacollege/big5/network/paper/paper72/02_01.html|archive-date=2011-08-10|url-status=dead}} had immigrated to Taiwan through international marriage, mostly female, and some had naturalized into Taiwan citizenship.

In Taiwan, employers can be fined if they force Muslim workers to come into contact with pork, something forbidden by the Muslim religion that most Indonesians profess. In Chiayi City, a couple was fined for the offence, in addition to other offences such as an imposing a long workday, and threats of deportation.{{cite news |title=Couple faces fine for forcing Muslim to handle pork|author=Staff Writer, with CNA|newspaper=Taipei Times|page=2|date=May 30, 2011|url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2011/05/30/2003504535|accessdate=May 29, 2011}}

In 2013, an Indonesian worker, who married to a local Taiwanese man, built a mosque called the At-Taqwa Mosque in Dayuan Township, Taoyuan County (now Dayuan District, Taoyuan City) to support the growing number of Muslims, especially from the Indonesian workers community.{{Cite web|url=http://blog.yam.com/sunnyhsiao/article/66429974|title = 首頁 - 輕旅行| date=7 September 2022 }} Two other similar mosques, one in Donggang Township, Pingtung County called An-Nur Tongkang Mosque and another in Hualien City, Hualien County called Hualien Al-Falah Mosque were built by the local Indonesian communities in 2018.

File:At-Taqwa Mosque.JPG in Dayuan District, Taoyuan City.]]

File:An-Nur Tongkang Mosque.jpg in Donggang Township, Pingtung County.]]

File:Hualien Al-Falah Mosque.jpg in Hualien City, Hualien County.]]

Indonesians with Christian backgrounds also established several communities and churches in Taiwan. Katolik Indonesia di Taiwan (Indonesian Catholics in Taiwan) or KITA was established on 12 April 1997 as a community for Indonesian Catholics in Taiwan to share and grow their Catholic faith together.{{Cite web|title=TENTANG KITA|url=https://www.kitataiwan.com/tentang-kita-2/}} Meanwhile, churches such as Indonesian Ministry Bread of Life Church (IMBLOC)[https://www.instagram.com/im.bolc/ Official Instagram of IMBLOC] and Indonesian Reformed Evangelical Church, through the establishment of GRII Taipei in 1997,[http://buletintaipei.blogspot.com/2011/04/gereja-reformed-injili-indonesia-taipei.html?m=1 Gereja Reformed Injili Indonesia Taipei] {{in lang|id}} exist to serve Indonesians with Protestant background in Taiwan.

See also

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