 Indonesian food shop inHsinchu City | |
| Total population | |
|---|---|
| 319,788 with Indonesian nationality (September 2025) | |
| Regions with significant populations | |
| Taipei,Kaohsiung,Taoyuan | |
| Languages | |
| Indonesian,Javanese,Sundanese,English language,Hakka Chinese,Mandarin Chinese orHokkien Chinese | |
| Religion | |
| MajoritySunni Islam minorities ofHinduism · Buddhism · Christianity | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Variousethnic groups in Indonesia |
Indonesians in Taiwan form one of the island's larger communities of foreign residents. There are 144,651 people who havenationality of theRepublic of Indonesia reside inTaiwan as of December 2010.[1] This includes 19,554 males and 125,097 females,[1] with 136,679 people serving asforeign laborers.[1]
26,980Indonesians (many of them withChinese ancestry, such asHakka people)[2] had immigrated to Taiwan throughinternational marriage, mostly female, and some hadnaturalized intoTaiwan citizenship.[1]
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. InChiayi City, a couple was fined for the offence, in addition to other offences such as an imposing a long workday, and threats of deportation.[3]
In 2013, an Indonesian worker, who married to a local Taiwanese man, built a mosque called theAt-Taqwa Mosque inDayuan Township,Taoyuan County (now Dayuan District, Taoyuan City) to support the growing number of Muslims, especially from the Indonesian workers community.[4] Two other similar mosques, one inDonggang Township,Pingtung County calledAn-Nur Tongkang Mosque and another inHualien City,Hualien County calledHualien Al-Falah Mosque were built by the local Indonesian communities in 2018.
Indonesians withChristian 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.[5] Meanwhile, churches such as Indonesian Ministry Bread of Life Church (IMBLOC)[6] andIndonesian Reformed Evangelical Church, through the establishment of GRII Taipei in 1997,[7] exist to serve Indonesians with Protestant background in Taiwan.
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