ABSTRACT
Indonesia is the fourth most populous nation in the world (nearly 240 million people as of mid-2008), consisting of more than a dozen major ethnolinguistic groups and about 100 smaller ones living on more than 13,000 islands. It is also the world’s largest majority Muslim country, though it also has sizable groups of Christians, Hindus, Buddhists, and animists. Few Indonesians came to the United States before changes in federal immigration law in 1965-specifically, the lifting of national quotas-and little has been written about them.
