Talk:Native Indonesians

re-think this article?
This article is problematic, because it assumes that "Native Indonesians" is an objective cultural and genetic category, rather than a social and political label. In reality, Indonesians who are not of foreign descent include both Malays (in the broad sense, i.e. Austronesians) and Papuans (Melanesians). These groups are less closely related genetically and culturally than Austronesians are to other Asians. The inclusion of the section on "Traditional performing arts" exacerbates this problem. I suggest refiguring this article to focus on the political and social categorization of "Native Indonesians", first as "Inlanders", then as "Pribumi" and reverting to the article name Pribumi. Atla5Atla5 (talk) 23:10, 20 August 2018 (UTC)

File:Unlabeled Renatto Luschan Skin color map.svg Nominated for Deletion
chinese Indonesian, have skin that is almost the same as the other Indonesian people. physically they are difficult to distinguish from the Indonesians. even many assume "chinese Indonesian" has had Indonesian blood, one hand they are 10 generations in Indonesia. mixing often occurs during the chinese overseas to Indonesia, especially chinese with Javanese. This is a fact that happened. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 39.194.3.158 (talk) 16:04, 15 June 2013 (UTC)

sons of the land?
there is nothing in currently available dictionaries that suggest pribumi - in current usage is literally translated to 'sons of the land' or the soil, or 'inlander'.

the problem is in the second paragraph the description of the colonial dutch 'labels' gives a better background.

pribumi is current dictionaries as indigenous - the trick with the lead sentence is the problem between current usage and historic origins etymologically JarrahTree 04:36, 9 July 2017 (UTC)
 * I think we could start a new subsection concerning the etymology of pribumi, or better yet, expand the background subsection into "historical background" to be more historically accurate and to give us a better perspective about the development of the ideas about native Indonesians.  Gunkarta  talk 05:55, 9 July 2017 (UTC)

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etymology and history
I think this article could still use some work. But at the very least I removed some superfluous content from the history and etymology section and added a bit of info. It was stated that Pribumi was coined after independence and Inlander was used before, but this is not quite right. Pribumi was more rare but I found it used in some Malay writings from Java in the early 20th century. Back then the term used far more commonly was Boemipoetra (Bumiputra). OK I deleted some things about Indonesian or Latin American history that are not relevant to the history of this term. It's good to place it in context but you can't really start collecting factoids about comparisons and events that happened to people in this section. --Dan Carkner (talk) 15:14, 3 August 2019 (UTC)

Genetic research
I have TNT-ed the section "Genetic research", since it was completely built on off-topic material, or material that is only peripherally related to the topic of this article. It may be rebuilt using papers that are more directly concerned with the autochthonous ethnic groups of Indonesia e.g. Lipson et al. (2014) (a bit outdated but still useful), McColl et al. (2018) (a widely cited "classic" paper, parts of which are outdated, but not its ISEA results) or maybe others. –Austronesier (talk) 15:44, 15 April 2022 (UTC)

Diaspora
Questions: Thoughts? Austronesier (talk) 17:14, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Is "Native Indonesians" a valid term when talking about the pre- and post-independence diaspora? (See also Talk:Native_Indonesians above)
 * Should we add numbers that actually give total numbers of Indonesians in various countries as an indicator for Native Indonesian figures, presuming that the Indonesian community in these coutries mostly consists of "pribumis"? (Cf. my edit summary here.)
 * Can we speak of the Malagasy as "Native Indonesians", only because they emigrated in the first millenium CE from southern Borneo which now is part of the Indonesian soil?
 * Pinging also –Austronesier (talk) 17:23, 16 January 2023 (UTC)


 * 1. Since concept of Indonesia is only exist around and after 1945. I don't think we should include pre-independence diaspora. After all pre-indonesian diaspora wouldn't identify themselves as "Indonesian" (They may still identify themselves as ethic groups which they are coming from, i.e. Javanese). I am somewhat agree to the suggestion on.
 * 2. I don't think so.. Btw, addition by seems to be taken from Overseas Indonesians and I don't see attribution to that article. So it's violation of WP:COPYWITHIN.
 * 3. Refer to my comment above. Malagasy people wouldn't identify themselves as "Indonesian". Ckfasdf (talk) 21:25, 16 January 2023 (UTC)
 * Pinging also our Borneo experts What's your take on including the Malagasy here in an article that covers the topic "Native Indonesians = Primbumi"? –Austronesier (talk) 17:30, 18 January 2023 (UTC)
 * I apologize, this is very late reply from me. Definetly do not include Malagasy. It's like saying Philippines are "Pribumi" just because some of their ethnicities were from people migrating from Sulawesi. No comment for pre-independence diaspora that is more recent. Nyanardsan (talk) 00:54, 28 January 2023 (UTC)
 * My feeling, for what it's worth, is that 'Native Indonesians' and 'Indonesian Diaspora' warrant separate articles. The term 'native Indonesian' is a political construct as outlined in the first part of the current article. 'Indonesian diaspora' is a separate phenomenon (especially since it includes people like Chinese Indonesians who are commonly not identified as 'Native Indonesians'. The concept of indonesia is a bit older than 1945 -- it would make sense to include, for instance, Indonesian exiles in the late colonial period. But I agree in general that the term diaspora is not at all appropriate for Malagasy people. Atla5Atla5 (talk) 06:28, 9 April 2023 (UTC)
 * Indonesia didn't exist until 1945. Don't include Malagasy people in this article! Rantemario (talk)
 * This is the place to discuss when edit summaries fail as a means of communitation. (Unwillingness to engage is one of the things that eventually can bring you to WP:ANI). –Austronesier (talk) 21:27, 19 January 2023 (UTC)

Native Indonesian?
Saying native Indonesian doesn't make any sense, as it would mean the Russian page would need to be called "Native Russian", or "native English" for the English page. It is inconsistent with Wikipedia's standards. 80.195.3.151 (talk) 03:28, 14 August 2023 (UTC)