Civics and culture

Unit 6
“Community Geography”
The travels of Christian
people going to Indonesia
 Today, we’re gonna
In the last meeting, we continue our lesson to
have already learned learn about the travels
about the travels of of Christian people to
Chinese people to Indonesia.
Indonesia.
Are you ready for it???
Let’s get started!!!
 Christianity is the
second-largest Around ten percent of
religion in Indonesia. the Indonesian population
is currently counted as
Christian.
• The Indonesian government officially
recognizes two main divisions of
Christianity in Indonesia,
namely Protestant and Catholic.

• The majority of the Indonesian

Christians are Protestant. Out of the
23.5 million of total Indonesian are
Christians, approximately 16.5 million
adhere to the Protestant stream, while
the remaining 7 million are Catholic.
 Catholic first came to
Indonesia through the
Portuguese.

• Portuguese In 1511 sailed further eastwards to find the

desired spice-heartland of the Moluccas.

• From 1534 onwards Portuguese priests began to become

active in converting locals to Catholicism and by the end
of the 16th century approximately 20 percent of the
inhabitants of the Southern Moluccas were classified as
Catholic.
Protestant first came to
Indonesia through the • The Calvinist-Protestant Dutch established their first
Dutch. settlement in Ternate in 1607 to monopolize the spice
trade.
• During the next two centuries the Sultanate of
Ternate gradually lost its authority, while the
absence of Portuguese influence entailed
consequences for the spread of Christianity in the
area.
• Initially the Dutch had little interest in spreading their
word of God. One policy was rather clear: when it
came to Christianity, only Dutch Calvinist
Protestantism was allowed.
Since of the spread by the
Portuguese and the Dutch,
missionaries from around
the world have traveled to
Indonesia, established
missions, and worked to
spread the Gospel.
Christian communities are
spread unevenly
throughout the provinces.
Locations with substantial Christian communities are:
1. North Sumatra 4. West Sulawesi 7. Flores
2. Kalimantan 5. Moluccas 8. Sumba
3. North Sulawesi 6. Papua 9. West Timor
Probably the most successful missionary efforts have been in Papua, where many of the
people groups there are now followers of Jesus. Also, in North Sumatra missionaries
saw many Batak accept Christianity in the early 20th century.
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