Workbook
For Indonesian Families Abroad
The Largest Muslim Nation and the Smallest Conversations About Identity
Seventeen thousand islands. One question: What does your family carry from all of them?
Adults from Indonesian families — Javanese, Sundanese, Batak, Minangkabau, Chinese Indonesian, and other ethnic communities — living outside Indonesia who want to understand and document what Indonesian identity means across cultural and geographic distance.
The Name It First Experience
Indonesia is the world's largest archipelago and fourth most populous country — and its diaspora carries one of the most ethnically and religiously diverse identities in the world. This workbook examines what Indonesian families live with abroad: the weight of Javanese hierarchy, the pull of Islamic practice, the experience of being Chinese Indonesian in a majority Muslim country, and what each ethnic community carries differently. Document what your family brought across the ocean.
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Sample questions
- What word describes what being Indonesian means in your family — and which ethnic or regional identity within Indonesia carries the most weight for you?
- When you look at what your family carried from Indonesia — whether that is Javanese hierarchy, Islamic practice, Chinese Indonesian experience, or something else — what do you notice you most want to preserve abroad?
- What would your family's identity document look like if it named the specific Indonesian community you come from — not just the country, but the culture within it that made you who you are?
Research basis
Grounded in Berry (1997) acculturation theory, Brah (1996) diaspora cartographies, Hefner (2000) civil Islam in Indonesia, and Crenshaw (1991) intersectionality applied to ethnic-religious identity.
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