Indonesia: Treatment of Indonesians who have converted to Christianity; the number of Indonesian Christians; whether Sharia law applies, and if so, how; whether there have been any fatwas in this regard; whether the radical Muslim community loses interest once a Muslim has converted to Christianity and has lived as a Christian for some time
How Islam came to dominate Indonesia Unlike other parts of the world, Islam spread in Southeast Asia without a major conquest. After Constantinople's conquest in the mid-15th century, Muslims controlled the international maritime routes and a lot of Indonesian rajas saw it as a mark of prestige and opportunity to be part of such a network should they have converted to Islam. If numbers can tell a story, the conversion to Islam of the peoples of the Indo-nesian archipelago can be counted as a great success. Even if the official statis-tics claiming that 90% of Indonesians today are Muslim are somewhat exag-gerated or ill defined, it is clear that Islam has taken strong root in the regionThe Samudera Pasai Sultanate (Malay: كسلطانن سامودرا ڤاساي), also known as Samudera or Pasai or Samudera Darussalam or Pacem, was a Muslim kingdom on the north coast of Sumatra from the 13th to the 16th centuries. The kingdom was believed to have been founded by Merah Silu, who later converted to Islam and adopted the name Malik ul Salih, in the year 1267 CE.In 2022 Indonesian governmental statistics, 87.02% of Indonesians identified themselves as Muslim (with Sunnis about 99%, [20] Shias about 1% [21] and Ahmadis 0.07-0.2%), [9] 10.49% Christians (7.43% Protestants, 3.06% Roman Catholic ), 1.69% Hindu, 0.73% Buddhists, 0.03% Confucians and 0.04% others.
As the largest Muslim-majority nation and a developing, postcolonial state, Indonesia has been a prime recipient of the full spectrum of Saudi proselytisation - known as dawa, the call to
When and what methods did Islam come to Indonesia? Were the original religions treated similar to how Christians were treated in the conquests of Roman Empires in the 700's? history conversion Share Improve this question Follow edited Jan 3, 2021 at 12:49 goldPseudo ♦ 12.3k 16 57 129 asked Dec 30, 2020 at 3:52 Peter Turner 163 8 2TfqpN.
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