n the 1960s due to anti-Communist and anti-Confucian legislation many Communists and Chinese claimed to be Christians. Christians in Indonesia are more free to practice their religion compared to several countries such as China, Malaysia, and some Arab countries. In Papua and North Sulawesi provinces Protestants form the majority of the population. Large populations of Christians are also found around Lake Toba in North Sumatra, Nusa Tenggara Timur, Tana Toraja inland, and Maluku.
Although Indonesia is predominantly Muslim, the missionaries remain free to spread the Christian religion in Indonesia[citation needed] And many Christian schools that teach the Christian religion. Protestants in Indonesia consists of various denominations, namely the Christian and Missionary Alliance, Batak Christian Protestant Church, Pentecostalism, Charismatic Christianity, Seventh-day Adventist Church, True Jesus Church, Mennonite, Methodism, Baptists, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Simalungun Protestant Christian Church, Syriac Orthodox Church, and other denominations.
via Christianity in Indonesia – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.
