The 4th most populous nation on earth should be a good partner.
Hindus and Taos are great...Muslims not so much as we know.
Anyone know the breakdown of the three big religions in Indonesia?
Indonesia is @90% Muslim.
Not very devoted Muslims on the whole.
Friends say that the Muslim thing is pretty nominal.
Except for a few nuts. But they do have their mad mullahs.
And in places Christians have been persecuted.
About 90 percent Muslim, the remainder Christian, Hindu and Buddhist.
Indonesia under Suharto was a huge friend of the US, indeed if the US had been paying attention to how he successfully wiped out the Communist threat to Indonesia in 1965 they would never have gone on to get involved in Vietnam, as Indonesia, the largest of the dominoes, was now securely in the western camp and it really didn’t matter what happened to tiny Vietnam.
Today Indonesia is a very pro-western (in societal terms rather than political I hasten to add) with a young population that largely looks to the west and Japan and Korea rather than Arabia (although they remain attached to their religion obviously) or China for their inspiration.
If Trump is courting Indonesian political and business figures he is being very wise.