Indonesians

Modern Indonesian peoples include the Javanese Sundas Madurun Malaysians of Brunei Indonesia Malaysia and Singapore Miningkabau Bugi Maqasari Bataki Balinese and others. The same group includes the languages of the Philippine peoples: Tagalog Visaya Ilok Bikolov Banjar Ifugao and others. Indonesian languages are also used by a group of Taiwanese mountain peoples - the Gaoshan the Chams in southern Vietnam and Cambodia and the Malagasy people of Madagascar (Malgasi). In the modern understanding all peoples speaking the languages of the Malay-Polynesian language family which is widespread and outside the Malay Archipelago are united with the Indonesians. In anthropologists'' work the term Indonesians applies not only to the population of Indonesia but also to the ancient population of South-East Asia. The indigenous population of the Indonesian islands the Malacca Peninsula consists mainly of Malay tribes and peoples by the name of which the archipelago is called the Malay. Therefore the concept of Malay includes a different understanding it is also a common earlier name of the peoples of Southeast Asia speaking the languages of the Indonesian branch and ethnic communities in Malaysia Indonesia Thailand Singapore Brunei East Timor.