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Blenduk Church in Semarang, built in European architecture Betlehem Church in Wamena, Highland Papua Protestants in each regency of Indonesia. Protestantism (Indonesian: Protestanisme) is one of the six approved religions in Indonesia, the others being Islam, Roman Catholicism, Hinduism, Buddhism, and Confucianism.
Indonesia's 29.4 million Christians constituted 10.47% of the country's population in 2023, with 7.41% Protestant (20.8 million) and 3.06% Catholic (8.6 million). Some provinces in Indonesia are majority Christian. In Indonesia, the word Kristen (lit. ' Christian ') refers to Protestantism, while Catholicism is referred to as Katolik.
Aliran Kepercayaan [note 1] (lit. ' the branches/flows of beliefs ' ) is an official cover term for groups of followers of various religious movements . It also includes various, partly syncretic forms of mysticism of new religious movements in Indonesia , such as kebatinan , kejiwaan , and kerohanian . [ 2 ]
Indonesian Orthodox worshipers in Surabaya in 2011. The GOI was founded in 1991 after missionary work begun in 1988 by Daniel Byantoro, who converted to Christianity from Islam in the mid-1970s and discovered Eastern Orthodoxy through bishop Kallistos Ware's book The Orthodox Church while studying at a Protestant seminary in Seoul, Korea, in 1982.
With a membership of 4,133,000, [3] the church synod is the largest among the Protestant churches in Indonesia it is one of the largest Protestant churches in Indonesia and Southeast Asia, making it the third largest religious organization in Indonesia after Nahdlatul Ulama and Muhammadiyah. [4] Its present leader is Ephorus Victor Tinambunan. [5]
They sometimes also used the Chinese name Tiong Hwa Kie Tok Kau Hwe (Chinese Christian Church). They organized themselves into a synod called Khu Hwee Muria in 1948. By 1958 they changed the name of the synod to Persatuan Gereja-Gereja Kristen Muria Indonesia (Union of Muria Christian Churches of Indonesia).
For this purpose, Raad Pasamuwan Kristen (RPK) was founded in 1943 in East Java. This led to a rift, because both RPK and GKJW had followers. Many Javanese Christian figures were arrested at the end of World War II , including Rev. Driyo Mestoko, Rev. Tasdik, DR. B.M. Schuurman, and Yeruboham Mattheus.
The Indonesian Christian Church Synod (Indonesian: Gereja Kristen Indonesia) abbreviated as Sinode GKI, is an Indonesian church of Presbyterian denomination. It adheres to Calvinist theology, with head office located in Jakarta. [1]