ya, been to indon and it's sumatra oni & me not observant to
see got chinese boss at the background leh. i agree with you
dat becoz of business due to chinese that why certain words came to
be adopted into indon. especially hokkien words forming the
bulk of the majority due to it's sheer number in size, according to
statistics cf. 1930, Percentage by dialect group of Chinese
in the Netherland Indies, pg 77: Hokkien
46.7%, Hakka 16.9%, Cantonese 11.4%, Teochew 7.4%,
etc., showing the Hokkien people in Indonesia (in 1930) even
outnumber that of Hokkien people in Singapore by ratio already (in
1957, which is 27 years later), cf. 1957, Dialect groups as
percentage of all Chinese in Singapore, pg 83: Hokkien
40.6%, Teochew 22.5%, Cantonese 18.9%, etc. In terms
of absolute numbers, cf. 1930, The Chinese in Netherlands Indies,
by region and dialect group, total Hokkien - 554,981
peoples (1930), compared to, cf. 1957,
Dialect groups as percentage of all Chinese in Singapore,
total Hokkien - 442,707
peoples (1957 - 27 years later), if you
can help me to calulate the natural (b)irth-(d)eath linear growth
of the Indonesian Hokkien population since 1930 to 1957 excluding
immigration inflow, a big difference margin can be shown.
Other than that, the mainstay of loanwords in the Indonesia vocab
are from Hokkien is due to simply that they are the 1st biggest
wave of immigrants, cf pg 40, Observations on the population
data:
Back to archaeology 
, (cf. pg 41) tombstone inscriptions are a
dependable source of data on the early Chinese settlers in South
East Asia. The 4 earliest Chinese tombstones in South East Asia
known, as recorded by Professor Wolfgang Franke, appear to be as
follows:
A very good paper by Thea Sarine, 孫玉卿 on the distribution of
dialectal Chinese based on the research on Indonesian City
Names:
【漢語方言對印尼城市中文名的影響】
http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E8UC4OJV
(The pronunciation used therein
followings the International Phonetic Alphabet convention. Do
refer to this post if in doubt:
http://www.sgforums.com/forums/8/topics/369470#post_9268844
)
Taken from
《首屆海外漢語方言國際研討會論文集》, 2009 :
