Who are indigenous people of indonesia before muslims?
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The term "pribumi" was coined after Indonesian independence as a respectful replacement for the Dutch colonial term "inlander" (normally translated as "native" and seen as derogatory).[11] It derives from Sanskrit terms pri (before) and bhumi(earth).
Following independence, the term was normally used to distinguish indigenous Indonesians from citizens of foreign descent (especially Chinese Indonesians). Common usage distinguished between "pri" and "non-pri".[12] Although the term is sometimes translated as "indigenous", it has a broader meaning than that associated with Indigenous peoples.
The term WNI keturunan asing (WNI = "Indonesian citizen", "keturunan asing" = foreign descent), sometimes just "WNI keturunan" or even "WNI", has also been used to designate "non-pri" Indonesians.[13]
In practice, usage of the term is fluid. "Pri" is seldom used to refer to Indonesians of Melanesian descent, although it does not exclude them. Indonesians of Arabdescent sometimes refer to themselves as "pri". Indonesians with some exogenous ancestry who show no obvious signs of identification with that ancestry (such as former President Abdurrahman Wahid who is said to have had Chinese ancestry) are seldom called "non-pri". The term bumiputra is sometimes used in Indonesia with the same meaning as pribumi, but is more commonly used in Malaysia, where it has a slightly different meaning.[14]
The term putra daerah ("son of the region") refers to a person who is indigenous to a specific locality or region.
In 1998, the Indonesian government of President B.J. Habibie instructed that neither pri nor non-pri should be used, on the grounds that they promoted ethnic discrimination