The Consulate General of India, Bali states Indonesia's Indian-origin community numbers roughly 100,000 People of Indian Origin plus about 10,000 Indian nationals, concentrated in Greater Jakarta, Medan, Surabaya, and Bandung -- a modern population that sits atop a far older Indian civilizational connection through the Hindu-Buddhist Majapahit and Srivijaya empires. Legal questions that reach back into India -- property, succession, taxation -- apply the same underlying Indian law regardless of country of residence, alongside Indonesia-specific realities such as its Hague Apostille Convention membership since 4 June 2022 (with a genuine practice-level question over whether a Power of Attorney is reliably treated as an apostille-eligible public document), a genuinely pluralistic succession-law system spanning civil, Islamic, and adat customary law, no inheritance or estate tax at all, and strict restrictions on foreign freehold land ownership. Seven dedicated Indonesia guides are live below.
