Stories from the Mahabharata Epic have been traced in Indonesian islands to the 1st century whose versions mirror those found in southeast Indian peninsular region (now Tamil Nadu and southern Andhra Pradesh). Java legends refer to Saka-era, traced to 78 CE.
Thus, historical evidence is not entirely unclear about the diffusion process of cultural and spiritual ideas from India. Therefore, early Hinduism on Java, Bali, and Sumatra consisted of both main schools of Hinduism. Here however we must conclude a belonging to a religious school of thought, Vaisnavism. Early translators of Kavi manuscripts misunderstood the "being a son of" and assumed that Vishnu actually had human offspring and so on. In tales like the "Kidung Harṣa Wijaya" one reads that "rata bhaṭṭāra Narasingha" supposedly was a scion in the lineage of Hari, and that Hari is another word for "Vishnu". Hindu influences reached the Indonesian Archipelago as early as the first century. Greater India, Indosphere and historic expansion of Hinduism in Southeast Asia. Outside of Bali, many adherents of traditional indigenous religions identify as Hindus in order to gain official recognition. Though being a minority religion, the Hindu culture has influenced the way of life and day-to-day activities in Indonesia.
Indonesia has the fourth-largest population of Hindus in the world, after India, Nepal and Bangladesh. About 1400 CE, these kingdoms were introduced to Islam from coast-based Muslim traders, and thereafter Hinduism, which was previously the dominant religion in the region, mostly vanished from many of the islands of Indonesia. These ideas continued to develop during the Srivijaya and Majapahit empires. A syncretic fusion of pre-existing Javanese folk religion, culture and Hindu ideas, that from the 6th-century also synthesized Buddhist ideas as well, evolved as the Indonesian version of Hinduism. Hinduism came to Indonesia in the 1st-century through Indian traders, sailors, scholars and priests. Hinduism was the dominant religion in the country before the arrival of Islam and is one of the six official religions of Indonesia today. Hinduism in Indonesia, as of the 2018 census, is practised by about 1.74% of the total population, and almost 87% of the population in Bali. Religion map in Indonesia with Hinduism shown in red.
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