Religion in Indonesia God, human and human, human and nature. As of 2007, the official number of Hindu practitioners was 10 million, giving Indonesia the fourth largest number of Hindus in the world. This number is disputed by the representative of Hinduism in Indonesia, the Parisada Hindu Dharma. The PHDI gives an estimate of 18 million. Of this number, 93% of the practitioners are located in Bali, the majority of the population of which is Hindu. Besides Bali, Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Kalimantan and Sulawesi also have significant Hindu populations; most are Balinese who migrated to these areas through government sponsored transmigration program or
Tourist village (Indonesia) developed for tourism, but that it is believed the potential for tourism exists. Nearby Mount Merapi helped encourage a number of villages to be named tourist villages. Tourist village (Indonesia) In Indonesia, a tourist village ("desa wisata") is a village officially designated as one that welcomes tourism. In the Special Region of Yogyakarta (which includes the Sleman Regency), the concept was embraced around 2000 with dozens of villages being dubbed as tourist villages. According to a 2009 report in "The Jakarta Post" there were 48 tourist villages listed in Yogyakarta, though only ten were actually operating as such, including: Kebonagung,