Hinduism in Indonesia Hinduism in Indonesia Hinduism in Indonesia is practised by 1.7% of the total population, and by 83.5% of the population in Bali as of the 2010 census. Hinduism is one of the six official religions of Indonesia. Hinduism came to Indonesia in the first century through traders, and Hindu epics, the Ramayana and the Mahabharata, became ingrained in the culture and worldview of the Javanese through the wayang kulit (“leather puppets”), specially during the Indianised Srivijaya and Majapahit empires. In 2010, there were an estimated total of over 4 million Hindus in Indonesia according to Indonesian census. The Parisada Hindu
Media Indonesia in order to grow in line with the inevitable increase in newspaper readership over the coming years. With a daily print run of 175,000 to 250,000 copies, "Media Indonesia" is the second largest circulation broadsheet newspaper in the country. According to AC Nielsen, Media Indonesia raised its market share by one percentage point to 18 percent in 2003. "Media Indonesia"'s readers are drawn from a board spectrum of socio-economic groups; this is reflected in the wide range of themed tabloid-sized supplements that accompany the newspaper several times a week. Each of these tabloids is aimed at a different audience, such