India–Indonesia relations lessons on Indian culture, as well as promoting art such as Yoga, Indian music and dance. India–Indonesia relations Indian-Indonesian relations refers to the bilateral relations of India and Indonesia. India and Indonesia are neighbours. India's Andaman and Nicobar Islands share a maritime border with Indonesia along the Andaman Sea. The Indian-Indonesian relationship stretch back for almost two millennia. In 1950, the first President of Indonesia, Sukarno, called upon the peoples of Indonesia and India to "intensify the cordial relations" that had existed between the two countries "for more than 1000 years" before they had been "disrupted" by colonial powers. India
Indian people In early Vedic literature, the term "Āryāvarta" (Sanskrit: आर्यावर्त) was in popular use before "Bhārata". The Manusmṛti (2.22) gives the name "Āryāvarta" to "the tract between the Himalaya and the Vindhya ranges, from the Eastern (Bay of Bengal) to the Western Sea (Arabian Sea)". While the word Indian and India is derived from Greek ("Indía"), via Latin "India". "Indía" in Koine Greek denoted the region beyond the Indus () river, since Herodotus (5th century BC) , "hē Indikē chōrē"; "the Indian land", , "Indos", "an Indian", from Old Persian "Hinduš" and medieval term Hindustani. The name is derived ultimately from