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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Taupou, post: 266259, member: 45&quot;]The 1000 figure comes from what I remember from studying Indonesia in college, connected with a major in Cultural Geography.&nbsp; It is confirmed by Encyclopaedia Britannica and other sources.</p><p><br /></p><p>The 300 number refers to cultural groups, not the same as a tribe.&nbsp; Some sources put the number of &quot;ethnic&quot; groups at 1300, which is further divided into &quot;pribumi&quot; (indigenous) and non-pribumi (non-indigenous cultures, such as Chinese, Dutch, and Arab), with 95% being pribumi, or indigenous tribal (which would mean about 1235.).</p><p><br /></p><p>No wonder the national motto is &quot;Unity in Diversity.&quot;&nbsp; It probably isn&#039;t possible to come up with an exact number, and there are possibly tribal groups which still haven&#039;t been visited by outsiders.&nbsp; It&#039;s a complicated issue, which I maybe shouldn&#039;t have brought up, considering it isn&#039;t helping identify the carving![/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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