The religion of Indonesia before Islam was a mix of Hinduism, Buddhism, and animism. Hinduism and Buddhism were introduced to Indonesia in the first century AD by traders from India and Sri Lanka. Animism was the indigenous religion of the Indonesian people and was based on the belief that spirits inhabit natural objects and phenomena.
The first Muslim traders and missionaries arrived in Indonesia in the thirteenth century. They were followed by Islamic armies in the fifteenth century, who conquered …