The world’s most populous Muslim-majority country is Indonesia, where around 88 percent of the population identifies as Muslim. This Southeast Asian country is home to over 260 million people and more than 225 million of them are Muslim. The Indonesian Muslim population is made up of a variety of different ethnic and linguistic groups, including the Javanese, Sundanese, Madurese, and Acehnese.
Islam first arrived in Indonesia in the 13th century, brought by traders from India and the Middle East. The …