There is no definitive answer to this question as it depends on how one defines a ‘native speaker’ of Indonesia. However, according to Ethnologue, there are around 234 million Indonesian speakers, of which around 190 million are considered to be native speakers.
Indonesian is the official language of Indonesia and is also spoken in parts of East Timor, Malaysia, and Singapore. It is a member of the Malayo-Polynesian language family and is closely related to Malaysian, Tagalog, and Javanese.
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