7 Differences Between Indonesia and Malaysia

In this video I talk about two countries that have a lot in common, but also a lot of differences: Indonesia and Malaysia. I talk about seven of the most notable differences between the two sibling countries.

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[GEOfocusChannel]

Hi, everyone! I hope you like the video! There's a mistake @6:08 because I misread an infographic from the Malaysian government. Here's the infographic:

►18.7% is Buddhist, 9.2% is Christian, 6.1% is Hindu, and 0.9% is other.

The names of the religions are staggered on the infographic, but I thought they were directly above the percentage that applies to them.

[zhofirzamani]

You forgot to mention about the government. Malaysia is federal parliamentary with constitutional monarchy, while Indonesia is unitary presidential republic. Malaysia has sultans that elected among 9 sultans as the head of state and prime minister as the head of the government, while Indonesia has the president as the head of state and the head of the government, and also commander in chief for armed forces.

[ハオリン]

I love the word "Chinese Malaysian" in the video! Thanks for calling us as a Malaysian and not Chinese people in China, there are a lot of people who don't understand that we are not Chinese people in PR China, we only consider ourselves as a Malaysian!

[pualamnusantara]

Another (kinda) random thing I'd like to mention about the differences between the 2 countries, especially in terms of the language, is that some specific mathematical terms in Indonesian are mostly loaned from English, while in Malaysian Malay they would use a pure Malay term or sometimes Arabic terms, for example :
English - Indonesian - Malay
Integration - Integral - Pengamiran
Differentiation - Turunan - Pembezaan
Limit - Limit - Had (from Arabic, حد)
Sequence - Barisan - Janjang
Variable - Variabel - Pembolehubah
Diagram - Diagram - Rajah
Coordinate - Koordinat - Satah
Constant - Konstan - Pemalar
Exam - Ujian - Peperiksaan
Permutation - Permutasi - Pilih atur
Multiply - Kali - Kali or Darab (from Arabic)
Subtract - Kurangi - Tolak
Etc.

As an Indonesian I've been interested on education in Malaysia and I was amazed on how the Malaysians came up with these new words that I've never seen or heard, yet sound so unique and fascinating.
Greetings from Indonesia to my Malaysian Brothers and Sisters
🇮🇩❤️🇲🇾

[amasganteng]

Hi Paul. I'm from Malaysia. I am so impressed with all the videos you have produced. The videos you put out are very beneficial to me and also to the public. May you continue to produce videos that can benefit the world community.

[Shah-cdfp]

As a Malaysian, I should say you are fair in your description about the two countries.. perhaps of your good command in both languages

[robertsmith]

Im Malay Indonesian, For your information: Sumatran Muslims are more similar to Malaysia, Sumatrans are more conservative in religion, Islam and culture have been integrated and strongly recognize similarities with Malaysia, so actually ethnicity influences everything here, so the difference is more Javanese and Malay. Java is still heavily influenced by Hindu-Buddhist cultural customs while Sumatra, except for the Batak, is strongly influenced by the Hadrami Arab Muslim culture which is anti-syncretism with previous beliefs (puritan).So for us Malays, religion and culture have been integrated into one, you could say we are an ethnoreligious community

I'm palembangnese!
we are the ancestors of the Malay nation, it has become an informal agreement, and just ask the majority of Kings in Malay realm

evidence:
1. the oldest ancient human fossils in Sumatra are here (harimau cave, Padang Bindu, south Sumatera)
2. the largest and most complete megalithic site is here (Pagaralam Besemah south Sumatera)
3.Queen Shima the queen of Java is from Sribuja Malay (Musi Banyuasin)
3. we are Sriwijaya descendant (Minanga Ogan Palembang)
4. parameswara, first king in malay peninsula from Palembang,
5. princess dara petak dara jingga,
6. Raden patah, First muslim sultan in Java is a Palembangnese,
7. grandpa of hang tuah 'the greatest melakan admiral' from Sekanak Palembang,
8. most of habaib 'prophet descendant' in the archipelago are in Palembang, Palembang was known as second hadramot
9. the oldest city in the Malay world 'nusantara' is Palembang.
10. Term of Malay come from malayan kingdom and Melayu Sribuja around Palembang until Jambi before conquered by srivijayan empire

Therefore we have an obligation to provide this explanation that we are ethnoreligious people.

[wincast]

I'm Indonesian and everything is great! Another points might be:
▫️Both countries have a love for sports especially badminton and football (soccer).
▫️ biggest palm oil producers in the world.
▫️ Malay and Indonesian language are mutually intelligible. However, both have developed to different paths, so choice of words are different.
▫️ Indonesia is the place where majority of ancient kingdoms of Sriwijaya and Majapahit's temples can be found.

(Edit) oops, this video is about the differences, but what I point out the similarities 😆

[juanpedronardin]

I think this new format allows you to give us several new shapes of interesting data like how deep are they with religion and laws. Well done Paul, congratulations!
I'm rooting for Indonesia 😎✨

[jpp]

Excellent background research on these 2 countries … never seen any video as detailed as this and very well presented… kudos to you

[gammatjenderasa]

Nice video!
Just want to add 3 more differences;

1. The majority native ethnic in both countries:
Melayu (in Malaysia)
Java (in Indonesia)

2. Language:
Bahasa Melayu have most loanwords from Arabic and English.
Bahasa Indonesia have most loanwords from Bahasa Melayu, Arabic, Sanskrit and Dutch.

3. Chinese ethnic
All Chinese ethnics are non-native ethnic in Malaysia.
Meanwhile in Indonesia, Hakka-Chinese is considered as Kalimantan/Borneo's one of the 12 native ethnics. Hakka-Chinese is the pribumi of Singkawang-Bengkayang (from Monterado Republic), and Mandor (from Lanfang Republic) in Kalimantan-Barat/West-Borneo, eventhough other Chinese ethnics are non-native (Teochiu, Inghwa, Hainan, Cantonese, Hokkien, etc...).

Cheers!

[aarspar]

Indonesian here. Indonesia and Malaysia really feels like two twin brothers who grew up with different parents (Great Britain and the Netherlands respectively). There are many differences but deep down we know we're still related. Some other differences to note include:

- In Indonesia, the word "Malay" (Melayu) refers to just the Malay people/tribe who primarily inhabit the most of the provinces of Riau and Riau islands, and some of the provinces South Sumatra, Bangka Belitung, and West Kalimantan. They are different from the other tribes in Indonesia. In Malaysia, though, the word "Malay" (Melayu) has become a catch-all term for all "native-born" people, including basically almost all Austronesian people (from what I understand). This has made some different view on what constitutes as "Malay culture".
- In Malaysia, a Malay person by law is only allowed to follow Islam and is not allowed to convert to any other religion. It's pretty much Malay = Islam. In Indonesia, everyone can follow any religion* they want (*as long as it's one of the six official religions of the country or if not, they can put the "Religion" field in their identity card blank). This has led to some funny encounters like if a Javanese Christian person from Indonesia orders pork in West Malaysia and people look at them weirdly.
- From what I've seen, and please take this with a grain of salt, Indonesians are more likely to be proud of their pre-Islamic past compared to Malaysians.

btw, AMA, I'll try to answer from an Indonesian perspective :)

[fantasticko]

You should mention about race in Indonesia, because people think Indonesia are Malay, yes Malay Indonesia also exist but not all of them are Malay tho

[keangwooichoo]

Geographically, malaysia has no volcanoes as it is not on the pacific ring of fire. It does have tremors usually felt when earthquake strikes indonesia.

[shuvo]

Love Indonesia and Malaysia from Bangladesh 🇧🇩🥰🥰🥰

[totokprasetyo]

Indonesian treasure their ancestor culture, hence many cultural aspect that predates Islam still preserved. The tendency of coexistence or even synchreticism have already been practiced long before modern Indonesian. While generally accepted that calm trait with peaceful and projected mind as virtues, Indonesian can be very brave and willing to self sacrifice when it comes to their liberty and dignity. Majority Indonesian follow revolutionary route to fought for their own freedom from colonial power, whilst overthrow old and helpless feudals and monarchs who were not supporting the Idea of Unitary Indonesian Republic. Indonesian are very friendly on the base of equality, but wont bows when its about power struggle and only see the relation to be benefited or won. Though some religion extrimist and fundamentals lost it, many todays Indonesian are still similar with their predecessor in which they will accept differences and coexist, and break the harmony only when the principle of balance, harmony, and independence or peoples dignity is under threat. PS: I think that the religion extremist movement in Indonesia is minor. Acts to weaponize religion for political purpose do occur, ranging from illegal underground movement to the use of religion sentiment by some politiciants in order to scrap votes of more religious minorities. Due to the very active states of democracy that is Indonesia todays.

[telysiregar]

Nicely put!

Some other points comes to mind:
- government system
- foods are spicier in Indonesia
- Malaysian are much more fluent in English to the point they develop own accent
- while no Indonesian speaks Dutch
- Indonesian GDP PPP is higher
- ethnicities in Indonesia feels more diverse (Javanese, Sundanese etc have their own distinct culture) but practically no or minimum racial segregation
- Hindu influence (usually in names or lores) are more present in Indonesia, most likely due to Javanese being majority

Cmiiw

[achmad]

6:34 it depends on which area. People in Sumatra, Kalimantan and Sulawesi are generally more religious. Previously, Java was also religious (actually Java is still the center of Islamic studies until now), but since the nativization project carried out by the Dutch, where the Dutch made propaganda saying that you cannot be fully Javanese if you become Muslim and so On the other hand, they tried to separate Islam from Java (this is written in one of the literatures at Leiden University in the Netherlands). this was not without reason, the Dutch were traumatized by the Java vs Dutch war led by Prince Diponegoro, the most influential Islamist general in his era, Prince Diponegoro called the Javanese war as Fi Sabilillah war (holy war). The war was very costly and drained the Dutch of energy, the Dutch loss during the Java war was equivalent to the income of the Dutch kingdom during 20 years of colonization. so they made a project that separated Java and Islam, actually the Dutch were not interested in religion, but when it got in the way of their interests they would act. They also did the same thing to the Malays of Sumatra, Aceh, they sent a Dutch orientalist named Snouck Hurgronje because Aceh put up a big fight against the Dutch, but it seems that Islam is already strong for the Acehnese, while in Java, even though it is 90% Muslim, the hinterlands still carry out ancient rituals that has nothing to do with Islam. The British did not do the same thing to the Malays of Malaysia because the Malaysian malay did not put up a big fight against the British.

[rikisetiawan]

Your research is very accurate. As an Indonesian, I aprrove this

[farhanputrariantono]

The word "Pribumi", Which basically means "Native" is a pretty sensitive word. I think you should have break down the specific percentage of each ethnicity. Because a lot of people with chinese, arab, indian and even european background already consider themself as Pribumi. They want people to treat them equally