Indonesians in the Philippines are made up of resident foreigners from Indonesia living in the Philippines and their Filipino-born children and grandchildren. Most of them working as nannies in Manila. The first Indonesians entered the Philippines with Muslim-Christian conflict in 1960s or so. There is a significant number[quantify] of Chinese Indonesians who were victims of oppression of native-blooded Indonesians to them as they thought that the Chinese-blooded Indonesians are the only people who led the economy. Many recent Indonesians in the country are students who want to learn English or for higher education, but most of all Indonesians in the Philippines are being suspected as terrorists after the bombing incidents of the Philippines made by Indonesian members of Abu Sayyaf and Al-qaeda.
Most Indonesians in Philippines live in Mindanao (which has proximity to Indonesia) with a large percentage in Metro Manila or even in other cities. Aside from native-blooded and Chinese-blooded Indonesians, there is a proportional number of Caucasian-blooded Indonesians, both Indian Indonesians and Dutch Indonesians. Those who are Filipino-born may have Spanish or Chinese blood as Indonesians who remained in the country married native-born Filipinos. Most Indonesian Filipinos in religion are Sunni Muslims and significant number of Christians, mostly Protestants, while many Chinese Indonesians are MahayanaBuddhists. Indonesian Filipinos speak Indonesian and Tagalog and English as second languages. In Mindanao, Indonesian is taught to younger Indonesians in the island’s closed Indonesian communities so that they can still speak it if they want to return to Indonesia. At the same time, they speak Cebuano as first of their second languages and they may look like natives of Mindanao, whether Moros or natively Cebuano speakers, as both Moros and Indonesians are mostly Sunni Muslims and Cebuano is the native language and lingua franca of Mindanao. A number of Indonesians in the Philippines may only speak Indonesian and English, since they study in the Philippines to study English.
