[3] Both the countries have many cultural proximities and similar view on international issues and these nations are members of the Non-Aligned Movement, Indian-Ocean Rim Association and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).

Islam came to Indonesia through Yemeni merchants, the indigenous ruled by Hindu kings converted by seeing the modest of Yemenis, Islam spread through trade in south east Asia archipelago.

History of Yemen and Indonesia goes back hundreds of years but because of the colonial-era relationship between the two came to decline.

Restricted under Dutch East Indies law until 1919, the community elites later gained economic power through real estate investment and trading.

Hadhrami is from the south of the Arabian peninsula mostly in southern Yemen.