In the early post-World War II period, most migrants from Indonesia to Canada were Indo people of mixed Dutch and pribumi ancestry.
However, Indonesians of Chinese descent formed the main group in the stream of migration which began in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
More than half of Indonesian Canadians are believed to be Christians, with roughly equal numbers of Catholics and Protestants.
[6] The first Indonesian community organisations in Canada, the Indonesian-Canadian Association and the Canadian-Indonesian Society, were founded in 1969 in Toronto and Vancouver, respectively.
Indonesian consuls' wives also set up branches of Dharma Wanita, a women's group, in various cities.