[5] It is thus the largest Korean day school in Southeast Asia, at more than twice the enrollment of the one in Ho Chi Minh City.

[3][6] A Koreatown began to form in South Jakarta's Kebayoran Baru subdistrict as early as 1982, when Kim Woo-jae opened a shop selling kimchi and doenjang.

The sex ratio of the community is unbalanced, with 1.3 men for every woman, similar to the pattern seen in most South Korean migrant communities in Southeast Asian countries besides Malaysia and Singapore; however, the imbalance has decreased from earlier years.

Labour relations at South Korean-owned factories were poor in the 1990s, but have improved in recent years.

[12][13] Semarang is another area mentioned as having a large number of Koreans, though they lack any Korean-language educational facilities there.