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Registered foreigners are counted across 192 nationalities.

Indonesia

People registered with Indonesia nationality number 62,021, which is 3.9% of all registered foreigners and ranks 7 in size. Compared with 40,045 in 2015, 10 years earlier, that is an increase of about 54.9%. They live in 246 districts, and the largest counts are Jeju-do Jeju-si with 2,573, Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si with 2,526, and Gyeongsangnam-do Tongyeong-si with 2,109. The index of dissimilarity (D) from Koreans is 0.504, the isolation index is 0.005, and interaction with Koreans is 0.953. The highest location quotient (LQ) is in Jeollanam-do Jindo-gun at 20.5, where this nationality is 2.5% of the foreigners in that district. The continent of origin is Southeast Asia. The largest age group is 25-29 at 27%, and men are 82.5%. This value alone is based on staying foreigners. Estimated mother tongues are Indonesian at 70% and Betawi at 2.3%.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook on Immigration and Foreign Policy 2025 (registered foreigners by nationality, registered foreigners by nationality and district, registered foreigners by status of stay), staying foreigners by nationality and age

The index of dissimilarity, the isolation index, and the location quotient are calculated from the open dataset.

Table 1.Key indicators and benchmarks, 2025Unit: people, organizations, index

Year 2025

Indicators	Indonesia	All registered foreigners	Relative to total
Registered foreigners	62,021	1,604,920	3.9% of the total
Districts of residence	246	250	98.4% of the total
Index of dissimilarity (D)	0.504	0.280	rank 75 of 107
Isolation index	0.0046	0.045	rank 5 of 107
Interaction with Koreans	0.953	0.955	rank 71 of 107
Continent	Southeast Asia	602,559 (37.5% of the total)	10.3% of those from Southeast Asia

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by nationality), segregation indicators from the open dataset.

Note: the dissimilarity index D measures how far a nationality's distribution across districts differs from that of Korean nationals; 0 means the two distributions match and 1 means complete separation. Isolation is the probability that a member meets someone of the same nationality, and interaction the probability of meeting a Korean resident. In the All registered foreigners column the three indices treat all registered foreigners as one group and use the same formulas. In the Relative to total column, rank 1 is the highest value among nationalities with 100 or more registered foreigners that year; in the continent row that column gives this nationality's share of all registered foreigners from the continent.

Figure 1.Indonesia nationals among registered foreigners, 2006–2025Unit: 10,000 persons

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year.

Note: The vertical scale resets to the size of the selected nationality.

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Year	Indonesia	Vietnam
2006	23,715	52,157
2007	23,698	67,197
2008	27,394	79,848
2009	25,937	86,166
2010	27,447	98,225
2011	29,573	110,564
2012	29,812	114,211
2013	33,195	113,843
2014	38,718	122,571
2015	40,045	128,042
2016	39,130	137,769
2017	36,917	151,385
2018	37,429	170,707
2019	37,043	187,334
2020	33,239	181,415
2021	30,514	178,928
2022	40,291	196,883
2023	50,334	227,930
2024	58,248	261,581
2025	62,021	293,907

Table 2.Indonesia nationality, top 10 districts, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Rank	District	Indonesia Nationality	Share of local foreigners
1	Jeju-do Jeju-si	2,573	14.0
2	Gyeonggi-do Hwaseong-si	2,526	4.6
3	Gyeongsangnam-do Tongyeong-si	2,109	39.6
4	Gyeongsangnam-do Geoje-si	2,010	12.2
5	Gyeongsangnam-do Gimhae-si	1,948	7.2
6	Jeollanam-do Yeosu-si	1,580	20.9
7	Jeju-do Seogwipo-si	1,506	14.9
8	Gyeonggi-do Ansan-si Danwon-gu	1,281	3.3
9	Gyeongsangnam-do Sacheon-si	1,189	28.5
10	Gyeonggi-do Gimpo-si	1,162	4.4

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by district and nationality).

Note: Nationwide, Indonesia nationals make up 3.9% of all registered foreigners, so an area whose share is above that holds relatively many of them.

Table 3.10 districts with the highest location quotient, 2025Unit: people, ratio, %

Year 2025

Rank	District	Indonesia Nationality	Location quotient (LQ)	Share of local foreigners
1	Jeollanam-do Jindo-gun	693	20.5	2.5
2	Jeollanam-do Wando-gun	820	15.2	1.8
3	Gyeongsangnam-do Tongyeong-si	2,109	14.9	1.8
4	Gyeongsangbuk-do Goryeong-gun	464	12.9	1.6
5	Gyeongsangbuk-do Uljin-gun	650	11.7	1.4
6	Incheon Ongjin-gun	275	11.6	1.4
7	Gyeongsangnam-do Namhae-gun	519	10.5	1.3
8	Jeollanam-do Sinan-gun	487	9.6	1.2
9	Gyeongsangnam-do Haman-gun	668	9.6	1.2
10	Busan Jung-gu	409	9.3	1.1

Source: Location quotient from the open dataset.

Note: the location quotient is the local share divided by the national share; above 1.5 counts as over-representation.

Table 4.By status of stay Indonesia nationality, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Visa category	Persons	Share
Non-professional Employment(E9)	39,768	64.1
Crew Employment(E10)	9,777	15.8
Specially Designated Activities(E7)	4,889	7.9
Student(D2)	2,240	3.6
Marriage Migration(F6)	1,442	2.3
Dependent Family(F3)	1,177	1.9
Other(G1)	552	0.9
General Trainee(D4)	423	0.7
Other statuses	1,753	2.8

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by status of stay and nationality).

Note: The rows of this table add to 62,021, the whole of the Indonesia nationality.

Table 5.Age and sex, 2025Unit: persons, %

Year 2025

Age group	Total	Male	Female	Share
0-4	578	304	274	0.8
5-9	893	456	437	1.2
10-14	1,097	535	562	1.4
15-19	1,265	544	721	1.6
20-24	12,138	10,215	1,923	15.8
25-29	20,799	18,191	2,608	27.0
30-34	16,966	14,917	2,049	22.0
35-39	11,154	9,744	1,410	14.5
40-44	6,191	5,034	1,157	8.0
45-49	2,959	2,015	944	3.8
50-54	1,305	776	529	1.7
55-59	658	330	328	0.9
60+	1,012	501	511	1.3

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (staying foreigners by nationality and age).

Only this table counts all foreign residents, so it totals 77,015 rather than the 62,021 registered foreigners

Figure 2.Composition by age and sex, 2025Unit: %

Year 2025

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (staying foreigners by nationality and age).

Note: The bar length is the share each cell holds within the whole nationality. This figure alone uses staying foreigners, so its total differs from registered foreigners.

Figure 3.Change in status-of-stay composition, 2008–2025Unit: %

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook, each year (registered foreigners by status of stay and nationality).

Note: The share each status holds within this nationality in that year. The five largest statuses in 2025 are drawn.

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Year
2008	81.3	3.9	0.0	1.2	0.0
2009	82.6	5.0	0.0	1.4	0.0
2010	88.7	5.3	0.0	1.6	0.0
2011	87.3	6.0	0.4	1.8	0.0
2012	85.3	7.5	0.0	2.3	0.9
2013	84.3	8.2	0.4	2.5	1.2
2014	83.5	9.1	0.0	2.4	1.2
2015	82.5	9.8	0.0	2.8	1.3
2016	80.6	10.5	0.9	3.0	1.4
2017	78.3	12.1	0.5	3.3	1.6
2018	75.9	14.0	0.6	3.5	1.7
2019	74.1	15.3	0.6	3.4	1.9
2020	70.9	17.7	0.6	3.3	2.4
2021	65.9	20.4	0.9	4.2	2.9
2022	66.6	19.4	1.2	4.9	2.5
2023	66.0	18.4	4.3	4.3	2.3
2024	65.5	16.9	6.1	3.9	2.2
2025	64.1	15.8	7.9	3.6	2.3

Figure 4.Residential segregation and exposure over time, 2014–2025Unit: index

Indicators

Source: Segregation indicators from the open dataset.

Note: the dissimilarity index D measures how far a nationality's distribution across districts differs from that of Korean nationals, isolation is the probability that a member meets someone of the same nationality, and interaction the probability of meeting a Korean resident. The three run on different ranges, so they are selected one at a time.

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Year	Index of dissimilarity (D)	Isolation index	Interaction with Koreans
2014	0.527	0.002	0.967
2015	0.523	0.003	0.967
2016	0.518	0.002	0.966
2017	0.511	0.002	0.967
2018	0.502	0.002	0.965
2019	0.502	0.003	0.965
2020	0.496	0.002	0.969
2021	0.492	0.002	0.970
2022	0.487	0.003	0.968
2023	0.501	0.004	0.962
2024	0.504	0.004	0.957
2025	0.504	0.005	0.953

Table 6.Indonesia nationality, mother-tongue compositionUnit: %

First language		Share
Indonesian		70.0
Betawi		2.3
Malay		2.3
Minangkabau		2.0
Buginese		1.8
Banjar		1.7
Acehnese		1.6
Balinese		1.5

Source: Ethnologue 24th edition, first-language shares by country.

Note: the estimated demand on the language page is this share multiplied by the registered foreign population of each nationality. Shares below 0.5% are not listed, and a person who speaks more than one language is not distinguished.

Figure 5.By province, Indonesia nationality, 2025Unit: persons

Year 2025

Count range

Note: The boundaries are shapes simplified for display and are drawn as pen lines. The fill values are the provincial totals from the yearbook and do not depend on the shapes.

Source: MOJ Statistical Yearbook (registered foreigners by nationality and district), summed to the province level.

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Province	Indonesia Nationality	Share of national
Gyeongsangnam-do	11,327	18.3
Gyeonggi-do	11,115	17.9
Gyeongsangbuk-do	6,325	10.2
Jeollanam-do	5,727	9.2
Chungcheongnam-do	4,175	6.7
Jeju-do	4,079	6.6
Busan	4,058	6.5
Incheon	2,618	4.2
Seoul	2,169	3.5
Daegu	2,126	3.4
Chungcheongbuk-do	2,002	3.2
Jeollabuk-do	1,755	2.8
Ulsan	1,563	2.5
Gangwon-do	1,342	2.2
Gwangju	756	1.2
Daejeon	660	1.1
Sejong	224	0.4