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Austronesian people form the majority of the modern population.

They may have arrived in Indonesia around 2000 BCE and are thought to have originated in Taiwan.

This theory presented above could be refuted and in need of revision due to new scientific evidence presented by HUGO ( Human Genome Organization ) through genetic studies of the Asian races that points to a single Asian migration from South East Asia traveling northwards and slowly populating East Asia instead of the other way around which as popularly depicted above.

From the scientific discovery which has been a silent evidence, it has pointed out that the South East Asian civilizations are a of much older civilization compared to the widely researched and well documented east Asians ' ancient civilisations Dong Son culture spread to Indonesia bringing with it techniques of wet-field rice cultivation, ritual buffalo sacrifice, bronze casting, megalithic practises, and ikat weaving methods.

Some of these practices remain in areas including the Batak areas of Sumatra, Toraja in Sulawesi, and several islands in Nusa Tenggara.

Early Indonesians were animists who honoured the spirits of the dead as their souls or life force could still help the living.