paul linus
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Before Hinduism arrived in the Indonesian region the people there used to practice forms of animism, which is belief in a supernatural power that animates meterial universe. With tarde network with China and India in first century people started blending themselves with Hinduism, but forming a new hybrid-types of Hinduism like caste system was not applied. Later people started blending into Buddhism and thereafter Islam. By 13th century Hinduism started losing ground, but Bali was exception where Majapahit rulers sought refuge from conquest of Islamic forces.
