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  ANNUAL 
  REPORT 
  SMITHSONIAN 
  INSTITUTION, 
  1943 
  

  

  in 
  previously 
  Mohammedanizecl 
  regions 
  ; 
  indeed, 
  the 
  areas 
  of 
  influence 
  

   of 
  the 
  two 
  religions 
  are 
  mutually 
  exclusive 
  to 
  a 
  marked 
  degree. 
  De- 
  

   spite 
  centuries 
  of 
  missionary 
  effort 
  and 
  enormous 
  expenditures 
  in 
  

   Mohammedan 
  Java, 
  for 
  instance, 
  there 
  are 
  now 
  only 
  about 
  200,000 
  

   Christians 
  there, 
  and 
  probably 
  not 
  more 
  than 
  half 
  of 
  these 
  are 
  natives. 
  

   Christianity 
  has 
  made 
  best 
  progress 
  among 
  formerly 
  pagan 
  tribes: 
  

   the 
  Batak 
  of 
  Sumatra, 
  the 
  Toradja 
  and 
  Minahasa 
  of 
  Celebes, 
  and 
  the 
  

   Amboinese 
  of 
  the 
  Moluccas. 
  

  

  In 
  general, 
  the 
  contours 
  of 
  culture 
  in 
  Indonesia 
  display 
  a 
  strikingly 
  

   regular 
  pattern 
  of 
  stratification. 
  In 
  the 
  far 
  eastern 
  islands 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   deep 
  interior 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  larger 
  land 
  masses, 
  the 
  most 
  archaic 
  racial 
  

   types 
  and 
  cultures 
  are 
  preserved. 
  In 
  the 
  more 
  accessible 
  inland 
  dis- 
  

   tricts 
  of 
  the 
  Greater 
  Sundas 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  westerly 
  islands 
  of 
  the 
  Lesser 
  

   Sundas, 
  the 
  racial 
  stock 
  is 
  of 
  the 
  earlier 
  Malay 
  type 
  and 
  the 
  level 
  

   of 
  culture 
  is 
  "intermediate." 
  Finally, 
  in 
  the 
  coastlands 
  of 
  western 
  

   Indonesia, 
  one 
  finds 
  the 
  most 
  recent 
  physical 
  types 
  and 
  cultural 
  accre- 
  

   tions, 
  which 
  are 
  steadily 
  spreading 
  inland 
  and 
  eastward 
  into 
  the 
  terri- 
  

   tories 
  where 
  until 
  today 
  the 
  ancient 
  peoples 
  of 
  the 
  Indies 
  carry 
  on 
  

   their 
  age-old 
  traditions 
  in 
  the 
  shadow 
  of 
  impending 
  change. 
  

  

  