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The Muslim population in Papua Province, as of December 31, 2024, was recorded at 318,630 people. This number is down by 243 individuals compared to the previous year, which reported 318,870 people.
According to the Ministry of Religious Affairs data, the proportion of Muslims in this province reached 29.1 percent of the total population in 2024, which amounted to 1.09 million people.
Based on the distribution across the population of each region in Maluku and Papua, the proportion of Muslims in Papua ranks third.
Meanwhile, the population of Papua by religion in 2024 was:
- Protestant 708,953 (64.84%)
- Muslim 318,630 (29.14%)
- Catholic 62,869 (5.75%)
- Buddhist 1,576 (0.14%)
- Hindu 1,373 (0.13%)
- Confucian 6 (0.0%)
In other provinces in Maluku and Papua, the Muslim population, in descending order, is: North Maluku 1,025,988 people, Maluku 1,013,828 people, and West Papua 217,652 people.
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