The Protestant Church in Indonesia is a Reformed church; it is a member of

World Communion of Reformed Churches The World Communion of Reformed Churches (WCRC) is the largest association of Calvinist churches in the world. It has 230 member denominations in 108 countries, together claiming an estimated 80 million people, thus being the fourth-largest Chris ...

Origin

The Protestant Church in Indonesia was formed in Ambon, Maluku in 1605 under the name of the Protestant Church in the Netherlands Indies, in Dutch De Protestantsche Kerk in Nederlandsch-Indië. In 1619, the headquarters was moved to Batavia. The denomination inherited the missions left by the Portuguese. The church supported missions all over

Indonesia Indonesia, officially the Republic of Indonesia, is a country in Southeast Asia and Oceania between the Indian and Pacific oceans. It consists of over 17,000 islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, and parts of Borneo and New Gui ...

. Its territories cover several areas like the

Maluku Islands The Maluku Islands (; Indonesian: ''Kepulauan Maluku'') or the Moluccas () are an archipelago in the east of Indonesia. Tectonically they are located on the Halmahera Plate within the Molucca Sea Collision Zone. Geographically they are located ...

, Minahasa,

Java Java (; id, Jawa, ; jv, ꦗꦮ; su, ) is one of the Greater Sunda Islands in Indonesia. It is bordered by the Indian Ocean to the south and the Java Sea to the north. With a population of 151.6 million people, Java is the world's mo ...

Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-largest island in the world at 473,481 km2 (182,812 mi.2), not including adjacent i ...

East Nusa Tenggara East Nusa Tenggara ( id, Nusa Tenggara Timur – NTT; pt, Sonda Oriental) is the southernmost province of Indonesia. It comprises the eastern portion of the Lesser Sunda Islands, facing the Indian Ocean in the south and the Flores Sea in the nor ...

Member churches

In the 1930s, the church spread rapidly. The church composed of 12 autonomous churches * Evangelical Christian Church in Timor, * Protestant Church in Western Indonesia, *

Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa The Christian Evangelical Church in Minahasa (Gereja Masehi Injii di Minahasa) is a Protestant, Calvinist and Reformed church in Indonesia. It was founded in North Sulawesi on 30 September 1934. Christianity was introduced to Minahasa by Johann Fr ...

, * Protestant Church of Maluku, * Protestant Church in Indonesia in Papua, * Evangelical Christian Church in Taulud - 17,437 members *

Indonesian Protestant Church in Gorontalo The Indonesian Protestant Church in Gorontalo is an independent church within the Protestant Church in Indonesia serving Gorontalo, North Sulawesi and Central Sulawesi. It has 98 congregations and 10,000 members. The church is a member of the World ...

- 11,103 member * Indonesian Protestant Church in Donggala - 30,114 members * Indonesian Protestant Church Baggai Kepulawan - 29,008 members * Indonesian Protestant Church Buol Tolitoli - 11,027 members *

Christian Church Luwuk Banggai Christians () are people who follow or adhere to Christianity, a monotheistic Abrahamic religion based on the life and teachings of Jesus Christ. The words ''Christ'' and ''Christian'' derive from the Koine Greek title ''Christós'' (Χρι� ...

- 42,611 members *

Indonesian Ecumenical Christian Church Indonesian is anything of, from, or related to Indonesia, an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia. It may refer to: * Indonesians, citizens of Indonesia ** Native Indonesians, diverse groups of local inhabitants of the archipelago ** Indonesian ...

- 188 members In the 20th century, it adopted a more Presbyterian church order. It has 4,800 congregations and 3.1 million members.

References

External links

Official website
{{Authority control Protestant denominations established in the 17th century Reformed denominations in Indonesia Religious organizations established in 1605