Filipinos in Indonesia have formed eight different community associations, including three sports teams, one teachers' association, and two Christian groups. More traditional communities of Filipino descent had migrated to the
pre-independence Indonesian territory, which was then still called the
Dutch East Indies. Most of them have kinship across the borders of the two countries, like the
Sangir people also have their relatives in
Sarangani and
Davao, the Philippines, but their homeland is in the
Sangihe Islands, Indonesia. Another case is the
Tausug and
Bajau peoples who have long inhabited the east coast of
Kalimantan, inhabiting the former
Sulu Sultanate, such as
Nunukan and
Tarakan in
North Kalimantan, as well as
Malay nobles such as Berau and Tidung also have mixed Sulu blood. ==Notable people==