Malays doesn't adopt Islam?

Indonesia is today the world's largest muslim country. Islam was brought to the region in the 14th century by traders from India. It replaced the Hindu and Buddhist faiths there.

So without significantly nerfing Islam, can what is today Malaysia and Indonesia remain mostly non-Muslim, with at most a 40-45% Islamic minority? How would this affect European colonisation? And decolonisation?
 
You just have to keep a fair amount of its international trade with Indians instead of Arabs, perhaps a new seafaring power emerges in South India, and then its politically expedient to stay Hindu or become Hindu for the Buddhists instead of Muslim

Most probably wouldn’t affect colonisation unless they managed to become a major power, though that would need a lot to go right. Maybe they manage to control Indian trade with Europe and oust the Portuguese, developing a strong mercantilist government and they might even settle Australia.

Decolonisation, assuming they are colonised by the same power, I could see them uniting with South India after decolonisation if they are administered jointly by said power, which would seem likely
 
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Ethiopia conquers the Ajuran and maintains a hold on Arabia Felix, takes over as the primary trader of the Western Indian Ocean?
 
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Having a strong and vital seafaring China, or giving (insert Hindu Buddhist hegemonic state here) significant commitments on both the indochinese mainland AND the archipelago would both serve to divert the main strength of said state away from seafaring trade across the Indian Ocean, and farther towards land based tax revenue and South China Sea trade, thus limiting Islam significantly, or retaining it only as a religion of separatism/ethnic assertiveness (ie a larger champa conversion)
 
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