Malay/Indonesia have existed in New Zealand Thousand Years Ago via Maori

Maori and Indonesian or Malay ("Bahasa" means "language" in Malay and Indonesian) are related.

These languages belong to the same language group called the "Austronesian Languages".

This means that linguists believe that they had a common origin thousands of years ago, and could have descended from the same Proto Language.

Other linguists say that Maori and Malay/Indonesian belong to the same subgroup called "Malayo-Polynesian" which is one subgroup of the Austronsian Language family.

There are a few words that sound similar in Maori and Malay/Indonesian (and this lends credence to their common origin):

for example:

"2" is "dua" in Malay/Indonesia and "rua" in Maori
"5" is "lima" in Malay/Indonesian and "rima" in Maori
"fish" is "ikan" in Malay/Indonesian and "ika" in Maori
"sky" is "langit" in Malay/Indonesian and "rangi" in Maori