Ethnic Chinese in Contemporary IndonesiaLeo Suryadinata The Chinese in Indonesia have played an important role in Indonesian society before and after the fall of Soeharto. This book provides comprehensive and up-to-date information by examining them in detail during that era with special reference to the post-Soeharto period. The contributors to this volume consist of both older- and younger-generation scholars writing on Indonesian Chinese. They offer new information and fresh perspectives on the issues of government policies, legal position, ethnic politics, race relations, religion, education and prospects of the Chinese Indonesians. |
Contents
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A Demographic Analysis | 17 |
Some Recent Developments | 48 |
4 No More Discrimination Against the Chinese | 57 |
Developments in the Post1998 Era | 75 |
Some Recent Developments | 97 |
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2000 Indonesian Population Ananta Anthony Salim anti-Chinese violence Arab Indonesians areas Arifin Asian assimilation Bahasa Indonesia Baperki Batak Batam BKPBM Buddhist cent China Chinese business Chinese community Chinese culture Chinese education Chinese in Indonesia Chinese Indonesians Chinese language Chinese Minority Chinese schools Christian Citizenship of Indonesia companies Conflicts Confucian Coppel defined difficult discrimination Dutch East Java economic ethnic Chinese fall of Soeharto figures first five foreign global Indian indigenous Indonesians Indonesia 2006 Indonesian Chinese Indonesian citizens Indonesian citizenship Indonesian nation Indonesian Population Census influence Institute of Southeast internationalization Jakarta Javanese Kalimantan Law on Citizenship Leo Suryadinata Malays Mandarin migrants Muslims National Plus schools non-Chinese North Sumatra number of Chinese official organization percentage of Chinese political prihumi province Purdey Reformasi religion religious Republic of Indonesia Riau Archipelago riots Salim Group SBKRI significant Singapore social Soeharto Southeast Asia Southeast Asian Studies Surabaya teachers Tionghoa Violence in Indonesia