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 Chinese Indonesian - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Chinese Indonesians whose ancestors immigrated in the first and second waves, and have thus become creolised or huan-na (in Hokkien) by marriage and assimilation, are called Keturunan Chinese.
Although there used to be a sizable number of Chinese Indonesians in the rural areas, the largest populations of Chinese Indonesians today are in the cities of Jakarta, Surabaya, Medan, Pekan Baru, Semarang, Pontianak, Makassar, Palembang, and Bandung, partially due to anti-Chinese legislation in Indonesia.
The Chinese Indonesians built their first schools in Surabaya in the 1920s—one of the first non-Western schools in Java—and by the 1960s, many Chinese schools had been established in the major cities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Indonesian_Chinese   (4225 words)

  
 Asia Times: Chinese culture colors Indonesian life
This is why the Chinese influences are strongest in the port cities, since these are also the places where the Chinese merchants settled and frequently married the local women.
To be sure, the goods and crafts that the Chinese ships brought were so admired that local artisans soon tried to imitate them, or at least adopt and incorporate some of the designs in their handiwork.
Ornamental Chinese plates are also embedded in the interior walls of the palaces and mosques in Cirebon, perhaps in an attempt to simulate the Moorish penchant for tiles.
www.atimes.com /se-asia/DA05Ae02.html   (919 words)

  
 THE INDONESIAN ETHNIC CHINESE AND THE VIEW OF NATIONHOOD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
For many Indonesian Chinese, the riot in May 1998 would be as horrible and unforgettable as the "hell" for the Jews.
All in all, the Chinese was seen not as a part of the Indonesian and their sense of unity was doubted.
Therefore the Indonesian Chinese must dig their existential history in Indonesia by themselves and write down names of Indonesian Chinese figures and heroes who have a contribution to the building of Indonesia.
daga.dhs.org /daga/urm/up9p/99chines.htm   (2616 words)

  
 Chinese New Year celebrations in Indonesia
Chinese New Year's celebrations in Indonesia, known locally as Imlek, incorporate customs, beliefs and practices brought to Indonesia by Chinese immigrants who still follow the practices handed down from their parents.
Chinese around the world believe that the spirits of the loved ones are in attendance during the evening's celebrations.
Chinese believe that white is the color of death and misfortune, so tofu is never included in the New Year's Eve meal as it might cause bad fortune to fall upon family members.
www.expat.or.id /info/chinesenewyear.html   (4149 words)

  
 Intersections: Global Chinese Fraternity and the Indonesian Riots of May 1998: The Online Gathering of Dispersed Chinese
In contrast to the 'traditional' diasporas, the dispersal of Chinese was often the result, not of a crisis or exile, but of poverty and the demand for labour and capital by transnational capitalism.
Ethnic Chinese were sometimes abducted to work as indentured labourers or chose to migrate in search of a better life, with the dream of returning to China rich.
The renaming of dispersed ethnic Chinese as the Chinese diaspora is significant when we consider the questions relating to the identity of the (Indonesian) Chinese and the 'diasporic activists'.
wwwsshe.murdoch.edu.au /intersections/issue4/tay.html   (7823 words)

  
 Chinese indonesian sell their daughter - Asia Finest Discussion Forum   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
The Indonesian Chinese women are aged between 20 and 30, and come from large farming families in rural villages, Sim said.
The poor Chinese Indonesian women might have fewer choices than those Russians or the Indians, but it is possible for them to find their happiness.
It could be Indos sold more their own daughter to a pimp compare to chinese Indonesian, since chinese Indonesian averagely living in better condition compare to Indos, and chinese Indonesian should thanks to Soeharto making Indonesian born chinese become wealthier with his ali-baba implementation between Indos and Chinese.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=21958   (2961 words)

  
 INDO CHAOS
THE INDONESIAN CHINESE ARE THE VICTIMS, THE INDONESIAN PRIBUMIS ARE THE PERPETRATORS.
The news media portrayed the Indonesian Malay as honest, decent, peace loving people who rioted because they were hungry, they were poor, and they were victimized by Suharto, and his filthy-rich Indonesian Chinese allies.
Indonesian Chinese are not allowed to celebrate the Chinese New Year.
members.tripod.com /~Indo983/indochinese/idch0798_05.html   (2102 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | World | Asia-Pacific | Chinese diaspora: Indonesia
Yet the ethnic Chinese community is starting to rediscover its confidence, beginning to take advantage of the democratic reforms that have swept through the country over the past seven years.
Many Chinese were killed, victims of a simplistic equation of their ethnicity with the politics of communist China.
Indonesian Chinese can now use their real names and celebrate New Year, but they are still unlikely to get a place at a state-run university, or join the army or police.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4312805.stm   (912 words)

  
 Pelosi Condemns Attacks on Ethnic Chinese in Indonesia - Military Photos
The ethnic Chinese community was tragically and unfortunately targeted for the most violent attacks in the May riots, including the systematic rape and other sexual abuse of ethnic Chinese women.
Indonesian troops occupying East Timor have used systematic rape and torture to terrorize the civilian population since Indonesian forces invaded the territory 23 years ago.
The Indonesian government had strived to change its attitudes and make a concerted effort toward democratic values but there were still hurdles for them to overcome, she said.
www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=96854   (2451 words)

  
 Native Groups Seek Wealth Shift - Voluntary or Not : Indonesia Pressures Chinese
Indonesian Chinese had failed to integrate as effectively as Indonesians of Arab or Indian descent and had used "solidarity to gain profit," he said.
Chinese business leaders said the market value of the shares, which are to be paid for from dividends and cannot be quickly sold, is close to $200 million.
Sofjan, who often acts as a spokesman for Chinese business groups that have been active in developing broader ties in the Indonesian community, said he was optimistic that with time and effort the gap could be bridged.
www.iht.com /articles/1991/09/03/chin.php   (1092 words)

  
 Chinese businessmen in East Timor under threat
They feel it is too early for the Indonesian Chinese to return because of their past relationship with the former Jakarta regime.
Resentment against the Indonesian Chinese business community reached a peak on April 30 when two Indonesian Chinese were ordered to leave the country by CNRT President Xanana Gusmao, after they were blamed for inciting a riot.
Indonesian Chinese are accused of undercutting local businesses by illegally importing goods from Surabaya and from Indonesian West Timor.
www.etan.org /et2000c/august/1-5/05chine.htm   (584 words)

  
 Indonesia - Chinese
Identifying someone in Indonesia as a member of the Chinese (orang Tionghoa) ethnic group is not an easy matter, because physical characteristics, language, name, geographical location, and life-style of Chinese Indonesians are not always distinct from those of the rest of the population.
Although the policy of the Indonesian government in the early 1990s favored the assimilation of the Chinese population into the local communities in which they lived, Chinese had a long history of enforced separation from their non-Chinese neighbors.
One of the main contrasts among Indonesian Chinese in the 1990s was seen in the differences between the peranakan (native-born Chinese with some Indonesian ancestry) and totok (full-blooded Chinese, usually foreign born).
countrystudies.us /indonesia/55.htm   (734 words)

  
 Sweet Smiling Home
Chinese furniture and accessories: After we had been importing furniture from Indonesia for a number of years, we added Chinese furniture to our collections.
The antique Chinese furniture is in a number of styles depending on which province it originates from.
We are often told that our Chinese furniture, our Indonesian furniture, and our Indian furniture is the most varied and the most interesting to be found in Los Angeles, whether it is furniture which we have designed or furniture which we have found.
www.sweetsmilinghome.com   (918 words)

  
 BBC News | SPECIAL REPORT | The Chinese dilemma
Liem was one of a handful of ethnic Chinese who were allowed to benefit from a string of financial favours including monopolies, state bank loans and special licences.
President Suharto saw ethnic Chinese like Liem having a place in the development of Indonesia as a modern industrial society with the added advantage that they represented no political threat because of their minority status.
In 1990, President Suharto was forced to respond to increasing anger over the dominance of the Chinese by summoning the country's leading tycoons to his cattle ranch in West Java - where they were asked to hand over 25% of their equity to co-operatives.
news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/events/indonesia/special_report/349875.stm   (979 words)

  
 Indonesia Alert : Economic Crisis Leads to Scapegoating of Ethnic Chinese - Background
From Dutch colonial times, when the Chinese in Java were the tax farmers for the colonial administration, the ethnic Chinese have been a widely disliked minority and have faced severe discrimination in terms of freedom of association, expression, education, and employment.
Over 1,000 ethnic Chinese may have been killed in spasms of anti-Chinese violence that struck North Sumatra, Aceh, Kalimantan, and Bali in the aftermath of an attempted coup in 1965, although the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands killed in the anti-communist pogrom that accompanied Soeharto's coming to power were non-Chinese Indonesians.
If Chinese were stigmatized as disloyal in the 1960s because of suspected links to Beijing, in the midst of this crisis they are stigmatized as disloyal for not liquidating their foreign bank accounts and contributing the contents to the "I Love the Rupiah" campaign, led by Soeharto's daughter, Tutut.
www.hrw.org /press98/feb/indo-al2.htm   (1965 words)

  
 Photo Essay Indonesian Chinese   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Ethnic Chinese were often targeted during Indonesia's violent riots and demonstrations before President Suharto's ouster in 1998.
Poor Indonesians viewed the Chinese who made up only 5 percent of the population but amassed 90 percent of the nation?s wealth as Suharto's cronies.
In 1999, ethnic Chinese and some Indonesians held memorials and demonstrations calling for an end to the violence against this minority group.
www.viiphoto.com /detail-story3.php?news_id=143   (81 words)

  
 The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
The decision to change the official term for people of Chinese descent in Indonesia from Tionghoa (Chinese) to Cina (China) at that time also had a far reaching effect, Teddy said, as it labeled Chinese-Indonesians as outsiders with no stake in the country even if their families had lived here for hundreds of years.
The Indonesian Chinese Social Association was set up in the wake of those events in 1998 and Teddy Jusuf emerged as its natural leader.
Teddy attended both national and Chinese language schools as a boy and speaks Mandarin but feels the younger generation today is confused and has lost much of their culture.
www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20030609.S01   (1034 words)

  
 CNN - Riots, rumors have Indonesia's Chinese on edge - August 14, 1998
Ethnic Chinese make up just 4 percent of Indonesia's population of 202 million, but their dominant role in the economy has long invited resentment that often spills into violence.
As a result, the Indonesian government is deploying thousands of troops in the capital.
Similar Internet rumors that Indonesian migrant workers were arming themselves in Malaysia caused panic in that country last weekend.
www.cnn.com /WORLD/asiapcf/9808/14/indonesia.chinese/index.html   (865 words)

  
 Minorities At Risk (MAR)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
Over a thousand people, including some ethnic Chinese, were killed while thousands of their properties were destroyed in the rioting that led to the resignation of President Suharto.
The brunt of the attacks were against poor and middle-class Chinese, many of whom did not have the financial resources to leave the country.
The Chinese are free to practice their culture, language and religion, but still fear to provoke the anti-Chinese sentiment by any public practice.
www.cidcm.umd.edu /inscr/mar/data/idschi.htm   (609 words)

  
 Is Kuntao Indonesian or Chinese? - MartialTalk.Com
When the Chinese started to populate Indonesia through the trade routes the Chinese found that their Chaun Fa (Kung Fu) was little match for the Indonesian Pentjak-Silat.
Although I am no expert in the Chinese language and its many dialects, I was under the impression that the characters are the ones for "fist" and "way".
Its been a common practice to refuse to instruct non Chinese in kuntao in the Philippines, just as in the last century it was common for Eskrima and Arnis Grandmasters to refuse to teach kungfu experts.
www.martialtalk.com /forum/showthread.php?t=29357   (1910 words)

  
 ic_3_pp.html
The purpose of this petition drive was to inform the public, especially the Chinese living in New York City, the ferocious discrimination and violence that have broken out in Indonesia against Indonesian Chinese since an economic crisis has struck Indonesia beginning May of this year.
The Indonesian Chinese minority has become the scapegoats of the Indonesian economic downfall, and inevitably become also the victims of all sorts of brutal attacks from the Indonesian rioters.
Worst of all, Chinese women have been the main target of rape, gang-rape and slaughter by the Indonesian rioters, some of which are suspected to be members of the Indonesian military.
www.nyct.net /~china/ic_3_pp.html   (1963 words)

  
 Press Release
•Urge the Indonesian government to take every measure to restore confidence among and protect the security of the Indonesian Chinese community as well as provide just compensation and medical assistance to the victims of the riots.
There is particular concern -- both in Indonesia and among Chinese-Americans -- about the rapes of Indonesian Chinese women and girls that took place during the rioting of May 13-15, 1998.
For example: “In three Chinese areas of west Jakarta, between 5 and 8 p.m., dozens of men dragged a hundred or so girls on to the streets, stripped them and forced them to dance before a crowd.
www.senate.gov /~feinstein/releases98/indonesia.html   (770 words)

  
 Indonesian Chinese vs. Chinese Indonesian - Asia Finest Discussion Forum
Chinese Indonesian is an Indonesian citizen who is ethnically Chinese.
Indonesian Chinese is the other way around, a Chinese citizen but ethnically an Indonesian by blood.
For the Chinese who really want to make Tanah Air Indonesia as their home, they need to make Indonesia 1st and China 2nd or 3rd in their hearts.
www.asiafinest.com /forum/index.php?showtopic=44155   (1485 words)

  
 To Indonesian Chinese People - Badminton Central Discussion Forums
The Indonesian chinese people here in Singapore are encouraged to speak Chinese or Mandarin rather and most of them do, or are learning.
But more or less, Indonesians still can speak Chinese at different levels which are still difficult to get for an American to learn within years.
Gunawan and Eddy Hartono and Razif/Jalani.The Chinese and
www.badmintoncentral.com /vb/showthread.php?p=11997   (763 words)

  
 Chinese and South-East Asian StudiesStudies   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-06)
This department offers undergraduate programs in Chinese, Indonesian and Thai language and studies, as well as contributing to the Asian Studies program (studies of Asia conducted in English).
Advanced students have opportunities of reading Chinese literature in the original, while staff contributions to the Asian Studies program include an introduction to Chinese civilisation, and senior options on premodern Chinese history and Chinese society since 1949.
There are two streams, one for students without any previous knowledge of Indonesian, and one for students with HSC-level or equivalent knowledge of the language.
www.arts.usyd.edu.au /departs/chinese_seas   (354 words)

  
 Chinese-Indonesian Martial Arts Club - Gung Fu / Silat
This club is dedicated to quality instruction in Liu Seong Gung Fu, an art that combines aspects of Southern Chinese Gung Fu and Indonesian Pentjak Silat.
CIMAC's curriculum also offers a system that is unlike other arts taught in Northern Virginia, with its unique blend of Southern Chinese and Indonesian influence.
The club's classes are small enough to allow personal each student to get personal attention, and not be get "lost in the crowd." To ensure this, enrollment is limited to 15 students on Saturdays, and 10 students on Tuesdays.
www.kungfu-silat.com   (852 words)

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