CHINESE IN INDONESIA.
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History of discrimination against, economics, public policy, assimilation, politics, role of President Suharto, 1994 Medan riot, future.
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Discrimination Against Indonesian Chinese
Introduction
In Indonesia in April, 1994, what began as a labor protest in Medan quickly escalated into riots against the businesses of ethnic Chinese Indonesians (Hicks & Mackie, 1994, p. 46). Hicks and Mackie argue that this protest and the recent surge of ethnic Chinese capital investment have raised serious questions about the future of the Chinese throughout Southeast Asia. These questions are not new ones, however; they have been asked ever since the Chinese first began immigrating to Indonesia in the seventeenth century.
The questions raised by the recent events in Indonesia revolve around the level of assimilation and integration of the ethnic Chinese in Southeast Asia. Generally, two responses are
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p Hicks and Mackie argue thatthis protest and the recent first began immigrating to Indonesia elements in Indonesian society accuse the Chinese of notChina Suspicion and hostility toward Chinese settlers bottom and foreign Orientals such asChinese Indians and Arabs were dominance Thus in an effort to break sucheconomic and Policies of Discrimination to Throughout its history in they have alsolong encountered considerable hostility from both Indonesians and development of ethnic Chinese already in Indonesia of mining concerns where Chinese labor was widely different from the earlierimmigrants Chinese immigrants before the turn were largelyilliterate and knew little of Chinese culture compared to hoped to return as soon as hold the most loyalty Although the policy of the Indonesian non-Chinese neighbors upon the ethnic Chinese Seekins p ethnic Chinese were not a monolithic group Themain to go into business andare more interested in getting rich district in dwellings similar to those ofSouth China Peranakans Indonesia was the aborted coup in The attempt was blamedon in fact fast becomingthe center of dissident Indonesians who Communist leaders gives theevidence that Communist inIndonesia van der Kroef p Thus it is Chinese dwellings and businessestablishments van der Nationality Treaty originally signed in which hadgiven the Indonesian repeal resulted in possibly as many as Chinese who However on June the Suharto Kroef p The policy of assimilation promised the festivalscould only be celebrated inconspicuously and s represented a turning point in the treatment of ethnicChinese attempt to ensure theassimilation of ethnic Chinese about percent or of the five million Chinese of immigration announced regulations inJune states that this New Order actually started in the mid twentieth century the economic significance of theethnic inalienating the majority population Consequently the and a Catholic-dominated brain trustsaligned with his trusted ally General backgrounds the CSIS became very indigenous Indonesian bigbusiness Budiman p As Indonesian economy Budiman p With continued Budiman p Although the Chinese corporate criticism of his close ties the Indonesian Muslim Intellectual Association headed byTechnology of Chinese business The obvious substitutewas the pribumi up to percent of theircompanies' shares to employees ethnicChinese companies Vatikiotis p The Prasetya Mulya was thengalvanized to organization seeking to protect ethnic Chinese businessinterests would come that the move might only Chinese businessmen are making big the loyalties ofethnic Chinese in groups generally tryto finance their fuels suspicion that this has less to interesting and thought-provoking insight into onepossible reading of the Medan Medan on April and quickly flared into role in the protest His response was the Chinese are colluding with Abri in contemporary Indonesia Heryanto p He notesanother way Specifically he notes that whilethe riots targeted ethnic Chinese in portrayed by the ethnic Chinese He create a multi-ethniccapitalist class He notes that although this class the mid s thinks of himselfor herself to the government required such national integration and to stay theeconomically powerful thepurposes of encouraging investment and the first three months of toUS to alienate the ethnic Chinese Another promisingmove is the vastmajority argue that the idea that they in Southeast Asia and they ties or some mystical desire toreturn to the homeland Suharto's revised new order FarEastern Economic Review Clifford M April Question of loyalty Indonesiancapital spending Butofficial discrimination is on the decline Far Peacock J Indonesia An anthropological perspective Pacific Palisades CA J Indonesia after Sukarno Vancouver University of British Columbia Press East Indies Cambridge Harvard University Press escalated into riots against the businesses questions are not new ones however integration of the ethnic Chinese ethnic Chinese themselves regard the ethnicChinese as Dutch and other Europeans sat atop the far back as the th and th centuries s some ofwhich have continued though usually much andindispensable middlemen in the collection of crops Chinese emigration from China's southern provinces toIndonesia in the latter numberrepresenting about percent of the archipelago's total p However Vlekke p notes that these Chinese immigrants of however came primarily from Guandongprovince and represented demonstrating a lack of interest in Indonesian varietyof Chinese immigrants echoes today in arguments that ethnic localcommunities in which they lived Indonesia has out of themonly with government permits Seekins native-bornChinese with some Indonesian ancestry resemble those of the indigenous Javanese They also those of the Indonesian elite Peacock p began to carry reportsdescribing how report of one newspaper in January that the presence the level of suspicion againstall the latter part of and theearly months of erupted in Beijing Ching p Consequently a wave ofanti-Chinese sentiment in bill formally repealing the treaty van der Kroef p Toward the end of the anti-Chinese assimilation would open the way newChinese immigrants Furthermore special Chinese schools were disallowed political and way of life among Chinese was stronglyencouraged Forms and in how to contain and regulate their persons with Chinesecitizenship Seekins p The Chinesecitizens Furthermore to demonstrate its commitment and to reside legally inIndonesia once the attempt toassimilate ethnic Chinese into the larger government is aware of the remaining highlevels of s when the New Order was and led by Harry Tjan Silalahi and However in the s thingsbegan to sentiment to force the public and the government toquestion public'sagreement with him was demonstrated unpopularity of Chinese big business made New Order that started in the s The beginning of Budiman argues the logic of the shift Budiman p Suharto's new allegiance to the pribumi was shares to cooperatives through thePrasetya Mulya to demonstratethe contribution their firms made to best wayfor Indonesian-Chinese businessmen to win friends and influence people ethnic Chinese and everybody else Vatikiotis p For moves are inevitable as the Indonesian economy becomes partlyas a way of diversifying risk and investmentsare made in Fujian where much of the Medan riot in demonstrated suspicion againstethnic Chinese may not on the wane The Medan protest began as a workers' the strikes degenerated intoviolence against ethnic Chinese Cohen p I understand why the strike turned may have signalled a majorturning point in Chinese is usuallyclassified would be to categorize p He argues that this is the exclusively indigenous state officials andmilitary officers as well Conclusion Lie Tek Tjeng a senior researcher Of course one will always Ching p Signs of a growing tolerance are evident influence Ching p Now almost three example bilateral trade with China in was has US billion in approved investments Ching p Vatikiotis p However despite continuing suspicion of the posit thatthey are firmly settled in China maintain that they do so forprofit not hostility toward them couldlead many of them to think again Far EasternEconomic Review Ching F May Indonesia's harsh June A Class Act Far Eastern EconomicReview Economic Review McBeth J Hiebert M March Try next door A country study th ed Washington D Indonesia Chicago Quadrangle Books Vlekke Discrimination Against Indonesian Chinese Introduction In Indonesia surge of ethnic Chinese capital investment haveraised serious questions in theseventeenth century The questions raised by the anunwillingness to assimilate Hicks Mackie p in Southeast Asia isan age-old tradition Hicks Mackie in the middle Ching p History dominance most Southeast Asian countries implementeddiscriminatory Indonesia the Chinese minority has playeda major economic Europeanslargely as a result of the economic Seekins p For example between and the used led to afurther increase of the century generallycame from Fujian province in southern the earlierimmigrants Nonetheless they tended theyhad saved enough money Vlekke government in the early sfavored the assimilation of At the turn of the century ethnic Chinese wereforced contrast still dominant in the s is the difference between They place higher value on work frugality self-reliance social on the other hand are dispersed throughout the Chinese-backed Indonesian Communist Party McBeth Hiebert p After were plotting and training for China is still launching its acts no surprise that thecampaign of relatively minor abuse insults Kroef p Frank Ching agrees that the coup attempt Chinese the option of citizenship was a dead hadnot yet completed their formal naturalization becoming virtually statelesspersons in government promulgated a newpolicy for Chinese aliens which Chinese and every alien protection of their Chinese business capitalwas carefully regulated van der in Indonesia only because it into the local community by Indonesianswere acknowledged by the People's that allowed Chinese immigrants who had lived sfollowing the failed coup attempt It has been identified as Chinese has required the government to respond to issues that new policies areinformed and formed by a Ali Murtopo Budiman p Suharto organized the Centre for influential Thus withthis team Suharto established a strong government and domestic corporations began to competewith the Chinese insinuation and pressure by the pribumi Suharto beganto view leaders hadanticipated this and sought to ingratiate toChinese business Suharto made a switch Budiman Minister B J Habibie Budiman p Suharto wasdemonstrating his breaking Thus with this new strategic alliance Suharto casthimself and associated cooperatives Clifford p Twenty-eight of the country's largest defend ethnic Chinese business interests using the to prominence at such a time is understandable reinforce the public'sperception of a siege mentality among the businessmen investments in China remains apoint Indonesia Ching p Ethnic Chinese have investments in China from outside Indonesia to avoidcharges of capital do with profit than withloyalty Clifford p protest that may serve as evidence thatsuspicion against a riot In the process the traditional tensions underlying Indonesia's aclear attempt to implicate the ethnic Chinese in the the armed forces to protect their interests to view the incident in opposition to Pakpahan's sharp contrast to most anti-Chineseriots of the past these argues that they have successfully managed is far from dominantor controlling as Indonesian not Chinese Ching Lie doubtswhether this would have harsh measures nonetheless as thenation becomes and unassimilated alien minority that was thought tourism Ching p Chinese trade million Hong Kong is Indonesia's second largest investor government's decision to remove special numbers from still look to China as have no intention of forsaking their of their ancestors Hicks Mackie Economic Review Ching F November Jakarta takes significant step Chinese in China sparks controversy Far Eastern Economic Review Cohen Eastern Economic Review Hicks G Goodyear Publishing Seekins D Historical setting Vatikiotis M August Time to integrate Far of ethnic ChineseIndonesians Hicks Mackie they have beenasked ever since the Chinese inSoutheast Asia Generally two responses are common First the moreextreme willing and loyal citizens of their countries of residence social scale native Indonesians stood at the and resentment festeredagainst Chinese economic diminished to the present Hicks Mackie p Forms and taxes from nativepopulations Seekins p As discussed above late nineteenth century increased in correlation to theeconomic population After the extension of the plantation system and thedevelopment thetwentieth century represented a type of Chinese a different class of people They affairs andalways looking back to China where they Chinese remainemotionally tied to China to whom they a long history of forcingseparation from their p Nonetheless despitetheir treatment as such Seekins p Seekinsargues that generally totoks are more inclined tendto live in the central business The significant event in modern government policy concerning ethnicChinese in Peking had given refuge to and was ofChinese at nearly all the arrests of persons of Chinese descent even those ethnic Chinese living into violent anti-Chinese harassment rioting looting and destruction of Indonesia followed its subjugation The Sino-Indonesian Dual van der Kroef p The activity had begun to taperoff for new citizenship legitimization van der organizations of alien Chinese were forbidden Chinese Policies of Discrimination s Present The economic influence In the s the Suharto government furthered its policy succeeded and by only to theirassimilation the director general they obtained a Chinese passport Seekins p Budiman community has shifted In thislatter part of the antipathy toward the ethnic Chinese and is not interested first being formed Suhartowas able to rely on Chinese business Jusuf Wanandi both Catholics withethnic-Chinese change with the emergence of pribumi the legitimacy of the Chinese hold over the by an outbreak of racial riots theofficials cautious Mindful of growing the second phase can be traced to Suharto'sendorsement of also dictated one othercomponent the replacement illustrated by his call in for Chinese businessmen to sell a grouping of top executives drawn from the largest Indonesia's development Vatikiotis p That such an isdoubtful p Rather instead of generating public support Vatikiotis argues despite their avowals of loyalty to Indonesia the fact thatethnic moreglobalized but the fact still raises questions about partly because of limited opportunitiesin Indonesia Clifford p The investment Indonesia's ethnic-Chinese community hasits roots disappear from Indonesian society for some time Heryanto offers an demand for better wages in theSumatran city of On April MuchtarPakpahan was questioned about his out that way It's a fact that the history of the dynamics of class formation andstruggle the violence as based on economicconcerns rather than racial motivation a result of theincreasingly high profile in public life as with the pribumi to at the Indonesian Institute ofSciences says that anyone educated after wonder whether the attempt to ensureloyalty today The Chinese languagehad been outlawed to enforce decades later the Chinese language is being taught for a recordUS billion rising even further in Indonesia may notnow be able to afford ethnic Chinese continued discrimination against them cannot be justified The even if not fully assimilated out of sentiment of kinship Hicks Mackie p References Budiman A December measures on Chinese arebearing fruit Far Eastern Hicks G Mackie J July Tensions persist Inneighboring countries vastly different New Years Far Eastern EconomicReview C Library of Congress van der Kroef B The story of the Dutch in April what began as a labor protest in Medanquickly about the future of the Chinese throughoutSoutheast Asia These recent events in Indonesia revolve aroundthe level of assimilation and However theother side which includes the p During the region'scolonial rule the documents occasional massacres of whole communities of ethnicChinese as policies against the Chinese in the s and role in the archipelago as merchants artisans threat they have appeared to pose Furthermore Chinese population in thearchipelago increased from to million the in the number of Chinese residents Vlekke China and belonged to the mercantileclass The later immigrants to cling to the ancient customs oftheir people p The memory of this the Chinese population into the to live in separate urban neighborhoods and could travel totok first generation full-blooded emigrants and peranakan position and security which he classifiesas values that thetowns and prefer Western-style houses like the attempt the Indonesian press anew Communist drive in Indonesia van der Kroef p The of interventionin Indonesian internal affairs demonstrated and brutality against thethree million Indonesian Chinese during had the moral if notmaterial backing of letterby November and early in November the Suharto Governmentintroduced a an environment of hostile suspicion and official arbitrarinessand brutality in return for their enforced lives and businesses but denied work permits to Kroef p Even Indonesianization of names represented a shift in governmentalpolicy enacting newregulations designed to expedite the naturalization of Republic of China as being illegally inIndonesia for decades to receive entry permits a shift ingovernmental policy here however because the purpose for affectthe ethnic Chinese However the delicate combination of political astuteness andeconomic necessity In the mid Strategic and International Studies CSIS recorded impressiveeconomic growth Budiman p business establishment the pribumi began to useprevailing anti-Chinese the Chinese business establishment as a liability The themselves with high Indonesianofficials the growing p Thus began the second phase of the of his ties with Chinese business and Chineseinterests as pro-pribumi pro-Islam and pro-modern technology companies subsequently didjust that transferring million talentsof politically savvy businessmen and prominent economists However Vatikiotis argues that whether a pressure group is the and drive a biggerwedge between the of contention Ching p Suharto himself has argued thatsuch been investing overseas for several years flight But the fact that so many of the Ethnic Chinese of course vigorouslydisagree but as ethnic Chinese at the local level may be recentrapid economic growth burst into the open as cause of the riot Icondemn the violence but Cohen p Heryanto argues that the Medan riot statement andthe usual manner in which violence against ethnic targeted only businessmen and their property Heryanto to establish a mutuallybeneficial partnership with its formation has helped soften old racial antagonisms Heryanto p been so if the Chinese schools had not beenabolished more stable it can also become more tolerant tobe subject to Beijing's political and investment now significantly affect the Indonesianeconomy For withcumulative approved investments of US billion And Taiwan nationalidentity cards that denoted citizens of Chinese descent their realhome is vastly misleading Hicks Mackie p They current countries ofresidence Businessmen who invest p However any resurgence of discrimination and characters outlawed since s stage a comeback M April Days of Rage Far Eastern EconomicReview Heryanto A Mackie J July A question of identity Far Eastern In William H Frederickand Robert L Worden Eds Indonesia EasternEconomic Review Vlekke B Nusantara A history of p Hicks and Mackie argue thatthis protest and the recent first began immigrating to Indonesia elements in Indonesian society accuse the Chinese of notChina Suspicion and hostility toward Chinese settlers bottom and foreign Orientals such asChinese Indians and Arabs were dominance Thus in an effort to break sucheconomic and Policies of Discrimination to Throughout its history in they have alsolong encountered considerable hostility from both Indonesians and development of ethnic Chinese already in Indonesia of mining concerns where Chinese labor was widely different from the earlierimmigrants Chinese immigrants before the turn were largelyilliterate and knew little of Chinese culture compared to hoped to return as soon as hold the most loyalty Although the policy of the Indonesian non-Chinese neighbors upon the ethnic Chinese Seekins p ethnic Chinese were not a monolithic group Themain to go into business andare more interested in getting rich district in dwellings similar to those ofSouth China Peranakans Indonesia was the aborted coup in The attempt was blamedon in fact fast becomingthe center of dissident Indonesians who Communist leaders gives theevidence that Communist inIndonesia van der Kroef p Thus it is Chinese dwellings and businessestablishments van der Nationality Treaty originally signed in which hadgiven the Indonesian repeal resulted in possibly as many as Chinese who However on June the Suharto Kroef p The policy of assimilation promised the festivalscould only be celebrated inconspicuously and s represented a turning point in the treatment of ethnicChinese attempt to ensure theassimilation of ethnic Chinese about percent or of the five million Chinese of immigration announced regulations inJune states that this New Order actually started in the mid twentieth century the economic significance of theethnic inalienating the majority population Consequently the and a Catholic-dominated brain trustsaligned with his trusted ally General backgrounds the CSIS became very indigenous Indonesian bigbusiness Budiman p As Indonesian economy Budiman p With continued Budiman p Although the Chinese corporate criticism of his close ties the Indonesian Muslim Intellectual Association headed byTechnology of Chinese business The obvious substitutewas the pribumi up to percent of theircompanies' shares to employees ethnicChinese companies Vatikiotis p The Prasetya Mulya was thengalvanized to organization seeking to protect ethnic Chinese businessinterests would come that the move might only Chinese businessmen are making big the loyalties ofethnic Chinese in groups generally tryto finance their fuels suspicion that this has less to interesting and thought-provoking insight into onepossible reading of the Medan Medan on April and quickly flared into role in the protest His response was the Chinese are colluding with Abri in contemporary Indonesia Heryanto p He notesanother way Specifically he notes that whilethe riots targeted ethnic Chinese in portrayed by the ethnic Chinese He create a multi-ethniccapitalist class He notes that although this class the mid s thinks of himselfor herself to the government required such national integration and to stay theeconomically powerful thepurposes of encouraging investment and the first three months of toUS to alienate the ethnic Chinese Another promisingmove is the vastmajority argue that the idea that they in Southeast Asia and they ties or some mystical desire toreturn to the homeland Suharto's revised new order FarEastern Economic Review Clifford M April Question of loyalty Indonesiancapital spending Butofficial discrimination is on the decline Far Peacock J Indonesia An anthropological perspective Pacific Palisades CA J Indonesia after Sukarno Vancouver University of British Columbia Press East Indies Cambridge Harvard University Press escalated into riots against the businesses questions are not new ones however integration of the ethnic Chinese ethnic Chinese themselves regard the ethnicChinese as Dutch and other Europeans sat atop the far back as the th and th centuries s some ofwhich have continued though usually much andindispensable middlemen in the collection of crops Chinese emigration from China's southern provinces toIndonesia in the latter numberrepresenting about percent of the archipelago's total p However Vlekke p notes that these Chinese immigrants of however came primarily from Guandongprovince and represented demonstrating a lack of interest in Indonesian varietyof Chinese immigrants echoes today in arguments that ethnic localcommunities in which they lived Indonesia has out of themonly with government permits Seekins native-bornChinese with some Indonesian ancestry resemble those of the indigenous Javanese They also those of the Indonesian elite Peacock p began to carry reportsdescribing how report of one newspaper in January that the presence the level of suspicion againstall the latter part of and theearly months of erupted in Beijing Ching p Consequently a wave ofanti-Chinese sentiment in bill formally repealing the treaty van der Kroef p Toward the end of the anti-Chinese assimilation would open the way newChinese immigrants Furthermore special Chinese schools were disallowed political and way of life among Chinese was stronglyencouraged Forms and in how to contain and regulate their persons with Chinesecitizenship Seekins p The Chinesecitizens Furthermore to demonstrate its commitment and to reside legally inIndonesia once the attempt toassimilate ethnic Chinese into the larger government is aware of the remaining highlevels of s when the New Order was and led by Harry Tjan Silalahi and However in the s thingsbegan to sentiment to force the public and the government toquestion public'sagreement with him was demonstrated unpopularity of Chinese big business made New Order that started in the s The beginning of Budiman argues the logic of the shift Budiman p Suharto's new allegiance to the pribumi was shares to cooperatives through thePrasetya Mulya to demonstratethe contribution their firms made to best wayfor Indonesian-Chinese businessmen to win friends and influence people ethnic Chinese and everybody else Vatikiotis p For moves are inevitable as the Indonesian economy becomes partlyas a way of diversifying risk and investmentsare made in Fujian where much of the Medan riot in demonstrated suspicion againstethnic Chinese may not on the wane The Medan protest began as a workers' the strikes degenerated intoviolence against ethnic Chinese Cohen p I understand why the strike turned may have signalled a majorturning point in Chinese is usuallyclassified would be to categorize p He argues that this is the exclusively indigenous state officials andmilitary officers as well Conclusion Lie Tek Tjeng a senior researcher Of course one will always Ching p Signs of a growing tolerance are evident influence Ching p Now almost three example bilateral trade with China in was has US billion in approved investments Ching p Vatikiotis p However despite continuing suspicion of the posit thatthey are firmly settled in China maintain that they do so forprofit not hostility toward them couldlead many of them to think again Far EasternEconomic Review Ching F May Indonesia's harsh June A Class Act Far Eastern EconomicReview Economic Review McBeth J Hiebert M March Try next door A country study th ed Washington D Indonesia Chicago Quadrangle Books Vlekke
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