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Chinese Indonesians are the fourth largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world after Thailand, Malaysia, and the United States. Chinese people and their Indonesian descendants have lived in the Indonesian archipelago since at least the 13th century.
- Evi Mariani, 46
- Angelique Maria Cuaca, 32
- Dédé Oetomo, 69
- Aurelia Vizal, 21
- Iskandar Salim, 49
Evi Mariani has been the co-founder and executive director of Project Multatuli – an independent media outlet reporting on marginalised people in Indonesia – since 2021. Born and raised in the West Java provincial capital of Bandung, she now lives in South Tangerang near Jakarta and has more than 20 years experience as a journalist. Evi’s parents m...
Angelique Maria Cuaca regularly advocates for religious diversity and interfaith dialogue in her hometown of Padang on the island of Sumatra, through the Pelita Padang interfaith youth organisation she founded in 2019. According to the Tolerant Cities Index 2022launched by Indonesia’s SETARA Institute for Democracy and Peace in April, Padang record...
Dédé Oetomo has been the founder and trustee of the GAYa NUSANTARA Foundation, which has been campaigning for the equality and welfare of gender and sexual minorities in Indonesia since 1987. Before that, he was active in Lambda Indonesia, which he described as “the first gay organisation” in the country. Originally from Pasuruan in East Java provi...
Aurelia Vizal is an undergraduate studying international affairs in Taoyuan, near Taiwan’s capital Taipei. Born and raised in Jakarta, her family is originally from West Kalimantan on the island of Borneo and Jambi on Sumatra island. Popularly known as Orei, she regularly posts about Chinese-Indonesian culture and history on her Twitter account @se...
Iskandar Salim was born in Medan on Sumatra and now lives in Jakarta where he works as a comic artist and illustrator. Through his Instagram account @komikfaktap, which has more than 136,000 followers, Iskandar often makes humorous and satirical comic strips on Indonesia’s social and political issues, ranging from law enforcement to hate speech. At...
- Randy Mulyanto
Mar 12, 2013 · Chinese-Indonesians: The Identity In Between. by Grace Susetyo March 12, 2013. Chinese-Indonesian. As the “ancestral homeland” of over 300 ethnic groups, Indonesia is one of the most multicultural countries in the non-Western world. 8.8 million Indonesians are ethnic Chinese. Except that their “ancestral homeland” is not even here.
- Grace Susetyo
Most of the Chinese have lived in Indonesia for generations. The majority of them are of mixed ( peranakan) heritage, do not speak Chinese, have Indonesian surnames, and through intermarrying with Indonesians have developed distinct dialects and customs.
Violence against Chinese Indonesians generally consists of attacks on property, including factories and shops. However, killings and assaults have happened, including in Batavia in 1740, Tangerang in 1946, during the period after the 30 September Movement of 1965, and during the May 1998 riots.
Sep 13, 2016 · With 1.2%, the Chinese Indonesians ranked as the 15th largest group of more than 600 ethnic groups. This paper also produces statistics at the district level, the first ever statistics on Chinese Indonesians.
- Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M. Sairi Hasbullah, Agus Pramono
- 2017
Feb 12, 2021 · Jakarta. Fri, February 12, 2021. Some younger Chinese-Indonesians are shedding Chinese traditions for the sake of fitting in to the majority culture. (AFP/Bay Ismoyo) B. eing...
