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Discrimination In Indonesia

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Chinese Prejudice and Discrimination in Indonesia
Indonesia has been independent since 17 August 1945. So many things, such as bad and good things have happened in Indonesia. In addition, Indonesia has so many different cultures, races, and ethnics who live together among the differences that they have. Which are included Javanese as the largest ethnic group, Sundanese, Balinese, Chinese and many more. According to Dictionary.com, race means a group of people related by common descent or heredity. Fernandez (n.d.) mentioned that race is a concept that is used to categorize people according to their physical characteristics and biologically meaningless category (para. 4). Whereas, the definition of ethnic is pertaining to or characteristic …show more content…

For instance, Java is an island. Java is divided into three parts. There are East Java, Central Java, and West Java. Each part has their own languages even though most of them speak Javanese. In Central and East Java, there is a difference in the way they speak even they speak Javanese. People in Central Java, the way they speak subtler than people in East Java do. In addition, in West Java, they speak Sundanese. However, most of them know Bahasa Indonesia, the language that unites the nation.
In every part of Indonesia especially in the big cities, for instance Jakarta, Medan and Bangka there are a lot of Chinese. Nevertheless, most of the Indonesian does not know them well. Chinese migration into Indonesia happened between sixteenth to nineteenth centuries. There are two different reasons, which are push and pull factors why Chinese came to Indonesia (Suryadinata, 2009). Push factors are overpopulation, hunger, poorness, socio-political upheavals in China and towards the end of the 20th century, the difficulties, and lack of economic opportunities in China. While the pull factors are the demand for workers and economic opportunities in Southeast Asia. There are four groups of …show more content…

For instance, political, economic and trade relations. The strongest relation is in economic sector. China exports many products such as toys, electronics, food products, clothes, cars and many more. Whereas Indonesia exports its natural resources, such as, coal and nickel to China. Many Indonesians also go to China for study and work. Indonesians also like to go to China for a vacation, seeing that China has many beautiful places for tourists. Nevertheless, these days, it is safer for Chinese to live in Indonesia, especially for those who live in the big cities such as Jakarta. Now, Chinese in Indonesia also can have their hope to not be discriminated anymore. There is a Chinese-Indonesian man and he is a governor in Jakarta. His name is Basuki Tjahaja Purnama or known by his Chinese name is Ahok. At first, he became the governor in Bangka-Belitung. Then, in 2012, Ahok became the vice governor in Jakarta and the governor is Joko Widodo or Jokowi. He is the first ethnic Chinese and a Christian man who does that in Indonesia. Even though people have an assumption that he is a very strict man and most of Indonesians do not like him, but he always said that he will not afraid to be killed because he did everything for the sake of the future of

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