Researcher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Indonesia Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, better known as Ahok, will be the first ethnic Chinese ...

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Singkawang in Indonesia’s West Kalimantan province – which has a sizeable Chinese population – was the most tolerant place in the nation in 2021, a Jakarta-based research and advocacy non-governmental ...

While ethnic Tionghoa in Indonesia is currently free to practise their religion and celebrate their culture and traditions, the perception that they have a strong control of the country’s economy ...

JAKARTA, Indonesia — When mob violence swept across the Indonesian capital in May 1998, Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, an ethnic Chinese geologist and businessman, joined terrified neighbors in the heavily ...

SEMARANG,Indonesia: The busy port city of Semarang has the highest number of ethnic Chinese in Central Java. Having lived there for many generations, they proudly call themselves Indonesians. “I have ...

(Jakarta) – Political changes in post-Suharto Indonesia have triggered ethnic and religious violence across the country, says a book by Andreas Harsono, a veteran Indonesia researcher for Human Rights ...