Buku ini merupakan kumpulan sumber (sourcebook) yang menyajikan tulisan, pidato, surat, memoar, dan kliping dari para tokoh Tionghoa–Indonesia (Peranakan dan Tionghoa) yang aktif dalam organisasi politik dan sosial sejak tahun 1900 hingga 1977. Melalui 50 dokumen asal — dalam bahasa Melayu Peranakan, Indonesia, Belanda, atau Tionghoa — diterjemahkan ke bahasa Inggris, buku ini memberi gam…
Anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia reached a climax in Jakarta and elsewhere in May 1998 against a background of dramatic social and political change. This study presents close analysis of selected incidents that occurred mainly in Java in the years prior to this and in its aftermath. It tests explanations of anti-Chinese violence based on economic resentment, religious difference or state-spon…
In the Dutch East Indies, in Batavia in particular, the kapitan Cina institution lasted until the last days of Dutch rule. And whereas in other parts of Southeast Asia, such as the Straits Settlements, the kapitan Cina was an unofficial position, in the Dutch East Indies it was an integral part of the colonial administration