Amidst Protests, Tense Times for Chinese Indonesians
“The radicalization and Islamization of Indonesian politics has been going on for a while, although the anti-Ahok movement made the situation worse,” said Leo Suryadinata, a scholar of Chinese-Indonesian culture at the Singapore-based Institute of Southeast Asian Studies.

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In May 1998, Abui, a Chinese-Indonesian canteen owner, had a two year old daughter and another on the way. He and his pregnant wife didn’t dare sleep through the night; they took turns on the night watch for five days as rioters ransacked Chinese shops and neighborhoods. It was part of a hectic month of racially…

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