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Chinese Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Tionghoa Indonesia), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese Indonesians are the fourth largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world after Thailand, Malaysia, and the United States.
Mar 12, 2013 · Competent Chinese-Indonesians are in political offices, including Jakarta’s deputy-mayor Basuki “Ahok” Purnama. In 2009, Indonesia honoured its first Chinese-Indonesian National Hero, navy commander John Lie who fought in the Revolution.
- Grace Susetyo
Sep 13, 2016 · As a ‘minority’ among more than 600 ethnic groups, the Chinese Indonesians (Indonesian citizens with Chinese origins and hereafter referred as Chinese) are often seen as playing an important role i...
- Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M. Sairi Hasbullah, Agus Pramono
- 2017
- 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
Aug 30, 2016 · Throughout Indonesias history, there has been one subgroup that has basically always existed in its society. That is the Chinese-Indonesians, shortened to Chindos by many.
Victor Purcell, a British historian, categorized the arrival of Chinese immigrants to the Indonesian Archipelago into three stages. In the first stage, during the kingdom period, various kingdoms ruled the archipelago and the Chinese sailors settled in coastal areas.
Feb 12, 2021 · Jeffry Kurniawan, a 22-year-old college student from Surabaya, East Java, is better known as Atat (from his Chinese name, Tan Liong Tat). He comes from a traditional Hokkien family and still...
