What causes a dark history for an ethnic that is the third biggest amount from Indonesian people? Leo Suryadinata says that it is because the trade and economic activity, the relation with foreign culture, the ethnic relation with China, and the influence over the sum power, so that the politic, culture, and economy caused by the minority become the Chinese problem in Indonesia.

It has been a year lately Lina has helped collecting the data of people in Tegal Alur, Jakarta. The woman with three children was one of stateless citizens. The Anti discrimination Association helped her to get stated. Now, she has got citizenship card, family card, and birth act of her children. She is now active in socializing the data collection of foreign citizens that have incomplete documents or even have got no documents of citizenship at all. She also explained the importance of those documents to the people. “Some people thought that the documents were not important,” she said. “We have to help to explain these things.”

Like a dragon arises from its sleep, the culture that had lost for 32 years were quickly arises. Denote that the cultural genocide that had been done by the New Order government can't remove the culture root that clings on Chinese society in Indonesia.

The mention of "Indonesia's ethnic Chinese" invites curious reactions. In Australia alone, there are a number of popular images portraying them, the most common being, "rich but corrupt and unscrupulous in robbing the country by colluding with equally corrupt officials", and "despised and always brutally victimized, psychologically and physically".

Discrimination trip to Tionghoa's group in Indonesia is not just happening on present term. That discrimination had available since Dutch colonization.

This resurgence of China also affects Indonesian people, and specifically brings individual effect to Chinese people in Indonesia. Together with the revocation of doing Chinese culture and the trend of using Mandarin language, Chinese people get easier to adapt with the China economic growth.

Alwi Shahab wrote in his book “Betawi: Queen from the East” about the origin of the name “Glodok”. The name Glodok was originated from the sound of the water ‘grojok-grojok’ in the area because before it had been a termination place and the place to give drinks to the pack-horses. However, according to Mariah Waworuntu, a history activist from the University of Indonesia, the name Glodok was originated from the word grobak, which means the place to bring and sell the water from waterworks, which is glodok.

A 'strategic partnership' between the two countries does not mean a realignment in Indonesian foreign policy, writes Ian Storey, Jamestown Foundation's China Brief

By Ivan Wibowo , Jakarta

From the names on the two presidential tickets in the Sept. 20 election runoff -- Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono-Jusuf Kalla and Megawati Soekarnoputri-Hasyim Muzadi -- South Sulawesi businessman Kalla's is the most controversial for Chinese-Indonesians.

By Jeffrey Robertson

An ex-military, US-educated president may seem like a stroke of strategic luck for Washington. But looking at Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, or SBY, through Chinese eyes reveals a different story.