'A hundred flowers bloom': The re-emergence of the Chinese press in Post-Suharto Indonesia

• Main Author: HOON, Chang Yau
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2006
• Subjects: Mass media; China; Chinese; Indonesia; Media and communications; politics; race relations; Asian Studies; Mass Communication; Social Influence and Political Communication
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/835; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1834/viewcontent/HundredFlowersBloom_ReemergenceChinesePress.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

During the whole 32 years of Suharto’s regime (1966–98), Chinese publications and the use of Chinese language in public were officially banned in Indonesia. As a result, printed matter in Chinese characters that entered Indonesia was classified as ‘prohibited imports’ (Heryanto 1999: 327). This proh...