Being Chinese again: Learning Mandarin in Post-Suharto Indonesia

• Main Author: SETIJADI, Charlotte
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2015
• Subjects: Chinese Indonesians; Sociolinguistics; Language; Mandarin; Language learning; Asian Studies; Political Science; Race and Ethnicity
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/2720; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/3977/viewcontent/Being_Chinese_Again_2016_afv.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

For thirty-two years under former President Suharto’s New Order regime (from 1966-1998), the teaching of Chinese languages in schools was banned in Indonesia. During this period of total assimilation, public displays of Chinese characters were prohibited along with other forms of Chinese cultural ex...