The New Order regime could not possibly want the assimilation program that it sponsored to succeed. To dissolve Chinese identities in an effective ‘assimilation’ program would mean an end to the division of labour by race, upon which the status quo depended.
Heryanto, A. (2024) “Racial discrimination as paradox: the case of Chinese Indonesians”, in N. Sumi & T. Wulia (eds.), Tintin Wulia: Things-in-Common, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, pp. 89–91, https://gupea.ub.gu.se/server/api/core/bitstreams/d7bff40e-6454-4b0b-9902-d5c9babb2147/content
key words: Ita Fatia Nadia , Karlina Supeli-Leksono, May 1998, middle-class, New Order, Sandyawan Sumardi
