Legislating Separation and Solidarity in Plural Societies: The Chinese in Indonesia and Malaysia

Abstract

The Chinese minority plays a dominant role in the economies of Indonesia and Malaysia, a fact that evokes indigenous resentment. However, Indonesia and Malaysia dealt differently with the issue. Malaysia legislated the Malays into the economy and protected Chinese citizenship, making them an integral part of a multicultural state. By contrast, New Order Indonesia adopted policies of economic manipulation, forced assimilation, and unequal citizenship. Only when the New Order regime fell did Chinese integration begin. The policy trajectories of Indonesia and Malaysia offer important lessons for plural states.

Utility of Using the Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) as a Screening Tool for HIV-Associated Neurocognitive Disorders (HAND) In Multi-Ethnic Malaysia

“…Compared to North American cohorts where the MoCA was developed, the Malaysian HIV population is typically younger, includes people with a wider range of educational achievement, and includes an ethnic diversity where persons of Chinese background tend to have more socioeconomic opportunities than their Malay and Indian counterparts [20, 21]. Therefore, it is important to account for this complex demographic diversity when utilizing screening tools because such factors are known to affect normal cognitive performance and thus impact the accuracy of cognitive impairment detection in clinical samples.…”

China Town Magazine and Indonesian-Chinese Identity

“…The situation is like the bloom of many flowers (Coppel, 2003). Periodically, Indonesian government has made revision on discriminative acts and regulations related to Indonesian-Chinese (Jacobsen, 2005;Suryadinata, 2007;Sukma, 2009;Hwang &Sadiq, 2010;Tan, 2011;Jiaxuan, 2011;Suryadinata,2012;Liji, 2012;Mahfud, 2013). The third Indonesian president B.J.…”

Social solidarity, social work and Chinese people

“…There is a dearth of empirical research that has examined aspects of social solidarity in one ethnic group by drawing on a comparison of majority and minority communities, such as that by Hwang and Sadiq (2010): there are comparisons across nation states (see for example, Sangiovanni, 2013). Much of the research conducted concentrates on aspects of social solidarity either within majority populations (Chan and Chan, 2008;Cheung and Ma, 2011), or minority populations in the context of the host community (Schuster and Solomos, 2004) With this backdrop, the overall research aim was to undertake a comparative study that would lead to a better understanding of the nature of social solidarity in two Chinese populations , one a majority community in Hong Kong, the other a minority community in the UK.…”

“…A modest number of such studies have explored aspects of social solidarity in locations where Chinese is a minority ethnic culture. Hwang and Sadiq (2010) have compared the influence of social solidarity on economic social and political integration of the Chinese minority in Malaysia and Indonesia. In the UK, Chan et al (2007a) have demonstrated that social solidarity among UK Chinese has been weakened by their competitive approach to business in the catering trade.…”