Literature and the Media Contemporary Literature from the Chinese 'Diaspora' in Indonesia

Allen, PM

doi:10.1080/1343900032000117213

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“…While Chinese Indonesian literature was nearly extinguished during Suharto's time, in the period since then this literature has undergone something of a renaissance. At least two organisations of Chinese Indonesian writers have been founded, 32 years after their forerunners were dissolved (Allen, 2003). Moreover, a Jakarta publisher is trying to recover late nineteenth century and early twentieth century Chinese literature in an effort to publish a series of anthologies of the work of Chinese writers in the Malay language, and thus salvage these works from neglect (Cohen, 2000).…”

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Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity

Turner

Allen

2007

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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Throughout periods of political instability and economic adversity – from Dutch colonial rule, through President Suharto's period in office, to more recent times – ethnic Chinese in Indonesia have been recurrent scapegoats for violence. Suharto, especially, manipulated local perceptions of the Chinese in the economic and political arenas, to suit the needs of his government. Yet, circumstances have changed since the 1998 riots in Indonesia and Suharto's departure. Subsequent presidents have introduced legislation aimed at reducing legal restrictions on Chinese Indonesians and they, in turn, are beginning to have greater public voice through a diversity of outlets. These include the growth of numerous new print and television media; a flourishing literature sphere; the rise of a variety of political parties, both ethnicity‐based and more wide‐ranging; and the development of non‐political organisations, some tackling discrimination and others focusing upon Chinese sociocultural needs. These channels are facilitating the appearance of new and re‐emerging ethnic Chinese identities, some surfacing from over 30 years of imposed dormancy. This paper is a preliminary investigation of manifestations of these identities among ethnic Chinese in Indonesia's contemporary public realm.

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Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity

Turner

Allen

2007

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“…Since that moment, scholars and journalists have documented the reawakening of Chinese Indonesian cultural life throughout the archipelago, particularly the multiple ways that ethnic identities are being renegotiating in this changing social and political context (see, e.g., Allen, 2003; Ang, 2001; Giblin, 2003; Hew, 2013; Hoon, 2006; Park, 2010; Purdey, 2003; Sai & Hoon, 2012; Turner, 2003). Several studies document the ways that Suharto era, and post‐Suharto era politics and ideologies have been affecting the definitions of Chineseness in Indonesia and shown the stakes involved in these definitions.…”

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An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era

Hertzman

2022

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The transnationalization of Chinese temples is producing new spatial imaginaries and adding cosmopolitan dimensions to Chinese Indonesian identities in the post-Suharto era. In 1999, the Indonesian state legally-sanctioned Chinese Popular Religion after decades of prohibition, ushering in a period of Chinese religious revival nationally backed by constitutional legitimacy.The recent emergence of transnational temple networks is providing a further form of cultural legitimacy based on symbols and statuses that circulate in a broader cosmopolitan transnational social sphere. Using case studies of three temples in Singkawang, Indonesia, each with a different form of international network, this paper shows how the transnational circulation of religious teachings, people, ideas, donations and deities can provide the raw materials for expressions of cultural identity which are locally rooted and embedded in specific ethnic politics of belonging. Forging transnational religious connections has the potential to develop into long lasting and formal institutional platforms of exchange, however, it often begins with informal, spontaneous and idiosyncratic encounters.

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“…14/67 on Religion, Beliefs and Chinese Culture in Indonesia, public Chinese religious, cultural and linguistic expression as well as Chinese schools and organisations were also banned (Allen, ). Indeed, the putsch that led to the ousting of Sukarno and the rise of Suharto was officially constructed as an ‘abortive Communist coup’ and alleged complicity with Chinese communists and external threats even led to the categorisation of Chinese‐printed materials as restricted and controlled items alongside ammunition and weapons on customs forms at that time (Allen, ). Such a clampdown on beliefs and culture traditionally associated with the Chinese in Indonesia also prompted a subsequent diversification of their religious faiths (Hoon, : 405).…”

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Performing ‘Chinese‐ness’ in Singkawang: Diasporic moorings, festivals and tourism

Ong

Ormond

Sulianti

2017

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Through an examination of two festivals -Qing Ming and Cap Go Meh -in the town of Singkawang in Indonesian Borneo (Kalimantan), we show how Singkawang-bound Chinese Indonesian tourists and their Singkawang-based relatives produce a diasporic heritage network through 'moorings' generated by both transnational and internal migration. Instead of returning to a singular 'homeland' in distant China, these tourists return to Chinese-majority Singkawang as a result of their personal genealogical roots and of their broader cultural allegiance with a kind of Chinese-ness that Singkawang has come to represent within a post-Suharto Indonesia. Through these two festivals, we demonstrate how personal heritage practices like 'roots tourism' and visiting friends and relatives are intimately bound up with identity and developmental politics at local, national and international scales. In so doing, we identify a range of ways in which migratory and tourism flows by Chinese Indonesian internal migrants shape relations to their ancestral hometowns and cultural 'homelands' in Indonesia within the context of membership to and participation in a broader transnational diaspora.

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Literature and the Media Contemporary Literature from the Chinese 'Diaspora' in Indonesia

Cited by 19 publications

References 5 publications

Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity

Chinese Indonesians in a rapidly changing nation: Pressures of ethnicity and identity

An international turn: Rebuilding Chinese temple networks in Indonesia 20 years after the Suharto era

Performing ‘Chinese‐ness’ in Singkawang: Diasporic moorings, festivals and tourism

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