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Originally Posted by localbest
Yes, during the 60s,70s,80s or even 90s chinese in indonesia are not allowed to learn chinese and speak mandarin in public. Indonesian chinese are told to have indonesian name and all these restrictions have resulted the younger generation indonesian chinese do not have the ability to converse and write in chinese. However, some of the richer indonesian chinese will normally hire chinese tuition teacher to teach their child at home discreetly but majority don't.
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this whole chinese banning thing is all soeharto's idea. he banned all chinese literature because his paranoid toward communist. he must be couldn't sleep at night worrying communist power will come back and haunted him. when he overtake power from soekarno, he used communist as scapegoat and wipe all communist follower from the earth. unfortunately, there was many chinese who were members of communist party. and there was propaganda to kill all the chinese through muslim cleric and other religious leader to order their follower to kill all the communist remaining follower because communist teaching are enemy of the state.
during that time, late 60s, there was black history were covered and erased by soeharto. there was mass killing of peoples who they suspected of being member of communist party. at childhood, we only heard this story from mouth to mouth from old folks who defending their life against red & white army (peoples who were brainwashed to kill chinese). until the fall of soeharto, and the rise of information age, we only start discover all these stories from outside source.
that's why soeharto banned all chinese teaching, literature and anything related to chinese.