Indonesia: Chinese Prejudice and Discrimination

Enslaved, starved, drained, and murdered. These were the conditions that the citizens of Indonesia had endured while being forcefully colonized by the Dutch East India Trading Company. The Dutch along with other European countries began the forced colonization around the world. Dutch and British East India Trading Companies were the most powerful; however, they differed from each other greatly. While the British were slow and gradual during their takeover of India, the Dutch heavily contrasted with that by rapidly wiping out and conquering the Islands of Indonesia with much tyranny and bloodshed. The Dutch Colonization possessed massive injustice against Indonesian people and greatly harmed them in two major ways, exploitation and violence.

Indonesia is located in Southeast Asia. The national capital of the country is Jakarta. Indonesia is an archipelago consists of more than 13000 islands. Indonesia is the fourth most populous country of the world. The population of Indonesia is around 250 million (Paauw, 2009). Indonesia got freedom on 27th December, 1949. Indonesian is the official national language of Indonesia. It is also known as Bahasa Indonesia. In this essay the author will see the emergence of Indonesian language as the language of national identity after 1940s. The author will also write about the impact of colonialism and nationalism on the growth of Indonesian language as national language

The hardship along the way when first made contact was going to be a challenge that they had to face. Majority could not speak English as they were mainly just used as body to work and follow command. As they continue to work, they slowly began to pick up and learn English to be able to communicate. The Chinese immigrant just wanted to work and send money back home to their families, which is a simple mission. But there was tension for the white workers, as they thought the Chinese were coming to take their jobs and their livelihood. This caused violence between the two and discrimination quickly rose (Waxman, Sarah.). So the Chinese people moved from the west to the east were they had more opportunity for works as well as blend into a diverse

Chinese immigrants had a harder time to assimilate into the United States because of the history of racial discrimination. In my research, I used both primary data such as comic and labor announcement, and secondary data such as journal article, to prove my argument.

Timor-Leste was reached out to by many countries throughout their harsh times and in the process, has made many allies. After they have achieved their status as an independent country, they steadily worked towards a better economy and continue to do so. As a new country, they have improved the living conditions in their country and have much more goals to achieve. Through all of their efforts, Timor-Leste is now internationally recognized as an independent

Douglas E. Ramage, ”Indonesia: Democracy First, Good Governance Later,” Southeast Asian Affairs 2007:1 (2007), pp. 152.

In April 1975, Pol Pot's Khmer Rouge rebel group moved into Phnom Penh, seizing power in Cambodia. In December of that same year, two thousand miles away on the other edge of Southeast Asia, the Indonesian military attacked East Timor.1 The Khmer Rouge stayed in power for four years; in these four years nearly a quarter of population in Cambodia died.2 on the other hand the Indonesian military spent the last quarter of the twentieth century involving East Timor; when around one fifth of that little country's population died.3

China has been a united multi-ethnic country since ancient times. Throughout history, some of those ethnicities had their own countries instead of being governed by Han ethnicity. According to the reading, Dikotter argues that the world was perceived as one homogeneous unity named datong which had to follow ‘Chinese ways’. It was believed that the barbarian could be culturally absorbed, also called hanhua which means ‘become Chinese’. From National Minorities Policy and Its Practice in China,it said that the central governments of all dynasties following the Han developed and consolidated the united multi-ethnic entity.

The main problems do seem to be on the surface but actually the problem that really big moral communities exist in Indonesia are so damaged. The humanitarian crisis that is very influential to the development of the Indonesia future now this fact impressed ruled out by the apparatus of Government. This would lead to its nation will be worse and is seen low by other Nations.

Entering the Early Independence Era, the Dutch’s role was getting weaker and replaced by the Japanese. However, the Japanese occupation had been just a while before they surrendered to the allies after the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki City. Consequently, a power vacuum occurred in Indonesia that later used by the youth along with President Soekarno and the Vice President Mohammad Hatta to proclaim the independence of Indonesia as a state.

China and America, these two super couturiers, pay a lot of attention to discrimination issues. Both of them public laws to prohibit this serious social issue, they ashore the same ideas on the areas of equality of ability and disability man, gender problems, age discrimination, physiological defect discrimination(physiological defect include employer too tall or tall short to be employed, employer too handsome or too ugly to be employed…), location discrimination (employers come from Texas, therefore they do to want them) and also medical discrimination (Employers are too ill to be employed). Both of them also pay attain to the discrimination of peoples, however their limitations are different. For America, different peoples mean people from different countries, but in china respect different peoples also mean respect everyone in China, because there are 56 peoples in China. There is one special item in China that America did not include is identity

Indonesia, in fact, is a very rich country. We can see it not only from its various natural resources but also from its ethnic groups, languages and religion.

During the Colonial era, the United State of America and Great Britain maintained a good rapport with their colonies and respected their laws. Both countries allowed more independence for their colonies. On the other hand, European countries such as the Netherlands, Spain, and France were very restrictive toward their colonies, for example, they limited education for certain social groups. Also, Southeast Asia was not allowed to engage in economic activities. This caused a great deal of corruption as well as huge problems in these European countries. These more oppressive colonial rulers did not support the rules of law in the indigenous countries, in this case in Indonesian. They levied laws on the Indonesians but not on the Dutch immigrants there. They put controls on our people but not their people.

Looking back on Indonesia’s history, Indonesia was colonized by the Dutch for 3.5 centuries, the reason was simply because Indonesia is rich of natural resources, due to the limitations of natural resources, especially herbs and spices back in Netherlands (Cribb, n.d.). During that time the Dutch tried to get the natural resources as much as they could without considering the welfare of the Indonesian (Cribb, n.d.).

The Article 28H and Article 34 of this Act are the basic changes in this system. The essence of these two articles is all Indonesian people are entitled to live in prosperity, and the government is obliged to develop a social security scheme for all citizens. Second, Pancasila. Through the fifth precept of Pancasila says that "social justice for all Indonesian people". It means that the government have to provide equitable justice and welfare to all individuals regardless of social status.