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Essay on Trading in Indonesia

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Every nation has their own history to be told, the reason of how they are becoming in these modern days. Immigrants who deal with the price of settlement, natives who deal with the sacrifice of their space and opportunities. Trade, negotiation, assimilation, segregation, and war have become the way out between the natives and the immigrants for decades. Long ago, people travel trough dessert and mountains to sell goods they produced, and discovered ways to get spices and gold they did not have. The Indians sail the seas to trade antiques and spices, and the Chinese walked across countries to trade the silk. In Indonesia, trading had been long practiced, especially in the last great Hindu empire of the Malay archipelago, Majapahit, before …show more content…

Then, there came the assumption relating Chinese and Communism, because during that era, China was under Communism ruler, Mao Zedong. May 1998, a tragedy that took places mainly in Jakarta and Medan. 1,190 died of being burned, 78 was raped, 85 experienced sexual harassment, 91 was brutally tormented, 31 was lost, and all of them are the Chinese who were born in Indonesia, which nowadays we call them as Indonesian, without separating our identity as Chinese or natives. Another incidents follow afterwards, after that May 1998’s incident happened, such as Ambon Berdarah or the killing of Christian people in Maluku, and Sampit Genocide or the war between Dayak and Madurese. However, May 1998’s riot took away so many lives and it occurred in the capital city of Indonesia. The main reason behind May 1998 riot was to overthrow the New Order Regime of Soharto, which was believed to bring economic struggles of the nation. Behind that reason, there was also mass jealousy from locals to the Chinese Indonesian. The locals assumed that the Chinese took over their economy opportunities in their own land, furthermore after the Chinese Indonesians companies started to fired the workers, who were mostly natives Indonesian. Some companies wear near to bankrupt, and they were lack of income to support the human resources, so the protests began, then it broke to a riot, took places

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