The construction of ethnicity in colonial law and its legacy: the example of the Peranakan Chinese in Indonesia

Title: The construction of ethnicity in colonial law and its legacy: the example of the Peranakan Chinese in Indonesia
Creator: Antons-Sutanto, Rosy; Antons, Christoph
Relation: Routledge Handbook of Asian Law p. 398-420
Relation: Routledge Handbooks
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315660547
Publisher: Routledge
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2017
Description: Sixteen years after the notorious anti-Chinese riots in the Indonesian capital, Jakarta, and in other cities (Purdey, 2006: 106-141), the newly elected President Joko Widodo of Indonesia inaugurated Basuki Tjahaja Purnama, his former deputy governor of Jakarta, as the new governor of the capital city (Reuters, 2014). Basuki, known popularly under his Hakka nickname ‘Ahok’, is Christian and the first ethnic Chinese politician appointed as governor of the capital city. His inauguration is regarded as a step forward towards ethnic and religious tolerance in Indonesia.
Subject: colonial law; Peranakan Chinese; Indonesia; Asian law
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1399912
Identifier: uon:34702
Identifier: ISBN:9780415659406
Language: eng

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