TEMPO's Interview with Drs. W.D. Sukisman, titled "The Chinese Tend To Be Exclusive" (February 12), deserves a few comments.

1. "Chinese" are people in China or Taiwan, while Chinese Indonesians are Indonesians. On November 1, 1945 (less than 3 months after the birth of Indonesia), there was a political declaration made by the new country of Indonesia aimed at making so-called Indo-Europeans and Indo-Asians "pure Indonesians." The Indo-Asians mainly con