After Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival

The abolition of discriminating laws two years ago should now be followed by a revocation of all other similar regulations, written and unwritten.

February 19, 2002

Now that the Chinese in Indonesia are free to celebrate their holidays these past two years, we should expect the word "Cina" (Chinese) to be neutralized. The myth that was once associated with the word is now eroded. Today, the term suggested by sociologist and National Institute of Sciences researcher Melly G. Tan, "ethnic Chinese", should be used in the same way we use "ethnic Acehnese", "ethnic Batak&qu

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