Deleting discrimination word for word

Warief Djajanto Basorie*

What is in a name? This question, an overworked quote from Shakespeare, gets an answer that taps approval from Indonesia's minority Chinese community and by extension enhances Jakarta-Beijing relations.

On March 14, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono signed Presidential Decision No. 12 that desensitized a generation-long sensitivity. By the stroke of a pen, SBY abandoned the term 'Cina' or 'China' in official use in reference to China

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