Richard Cantillon (1755) described entrepreneurs as absorbing uncertainty caused by
changing conditions, and thus contributing to the welfare of society. The aristocrat …

Approximately one million innocent Indonesians were killed by their fellow nationals,
neighbours and kin at the height of an anti-communist campaign in the mid-1960s. This …

The dominant discourse in accommodating the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia during
Suharto's regime was one of assimilation, which forcefully aimed to absorb this minority into …

During Suharto's New Order (1966-1998), the ethnic Chinese expanded Indonesia's
economy (and their own wealth) but, paradoxically, were marginalized and discriminated …

How can a developing, democratic and predominantly Muslim country like Indonesia
manage its foreign relations, while facing a myriad of security concerns and dilemmas in the …

After the fall of Suharto and the retraction of discriminatory laws in Indonesia, many Chinese
Indonesian Voluntary Associations (CIVAs) have reemerged. Over the past two decades …

This chapter reviews the three historical stages of linguistic practices by Chinese diasporas
in Malaysia, especially in Chinatown, Kuala Lumpur, where the stages are introduced with …

This paper provides new statistics to the debate on percentage of Chinese Indonesians,
using the latest 100% data set of the 2010 population census. It reveals that the statistics is …

Throughout periods of political instability and economic adversity–from Dutch colonial rule,
through President Suharto's period in office, to more recent times–ethnic Chinese in …

The transnationalization of Chinese temples is producing new spatial imaginaries and
adding cosmopolitan dimensions to Chinese Indonesian identities in the post‐Suharto era …