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Asian Ethnicity, 2023
This study considers Batavia's first Chinese captain, Souw Beng Kong (1580-1644) as an example of... more This study considers Batavia's first Chinese captain, Souw Beng Kong (1580-1644) as an example of the memory politics of urban Chinese Indonesians in Jakarta. It explores how and why he has been remembered in the contemporary era. While the stereotype of Chinese Indonesians has its roots in the Dutch colonial period, this study takes the Dutch institution of the captain as a framework to examine what is remembered as a way to bind group members together in a shared community of memory. This study argues that remembering Souw represents an implicit but defiant response to a long-standing negative stereotype that the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are perennially alien outsiders.
Asian Ethnicity, 2011
ethnic group is a good foundation that helps to maintain harmony in these societies. According to... more ethnic group is a good foundation that helps to maintain harmony in these societies. According to the results of the March 2008 general elections in Malaysia, the majority of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians do not support the ruling National Alliance, consisting of three major race-oriented parties – the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA), and the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC). This means the MCA and the MIC have lost their legitimacy in representing ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians in the Malay-dominated country. Is this similar to 1950 when the Hertogh riots broke out? The British colonial government was from outside due to advanced technology and armed forces, but the result of the 2008 general elections were determined by each ticket from the voting ballots in Malaysia. This is something that the ruling Malays have to take serious account of in their racial policy. When the Hertogh riots erupted in the early 1950s, the Malays were ‘the ruled’ under the British colonialism, but now they are the rulers in the country. The ruled Malays were protecting Maria Hertogh’s rights for being a local Muslim in 1950, the ruling Malays now continue to protect the legitimate rights of all local Malays. The point is: are local minority Chinese and Indians being equally and respectfully protected? Nobody would want to see a repeat of the Hertogh controversy, but perhaps it should serve as a warning to those who are in power to take responsibility for handling the issues of representing racial diversity in an appropriate way.
Identities, 2012
Utilizing the 'Singapore Story', this study will explore cultural policies implemented and aimed ... more Utilizing the 'Singapore Story', this study will explore cultural policies implemented and aimed towards cosmopolitanism, and how these policies have affected the international arts scene, which has led to a polarization within the community by excluding the elderly and disadvantaged members of the population from participating. Singapore's cultural policy has served the function of nation-building and at the same time goes with globalisation and thus calls for constructing a cosmopolitan yet patriotic citizen in terms of identity. This article considers the role of nationalism as a guide to the understanding of cultural policy discourses and argues that a top-down cosmopolitan construction of national identity in cultural policy discourses lacks representation of people's daily life.
Asian Ethnicity, 2023
This study considers Batavia's first Chinese captain, Souw Beng Kong (1580-1644) as an example of... more This study considers Batavia's first Chinese captain, Souw Beng Kong (1580-1644) as an example of the memory politics of urban Chinese Indonesians in Jakarta. It explores how and why he has been remembered in the contemporary era. While the stereotype of Chinese Indonesians has its roots in the Dutch colonial period, this study takes the Dutch institution of the captain as a framework to examine what is remembered as a way to bind group members together in a shared community of memory. This study argues that remembering Souw represents an implicit but defiant response to a long-standing negative stereotype that the ethnic Chinese in Indonesia are perennially alien outsiders.
Asian Ethnicity, 2011
ethnic group is a good foundation that helps to maintain harmony in these societies. According to... more ethnic group is a good foundation that helps to maintain harmony in these societies. According to the results of the March 2008 general elections in Malaysia, the majority of ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians do not support the ruling National Alliance, consisting of three major race-oriented parties – the United Malays National Organization (UMNO), the Malayan Chinese Association (MCA), and the Malayan Indian Congress (MIC). This means the MCA and the MIC have lost their legitimacy in representing ethnic Chinese and ethnic Indians in the Malay-dominated country. Is this similar to 1950 when the Hertogh riots broke out? The British colonial government was from outside due to advanced technology and armed forces, but the result of the 2008 general elections were determined by each ticket from the voting ballots in Malaysia. This is something that the ruling Malays have to take serious account of in their racial policy. When the Hertogh riots erupted in the early 1950s, the Malays were ‘the ruled’ under the British colonialism, but now they are the rulers in the country. The ruled Malays were protecting Maria Hertogh’s rights for being a local Muslim in 1950, the ruling Malays now continue to protect the legitimate rights of all local Malays. The point is: are local minority Chinese and Indians being equally and respectfully protected? Nobody would want to see a repeat of the Hertogh controversy, but perhaps it should serve as a warning to those who are in power to take responsibility for handling the issues of representing racial diversity in an appropriate way.
Identities, 2012
Utilizing the 'Singapore Story', this study will explore cultural policies implemented and aimed ... more Utilizing the 'Singapore Story', this study will explore cultural policies implemented and aimed towards cosmopolitanism, and how these policies have affected the international arts scene, which has led to a polarization within the community by excluding the elderly and disadvantaged members of the population from participating. Singapore's cultural policy has served the function of nation-building and at the same time goes with globalisation and thus calls for constructing a cosmopolitan yet patriotic citizen in terms of identity. This article considers the role of nationalism as a guide to the understanding of cultural policy discourses and argues that a top-down cosmopolitan construction of national identity in cultural policy discourses lacks representation of people's daily life.