Indonesian HuaQiao

So now that I posted my blog entry, I decided to head over to the IHT to see what's up in the world. And like I often do, I found a fascinating article that I just had to share, this one is about overseas Chinese in Indonesia.

Now, I don't know much about the situation of Chinese in Indonesia, with the exception of the fact that tensions between Chinese and "indigenous" populations run high. In 1998, for example, in Jakarta, there was a huge massacre of the Chinese population.

But things are apparently getting better, or at least that's what this article claims. The quote that really struck me though is as follows:

"As late as last year, a U.S. court of appeal ruled that the threat of violence was enough to justify a Chinese Indonesian to seek asylum."

I had no notion.