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Drawing on the historical evolution of Chinese communities, it argues that Chinese politics is structured around peranakan versus totok identities, with further divisions in approaches within peranakan groups. It reviews how colonial and later state policies shaped ethnic consciousness and participation patterns.","CHINESE POLITICS IN POST-SUHARTO'S INDONESIA. Beyond the Ethnic Approach? Author(s): Leo Suryadinata  \nSource: Asian Survey , Vol. 41, No. 3 (May/June 2001), pp. 502-524  \nPublished by: University of California Press  \nStable URL: [https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/as.2001.41.3.502](https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1525/as.2001.41.3.502)  \nJSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [support@jstor.org](support@jstor.org).  \nYour use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at [https://about.jstor.org/terms](https://about.jstor.org/terms)  \nUniversity of California Press is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to Asian Survey  \nThis content downloaded from  \n[152.118.150.186](152.118.150.186) on Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:05:16 UTC  \nAll use subject to [https://about.jstor.org/terms](https://about.jstor.org/terms)  \nCHINESE POLITICS IN  \nPOST-SUHARTO’S INDONESIA Beyond the Ethnic Approach?  \n ~~ ~~ Leo Suryadinata  \nThe long and heavy involvement in trade of ethnic Chinese in Indonesia and elsewhere around Southeast Asia has often led to the perception that they constitute members of a trading minority who are not interested in politics. In fact, this is not entirely true. The past 100 years of their history in Indonesia show that ethnic Chinese have participated in local politics. Dependent in part on the various Chinese ethnicities involved and the policies of the state toward ethnic Chinese, the characteristics of that participation and of ethnic Chinese politics in general have differed from period to period.  \nIn 1976, Charles Coppel published a paper discussing various patterns of political participation in the Chinese Indonesian community, especially the peranakan (see below for definition) Chinese community.1 In the present article, however, the discussion will use a more streamlined classification of Chinese politics and be focused on the post-Suharto period. I argue that Chinese politics has been divided between peranakan and totok politics and that the peranakan community itself is further divided between ethnic and nonethnic approaches. The original meaning of peranakan Chinese was a mixed blood Chinese who was born in the Dutch East Indies. It was also used to  \n~~ ~~ Leo Suryadinata is Professor in the Department of Political Science, National University of Singapore. An earlier version of this paper was presented at the ISSCO Conference 2000,“Chinese Overseas and Asia-Pacific Rim Countries: Opportunities and Challenges in the New Millennium,” Seoul, June 2000.  \nAsian Survey, 41:3, pp. 502–524. ISSN: 0004–4687  \nÓ 2001 by The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.  \nSend Requests for Permission to Reprint to: Rights and Permissions, University of California Press, Journals Division, 2000 Center St., Ste. 303, Berkeley, CA 94704–1223.  \n1. Charles Coppel, “Patterns of Chinese Political Activity in Indonesia,” in The Chinese in Indonesia: Five Essays, ed. J. A. C. Mackie (Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, in association with the Australian Institute of International Affairs, 1976), pp. 19–76.  \n502  \nThis content downloaded from  \n[152.118.150.186](152.118.150.186) on Wed, 23 Oct 2019 08:05:16 UTC  \nAll use subject to [https://about.jstor.org/terms](https://about.jstor.org/terms)  \nLEO SURYADINATA 503  \nrefer to the Chinese who were converted into Islam. Totok Chinese, on the other hand, was a term used to refer to a pure blood Chinese who migrated to the colony. 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