CHANGE IS visible noticeably in the midst of the busy shopping and PLACES within INDONESIA; ...Such a scene would be unthinkable just over a decade ago, when former dictator Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron hand and disallowed any expression of the Chinese minority's own HERITAGE. "If you opened a shop with Chinese characters on it, it'd be closed down," said Adrian Yap, 25. In 1967, two years after a failed coup by the Indonesian Communist Party, Suharto cracked down on Chinese art, music, literature, language and other cultural expressions. But since the dictator was ousted in 1998, these have flowered again
CHANGE IS visible noticeably in the midst of the busy shopping and PLACES within INDONESIA; ...Such a scene would be unthinkable just over a decade ago, when former dictator Suharto ruled Indonesia with an iron hand and disallowed any expression of the Chinese minority's own HERITAGE.
ReplyDelete"If you opened a shop with Chinese characters on it, it'd be closed down," said Adrian Yap, 25.
In 1967, two years after a failed coup by the Indonesian Communist Party, Suharto cracked down on Chinese art, music, literature, language and other cultural expressions.
But since the dictator was ousted in 1998, these have flowered again