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Under President Suharto, Indonesia attempted to deconstruct organisations and groups that might represent an internal security threat. As a part of the policy to limit the influence of the Chinese Communists and to encourage the ethnic Chinese to assimilate, the state strongly encouraged Chinese Indonesian individuals to change their names.
It is important to highlight that the table includes only spellings based on the currently-used Ejaan Bahasa Indonesia yang Disempurnakan. However, it’s important to note that some surnames may appear with older spelling variants, such as Ejaan Lama, or a combination of both current and older systems. For example, the surname Wijaya might be ...
Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Indonesia) are citizens or people who are identified with the country of Indonesia, [46] regardless of their ethnic or religious background. [47] [48] There are more than 1,300 ethnicities in Indonesia, [49] [50] making it a multicultural archipelagic country with a diversity of languages, culture and religious beliefs.
Chinese Indonesians (Indonesian: Orang Tionghoa Indonesia), or simply Orang Tionghoa or Tionghoa, [7] are Indonesians whose ancestors arrived from China at some stage in the last eight centuries. Chinese Indonesians are the fourth largest community of Overseas Chinese in the world after Thailand , Malaysia , and the United States .
Indonesia was one of 25 other countries that participated in a special registration program for its emigrants which started in 2002 as a response to the September 11 attacks against the U.S. [7] Following the 2004 tsunami in the Indian Ocean, there was another surge of immigrants to the East Coast of the U.S. which included many Indonesians.
The third president of Indonesia, B. J. Habibie, [8] [9] and a former vice president of Indonesia, Jusuf Kalla, are Bugis descent. In Malaysia, the reigning Yang di-Pertuan Agong (King of Malaysia), Sultan Ibrahim and eighth prime minister, Muhyiddin Yassin, have Bugis ancestry. [10] [11]
This team was initially frozen until 31 May 2020, [5] but due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Indonesia which postponed the announcement event (originally planned on 28 March 2020), the team's reestablishment was postponed as well. The announcement of the team's members was eventually held in parts and broadcast live on the group's YouTube channel ...
After a hiatus of five years, In 2010, he made comeback to small screen with soap opera Sinar.In 2011 he decided to change his name to Abimana Aryasatya, [7] also in the same year his breakthrough role arrived when he starred opposite actor Ario Bayu, Carissa Putri, and Didi Petet in the film Catatan (Harian) Si Boy a reboot of the 1987 film Catatan Si Boy.