ABSTRACT Historically, the Chinese community in Indonesia has been stereotyped as exclusive of the ‘indigenous’ social group; hardworking and industrious but frugal; and apolitical or lacking nationalistic spirit towards their ‘host country’, Indonesia. This paper aims to review, interrogate and re-examine the relevance of such stereotypes twenty years after the fall of President Suharto in 1998. Drawing on fresh qualitative interview data collected in 2016 and early 2017, we critically examine the stereotypes of Chinese Indonesians’ exclusiveness, their lack of nationalistic spirit and apolitical attitude, and we present a nuanced discussion of the complexity and evolution of the perceptions of non-Chinese towards the Chinese Indonesians in contemporary Indonesia. The study confirms the continuation of old stereotypes but also points out some changes in attitudes as a result of the post-1998 reform and liberalization of Chinese culture and identity.

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重新评估印尼华人的刻板印象：改革开放二十年后

摘要 从历史上看，印度尼西亚的华人社区一直被定型为“土著”社会群体之外的群体；勤劳勤劳但节俭；对他们的“东道国”印度尼西亚不关心政治或缺乏民族主义精神。本文旨在回顾、质疑和重新审视 1998 年苏哈托总统下台 20 年后此类刻板印象的相关性。利用 2016 年和 2017 年初收集的最新定性访谈数据，我们批判性地审视了印尼华人排他性的刻板印象，他们缺乏民族主义精神和非政治态度，我们对当代印度尼西亚非华人对印尼华人的看法的复杂性和演变进行了细致入微的讨论。