#Valentijn Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians - South China Morning Post

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Jakarta's violent identity crisis: behind the vilification of Chinese-Indonesians South China Morning Post François Valentijn, a Dutch historian, wrote in the 1720s that “if there were no Chinese here, Batavia would be very dead”. And two decades later, that situation was almost realised. In 1740, bitterness from native Indonesians and the Dutch to the ... and more »

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