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Product Description This study analyses the pribumi (indigenous Indonesian) perception of the Chinese minority and asks how these perceptions, modified by economic and political constraints, manifest themselves in government policies towards this "trading minority" and towards China. It covers the period from 1949, when Indonesia became a sovereign state, to 1975, when the New Order Government abolished Special National Schools for the Chinese. About the Author Leo Suryadinata is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore.