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Regional Rebellion and Ethnic Chinese in the 1950s’ Indonesia

Woonkyung Yeo 1

1서강대학교

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ABSTRACT

This article explores regional rebellion and the changes in Chinese community in Indonesia in the 1950s, focusing on the decline of the Kuomintang (pro-Taiwan) group. In the mid-1950s, regional rebellion (PRRI, Permesta) broke out under the banner of anticommunism and regional autonomy. Obsessed with the Cold War mindset of ousting the pro-PRC and pro-communist Indonesian government, the U. S. and their allies supported the rebels. Among the allies, Taiwan supported the rebellion in a large scale, and many Kuomintang Chinese were involved in it. As a result, the political division of the Chinese community in Indonesia was intensified, and the Kuomintang group faced political and economic suppression by the government. This study exhibits that the rebellion was a site where Indonesia was connected to other countries in the Asia-Pacific region in the Cold War context, and examines what impacts the rebellion had on the ethnic Chinese in the 1950s.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.