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Indonesian and Chinese Status and Language Differences in Urban Java*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 April 2011

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In describing the changing status system of Indonesia, Wertheim sees its development in four stages: the system in the old native society; the rise of a new status system based on race; the decay of the colonial status system in the twentieth century; the reversal and continuity brought by war and revolution.

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Copyright © The National University of Singapore 1974

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References

1 Wertheim, W. F., Indonesia Society in Transition (The Hague and Bandung: W. Van Hoeve Ltd., 1959), pp. 133169. Race is used by Wertheim and will be used in this paper to distinguish between Chinese and Indonesians. A discussion of the operational definition as used in this paper appears later in the text.Google Scholar

2 Ibid, p. 143

3 Kahin, George McT., Nationalism and Revolution in Indonesia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1952), pp. 2736.Google Scholar

4 Wertheim, op. cit., pp. 143–144.

5 The totok-peranakan dichotomy has been used in a number of studies, e.g. Giok-Lan, Tan, The Chinese of Sukabumi (Ithaca: Southeast Asia Studies Program, Cornell University, 1965)Google Scholar; Willmott, Donald E., The Chinese of Semarang (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1960)Google Scholar; Skinner, G. William, “The Chinese Minority” in Mckey, Ruth, ed., Indonesia (New Haven: HRAF Press, 1963)Google Scholar. For a recent treatment see Mabbett, Hugh and Mabbett, Ping Ching, “The Chinese Community in Indonesia, Part One, in Minority Rights Group, The Chinese in Indonesia, the Philippines, and Malaysia, (London: Minority Rights Group 1972), pp. 47.Google Scholar

6 More detailed information on the study is available from Grant Research.

7 This problem is mentioned in Castles, Lance, “The Ethnic Profiles of Djakarta,” Indonesia, 1 (1967), pp. 133134Google Scholar and Postma, Petronella A.“Djakarta and Family Planning,” Nanyang Quarterly, 1 (1971), pp. 2930.Google Scholar

8 Cator, W. J., The Economic Position of the Chinese in the Netherlands Indies (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1936), p. 103.Google Scholar

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10 Willmott, op. cit., p. 9.

11 Lance Castles, op. cit., pp. 170–171.

12 Thompson, Virginia and Adhoff, Richard, Minority Problems in Southeast Asia (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1955) p. 49.Google Scholar

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15 15 Cator, op. cit., pp. 103–104.

16 Willmott, op. cit., p. 37.

17 Tan, op. cit.,

18 Hans-Dieter Evers, “Group Conflict and Class Formation in Southeast Asia,” in Hans-Dieter Evers, ed. Modernization in Southeast Asia (Kuala Lumpur and London: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).

19 Mabbett and Mabbett, op. cit., pp. 12–13

20 Ralph Anspach, “Indonesia” in Golay, Frank et al. , Under-development and Economic Nationalism in Southeast Asia (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1969), p. 201.Google Scholar

21 Status inconsistency has received considerable attention from sociologists; the classic reference is Lenski, Gerhard E., “Status Crystallization: A Non-Vertical Dimension of Social Status”, American Sociological Review, 19 (1954), pp. 405413CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This concept is usually measured across a number of variables at the individual level, but the suggestion here is that there is not only consistency/inconsistency across variables, but also across the household and individual levels. See, Anderson, Benedict O. G., “The Languages of Indonesian Politics,’ Indonesia 1 (1966), pp. 89116.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

22 Anspach, op. cit., p. 201; also Skinner, op. cit., p. 117.

23 Willmott, op. cit., pp. 111–112.

24 Charles Coppel, personal communication.

25 These figures are computed from Willmott, op. cit., p. 112.

26 Tan, Mely G., Djumadias, , Suharso, , Rachardjo, Julfita, Sutedjo, , adn Sumardjo, , Social and Cultural Aspects of Food Patterns and Food Habits in Five Rural Areas in Indonesia (Jakarta: National Institute of Economic and Social Research and Office of Nutrition, Department of Health, 1970).Google Scholar

27 Ibid, p. 35.

28 Ibid, p. 39.

29 Mabbett and Mabbett, op. cit., p. 12.