'According to Christine Tjhin, a researcher from the Jakarta-based Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Chinese Indonesians studying in China are often told by their parents to get a job there after graduating, saying, “Don’t come home yet, it’s not safe”. “But it would only be temporary,” Tjhin says. “They would definitely want to come back to Indonesia.”'

'The violence of 1998 was the culmination of centuries of state-endorsed racism and discrimination against the Chinese. It began with Indonesia’s Dutch colonial rulers, who divided the people into three racial classes: the Europeans, the “foreign Easterners” – Arabs, Indians and Chinese – and finally the Pribumi, Indonesia’s “indigenous” populations.'

http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/article/2115736/chinese-indonesians-long-memories-and-escape-plans-case-racial-violence