A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP
A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP
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Why Chinese-Indonesians don’t have to hide any longer

Community was scapegoated in the violence that followed the Asian Financial Crisis, but in a post-Suharto, newly democratised country, their identity is no longer a hindrance

Topic |   Indonesia's Reformasi
Zubaidah Nazeer
Zubaidah Nazeer

Updated: 4:47pm, 18 May, 2018

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A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP
A man allegedly shot by police is carried following clashes in Jakarta in 1998. The Asian Financial Crisis sparked a wave of riots and protests that helped force President Suharto to resign after a 32-year reign. Photo: AP
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