Indonesian Young Researchers on Research of Chinese Indonesians

Learning from Indonesian past experience in which Chinese Indonesian had been the scapegoat whenever there were critical national conditions in Indonesia, more research on Chinese Indonesians should be conducted in the present peaceful situations. The activities in preserving the peranakan culture, literature, culinary etc. are really worth doing. Centers for Chinese Diaspora, especially Chinese Indonesians, are excellent efforts of researchers in the academic area. More important than that is the existence of beginner or young researchers. Opportunities to become young researchers should be created by offering university courses on Chinese Indonesians in a master level department. In this article it was done in a master level of literature in the faculty of languages and literature. After reviewing the curriculum and the human resources, the idea of adding new courses on Chinese Indonesians was brought to the department meetings. Two new courses were added in the new curriculum besides the existing one. The last step was offering one different course on Chinese Indonesians every semester and explained to the students the topics discussed and what research could be conducted for their theses. The new curriculum produced three theses on Chinese Indonesians instead of only one in the old curriculum and eight students’ presentations on Chinese Indonesians in a conference held in 2021. I consider that offering several courses of Chinese-Indonesians in the master level program in universities is necessary; whatever the department is. It is important to encourage Indonesian young researchers to conduct research on Chinese Indonesians who are part of Chinese overseas in general and of Chinese Diaspora in Southeast Asia in particular.