IDENTITAS TIONGHOA MUSLIM INDONESIA PASCA-ORDE BARU: MELAMPAUI BATAS-BATAS KATEGORI PERANAKAN DAN TOTOK
ABSTRACT: The dramatic change
in some important aspects of this country after the collapse of New Order
Regime, primarily in the political aspect, provided larger opportunity to
Indonesian Chinese in constructing their real identity, included to the
Indonesian Chinese Muslim. In one hand, Indonesian Chinese Muslim tended to
re-strengthen their cultural identity shown by articulating some features of
their ethnic identity, and they show more the involvement in developing
discourse of national building and the life of majority group by using their
Islamic identity in the other hand. At this point, they then could not be
categorized as ‘peranakan’ and ‘totok’, the binary category which is often used
to refer to the asimilated and unasimilated Chinese into the cultural system
practized by the native majority. After the state launched the new regulation
of citizenship No. 12/2006, they were then positioned by the state as the
‘real’ citizen who had the same civil rights before the law as well as the
other groups. The implication of this legacy in the social and cultural context
is that they then developed the inclusive identity, such as absorbing the
categories and features of identity of other group, involved in the activities
of majority group, and occupied the same kind of majority group profession,
until they felt that those had become part of their own identity. By sharing
their identity with non-Muslim Chinese and majority group, they could take a
strategic role as cultural mediators, political brokers and bridge builders.
Keywords: Chinese Muslim, Identity, Peranakan,
Totok, Hibridity, Post-New Order Indonesia
Penulis: Afthonul Afif
Kode Jurnal: jpantropologidd120016
