2016/09/13 by Evi Nurvidya Arifin, M. Sairi Hasbullah, Agus Joko Pramono · 1 citation
Social Sciences · #Asian Studies and History
paper · doi:10.1080/14631369.2016.1227236
openalex publication_date 2016/09/13 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/03/28
This paper provides new statistics to the debate on percentage of Chinese Indonesians, using the latest 100% data set of the 2010 population census. It reveals that the statistics is closer to the low side of the debate, less than 2.0%, rather than the high side of 3.0% and more. Ethnicity is here self-defined by the respondents. With 1.2%, the Chinese Indonesians ranked as the 15th largest group of more than 600 ethnic groups. This paper also produces statistics at the district level, the first ever statistics on Chinese Indonesians. It finds that some provinces and districts have large percentages of Chinese Indonesians, but the respective total population are relatively small to the total Indonesia’s population. Majority of provinces and districts (25 out of 33 provinces and 415 out of 497 districts) have lower percentage of Chinese than the national figure.