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Under President Suharto's New Order (1976), he implemented a policy of forced assimilation whereby all Indonesians of Chinese descent had to change their Chinese names to Indonesian sounding ones.
I noticed when I went to Jakarta a few years back, most of the brothers of Chinese descent prefered using their Chinese names rather than their formal ones as per their identity cards. Now however there is less restriction on these minority groups so those of Chinese descent can give whatever name they wish to their newborns.
It is quite a hassle for the affected generations to change their formal names and in fact a Islamized name helped some of these Chinese Indonesians to bypass the discrimination and thus an opportunity to enter state universities.
Their informal given name has meaning behind it but the Indonesian names did not have any meaning attached to it. Just something the parents created and sounded a bit like their Chinese names.
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