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Originally Posted by nono1973
During then,if i don't remember wrongly,my parents ever told me that each 2 storey semi-d house in Jakarta cost around 3 to 4 Juta. Those were the days when i get to live there for a month or 2 (school vocation/holiday) and watching Cantonese Serial Drama still must put on ear phone for fear that the sound of the TV may alert the indo-authority (Chinese articles was banned then).
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Yes, during the 60s,70s,80s or even 90s chinese in indonesia are not allowed to learn chinese and speak mandarin in public. Indonesian chinese are told to have indonesian name and all these restrictions have resulted the younger generation indonesian chinese do not have the ability to converse and write in chinese. However, some of the richer indonesian chinese will normally hire chinese tuition teacher to teach their child at home discreetly but majority don't.
That is the reason why sometime you will tend to see indonesian chinese in singapore speaking bahasa to each other rather than the mother tongue mandarin. But you will be surprised that some of the indonesian chinese can even speak more fluent bahasa than the local indonesian people.
In about year 2001 if I dont remember wrongly, Wahid also known as Gus Dur which is the 4th president in indo made the announcement that Chinese New Year to become an optional holiday. He followed this up by lifting the ban on the display of Chinese characters and the imports of Chinese publications. From then on, chinese indonesian are free to learn chinese again.
Wahid was partially blind and he was a javanese of chinese mix blood with paternal ancestor of the surname of Tan.
But in the whole of indonesia, only the chinese in riau island like batam, tanjong pinang, balai, batu, etc can understand and speak fluent mandarin. The reason is because these places are able to receive spore channel 8. The effect of TV broadcast is very powerful.
Just to share a tip : If a person wish to learn a language, by just looking at the language book is not effective. However if the person frequently watch the TV/video program of the language, he/she will be able to learn and absorb faster because not only he/she see the subtitle, hear the pronounciation of the speaker and watch the drama in action. Therefore if you want to learn bahasa, the best way is to watch indonesian sinetron or drama, there are plenty in the youtube.
The chinese in indonesia are generally more well off or richer than the spore/msia chinese because the chinese population in indonesia is small therefore less competition in business and indonesian market is super hugh, just imagine 250 million people living and is the 4th most populous country on earth.
Jakarta is not only the most populous city in Southeast Asia of 10 million people but its official metropolitan area, known as Jabodetabek, is the
second largest in the world, and the metropolis's suburbs extend even further. The entire area has a population over 28 million.
(Jabodetabek mean the combination of Jakarta + Bogor + depok + Tangerang + Bekasi cities)
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Originally Posted by nono1973
The exchange rate was 1250/SGD if i don't remember wrong,the 100k indo notes was not invented and Suharto's Japanese wife's is still alive,public phone call from phone booth cost 50-100 rupiah within the country....donkey years,i guess...
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Bro nono, the exchange rate that you mentioned which is 17 years ago in year 1997 is 1250 rupiah per dollar ?
I last went to Jakarta in year 1988. If I did not remember wrongly, at that time the exchange rate is about 1000 rupiah per sing dollar.
At that time the smallest coin is 10 rupiah so light until as if almost weightless. But now even 50 rupiah have become of no value already.
After 26 year which is today the rupiah has devalue more than 9 times to reach 9300 per sing dollar.
