Cynthia Delaney Suwito
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Stranger

Pencil on paper
102 x 75 cm
2015
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Chinese merchants came to Indonesia hundreds of years ago. Some worked for the Dutch who are colonizing the archipelago that will become Indonesia.  This made Chinese Indonesian hold a middle social status and resulted hatred of the Islanders, who are in lower social stand towards them. In 1740, a massive execution of Chinese Indonesian by the Dutch stunned all parties [1]. This work hope to relook at the current relation between Indonesia, China and the Netherlands though the eyes of a Chinese Indonesian.

                    [1] Claver, Alexander. "Redefining Dutch-Chinese Commercial Realtions (1890s-1910)." In Dutch Commerce and Chinese Merchants in Java: Colonial Relationships in Trade and Finance, 1800-1942, 133. Leiden: Koninklijke Brill NV, 2014.
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