Great article re: Jakarta. During and after the riots I was working with some human rights groups back in undergrad to get information out of Indonesia regarding the atrocities on the ground. Some Catholic groups based inside would be mailing and emailing daily until they were eventually attacked too. By then I had already received a VHS tape made during the unrests and a lot of photos of the victims. We also invited a small business owner who got out to speak at Harvard about what happened to him. His store was entirely torched and his wife and daughters were burnt inside beyond all recognition. What was interesting to me was that he was a ‘peranakan’ Chinese, and not a ‘totok’. It meant he had (at least to me) fairly obvious Javanese partial ancestry, but in Indonesia he would be considered Chinese and hence an outsider, while other Chinese around the world would consider him mixed race. But he had the unfortunate circumstance of living in Jakarta’s Chinatown and was targeted. Many Chinese Indonesians who lived outside of Chinatown escaped the violence because their pribumi neighbors had frequent social relationships with them and even sheltered some during the unrest.