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No way, impossible. Peranakan still kept a lot of ancient Tang, Song or Ming dynasty's culture, dialects, tradition and religion.
I will give you a secret now, before Dutch came, Chinese immigrant embrace Islam, so they become mix with the native ones. They prefer their Muslim fellow ( Malay) than their ethnic origin. In Islam, regardless ethnicity, we are regarded as brothers and sisters.
When Dutch came, they prefer ethnic Chinese than locals in business, and they suppress the native ones since native people has political power and Dutch was worried that empowering locals economically will create independence struggle. This is the time where the hate comes. They also dont embrace Islam and become Christian to get privilage from Dutch. Dutch then tried to weaken us (native) in business thats why ethnic Chinese businesses were flourishing since that time. The first national attempt to get independence comes form Indonesian Native Entrepreneur under SDI (Serikat Dagang Islam), later emerges as SI (Serikat Islam) that helps to unleash Soekarno into a political scene.
Soeharto came, and he also supported ethnic Chinese here since many Muslim entrepreneur are Masyumi ( Islamist Party). Just like Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt is supported by Muslim entrepreneurs as well as in Turkey (Erdogan Party). Soeharto become anti-Islamist person in his first power until 1990 and suppress his political opponents.
Salim Group is just no body without Soeharto family backing for example. If locals have economic power, they tend to enter politics and challenge him. As now we have seen that almost all big conglomerates of native Indonesian are all politicians, maybe starting from Sudarpo who owns Samudera Indonesia shipping line (world class container ship company), and now Kalla Family, Bakrie Family, Chaerul Tanjung (CT Corps) etc.
Our Past Conglomerate is there by designed, it was formulated by Chicago Phd ( the way we call Indonesian Chicago graduate who use tricle down effect theory as a basis to grow conglomerate, just like in South Korea (Chaebol), but Soerharto prefers to grow ethnic Chinese entrepreneurs than native ones)
Thats is the reason, more into Dutch and Soeharto policy than anything else.
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