Yohana Belinda (The Jakarta Post)
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Sat, January 21 2023
For the sake of family legacy or business, many Chinese-Indonesians have decided to “find” their Chinese names through online services.
Chinese-Indonesians often have complicated histories with regard to their names. Many changed their names in the early days of the Soeharto regime, after Cabinet Presidium Decision No. 127/1966 instructed them to change their names to Indonesian-sounding ones. Before the New Order, some Chinese-Indonesians had changed their names as well, but this was by choice.
Many tried to incorporate elements of their Chinese names into the Indonesian versions. Some people with the Oey surname in Hokkien, equivalent to Huang in Mandarin Chinese, meaning yellow, chose the Indonesian name Wijaya.
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