What language do Chinese Indonesians speak?

The subtext is: the mother tongue of Chinese Indonesians is Bahasa Indonesia. Chinese is a foreign language.

How many Indonesians speak Javanese?

It is the native language of more than 98 million people (more than 42\% of the total population of Indonesia). Javanese is the largest of the Austronesian languages in number of native speakers….Javanese language.

Javanese
Basa (language) written in the Javanese script
Pronunciation	[bɔsɔ d͡ʒɔwɔ]
Native to	Java (Indonesia)

Is Chinese a foreign language in Indonesia?

Chinese is a foreign language. Students learn Chinese vocabulary in class in Indonesia. The unique state of language and identity of younger Chinese Indonesians today goes back to 1966. The year before, Suharto overthrew the pro-Communist Sukarno regime and took power. Soon after, he implemented the policy of assimilation in 1966.

When was the Chinese language banned in Indonesia?

In 1966, Indonesia banned the use of the Chinese language. The ban lasted 32 years, and led to up to two generations of Chinese Indonesians becoming completely assimilated. However, when the ban was lifted in 1998, there was an immediate rush to learn the Chinese language.

Does Indonesia offer a conducive environment for learning Chinese language?

But interacting with them, it is apparent that Indonesia does not offer a conducive environment for learning the Chinese language. The Chinese language students converse among themselves and with their Chinese language teacher in Bahasa Indonesia, while all subjects except for languages are taught in Bahasa Indonesia.

How many Chinese-medium schools are there in Indonesia?

Media personality Li Zhuohui (Bambang Suryono) estimates that there are about 80 trilingual schools in Indonesia now, a far cry from the 1,850 back in 1957, when Chinese language education was at its peak. “Chinese language education in Indonesia has not yet recovered,” he says.