Mainland China, xiv, 11, 36–38, 165

Manado (North Sulawesi), 64, 83–88, 124n8, 124n11, 136, 148–151, 153, 157–158, 173n8, 176, 180

Mankekar, Purnima, 6, 51–52

May 1998 tragedy/riots, 2, 32–33, 44n20, 63, 81, 88, 90, 109, 111–112, 129–130n42, 135, 162, 167, 183, 197

Medan (North Sumatra), 64, 81, 83–86, 113, 119, 124nn8–9, 136, 148, 150–151

media. See also Chinese gangster movies/films; Chinese language films and series as mobility multiplier, 11, 170

Megawati, xiv, 183

Mercer, Kobena, 1

Merton, Robert K., Fiske, Marjorie, & Kendall, Patricia L., 59

Morgan, David L., 56, 61–62, 65

Morgan, David L., & Spanish, Margaret T., 56

Muara Karang, 92, 167

minority group(s), 7, 22, 90

Nadesan, A., 27

name–changing policy, 13n2, 42n5, 100, 105

native ethnography, 9, 45–53

dilemmas, 50–51, 57

New Order, xiii, xv–xvii, 10, 14nn3–4, 32, 73–131, 133, 186, 188, 190–191

Nonini, Daniel M., & Ong, Aihwa, 35

Ong, Aihwa, 35–37, 39, 139, 144, 156

Ong, Iwan, xxiii, 203n2

overseas Chinese, 17–22, 27, 29, 36, 37, 75, 78, 128n36, 198

in Southeast Asia, 18, 20–22, 123n1

Palembang (South Sumatra), 64, 84, 86

Pancasila, 101, 126n21, 126–127n23

Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI), 13n1, 26, 128n35

Peacock, James L., 77

Pematang Siantar (North Sumatra), 84, 86

peranakan, xvi, 20, 24, 42n3, 76–81, 123n4

Peshkin, Alan, 51–53

political upheavals, 167–168

See also anti–Chinese riots; May 1998 tragedy/riots

Pontianak (West Kalimantan), 64, 83–86, 89, 93, 101, 118, 137

Potter, W. J., 54

pribumi, 2, 14n4, 31, 33, 69, 79, 81–85, 87–95, 108–109, 112–113, 123n2, 124n9, 125n13, 126n20, 126n20