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to stress the importance of the ethnic unrest in the country between the Indonesian and Chinese Indonesian citizens. This has been an underlying and ongoing problem since the latter part of the 1950's over the border between Singapore and Indonesia.

In 1960, President Sukarno forced over 100,000 Chinese to relocate. He ban Indonesians to do business with anyone living in the countryside of the ethnic Chinese. The ethnic Chinese Indonesians were forced to find a place to relocate. Many took refuge in China, though they soon found that living in China was not a good option for them.

A Cultural Revolution was inevitable and finally there was violence in 1966. Although there was a treaty signed in 1973, there are still deep-rooted prejudices between the Indonesian and Chinese Indonesian people. The treaty between China and Indonesia has yet to be finalized due to the problems of Singapore and Indonesia. Northern boundaries of Indonesia's Batam Island are not yet established since the Indonesian secessionists, squatters and illegal immigrants who have been in the way of defining the borders of Papua New Guinea. The problem of discrimination still runs deep between the cultures of the Indonesians and the Chinese Indonesian.

This generation like others before them still suffers discrimination, so much so that Chinese Indonesians are known not report their ethnicity for fear of discrimination. Chinese Indonesians are made to feel that they are a disgrace, and often forced to live with violence. Many Chinese Indonesians must deal with these factors on a regular basis. Some often live in poverty due to these prejudices. It is thought that 75% of the Chinese Indonesians practice Hinduism, this is not a proven fact, since there is such discrimination toward the Chinese Indonesians, they often hide this to avoid further discrimination and even violence for fear they may be targeted for practicing their religion. The Indonesian government outlawed any of display Chinese culture in public; the Chinese Indonesian people were encouraged to adjust to the Indonesian way of life and abandon their heritage.

West Kalimantan has a great number of poverty-stricken Chinese Indonesian farmers. Although up to 70% of Chinese Indonesians run successful, profitable businesses and made to pay higher taxes than other Indonesians do. In the 1990's, there was a financial crisis in China and Indonesia is still trying to recover. The country of Indonesia continues to struggle with economic problems,

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