BRIEF ANALYSIS ON BACKGROUND AND CONTRIBUTION OF INDONESIA CHINESE MOSLEM

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Abstract


Chinese Moslem has its long history itself. At the end of 13th century, even before Islam was brought in to Sumatera, Chinese Moslem had existed in Indonesia. In this journal, five main factors which influenced foundation of Chinese Moslem history in Indonesia are following as migration of Chinese Muslim to Indonesia, Moslem traders from Indian Gujarat that spread Islam religion, Chengho expedition to South East Asia, marriage among different ethnicity and the need to survive and assimilation policy during Soeharto regime. Despite its long history, Chinese Moslem gave big contribution to Indonesia such as the spreading of Islam religion, independence and development of Indonesia and also cultural exchange between China and Indonesia. In the end of this article, opinions from Non-Moslem Chinese toward Moslem Chinese were also presented.

Keywords


Indonesia; Chinese Moslem; background; contribution

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