MENAKAR METAMORFOSIS NASIONALISME PERANAKAN TIONGHOA DI KELURAHAN KUTO PANJI DAN DESA LUMUT SEBELUM DAN SESUDAH REFORMASI

Tionghoa

Abstract

Indonesian nationalism is constructed based on the concept of nativity in which the Chinese ethnic group is not included as a part of Indonesia as long as they do not assimilate themselves completely. The changes in policy and leadership also shift the position of Chinese ethnic group identity in Indonesia. Bangka Belitung is one of the regions with a fairly large population distribution of Chinese ethnic group. Lumut village and Kuto Panji sub-district are the regions with a large population of Chinese in Bangka. Therefore, this study aims to identify the changing of nationalism form of current half-breed Chinese. This research used the concept of nationalism proposed by Anthony D Smith who explained that nationalism is categorized based on two aspects, territorial region (sociological) and ethnicity (psychological). Furtherly, according to Smith, nationalism emphasizes more on historical and sociological explanations. However, the comprehension of this explanation is abstract that it includes emotion, symbol, memory, desire, social, and social psychological elements. This study used mix methodology. In addition, the source of primary data was obtained from observations, interviews, and questionnaires with 40 respondents in total, in which 20 respondents were from Lumut village, and 20 respondents were from Kuto Panji sub-district. The main finding of this study is the changing of nationalism of half-breed Chinese encounters several phases which are admitting being not purely Indonesian, self-acceptance, and admitting being Indonesian with state nationalism form. This study finds that age and education affect the nationalism of half-breed Chinese.