New Members jjjd Posted January 26, 2014 at 01:47 PM New Members Report Posted January 26, 2014 at 01:47 PM Hi there!Starzin Chinese Culture Centre (星辰汉语) was established in Aug, 2013, located in south Jakarta. Our teachers are all from China, and know the Chinese culture very well.For more information, you can log in our website: www.starzin.comHope you a nice experience learningTerima kasih! Quote
paperbagprince Posted February 2, 2014 at 09:04 PM Report Posted February 2, 2014 at 09:04 PM I remember when I went to Indonesia. I had been living in Malaysia for about 6th months, and was very impressed that almost every Chinese in Penang spoke Mandarin. Thus, wanting to see how things were on the other side of the Strait, I went to Medan. While only a 45 minuet flight, the Chinese cultures were vastly different. I was sad to see few signs of Chinese architecture, and what I did see was dilapidated. More over, few Chinese could speak Mandarin. MAny spoke Hakka and Hokkien, but I remeber going to a temple, and asking, in my broken Indonesian "Di sini ada orang yang bisa bicara bahasa mandarin". Or, does anyone here speak Mandarin. They helped me look and finally we found one old many who spoke a little. He gave me a tour. Still, it was sad to see how in only 50 years or so, how oppressive government structure can change so much about a culture. Quote
New Members jjjd Posted February 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM New Members Report Posted February 3, 2014 at 10:03 AM Yes, it is very sad that the Chinese education in Indonesia has stopped for almost 50 years. However, the situation is changing. Quote
New Members Gila4Gula Posted February 27, 2025 at 03:24 PM New Members Report Posted February 27, 2025 at 03:24 PM I just want to get new impressions from fellow chindos and also make the this very old threat appear at the top of the forums. In the last 21 years since this thread was originally posted, how did situations and contexts change? Does anybody outside of Medan have a chinese speaking environment? Did speaking chinese increase or decrease? What is your view on the increase of mandarin to the detriment of other languages like hokkien? It could be just my impression because I was away from Indonesia for 25 years (last time 1998, came back in 2023) but are there a lot of northerners from the mainland now in Jakarta? For younger Indonesians, is it cool now to be chinese? Is simping a problem? Are there clubs, associations or language meet-ups in your city wanting to preserve the non-mandarin chinese languages in Indonesia? The only thing from my experience, I wasn’t prepared to hear cantonese in Glodok in Jakarta Pusat, was nice to hear from someone older but I was saddened to see that the districts of Glodok and Mangga Besar looked very dilapidated. (Got good bakso though). Quote
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