About Staff

My activities consist of two components: library management and research on Chinese in Indonesia.
1. Library networks and information sharing

My recent focus is on the establishment of library networks and information sharing among related libraries in Japan and Southeast Asia. In the past years, I have organized a group of Southeast Asian Studies related librarians in Japan. As a group, we compiled a “Bibliography of Southeast Related Periodicals — United List in Japan” to find out the availability of important titles in the area of Southeast Asian Studies. We are trying to accumulate more information on the availability of research resources both in Japan and Southeast Asia.
2. Chinese Indonesian cultural identity

I have been conducting research on how Chinese Indonesians reconstruct their culture in the democratized Indonesia after the fall of long lasted authoritarian regime of Suharto. Due to the strong assimilation policy enforced by Suharto, Chinese Indonesians culture and language was not allowed to be represented in the public sphere. However, the Chinese Indonesians seem to succeed in negotiating with the post-Suharto regime in the reconstruction of Chinese culture as part of “Indonesian Culture.”
3. Remigration of Chinese Indonesians

In addition to the studies I have been conducting on the contemporary issues on Chinese Indonesian culture, I am currently trying to expand my research to the historical background of Chinese Indonesia namely the remigration of them to China and Hong Kong in the 1950s and 1960s.