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After the New Order: Space, Politics, and Jakarta

Abidin Kusno

Print publication date: 2013

Print ISBN-13: 9780824837457

Published to Hawaii Scholarship Online: November 2016

DOI: 10.21313/hawaii/9780824837457.001.0001

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The Shophouse and the Chinese

The Shophouse and the Chinese

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(p.28) Chapter 2 The Shophouse and the Chinese
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After the New Order
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Abidin Kusno

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University of Hawai'i Press
DOI:10.21313/hawaii/9780824837457.003.0002

This chapter shows how the ruko—a Chinese commercial establishment—in its various expressions and transformations over time, engages in the history, culture, and politics of thriving urban environments in Indonesia. There have been many negative accounts on the presence of ruko in the country. Researchers use words such as “flooding” and “epidemic” to describe the phenomenal resurgence of the ruko, claiming that the event has caused “caused traffic jams, a decline of public safety, an increase of garbage, and the degradation of the visual environment.” Reports further indicate that the ruko has lost its character as owners “modernize its appearance” with no regard to its earlier typology.

Keywords:   ruko, typology, Chinese commercial establishment, Indonesia, urban environments

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