Current Practice
During his tenure as President, Abdurrahman Wahid ended restrictions on Chinese culture and language, and made Chinese New Year as a national holiday. Today, Indonesian Chinese hold the same rights as other ethnic groups. They can practise their culture daily, with the use of the Chinese language being also now allowed. Metro TV became the first to air its news in Chinese.
Chinese schools are still prohibited because the Indonesian government uses only Indonesian as the medium of education. However, Chinese may be taught as an optional extracurricular subject.
Read more about this topic: Legislation On Chinese Indonesians
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