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Contents The position of the Chinese in Indonesia, the Philippines and Malaysia by Charles Coppel 2 Footnotes to text 9 Map: The Chinese in South East Asia 9 Appendix: The Chinese community in Indonesia by Hugh and Ping-ching Mabbett 10 Footnotes to Appendix 16 Bibliography 16 loss of nationality no general principles of law governing the subject THE POSITION OF THE CHINESE IN INDONESIA, have emer. [...] Its second stage - the expansion of the already governing the national status of the Chinese, but also to the history independent Federation of Malaya to include Singapore and the and nature of the Chinese settlement in Southeast Asia and the British colonies of Sarawak and North Borneo- led to bitter conflict attitudes toward the Chinese which many people indigenous to the with both the Philippin. [...] Although outbreaks of to the Chinese themselves but is also in the interests of the violence against the Chinese have not been as frequent since the government of the country concerned. [...] Conclusions If, on the other hand, the governments of these countries adopt a consistent policy of non-discrimination and the Chinese minorities In the first edition of this Report, an appeal was made for the as a result come to predominate in the universities and the civil governments of the three countries to welcome at least the local- service as well as in commerce and industry, it is all too. [...] Chinese law on the subject is not clear either, since as the fact that a considerable number of wealthy Chinese supported the there seems to be a contradiction between the principle of ius communists, that led to the murder of an estimated 20,000 Chinese after the sanguinis entrenched in the Chinese statutes and occasional high- coup.