China–Indonesia

China and Indonesia established diplomatic relations in 1950. Despite this, various forms of relations
have been ongoing for centuries. However, the diplomatic relationship between the two states was
suspended in 1967, the same year when Indonesian president Suharto came to power as acting
president after the forced resignation of Sukarno, but was resumed in 1990. China has an embassy in
Jakarta and consulates in Surabaya and Medan, while Indonesia has an embassy in Beijing and
consulates in Guangzhou, Shanghai, and Hong Kong. Both countries are among the largest nations in
Asia in terms of both area and population. China is the most populous nation in the world, while
Indonesia has the 4th largest population. Both nations are members of the APEC and the G20.

Chinese-Indonesian relations

China Indonesia

Diplomatic mission

Embassy of China, Jakarta Embassy of Indonesia,

Beijing

Indonesian President Joko Widodo meeting Chinese President Xi Jinping

According to a 2014 BBC World Service Poll, the opinion of China among Indonesians remains
strongly positive and stable, with 52% of positive view compared to 28% expressing a negative view.
[1]

History
The Zheng He memorial statue in Sam Poo Kong temple, Semarang, commemorate the Ming naval
voyage to Indonesian archipelago.

The relations between imperial China and ancient Indonesia commenced during the 7th century,
possibly earlier. Indonesia was part of the maritime Silk Road connecting China with India and the
Arab world. Numerous Chinese ceramics were discovered throughout Indonesia, suggesting ancient
trade links between both countries. The National Museum of Indonesia has one of the best and the
most complete collections of Chinese ceramics discovered outside of China, dated from the Han,
Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming and Qing dynasties, spanning for almost two millennia. [2] This particular
collection provides a good insight into Indonesia's maritime trade over the centuries. Research
indicates that the Chinese sailed to India via Indonesia as early as Western Han period (205 BC to 220
AD) as a part of the maritime silk road and firm trade relations were subsequently established. [3]
Traditionally, the Indonesian archipelago, identified by ancient Chinese geographer as Nanyang, was
the source of spices such as cloves, cubeb, and nutmeg, raw materials such as sandalwood, gold and
tin, as well as exotic rare items such as ivory, rhino horn, tiger fur and bone, exotic birds and colorful
feathers. While the fine silk and ceramics of China was sought by ancient Indonesian kingdoms.
Indonesia also played some role in the expansion of Buddhism from India to China. A Chinese monk,
I-Tsing, visited Srivijaya in 671 for 6 months during his mission to acquire sacred Buddhist texts from
India.[4][5] Other Chinese accounts and chronicles also mention several ancient states in Indonesia
today. Chinese records mentioned about Kunlun sailors, presumably Cham or Malays sailors, that
sailed and traded many products across ports in Southeast and South Asia. The Malay sailors are most
probably hailed from Srivijayan empire in Sumatra. Ancient Indonesian sailors seem to actively
sought trade around Southeast Asia and as far as China and India. [6] Since I-Tsing, numbers of
Chinese travelers such as Chou Ju-kua began to visit and wrote about the Indonesian archipelago.

Most ancient Chinese-Indonesia relations were trade-motivated and throughout their shared history,
most were harmonious and peaceful, with one exception. In 1293, Kublai Khan of Yuan dynasty sent a
massive expedition of 1,000 ships to Java to punish the defiant king Kertanegara of Singhasari.[7] The
naval expedition, however, was a failure as Java rose to be Majapahit empire instead. Maritime
empires such as Srivijaya, Majapahit, and later Malacca sought trade permits to establish relations with
lucrative Chinese markets. The numbers of Chinese immigrants and Chinese influences in the
archipelago reached a new height, with the massive Ming dynasty naval expedition led by admiral
Zheng He that visited Java, Sumatra, and the Malay peninsula in early the 15th century. Zheng He's
translator Ma Huan wrote a detailed description of Majapahit and where the king of Java lived. [8] The
report was composed and collected in Yingya Shenglan, which provides a valuable insight on the
culture, customs, also various social and economic aspects of Chao-Wa (Java) during Majapahit
period.[9] The Chinese naval expedition contributed to the establishment of overseas Chinese
settlements in Indonesia, such as Semarang, Tuban and Rembang which have had significant Chinese
populations since Majapahit era.

During the colonial Dutch East Indies Company and Dutch East Indies era, significant Chinese settlers
began to fill labor needs and seek a new life in the Indonesian archipelago. Most of Chinese Indonesian
immigrants came from the provinces of Southern China, such as Fujian and Guangdong. Significant
Chinese settlements were established in West Kalimantan, the east coast of Sumatra, and the northern
coast of Java.

After the Indonesia's independence in 1945 and the acknowledgement of its sovereignty from the
Dutch in 1949, Indonesia established political relations with China (previously with Republic of China
and later with People's Republic of China) in 1950.[10] Indeed, it was the first country in Southeast Asia
to establish official diplomatic relations with the PRC.[11] During the Sukarno administration, China
and Indonesia enjoyed close relations. In the 1950s to 1960s the Communist Party of China had close
relations with their Indonesian counterparts. Sukarno supported and won the bid for the 1962 Asian
Games held in Jakarta. There was political tension when the Indonesians refused the entry of
delegations from Taiwan. After the International Olympic Committee imposed sanctions on Indonesia
due to this exclusion policy, Sukarno retaliated by organising a "non-imperialist" competitor event to
the Olympic Games, called the Games of New Emerging Forces (GANEFO). Sukarno responded that
the IOC was itself political because it did not have the People's Republic of China as members; the
IOC was simply "a tool of the imperialists and colonialists." [12] Sukarno formed a new alliance with
China, North Korea, North Vietnam, and Cambodia which he called the "Beijing-Pyongyang-Hanoi-
Phnom Penh-Jakarta Axis". After withdrawing Indonesia from the "imperialist-dominated" United
Nations in January 1965, Sukarno sought to establish a competitor organisation to the UN called the
Conference of New Emerging Forces (CONEFO) with support from the People's Republic of China, [13]
who at that time was not yet a member of United Nations. With the government heavily indebted to the
Soviet Union, Indonesia became increasingly dependent on China for support. [14] Sukarno spoke
increasingly of a Beijing-Jakarta axis,[14]

However, after the failed communist coup in 1965 resulting in the fall of Sukarno and the rise of
Suharto in 1967, Indonesia severed the diplomatic relations, maintaining that Communist China was
partly responsible behind the coup.[15] The diplomatic relations however, were restored and resumed in
1990 resulting in the normalization of China-Indonesia diplomatic relations.

Political relations history

Mao Zedong and Sukarno

China and Indonesia established diplomatic relations on April 13, 1950, which were suspended on
October 30, 1967 due to the occurrence of the September 30 event of 1965, the subsequent 1967
seizure of power by Lt. General Suharto which appointed him to the office of acting president, the
stepping down of President Sukarno, and the eventual beginning of the capitalist 'New Order', which,
under Suharto's presidency, would last thirty- one years.

Bilateral relations have improved since the 1980s. Foreign Minister Qian Qichen of China met with
President Suharto and State Minister Moerdiono of Indonesia in 1989 to discuss the resumption of
diplomatic relations of the two countries. In December 1989, the two sides held talks on the technical
issues regarding the normalization of bilateral relations and signed the Minutes. Foreign Minister Ali
Alatas of Indonesia visited China on invitation in July 1990 and the two sides issued the Agreement on
the Settlement of Indonesia's Debt Obligation to China and the Communique on the Resumption of
Diplomatic Relations between the two countries. The two countries issued the "Communiqué on the
Restoration of Diplomatic Relations between the Two Countries".

Premier Li Peng visited Indonesia on invitation on August 6, 1990. In his talks with President
Soeharto, the two sides expressed their willingness to improve relations between the two countries on
the basis of the Five Principles of Peaceful Co-Existence and the Ten Principles of the Bandung
Conference. On 8 August, Foreign Ministers of China and Indonesia on behalf of their respective
governments, signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the Resumption of Diplomatic Relations.
The two sides declared the formal resumption of the diplomatic relations between China and Indonesia
that day.

China's cautious response to the 1998 anti-Chinese riots caused an uproar among human rights
groups. Following protests at the Indonesian embassy in Beijing in August, Foreign Minister Tang
Jiaxuan made a direct appeal to the Indonesian government to ensure the protection of Chinese
Indonesian communities.[16]

In September 2017, two giant pandas, Cai Tao and Hu Chun, arrived in Jakarta from Sichuan province
to be placed in Taman Safari in Bogor as part of the 60th anniversary celebrations of China–Indonesia
bilateral relations.[17]

In December 2018, the issue of China's Xinjiang re-education prisons based on the persecution of
Islamic citizens and human rights abuses against the Uyghur Muslim minority was brought up in
parliament. Indonesian Vice President Jusuf Kalla said: "we don't want to intervene in the domestic
affairs of another country."[18]

Country comparison

Country China Indonesia

9,596,961 square kilometres 1,904,569 square kilometres
Area
(3,705,407 sq mi) (735,358 sq mi)
Population 1,403,500,365 (2016) 261,115,456 (2016)
145 inhabitants per square kilometre 138 inhabitants per square kilometre
Pop. density
(380/sq mi) (360/sq mi)
Capital Beijing Jakarta
Shanghai – 24,183,300 (34,000,000 Jakarta – 10,075,310 (30,214,303
Largest city
Metro) Metro)

Unitary presidential constitutional

Government Unitary one-party socialist republic
Language(s) Standard Chinese (official)
73.5% Irreligious/Folk, 15.8%
Religions
Buddhism, 2.5% Christianity, 0.4%
Islam
91.5% Han, 1.3% Zhuang, 0.9%
Ethnic
Manchu, 0.8% Uyghur, 0.8% Hui, 0.7%
groups
Miao, 0.6% Yi, 0.6% Tujia, 0.5%
Mongol, 0.4% Tibetan, etc.
republic
Indonesian (official)
86.7% Islam, 10.72% Christianity, 1.7%
Hinduism, 0.8% Buddhism, 0.03%
Confucianism
42.6% Javanese, 15.4% Sundanese,
3.4% Malays, 3.3% Madurese, 3%
Batak, 2.7% Minangkabau, 2.5%
Betawi, 2.4% Bugis, etc.

$13.457 trillion (nominal, 2018); $1.074 trillion (nominal, 2018); $3.492

GDP
$25.313 trillion (PPP, 2018) trillion (PPP, 2018)
GDP per $9,633 (nominal, 2016); $18,119 (PPP, $4,051 (nominal, 2018); $13,162 (PPP,
capita 2018) 2018)
GDP growth
rate 6.9% (2017) 5.1% (2017)

Main Mining, metal processing, armaments,

Palm oil, coal, petroleum, textiles
industries textiles
Labor force 803 million (2017) 133 million (2019)
HDI 0.758 (High) 0.718 (High)

Trade and investment

Countries which signed cooperation documents related to the Belt and Road Initiative

Trade between China and Indonesia is on the rise, especially after the implementation of ACFTA
since early 2010. Indeed, while in 2003 trade between Indonesia and China reached only US$3.8
billion, in 2010 it multiplied almost 10 times and reached US$36.1 billion. [19] China's transformation
into Fastest growing country in the 21st century has led to an increase of foreign investments in the
bamboo network, a network of overseas Chinese businesses operating in the markets of Southeast
Asia that share common family and cultural ties.[20][21] However the free trade with China has caused
much anxiety in Indonesia, since inflows of cheap products from China could harm Indonesian
industry. Indonesian private sector and civil society organizations vigorously lobbied the Indonesian
government and members of parliament, insisting that Indonesia should either pull out of the
agreement or renegotiate its terms with Beijing.

China has remained on top of Indonesia's key major trading partners, serving as the country's largest
export and import market. China serves as Indonesia's largest export destination after overtaking Japan
and United States, reaching US$16.8 billion. [22][23][24] China is also Indonesia's most important source of
imports, reaching US$30.8 billion, or 22.7% of Indonesian imports in 2016. [25] The balance however
was in favour of China as Indonesia booked a trade deficit of US$14 billion in 2016.[26]

From China's perspective, since 2010 ASEAN as a whole has become its fourth-largest trading
partner after the European Union, Japan and the United States. Among ASEAN member countries,
Indonesia was China's fourth-largest trading partner, which, according to data as of May 2010 from
the Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China, amounted to US$12.4 billion, after
Malaysia (US$22.2 billion), Singapore (US$17.9 billion) and Thailand (US$15.7 billion).[19]

Being the second-largest donor of foreign aid to Indonesia after Singapore, China has also financed
and developed multiple infrastructure projects in the country to create more growth in its economy,
particularly in the utility, transportation, industry and tourism, with surging inflows of aid in recent
years.[27]
On late September 2015, Indonesia awards multibillion-dollar Jakarta-Bandung high-speed railway
project to China.[28][29][30] It was said that China's offer to build the Jakarta-Bandung line without
requiring loan guarantee nor funding from Indonesia was the tipping point of Jakarta's decision. [31][32]
The Jakarta-Bandung high-speed rail is planned to begin its operations to public in 2019.[33]

Culture

Batik Pesisiran with the image of qilin, demonstrate Chinese-influenced images, testify the
centuries-old relations between China and Indonesia.

Since ancient times, Indonesian culture began to absorb many aspects of Chinese elements, such as
Chinese origin loanwords in Indonesian that mostly are terms of all things Chinese, cuisine, to art and
crafts such as Javanese Batik Pesisiran (coastal batik) that demonstrate Chinese images such as
Chinese cloud, phoenix, dragon, qilin, to peony flower. Chinese settlers began to settle in Indonesian
coastal cities as early as Srivijaya (c. 7th century) and Majapahit (c. 14th century) period. And later
accelerated during Dutch East Indies Company era (c. 17th century). These Chinese immigrants
brought with them Chinese culture of their homeland, intermarried with local women and created the
hybrid peranakan culture, still observable today in some of Indonesian cities and neighboring
Malaysia and Singapore.
Today, there are around 2,832,510 Chinese Indonesians according to 2010 census, which formed
1.20% of the Indonesian population.

State visits
President Yudhoyono of Indonesia and Peng Qinghua, member of 18th Central Committee of the
Communist Party of China, in Jakarta, June 17th, 2013.

The bilateral relations developed gradually since the resumption of diplomatic relations of the two
countries. Since the resumption of diplomatic ties between the two countries, President Yang Shangkun
(in 1991), Chairman of NPC Standing Committee Qiao Shi (in 1993) and Vice Premier Zhu Rongji (in
1996), Vice President Hu Jintao (in 2000) of China visited Indonesia.
President Suharto (in 1990), Speaker of Parliament Suhud (in 1991), Vice President Sudharmono (in
1992) and Chairman of the Supreme Advisory Council Sudomo (in 1997) visited China. President
Jiang Zemin of China paid a state visit to Indonesia in November 1994 after he attended the second
APEC Leaders' Informal Meeting. In December 1999, President K.H. Abdurrahman Wahid of
Indonesia paid a state visit to China, during which the two countries issued a joint press communiqué.
In July 2000, Vice President Hu Jintao visited Indonesia at the invitation of Vice President Megawati.

In November 2001, Premier Zhu Rongji paid a visit to Indonesia. In March 2002, Indonesian
President Megawati Sukarnoputri paid a state visit to China. In April, President Abdurrahman Wahid
of the Indonesian People's Consultative Assembly visited China. In September, Chairman Li Peng of
the NPC paid an official friendly visit to Indonesia.

Starting from 1991, the foreign ministries of the two countries set up a consultation mechanism
and up to now it has held six times of consultation. In March 2002, the two countries exchanged
notes in regard with the setup of Indonesian consulates general in Guangzhou. Indonesia has its
Consulate-General in Hong Kong.
On November 8 to 11, 2014, newly elected Indonesian President Joko Widodo paid his first official
overseas visit to China to attend APEC summit in Beijing. He paid bilateral meeting with China
President Xi Jinping and Prime Minister Li Keqiang.[34] Most recently in April 2015, President Xi
Jinping visited Bandung to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Asian- African Conference and
Joko Widodo visited Beijing to attend the Belt and Road Forum on May 14–15, 2017.[35]

Tiongkok

Tiongkok ( 中 國 ) is the Indonesian term for China, originating from the Min Nan (the local dialect of
Southern Fujian) version of the word Zhongguo ( 中 國 ) which is the term used to refer to China in
Mandarin. The word—in its Romanized form (Tiongkok)-- was used in Indonesian by the Indonesian
government to refer to China up until 1972[36] but its use ceased following a period of hostile relations
in the 1960s. The authoritarian, anti-Chinese New Order government mandated the replacement of the
term Tiongkok, as well as Tionghoa ( 中 華 ), with "Cina". Many Chinese Indonesians felt that the
term (in reference to them) was derogatory and racist, connoting "backwardness, humiliation, queues
and bound feet".[37] After the fall of President Suharto in 1998, the use of Tiongkok has seen a re-
emergence.[38]

On 14 March 2014, Indonesian President, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, signed a presidential decree
(Keputusan Presiden) No. 12/2014, to change the legal use of Indonesian language term to refer
China. Changes including to replace the term Cina or China to Tiongkok to refer China as a country,
and Tionghoa to refer Chinese people, or Chinese descents. This change was meant to eradicate
discrimination and prejudice towards Chinese Indonesians.[39]

South China Sea disputes

Territorial claims in the South China Sea

An Indonesian Air Force F-16 Fighting Falcon flying over what appeared to be a Chinese Navy Type
903 replenishment ship on the disputed region off the coast of Natuna, Riau Islands

Despite Indonesia's position as a non-claimant state in the South China Sea dispute, [40] two countries
were inevitably involved in this territorial dispute; as parts of China's unilaterally claimed nine-dash
line is intersecting with Indonesia's exclusive economic zone near Natuna islands. Although China has
acknowledged Indonesia's sovereignty over Natuna islands, China argues that the waters around
Natuna islands are Chinese "traditional fishing grounds". Indonesia quickly dismiss this claim and
believes it has no legal basis.[41]

In March 2016, the two countries were involved in confrontation near Natuna Islands as Indonesian
maritime authority that tried to capture a Chinese trawler accused for illegal fishing was prevented by
Chinese coast guard.[42] Indonesia insists to prosecute Chinese trawler crew, despite Beijing's demand
to release them. An Indonesian official said that the "traditional fishing grounds" was not recognised
under the UNCLOS. This incident prompted Indonesian military to increase its presence in Natuna
area.[43] On 23 June 2016, Indonesian President Joko Widodo visited Natuna islands on a warship, this
was meant to send a "clear message" that Indonesia was "very serious in its effort to protect its
sovereignty".[44]

parties
Following the Permanent Court of Arbitration ruling on 12 July 2016, Indonesia called on all
involved in the territorial dispute to exercise self-restraint and to respect applicable international laws.[45]

In January 2020, Chinese fishing boats, escorted by Chinese coast guard vessels, once again conducted
fishing off the coast of northern islands of Natuna in waters claimed by Indonesia as its exclusive
economic zone (EEZ).[46] This led to a stand-off between the countries and Indonesia's decision to send
its fishermen to join warships in the area to help defend against
Chinese vessels.[47] Indonesia had deployed two Kapitan Pittimura-class anti-submarine corvettes
at Great Natuna Island in early January, and later added one Martadinata-class guided-missile
frigate, two Bung Tomo-class corvettes, one Ahmed Yani-class frigate, one Makassar-class landing
platform dock (LPD), one Cakra-class diesel submarine and four F- 16C/D fighter jets to the
deployment even when China vessels appeared to have backed down from the region.[48]

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