Chung Hwa Hui

Chung Hwa Hui
中華會
LeaderHok Hoei Kan
Majoor Khouw Kim An
Han Tiauw Tjong
Loa Sek Hie
Oei Tjong Hauw [id]
Thio Thiam Tjong
Phoa Liong Gie
ChairmanHok Hoei Kan
Founded1928
Dissolved1942
Succeeded byPartai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia (PDTI)
HeadquartersBatavia, Dutch East Indies
IdeologyPro-dutch
Racial equality
Chinese nationalism
Three Principles of the People
Conservatism
Political positioncentre-right to right-wing

Chung Hwa Hui (CHH; lit. 'Chinese Association') was a conservative, largely pro-Dutch political organization and party in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), often criticised as a mouthpiece of the colonial Chinese establishment.[1][2][3] The party campaigned for legal equality between the colony's ethnic Chinese subjects and Europeans, and advocated ethnic Chinese political participation in the Dutch colonial state.[1][2] The CHH was led by scions of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry, including its founding president, H. H. Kan, and supported by ethnic Chinese conglomerates, such as the powerful Kian Gwan multinational.[1][2]

The party's close relationship with, and allegiance to, the Dutch colonial state is clearly demonstrated by the fact that CHH was represented in the Volksraad – the embryonic legislature of the Dutch East Indies – all through the party's entire existence from 1928 until 1942.[1][2] In the study of colonial Chinese-Indonesian politics, CHH is most often contrasted with the so-called Sin Po group, which called for loyalty to the pre-war Republic of China, and the Partai Tionghoa Indonesia (PTI: the 'Chinese-Indonesian Party'), which promoted ethnic Chinese participation in the Indonesian nationalist movement and demanded Indonesian nationality for all Indonesians.[1][2]

  1. ^ a b c d e Suryadinata, Leo (1976). Peranakan Chinese Politics in Java, 1917–42. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e Institute of Southeast Asian Studies (1997). Political Thinking of the Indonesian Chinese, 1900–1995: A Sourcebook. Singapore: NUS Press. ISBN 978-9971-69-201-8. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. ^ Suryadinata, Leo (2012). Southeast Asian Personalities of Chinese Descent: Glossary and index. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. ISBN 978-981-4414-13-5. Retrieved 30 April 2020.