Tjung Tin Jan

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mr.
Tjung Tin Jan
Member of People's Representative Council
In office
1950–1960
United States of Indonesia Senator
from Bangka
In office
16 February 1950 – 16 August 1950
Personal details
Born
Zhong Dingyuan
钟鼎远[1]

(1919-02-09)9 February 1919
Sungai Selan, Bangka, Dutch East Indies
DiedFebruary 1994 (aged 74–75)
Jakarta, Indonesia
Political partyCatholic Party
Alma materLeiden University

Mr. Tjung Tin Jan (9 February 1919 – February 1994) or Jani Arsadjaja[2] was an Indonesian politician and lawyer of Chinese Indonesian origin.

Early life and education[edit]

Tjung was born in Sungai Selan,[1][3] part of what is today Central Bangka Regency of Bangka Island, then part of the Dutch East Indies, on 9 February 1919. He studied at a Recht Hogeschool in Batavia, before heading to the Netherlands to study law at the Leiden University, and he received a Master of Laws degree.[4]

Career[edit]

After Tjung returned to the Indies, he had worked at a telephone company and became a lawyer before being appointed as a deputy prosecutor in Pangkal Pinang's court. He also founded, and later led, the Bangka branch of the Chinese Association.[4] Additionally, he acted as a legal adviser to a Chinese school in Pangkal Pinang.[1][3] In 1950, he was appointed as a Senator for the newly formed Senate of the United States of Indonesia, representing Bangka.[5]

In 1950, following the Senate's dissolution and the defederation of the United States of Indonesia, Tjung was appointed to the Provisional People's Representative Council as a "minority representative", alongside several other Chinese Indonesian politicians.[6] He joined the Catholic Party in 1953, and he served in the People's Representative Council as a member of that party until 1960. Within that party, he was a member of its central board between 1953 and 1959, and its deputy general chairman between 1956 and 1958.[1]

During and after his time in the council, Tjung served as a director of several mining companies, including at Aneka Tambang where he was its financial director between 1968 and 1974.[1] He died in February 1994.[4]

Views[edit]

Tjung was a proponent of the assimilation of Chinese Indonesians, and was critical of Yap Thiam Hien's writings on discrimination of the group within Indonesia.[1][4] One example of such a critique was titled Indonesia Bukan Amerika (Indonesia is not the United States), published in 1960, in response to one of Hien's essays earlier that year.[4] In the same year he was also a signatory to the manifesto "Towards voluntary assimilation" (Indonesian: Menudju ke Asimilasi jang Wadjar) published in Star Weekly.[7] This manifesto, which may have been spearheaded by Ong Hok Ham, opposed the politics of integration advanced by Siauw Giok Tjhan and BAPERKI, which advocated for a distinct Chinese identity within a multiethnic Indonesia, and instead called for gradual and consensual assimilation into Indonesian society as a solution to ethnic conflict.[8][9][10]

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b c d e f Suryadinata, Leo (2015). Prominent Indonesian Chinese: Biographical Sketches (4th ed.). Institute of Southeast Asian Studies. pp. 349–350. ISBN 978-981-4620-50-5.
  2. ^ Lev, Daniel S. (2011). No Concessions: The Life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian Human Rights Lawyer. University of Washington Press. p. 412. ISBN 978-0-295-80177-3.
  3. ^ a b Ministry of Information of Indonesia (1954). Kami Perkenalkan (PDF) (in Indonesian). Archipel Printers & Editors. p. 133.
  4. ^ a b c d e Yahya, Yunus (2002). Peranakan idealis: dari Lie Eng Hok sampai Teguh Karya (in Indonesian). Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia. pp. 179–180. ISBN 978-979-9023-84-1.
  5. ^ Tim Penyusun Sejarah (1970). Seperempat Abad Dewan Perwakilan Rakjat Republik Indonesia [A Quarter Century of the People's Representative Council of the Republic of Indonesia] (PDF) (in Indonesian). Jakarta: Sekretariat DPR-GR. p. 584.
  6. ^ The Indonesian Quarterly. Yayasan Proklamasi, Centre for Strategic and International Studies. 1987. p. 308.
  7. ^ "Menudji ke Asimilasi jang Wadjar". Star Weekly (in Indonesian). No. 743. Jakarta: Keng Po. 26 March 1960. p. 2.
  8. ^ Tan, Mély G. (July 1997). "The Social and Cultural Dimensions of the Role of Ethnic Chinese in Indonesian Society". Indonesia. Special issue: 120.
  9. ^ Reeve, David (2009). "13 More Indonesian than the Indonesians". In Sakai, Minako; Banks, Glenn; Walker, John Henry (eds.). The politics of the periphery in Indonesia : social and geographical perspectives. Singapore: NUS Press. pp. 254–73. ISBN 9789971694791.
  10. ^ Lev, Daniel S.; Offenhender Lev, Arlene (2011). No concessions : the life of Yap Thiam Hien, Indonesian human rights lawyer. Seattle: University of Washington Press. pp. 178–9. ISBN 9780295801773.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Tjung_Tin_Jan&oldid=1222171848"