is study aims to analyze the life of Chinese people in Indonesia during the Soe￾karno government and analyze the government’s treatment of Chinese people in the Soekar￾no era. is study used a historical method approach with a limited history across the 1930s
period, from 1941 to 1958, from 1959 to 1966. e method used is as follows: data collection
in the form of literature studies relevant to the subject matter discussed, source criticism to
find out the relevant elements through the incorporation of information obtained through
the source, and compilation i.e., writing historical facts. Political and economic perceptions
influenced Chinese ethnic communities in Indonesia during colonial, the old order, and the
new times. Chinese society received many sanctions from the Soekarno government because
of communist ideology, which was a threat to the government. e existence of ethnocentric
during the old order so that Chinese people cannot be received well.