Benny G. Setiono
Benny G. Setiono (born October 31, 1943) is an Indonesian historian. Setiono was born in Ciracas, Kuningan, West Java, Indonesia. His father, Endang Sunarko (Khouw Sin Eng), was also a writer, including of New China, Friend or Foe and for the magazine 'Pantjawarna' and `Sin Po daily '.
Setiono studied at the Faculty of Economics, Res Publica University, Jakarta. At level three, Benny was forced to drop out after the campus was burned by WE / KAPPI backed militias in 1965 riots.[1]
In 1999 Benny G. Setiono co-founder of the Chinese Indonesian Association, CORE, and in 2002 co-founded ELKASA.[1] He is the author of various articles and the book Tionghoa Dalam Pusaran Politik (Chinese in the Political Turbulence) published by ELKASA, Jakarta 2003 and translated into Chinese by Prof. Zhou Nanjing from Beijing University (2004).
According to Setiono the outbreak of conflict with the Chinese in the 18th century was followed by increased suspicion and resentment in native Indonesians and the Dutch toward the ethnic Chinese, who were growing in number and whose wealth was increasingly visible.