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Chinese Maluku

The Moluccan Chinese are a community of Chinese Indonesians living in the Maluku Islands. Majority of Moluccan Chinese were Hokkien ancestry.

History

Maluku Islands has been recorded in the tambo of the Tang dynasty in China (618–906) which mentions 'Miliku', namely an area used as a benchmark for determining the direction to the kingdom of Holing (Kalingga) in the west. WP Groenveldt estimates this 'Mi-li-ku' to be Maluku.

The history of the entry of ethnic Chinese into Indonesia in general cannot be ascertained well as with their arrival in the Maluku Islands, even if there are sources that prove the arrival of ethnic Chinese, mostly from stories from the local community and also from some evidence of inheritance from Chinese descendants who are still there and have even intermarried with native Maluku people.

Family name

Common surname among Moluccan Chinese:

  • Cia/Tjia (Chinese: 謝, pinyin: xie)
  • Gouw/Goh (Chinese: 吳, hanyu pinyin: wu)
  • Kang/Kong (Chinese: 江, pinyin: jiang)
  • Lauw/Lau (Chinese: 劉, pinyin: liu)
  • Lee/Lie (Chinese: 李, pinyin: li)
  • Oey/Ng/Oei (Chinese: 黃, hanyu pinyin: huang)
  • Ong (Chinese: 王, pinyin Chinese: wang)
  • Tan (Chinese: 陳, pinyin Chinese: chen)
  • Tio/Thio/Theo/Teo (Chinese: å¼µ, pinyin:zhang)
  • Lim (Chinese: 林, pinyin: lin)

A common phenomena in Indonesia is because the surname is pronounced in the Hokkien dialect, there is no one exact standard of writing (romanization). This also causes many clans to have the same pronunciation in the Hokkien dialect, sometimes the same surname is actually not the case.

  • Tio besides referring to the surname Zhang (å¼µ) in Mandarin, is also a Hokkien dialect of the clan Zhao (趙)
  • Besides referring to the Hong (æ´ª) surname in Mandarin, Ang is also a Hokkien dialect of the Weng (翁) clan

As Moluccan assimilated name

The Chinese name is assimilated as common Maluku surnames

  • Tan and Oei referring to the , surname in Saumlaki, Maluku
  • Tan referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Gan referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Go referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Go referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Oa referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Lie referring to the , surname in Maluku
  • Tjoa referring to the Tjoanda
  • Whong referring to the Siswandy
  • Liem referring to the Limubun

Notable people

Culture

Imlek

References

Bibliography