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Christine Susanna Tjhin


Christine Susanna Tjhin joined CSIS in April 2003. She was involved in Democratization Assessment in Southeast Asia program (ASEAN People's Assembly) and programs related to civil society empowerment, such as: Coalition for Participatory Policy (KKP), civil society empowerment in post tsunami Aceh, Indonesian Women Coalition for Legislative Reform, etc. 
 
Currently the Convenor for CSIS' China Study Group, she primarily delves into studies, including: Belt and Road Initiatives in Indonesia and the region; New actors in foreign policy; Sino-Indonesian comprehensive strategic partnership. She has long built an expertise in Chinese Indonesian politics and pluralism in Indonesia through research and activism. In 2017, Christine has  also been assigned as Knowledge Manager, where she is tasked to revamp the governance of CSIS knowledge assets.
 
Prior to joining CSIS, Christine was a Program Officer at the Indonesian Pluralism Institute (IPI) from 2002 until 2003, during which she focused on pluralism and civil society empowerment. She obtained her Bachelor degree in Management from Tarumanagara University, Jakarta. Immediately upon graduation, she was awarded the Australian Development Scholarship to pursue graduate studies at the Australian National University (ANU), Canberra and received her Master of Arts degree in East Asian studies.
 
In 2006, she was awarded the Gesit Overseas Charity Foundation grant to study at the International College for Chinese Studies, Fujian Teachers University, Fuzhou. From 2008 until 2016, she was Visiting Fellow and undertook doctoral program at the School of International Studies, Peking University, China. She was also Assistant Lecturer for the Peking University and London School of Economics double master degree program. 
 
In 2012, Christine became one of the founder members of Indonesian Students Association in China (PPI Tiongkok), which currently comprises of 24 branches in major cities in China. She was Secretary General on its first year of inception and later Executive Chairman. 
 
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Research Interest : Belt and Road Initiatives in Indonesia, Chinese politics and foreign policy, Sino-Indonesian comprehensive strategic partnership, Chinese Indonesian politics and pluralism in Indonesia.
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Menjalin demokrasi lokal dengan regional


Membangun Indonesia, membangun ASEAN


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Sat Oct 01 2005

The paper highlights the significance of linking local dynamics in different parts of Indonesia with Southeast Asia to strengthen democratization process.

[Weaving democratization on local level & regional level: Building Indonesia, building ASEAN]

This paper was written for a presentation in the Millennium Seminar, in which over 60 civil society representatives from 32 provinces in Indonesia sat together to discuss matters relating to decentralization and how to develop Indonesia from the region. The paper highlights the significance of linking local dynamics in dif....

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Indonesian relations with China


Playing it hard, soft or smart?


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Mon Apr 02 2007

Russia's "Year of China" has officially begun, following the success of last year's "Year of Russia" in China, which began after Chinese President Hu Jintao's visited to Moscow from March 26 to 28 this year. 

The two countries have been exchanging cultural and social "ambassadors" for the last two years. Such efforts have been attempts to bridge the gap between the dynamic progress of the high-level government relationship and the more stagnant development of people-to-people relations. 

Throughout 2006, China hosted over 300 Russian cultural and educational events, including several Sino-Russian economic forums with audiences in excess of 500,000 people. In Russia, the plan for 2007 is to have around 200 events Chinese-themed events, ranging from a national ....

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Spring sun over Sino-Japanese relations


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Thu May 15 2008

As the warm spring breeze sweeps through Northeast Asia, hopes are floating high along with President Hu Jintao's just concluded visit to Japan, the first by Chinese president in a decade. 

The charming President Hu chatted warmly with Emperor Akihito, enthusiastically posed with teary-eyed Japanese ballerinas after their white-haired lady dance performance that was very popular many years ago in China, visited historic temples that bear ancient bilateral history and amicably told story of Tang Dynasty's great poet, Libai, in front of young Japanese students of Chinese language class. 

Hu also extended panda diplomacy by offering to lend two giant pandas to Tokyo Zoo, which just lost its 22-year-old "native" panda, Ling Ling. Ping-pong diplomacy followed when he skillfully cracked t....

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A New Political Animal?


Chinese Indonesians Search for a Political Role in the New Indonesia


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Sun Mar 01 2009

As the 2009 national elections approach, Chinese Indonesians face a paradox. While most Chinese Indonesians do not wish to position themselves as an exclusive ethnic-based political grouping, major parties have done little beside talk about addressing the social discrimination that Chinese Indonesians face. Ethnic-based political parties had little success in the 1999 and 2004 national elections as the Chinese Indonesian Reform Party and the Indonesian Bhinneka Tunggal Ika Party failed to garner community support. The Chinese Indonesian vote was spread across nationalist secular parties. Some Chinese Indonesians didn’t bother to vote at all.


Since the resumption of democratic elections in Indonesia in 1999, candidates of ethnic Chinese descent have stood in both national and local elections and their level of parti....

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Chinese Indonesians' president?


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Sun Jun 28 2009

In this newspaper's June 24 edition, Mario Rustan wrote a piece on the Chinese Indonesians' dilemma in voting for the president and, while acknowledging the diversity of Chinese Indonesian's political preferences, went further, describing what he called the community's "general attitude and behavior in politics". 

The general message of Rustan's article is that there has been a heightened sense of political awareness and assertiveness amongst Chinese Indonesians. 

Rustan's article made a fair assessment of the political preferences of some, but definitely not all, Chinese Indonesians. His arguments regarding the Chinese Indonesian's inclination that Megawati was the "obvious choice" in 2004 need to be further pondered. Furthermore, we need to be extra-c....

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C(h)ina


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Wed Oct 28 2009

Sebulan ini, Beijing sibuk menyiapkan perayaan 60 tahun Republik Rakyat China. 

Tak hanya itu. Media penuh program patriotik. Parade disiapkan, memamerkan kekuatan militer dan budaya China. Film epik Berdirinya Sebuah Republik yang melibatkan artis-artis besar seperti Jackie Chan, Jet Li, dan Andy Lau memecahkan rekor penjualan tiket terbesar. Hajatan sepekan itu ditutup pergelaran opera Turandot karya Puccini di megastadium Sarang Burung oleh sutradara Zhang Yimou, sebagai simbol ”China yang baru”, perpaduan budaya tradisional Kerajaan Tengah dan republik yang mendunia. 

Namun, di sela-sela kemeriahan pesta, keamanan ibu kota dan wilayah rentan, seperti Tibet dan Xinjiang, diperketat. Warga lokal, sejumlah diplomat, dan wartawan asing yang tinggal di sekitar Tiananmen mengeluhkan peringa....

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Age of Chimerica?


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Sat Nov 28 2009

Continuity, not change, is what most Chinese elites believe they will see in the relations of two global titans — the US and China — and has been confirmed by both heads of state during recent Barack Obama’s visit to China. 

It would be a continuity based on common awareness and acknowledgement of the interconnectedness of their fate and the effects of their interactions with the global community. 

It is also a continuity driven by compromise to prioritize the economic slump, while each strives to be one step ahead in the realignment of global power constellation. 

Security concerns, such as the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and Iran, as well as the US desire for China to play some role in Afghanistan and Pakistan, heighten the need for compromise. ....

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Anticorruption and Prejudice Trap


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Thu Dec 17 2009

Tucked in between the multi-front and high-spirited antigraft movement is a tiny flare of unwavering prejudice. As the Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) saga unfolded with the detention of Bibit S. Rianto and Chandra M. Hamzah, and later exploded with the airing of the conversations wiretapped by the KPK, high-profile cases involving figures like Anggoro, Anggodo and Yuliana Ong became catalysts for the emergence of age-old sentiments, the framing of Chinese Indonesians as the usual corrupt suspects. 

The tapes and subsequent debates have depicted how “well-connected” Anggodo is to the legal system. President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s laggard response to the whole saga and the National Police and District Attorney’s obvious anti-KPK crusade firmly and appropriately probed Anggodo’s....

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The Panda on Our Eyelids


How Indonesians View China


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Sat Aug 13 2011

The Pew Global Attitudes Survey released in mid-July reported on the views of a 1,000 Indonesians on China in comparison to the US. 

To be clear, detailed datasets have not been released to the public. At the risk of oversimplifying things, let’s toy with the available information. 

A majority of respondents in 15 of the 22 nations surveyed said China had either already replaced or would replace the US. However, only 8 percent of Indonesian respondents said that China replaced the US, 25 percent said China would do so and 46 percent said that China would never replace the US. 

While most respondents viewed the US more favorably than China, Indonesian respondents answered differently. The US’ favorability in the eyes of Indonesian respondents went down slightly from last ....

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China-RI partnership at Crossroad


Christine Susanna Tjhin     Tue Mar 27 2012

President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono’s latest visit to China occurs during a fascinating period that bears several defining characteristics. 

First, the power constellation at the global and particularly in the East Asian regional level has undergone significant change. 

The so-called “Asian Century” has taken shape, notably with the rise of China; while the world witnesses how economic crises have put weighty pressures on America. 

Second, as a ramification of the above situation, the intense and inextricably interconnected relations between America ( as the existing superpower ) and China ( as a rising power ) became the overarching shadow over the global as well as regional engagements. 

As they simultaneously cooperate and compete, the region is....

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