Chung Hwa Hui
Chung Hwa Hui (CHH; lit. 'Chinese Association') was a conservative, largely pro-Dutch political organization and party in the Dutch East Indies (today Indonesia), often criticised as a mouthpiece of the colonial Chinese establishment. The party campaigned for legal equality between the colony's ethnic Chinese subjects and Europeans, and advocated ethnic Chinese political participation in the Dutch colonial state. The CHH was led by scions of the 'Cabang Atas' gentry, including its founding president, H. H. Kan, and supported by ethnic Chinese conglomerates, such as the powerful Kian Gwan multinational.
Chung Hwa Hui 中華會 | |
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| Leader | Hok Hoei Kan Majoor Khouw Kim An Han Tiauw Tjong Loa Sek Hie Oei Tjong Hauw Thio Thiam Tjong Phoa Liong Gie |
| Chairman | Hok Hoei Kan |
| Founded | 1928 |
| Dissolved | 1942 |
| Succeeded by | Partai Demokrat Tionghoa Indonesia (PDTI) |
| Headquarters | Batavia, Dutch East Indies |
| Ideology | Pro-dutch Racial equality Chinese nationalism Three Principles of the People Conservatism |
| Political position | centre-right to right-wing |
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The party's close relationship with, and allegiance to, the Dutch colonial state is clearly demonstrated by the fact that CHH was represented in the Volksraad – the embryonic legislature of the Dutch East Indies – all through the party's entire existence from 1928 until 1942. In the study of colonial Chinese-Indonesian politics, CHH is most often contrasted with the so-called Sin Po group, which called for loyalty to the pre-war Republic of China, and the Partai Tionghoa Indonesia (PTI: the 'Chinese-Indonesian Party'), which promoted ethnic Chinese participation in the Indonesian nationalist movement and demanded Indonesian nationality for all Indonesians.