Kerusuhan Pasar Glodok: Studi Kasus Etnis Tionghoa di Kelurahan Glodok Kecamatan Taman Sari Jakarta Barat) Glodok\u27s Market Riot: Case Studies Of Ethnic Tionghoa At Sub- District Glodok District Taman Sari Jakarta Barat, 1998-2000

Abstract

This article discusses the causal factors impact, and resolution of riot in the Glodok Market, West Jakarta. It aims to explain the causes and effects of violence in Glodok Market. This writing uses the framework of social psychology approach to in terview the riot victimswho considered the event as very frightening.The national factor was the Monetary Crisis in 1998 causing the rising prices of foodstuff. Monetary Crisis resulting in the price of nine essential commodities more increasingly and become scarce in the market. The panic, the socio economic disparity, and the prejudice indigenous people toward Chinese merchants happening among the public. While other political factor was Trisakti student demonstrations simultaneously with the mass riots.On May 14, 1998 the riots escalated, Glodok Market and Orion Plaza were subjected to vandalism, looting, arson, and rape. The impact of was the loss of property owned by merchants, and employment. Glodok Market riot also had an impact on the national economy untill the reign of President B.J. Habibie implementing corrective policies and the establishment of TPGF to discover, uncover the facts, the perpetrator, and the background of the riots in May 1998. President Abdurahman Wahid gave a freedom tto Chinese in sociocultural, religion, and political aspect, which influenced the development of Glodok Market, such as the presence of Glodok Standard Tabloid in mandarin