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Contributing to identity formation in ethnically and religiously diverse postcolonial societies, this book examines the role played by creole identity in Indonesia, and in particular its capital, Jakarta. While, on the one hand, it facilitates transethnic integration and promotes a specifically postcolonial sense of common nationhood due to its heterogeneous origins, creole groups of people are often perceived ambivalently in the wake of colonialism and its demise, on the other. In this book, Jacqueline Knörr analyzes the social, historical, and political contexts of creoleness both at the

Ethnicity --- Creoles --- Postcolonialism --- Ethnic conflict --- Conflict, Ethnic --- Ethnic violence --- Inter-ethnic conflict --- Interethnic conflict --- Ethnic relations --- Social conflict --- Post-colonialism --- Postcolonial theory --- Political science --- Decolonization --- Racially mixed people --- Ethnic identity --- Group identity --- Cultural fusion --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural pluralism --- Ethnic identity. --- Social conditions. --- Jakarta (Indonesia) --- Djakarta (Indonesia) --- Batavia (Indonesia) --- Betawi (Indonesia) --- Yajiada (Indonesia) --- Jakarta Raya (Indonesia) --- Ethnic relations. --- Politics and government. --- Ethnicité --- Créoles --- Postcolonialisme --- Conflits ethniques --- Social conditions --- Identité ethnique --- Conditions sociales --- Djakarta (Indonésie) --- Politics and government --- Relations interethniques --- Administration --- Ethnicity-Indonesia-Jakarta. --- Creoles-Indonesia-Jakarta-Ethnic identity. --- Creoles-Indonesia-Jakarta-Social conditions. --- Postcolonialism-Indonesia-Jakarta. --- Ethnic conflict-Indonesia-Jakarta. --- Jakarta (Indonesia)-Ethnic relations. --- Jakarta (Indonesia)-Social conditions. --- Jakarta (Indonesia)-Politics and government.