In 1966-1998, the New Order regime in Indonesia, under the leadership of Suharto, showed violence and discrimination against the Chinese people in the country. The government oppressed the Chinese Indonesians through assimilation. They believed that Chinese Indonesians would never become real Indonesians if they did not stop practicing Chinese culture and traditions.

Suharto passed the "Basic Policy for the Solution of the Chinese Problem" that consisted of several laws. The laws included prohibiting Chinese cultural and traditional practices in public spaces, censoring Chinese literature, phasing out Chinese schools, and pressuring Chinese Indonesians to change their names to an Indonesian-sounding one.

My parents and grandparents lived through this era and had to change their Chinese names for their own safety. My mother in particular changed her name from Pie Fang to Inggawati. She told me that it has been so long since her Chinese name was used that she has forgotten how to write the characters and how to speak the tone of the syllables correctly. This video is my exploration of this diasporic narrative as I discover a new name that belonged to someone I know since my birth.