Following the fall of the Suharto regime in 1998, the gradual return to a democratic political system for the past two decades in Indonesia, saw efforts by the government and the indigenous communities seeking to improve the relationship with the Chinese Indonesians. Since then, there has also been no major violent anti-Chinese demonstrations in Indonesia. Some scholars such as Johanes Herlijanto expressed optimism at what he believed to be the ＂undoing＂ of a negative image of the Chinese Indonesians in the society. However, an analysis of the image of the Chinese protagonist in the Indonesian film Headshot (2016) and The Night Comes for Us (2018) suggested that the negative image of the typical Chinese Indonesian is still highly persistent. The Chinese are still regarded as the ＂Others＂ within the contemporary Indonesian society and to a certain extent they continued to be perceived as having control over the lives of the indigenous population. Despite the low number of violent anti-Chinese incidents in recent years, the locals seemed unwilling to accept the Chinese population and saw them as failing to transform into real ＂Indonesians.＂

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