A professor with the University of Indonesia has urged the government to take concrete measures to end discriminations against the Indonesian citizens of Chinese descents, local media reports said Monday.

Professor Parsudi Suparlan noted that Indonesian Chinese remain to suffer legal and social discriminations as indigenous people continue regarding them as "outsiders," the country's most influential newspaper Kompas reported.

The way of thinking has produced the terminology of "we-group" and "they-group" between indigenous people and Indonesian Chinese, he said in a seminar here over the weekend.

During the 32-year tenure of President Soeharto, the so-called New Order era, Indonesian Chinese were forced to change their names with Indonesian ones and the Confusian faith was banned.

"Although such rulings have been abolished, there has been no legal instruction," said the noted anthropologist.

On the same occasion, legislator Soetrisno Bachir from the National Mandate Party vowed to struggle for new rulings that will abolish other discriminatory laws set by the previous government.

Source: Xinhua