Lie wouldn’t have dared confess such feelings

“Although I am 100 percent Indonesian, I’m very proud of the Games,” Lie says. “After all, I share the same blood with those people, the same culture.” A decade ago, Lie wouldn’t have dared confess such feelings. Discrimination and violence marred the history of Southeast Asia’s 30 million ethnic Chinese, and Indonesia"home to the region’s largest community"was particularly oppressive.