i'll say the lead sentence itself has exploded in verbosity since the fac old chinese indonesians or indonesian chinese are indonesians of chinese particularly han descent who emigrated to indonesia or the former dutch east indies colony this migration was done both directly and through maritime southeast asia current chinese indonesians previously known as the indonesian chinese are indonesian descended from various chinese ethnic groups particularly han descent this includes both those who immigrated to indonesia or the former dutch east indies colony this migration was done both directly and through maritime southeast asia