Abstract
The success of the Chinese Indonesian in doing business in Indonesia is an interesting sub-ject yet it is seldom discussed within the cultural dimensions perspective. This study aimed to explore how the work value within Chinese Indonesian cultural dimension. The dimensions of the Chinese Indonesian culture might become important information to be understood in order to do and deal business with this ethnic group. This study applied Value Survey Module 1982 of Hofstede. The research was conducted in Semarang, with total respondents of 152 who work as employers and workers. The findings of this study proved that Chinese people still hold values and ideas of their ancestral culture that affect their work value as shown by the scores of the cultural dimensions of Hofstede’s. Overall, the findings of this study indicated that the Chi-nese Indonesian is characterized by having high power distance, strong uncertainty avoidance, collectivism, and masculine. Since the present research only studied Chinese Indonesian, future research is suggested to expand and add more comparisons other ethnic groups and observe whether each ethnic group also have distinctive characteristics
Highlights
The first conglomerate in Southeast Asia was from Indonesia, from the city of Semarang, Central Java, where a Chinese Indonesian, Oei Tiong Ham (1866-1924) had a business conglomerate named Oei Tiong Ham Concern
The finding of this study proved that the uncertainty avoidance index (UAI) score of the Chinese Indonesian was not in line with that of Hofstede’s
The Chinese Indonesian are not native to IndThe Chinese Indonesian are not native to Indonesia as they come from China and hold a different character of organizational culture from that of Indonesia in general
Summary
The first conglomerate in Southeast Asia was from Indonesia (formerly Dutch East Indies), from the city of Semarang, Central Java, where a Chinese Indonesian, Oei Tiong Ham (1866-1924) had a business conglomerate named Oei Tiong Ham Concern. The company controlled two company’s branches named NV Handel Maatschappij Kian Gwan doing business in export trading of sugar and NV Maatschappij tot Exploitatie der Oei Tiong Ham Suikerfabrieken doing business in sugar manufacture. As his business of sugar industry was successful, he was called as the ”The Sugar King of Java ”(Yoshihara, 1991). During the Dutch colonial rule from the 1600s to 1900s, the Chinese were only allowed to work as merchants or moneylenders by the Dutch government
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