The Embassy of China in Jakarta (

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: ''Kedutaan Besar China di Jakarta'') is the diplomatic mission of the

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, located in the Kuningan area of the

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. It was reestablished in 1990 after the normalization of

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, having been first established in 1950 at a separate location in

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History

A Chinese consulate general was already present in Jakarta (at that time

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) prior to Indonesian independence. By November 1909, negotiations between China and the Netherlands on consular rights were ongoing, and a letter from Chinese legate in

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, indicated that the Dutch agreed to the opening of a Chinese consulate in the

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. Their bilateral consular convention was signed in 1911. The first consuls were appointed by the new

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government, which took power shortly after the convention. At the outbreak of the

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, the consulate was located near

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, and was headed by a consul-general. It was evacuated due to the Japanese invasion of Java, though the consul-general was captured. By January 1946, a new Chinese consul-general had arrived in Batavia. The first Chinese Ambassador to independent Indonesia, Wang Renshu, took office in July 1950. Wang acted zealously in attempting to convince

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to take up Chinese citizenship, managing to attract a significant proportion of Chinese within just one year, annoying the Indonesian government. In 1951, a diplomatic spate occurred when the Indonesian authorities refused entry of Chinese embassy staff. Wang was recalled by 1951. In the aftermath of the 30 September coup of 1965, China sheltered leading

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exiles, resulting in mob attacks against the embassy, and formal relations were suspended in October 1967. Just prior to the freezing of the relations, a mob numbering thousands managed to break into the embassy after ramming through the gate with a truck, and the mob pillaged various items within the embassy while setting fire to cars and furniture. In the ensuing clashes, multiple embassy staff and attackers were injured, with one attacker killed. Chinese consular interests afterwards were represented by

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's embassy. Some negotiations around the late 1970s indicated that formal relations and embassies would be reestablished, but this did not happen. The former Chinese embassy building in

was taken over by the provincial government; the building was demolished and the space repurposed as a parking lot until it was replaced by a commercial center. After a 23-year freeze, normalization of relations in 1990 resulted in the Chinese embassy being reopened on 27 September 1990, initially as a temporary embassy at

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. Muslim groups held large-scale demonstrations at the embassy in protest of the Chinese treatment of Uyghur Muslims in 2018 and 2019.

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