The WNI Chinese, who have been longer settle in Indonesia, are usually more widely dispersed through the town; the alien Chinese, more recent immigrants, have tended to be more concentrated in the business district or Chinatown area.
Thus the Chinese population has been distributed in different areas in ways which distinguish them from indigenous Indonesians. The limited extent to which they have settled in rural areas has been considerably influenced by pressures from outside Chinese society, such as government regulations. The same has been true of the Chinese quarters in the towns and cities. In absence of outside pressure to live in ghetto areas, the Chinese have shown little reluctance to leave them. Many, if not most, if those who have remained do so for business convenience; that is, because their livelihood is there, rather than from any desire to isolate themselves.