This Table graphically demonstrates that, far from remaining for ever Chinese, some 40 per cent of the Indonesian Chinese In 1920 did not use any form of the Chinese language as their language of daily use (which was defined as the language of the home) but used an Indonesian language instead. Detailed local studies of Chinese communities in Java have show that this linguistic acculturation amongst the peranakan Chinese is only part of a much wider process by which the locally-rooted Chinese have shed many of their Chinese characteristics and taken on Indonesian one.