cukong

Borrowed from Indonesian cukong, from Hokkien 主公 (chú-kong).

cukong (plural cukongs)

1. A group of Chinese-based business interests in Indonesia.
   • 1993, Khoon Choy Lee, Diplomacy of a Tiny State, →ISBN, page 286:

     The cukong collaborates with licence holders who are indigenous Indonesians.

Borrowed from Hokkien 主公 (chú-kong).

• IPA^(key): [ˈt͡ʃukɔŋ]
• Hyphenation: cu‧kong

cukong (plural cukong-cukong, first-person possessive cukongku, second-person possessive cukongmu, third-person possessive cukongnya)

1. capitalist, the owner of a considerable amount of capital; a wealthy person.

   Synonym: pemodal

   1. cukong, especially from Chinese or their descendants.

      Soal cukong sebenarnya jadi ribut bukan karena cukong ini orang Tionghoa atau keturunan Tionghoa.[1] ― The cukong problem is not caused by the Chinese or Chinese descendant aspect.

• → English: cukong

• “cukong” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.