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More Chinese restaurants open in Jakarta with greater acceptance of its culture

Chinese restaurants in Muslim-majority Indonesia have grown in the past five years because of greater openness for ethnic Chinese to celebrate their traditions.

And most major restaurants in the capital Jakarta are already booked for the traditional reunion dinner on the eve of the Lunar New Year.

Sun City Luxury Club Restaurant, a Chinese restaurant in Kota is the latest among dozens that have sprouted in the capital in the last five years.

This, after the Indonesian government declared the Lunar New Year a national holiday and allowed the ethnic Chinese citizens to celebrate the festivities openly.

Yuyun Marsiani, spokesperson of Sun City Luxury Club Restaurant, said: "Chinese New Year celebration mood at Sun City Luxury Club has increased. For example our restaurant and grand ballroom reservations are already fully booked."

The restaurant can only sit 2500 diners at one time but it's already been overbooked by about 30 per cent despite holding their first reunion dinner event since opening its doors less than a year ago.

A few hundred meters down the road, 30-year-old Furama restaurant has also seen an unprecedented spike in business the past few years.

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