Loa Sek Hie Sia (born in Batavia in 1898 - died in The Hague in 1965) was a politician, parliamentarian, patrician and landlord of Peranakan Chinese and Indo-European roots in the Dutch East Indies. All through his political career, he advocated the abolition of racial discrimination and the promotion of education, particularly in the ethnic Chinese community of the Dutch colony. During the Indonesian Revolution, he was instrumental in the founding of a Chinese self-defense force, called Pao An Tui, and was a leading proponent of the federalist movement.
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