in 1966 New Order regime imposed a regulation that demands Indonseian citizens of Chinese descendents to change their name with "Indonesian name" to accelerate the process of assimilating "foreign descendents" into Indonesian society. This article examines this practice of changing names by surveying the name of chinese in the obituary section of mass media. The writer argues that the regulation allows the Chinese descendants to change their name in any way they find appropriate. In doing so, it expands the anthrophoneme deixis function in Indonesia