Deyantono says that back home he intentionally chose to attend the department of agricultural economics at the University of National Development Surabaya, where almost all the students were ethnic Indonesians. It took half a year before his fellow students accepted him. And among his Chinese peers, he was the only one with Indonesian friends.
曾國榮說，他在家鄉時就刻意選讀印尼人為主的國立泗水大學農經系，過了半年才被接納，是僑社同儕中「唯一擁有印尼朋友」的人。