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The position of China-Muslims as a minority, empirically experienced disruption of social relations among the Chinese themselves, as seen in the style of integration of social relations between Chinese-Muslims and Chinese-majority non-Muslims. Alienation also appears in more serious relationships such as economic ties where ethnic Chinese connectivity in Indonesia which massively controls the national economic network must be excluded for these Chinese Muslims. The phenomenon of the alienation of Chinese Muslims in the middle of the majority Chinese ethnicity is apparently inversely proportional to the socio-political acceptance they get from the majority of Muslim Indonesians from Javanese, Sundanese, Bugis and others. Chinese Muslims have more closeness with indigenous groups in the archipelago generally. From a democratic perspective, this article focuses on the question of how the political opportunities of Chinese Muslims in the democratic system in Indonesia today. By qualitative research, the findings show that in general elections 2009 and 2014, many elected candidates were chinese muslims both in local parliaments and regional executive positions. This paper argues that in its disadvantaged position, Chinese-Muslims in Indonesia have potential opportunities in the arena of democratic political contestation.