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*[[Indonesia Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include the Netherlands | *[[Indonesia Emigration and Immigration]] – Wiki page with additional larger databases which also include the Netherlands | ||
====Indonesia Background==== | ====Indonesia Background==== | ||
*The '''Indo people or Indos''', are '''Eurasian''' people living in or connected with Indonesia. In its narrowest sense, the term refers to people in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but were of '''mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent''' as well as their descendants today. The European ancestry of these people was predominantly Dutch, but also included Portuguese, British, French, Belgian, German and others. | *The '''Indo people or Indos''', are '''Eurasian''' people living in or connected with Indonesia. In its narrowest sense, the term refers to people in the former Dutch East Indies who held European legal status but were of '''mixed Dutch and indigenous Indonesian descent''' as well as their descendants today. The European ancestry of these people was predominantly Dutch, but also included Portuguese, British, French, Belgian, German and others.<ref name="indo"/> | ||
*In the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), the Dutch heavily interacted with the indigenous population, and as European women were almost non-existent, many Dutchmen married native women. This created a new group of people, the Dutch-Eurasians also known as 'Indos' or 'Indo-Europeans'. <ref name="diaspora"/> | |||
*During the 1620s, Jan Pieterszoon Coen in particular insisted that '''families and orphans''' be sent from Holland to populate the colonies. As a result, a number of single women were sent and '''an orphanage was established in Batavia to raise Dutch orphan girls to become East India brides'''. There was a large number of women from the Netherlands recorded as marrying in the years around 1650. Almost half of them were single women from the Netherlands marrying for the first time. There were still considerable numbers of women sailing eastwards to the Indies at this time. | *During the 1620s, Jan Pieterszoon Coen in particular insisted that '''families and orphans''' be sent from Holland to populate the colonies. As a result, a number of single women were sent and '''an orphanage was established in Batavia to raise Dutch orphan girls to become East India brides'''. There was a large number of women from the Netherlands recorded as marrying in the years around 1650. Almost half of them were single women from the Netherlands marrying for the first time. There were still considerable numbers of women sailing eastwards to the Indies at this time. | ||
*Few European women came to the Indies during the Dutch East India Company period to accompany the administrators and soldiers who came from the Netherlands. There is evidence of considerable care by officers of the Dutch East India Company for their illegitimate Eurasian children: boys were sometimes sent to the Netherlands to be educated, and sometimes never returned to Indonesia. | *Few European women came to the Indies during the Dutch East India Company period to accompany the administrators and soldiers who came from the Netherlands. There is evidence of considerable care by officers of the Dutch East India Company for their illegitimate Eurasian children: boys were sometimes sent to the Netherlands to be educated, and sometimes never returned to Indonesia. | ||