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*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"/> | *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 | *Few European women came to the Indies during the Dutch East India Company period. 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. | ||
*In the 1890s, there were 62,000 civilian | *In the 1890s, there were 62,000 civilian "Europeans" in the Dutch East Indies, most of them Eurasians, making up less than half of one per cent of the population. Indo influence waned following World War I and the opening of the Suez Canal, when there was a substantial influx of white Dutch families.<ref name="indo">"Indo people", in Wikipedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo_people, accessed 24 April 2021.</ref> | ||