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The Indo people ( Dutch: Indische Euraziatischen, Indonesian: Orang Indo) 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 Dutch East Indies, [3] also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( Dutch: Nederlands (ch)-Indië; Indonesian: Hindia Belanda) and Dutch Indonesia, was a Dutch colony with territory mostly comprising the modern state of Indonesia, which declared independence on 17 August 1945.
This list compiles the names of notable Dutch Euro-Indonesian people, i.e. individuals of mixed Indonesian and European ancestry in the Netherlands and Indonesia (the former Dutch East Indies). For more context see the article " Indo people ".
Indonesia–Netherlands relations. Indonesia and the Netherlands share a special relationship, [1] embedded in their shared history of colonial interactions for centuries. It began during the spice trade as the Netherlands established the Dutch East Indies Company (VOC) trading post in what is now Indonesia, before colonising it as the Dutch ...
Almost 95% of all Indian Indonesians are living in the province of North Sumatra. Indos: Indos or Eurasians are people of mixed native Indonesian and Dutch/European ancestry. They emerged in the Dutch East Indies colonial era. Today, less than one million Indonesians with varying degrees of mixed ancestry can trace their ancestors to Europeans.
The Netherlands-Indonesia Union ( Dutch: Nederlands-Indonesische Unie, NIU; Indonesian: Uni Indonesia–Belanda, UIB), also called the two-state solution ( Dutch: tweestaten-oplossing) by the Dutch, [2] was a confederal relationship between the Netherlands and Indonesia that existed between 1949 and 1956. [3] [4] Agreed in 1949, It was an ...
Indonesia was a colony of the Netherlands from 1605 until 1949. During and after the Indonesian National Revolution, many Moluccans and Indo people, people of mixed Dutch and Indonesian ancestry migrated to the Netherlands. Most of them were former members of the KNIL army.
Indo-European brother and sister, Dutch East Indies, 1931. Indos (short for Indo-Europeans, from Dutch Indo-Europeanen) are a Eurasian people of mixed Indonesian and European descent. The earliest evidence of Eurasian communities in the East Indies coincides with the arrival of Portuguese traders in the 16th century.