Indo people#Emigration from the Dutch East Indies (1945–1965)

In the Indonesian language, common synonymous terms are {{lang|pt|Sinjo}} (for males), {{lang|pt|Belanda-Indo}}, {{lang|pt|Indo-Belanda}},"Eurasians were referred to by native Indonesians as Sinjo (or Njo for short)". A. Adam, The Vernacular Press and the Emergence of Modern Indonesian Consciousness (1855-1913), Cornell Press, 1995, p. 12 {{lang|pt|Bule}},{{cite web |author1=Detha Arya Tifada |title=Asal-usul Sebutan 'Bule' untuk Warga Asing |url=https://voi.id/memori/7275/asal-usul-sebutan-bule-untuk-warga-asing |website=Voice of Indonesia |access-date=20 August 2021 |editor=Yudhistira Mahabarata |language=id |date=15 Jun 2020}} and Indo means Eurasian: a person with European and Indonesian parentage.{{cite book|last=Echols|first=J.|title=An Indonesian-English Dictionary|year=1989|publisher=Cornell University Press|isbn=978-979-403-756-0|page=222}} Indo is an abbreviation of the term Indo-European which originated in the Dutch East Indies of the 19th century as an informal term to describe the Eurasians. {{lang|nl|Indische}} is an abbreviation of the Dutch term {{lang|nl|Indische Nederlander}}. Indische was a term that could be applied to everything connected with the Dutch East Indies. In the Netherlands, the term {{lang|nl|Indische Nederlander}} includes all Dutch nationals who lived in the Dutch East Indies, either Dutch or mixed ancestry. To distinguish between the two, Eurasians are called Indo and native Dutch are called Totok. In the Dutch East Indies (today's Indonesia), these families formed "a racially, culturally and socially homogeneous community between the Totoks (European newcomers) and the indigenous population". They were historically Christians and spoke Dutch, Portuguese, English and Indonesian.{{cite journal|last1=de Vries|first1=J.|title=Dutch Loanwords in Indonesian|journal=International Journal of the Sociology of Language|date=1988|doi=10.1515/ijsl.1988.73.121|issue=73|pages=121–136 |s2cid=201727339}}{{cite book|last1=Rath|first1=J.|last2=Nell|first2=L.|title=Ethnic Amsterdam: immigrants and urban change in the twentieth century|date=2009|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|page=131}}{{cite journal|last1=Wertheim|first1=W.|title=The Indo-European Problem in Indonesia|journal=Pacific Affairs|date=1947|doi=10.2307/2752163|volume=20|issue=3|pages=290–298|jstor=2752163}}{{cite journal|last1=Ming|first1=H.|title=Barracks-concubinage in the Indies, 1887-1920|journal=Indonesia|date=1983|doi=10.2307/3350866|volume=35|issue=35|pages=65–94|jstor=3350866|hdl=1813/53765|url=https://ecommons.cornell.edu/bitstream/1813/53765/1/INDO_35_0_1107018096_65_94.pdf|hdl-access=free}}

They were compared to Afrikaners from South Africa, who also share Dutch ancestry and culture, but are not mixed-race.{{cite book|title=Dutch Colonialism, Migration and Cultural Heritage|year=2008|publisher=KITLV Press|pages=104, 115}}{{cite journal|last1=Milone|first1=P.|title=Indische Culture, and Its Relationship to Urban Life|journal=Comparative Studies in Society and History|date=1967|pages=407–426|doi=10.1017/s0010417500004618|volume=9|issue=4|s2cid=143944726 }}

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In the 16th-18th centuries, Eurasians were referred to by a Portuguese term {{lang|pt|mestiço}} (Dutch: {{lang|nl|Mesties}}) or as coloured (Dutch: {{lang|nl|Kleurling}}). Additionally, a wide range of more contumelious terms, such as liplap, can be found in the literature.Quote: "Liplap: A vulgar and disparaging nickname given in the Dutch East Indies to Eurasians." See: Yule, Henry, Coke Burnell, Arthur Hobson-Jobson: the Anglo-Indian dictionary (Publisher: Wordsworth Editions, 1996) p. 518

{{Main|Indos in pre-colonial history|Indos in colonial history}}

{{See also|The Portuguese in Indonesia}}

Eurasians in the Dutch East Indies were descendants of Europeans who travelled to Asia between the 16th and the 20th century.{{cite book|last1=van Goor|first1=J.|last2=van Goor|first2=F.|title=Prelude to Colonialism: The Dutch in Asia|date=2004|publisher=Uitgeverij Verloren|page=57}} The earliest Europeans in South East Asia were Portuguese and Spanish traders. Portuguese explorers discovered two trade routes to Asia, sailing around the south of Africa or the Americas to create a commercial monopoly. In the early 16th century, the Portuguese established important trade posts in South East Asia, which was a diverse collection of many rival kingdoms, sultanates and tribes spread over a huge territory of peninsulas and islands. A main Portuguese stronghold was in the Maluku Islands (the Moluccas), the fabled "Spice Islands". The Spanish established a dominant presence further north in the Philippines. These historical developments were instrumental in building a foundation for large Eurasian communities in this region.Notable Mestizo communities with Portuguese roots are the Larantuka and Topasses people, a powerful and independent group of Mestizo, who controlled the sandalwood trade and who challenged both the Dutch and Portuguese. Their descendants live on the islands of Flores and Timor to this day. Boxer, C.R., The Topasses of Timor,(Indisch Instituut, Amsterdam, 1947). Old Eurasian families in the Philippines mainly descend from the Spanish. While the oldest Indo families descend from Portuguese traders and explorers,Many Portuguese family names can be found on the islands of Ambon, Flores and East Timor. Although most Portuguese family names were adopted after conversion to the Christian religion, many families can still trace their roots to Portuguese ancestors. {{in lang|nl}} Rumphius, G.E. De Ambonse landbeschrijving (Landelijk steunpunt educatie Molukkers, Utrecht, 2002) {{ISBN|90-76729-29-8}} some family names of old Indo families include Simao, De Fretes, Pereira, Henriques, etc.{{cite journal | url=https://www.jstor.org/pss/272662 | jstor=272662 | title=The Indonesian Eurasian and His Culture | last1=Van Der Kroef | first1=Justus M. | journal=Phylon | date=1955 | volume=16 | issue=4 | pages=448–462 | doi=10.2307/272662 }}{{in lang|pt}} Pinto da Franca, A. Influencia Portuguesa na Indonesia

(In: 'STUDIA N° 33', pp. 161-234, 1971, Lisbon, Portugal){{in lang|pt}} Rebelo, Gabriel Informaçao das cousas de Maluco 1569 (1856 & 1955, Lisboa, Portugal)Boxer, C. R. Portuguese and Spanish Projects for the Conquest of Southeast Asia, 1580-1600 (In: 'Journal of Asian History' Vol. 3, 1969; pp. 118-136){{cite web|url=http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/bragappr.html|title=Braga Collection National Library of Australia|publisher=Nla.gov.au|access-date=4 December 2013|archive-date=18 August 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818164717/http://www.nla.gov.au/asian/pub/bragappr.html|url-status=dead}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah02.shtml|title=Timeline Milestones 1|publisher=Gimonca.com|access-date=4 December 2013}}

{{See also|Dutch East India Company in Indonesia}}

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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. Around 1650, the number of mixed marriages, frequent in the early years of the Dutch East India Company (VOC), declined sharply. There was a large number of women from the Netherlands recorded as marrying in the years around 1650. At least half the brides of European men in Batavia came from Europe. Many of these women were widows, already previously married in the Indies, but 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. The ships' passenger lists from the 17th century also evidence this. Not until later in the 17th century did the numbers of passengers to Asia drop drastically.

Given the small population of their country, the Dutch had to fill out their recruitment for Asia by looking for overseas emigration candidates in the underprivileged regions of north-western Europe.{{cite book|last=Etemad|first=Bouda|title=Possessing the world: taking the measurements of colonisation from the 18th to the 20th century|year=2007|publisher=Berghahn Books|page=20}} Originally, most Dutch VOC employees were traders, accountants, sailors and adventurers. In 1622, over half the Batavia garrison of 143 consisted of foreigners (Germans were the majority among them), there were also French, Scots, English, Danes, Flemings, and Walloons (they were half of the VOC overall).Taylor, Jean Gelman. The Social World of Batavia: European and Eurasian in Dutch Asia (Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983). {{ISBN|978-0-300-09709-2}}Megan Vaughan, Creating the Creole Island: Slavery in Eighteenth-Century Mauritius (2005) p. 7{{cite book|last=Murdoch|first=Steve|title=Network North: Scottish Kin, Commercial And Covert Associations in Northern|year=2005|publisher=Brill|page=210}} Europeans living in Batavia also included Norwegians, Italians, Maltese, Poles, Irish, Spaniards, Portuguese, and Swedes.Donald F. Lach, Edwin J. Van Kley, Asia in the Making of Europe, Volume III: A Century of Advance. Book 3: Southeast Asia (1998) p. 1317 The number of Swedes travelling to the East on Dutch ships numbered in the thousands. Many settled in Batavia for long periods.{{cite book|last1=Huigen|first1=Siegfried|last2=De Jong|first2=Jan|last3=Kolfin|first3=Elmer|title=The Dutch Trading Companies As Knowledge Networks|year=2010|publisher=Brill|page=362}} Some of the settlers in the 18th and early 19th centuries were men without wives, and intermarriage occurred with the local inhabitants; others brought their families. The VOC and later the colonial government to a certain extent encouraged this, partly to maintain their control over the region.{{cite book|last=Boxer |first=C.R.|title=The Dutch Seaborne Empire 1600–1800|publisher= Penguin |year=1991| isbn= 978-0-14-013618-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Fx4OAAAAQAAJ&q=The+Dutch+Seaborne+Empire+Synopsis|page= 220}} The existing Indo (or Mestizo) population of Portuguese descent was therefore welcome to integrate.The language of trade was Malay with Portuguese influences. To this day the Indonesian language has a relatively large vocabulary of words with Portuguese roots e.g. Sunday, party, soap, table, flag, and school.{{cite web|url=http://www.kitlv-journals.nl/index.php/btlv/article/viewFile/1802/2563|title=Throughout this period Indo people were also referred to by their Portuguese name: Mestizo|publisher=Kitlv-journals.nl|access-date=4 December 2013}} An Indo-European society developed in the East Indies.In this time period the word (and country) 'Indonesia' did not exist yet. Neither was the colony of the 'Dutch East Indies' founded yet. Although most of its members became Dutch citizens, their culture was strongly Eurasian in nature, with a focus on both Asian and European heritage. 'European' society in the Indies was dominated by this Indo culture into which non-native born European settlers integrated. The non-native-born (totok) Europeans adopted Indo culture and customs. The Indo lifestyle (e.g. language and dress code) only came under pressure to westernise in the following centuries of formal Dutch colonization. This would change after the formal colonisation by the Dutch in the 19th century.Blusse, Leonard, Strange company: Chinese settlers, Mestizo women, and the Dutch in VOC Batavia (Dordrecht-Holland; Riverton, U.S.A., Foris Publications, 1986. xiii, 302p.) no.: 959.82 B659Boxer, C. R., Jan Compagnie in war and peace, 1602-1799: a short history of the Dutch East-India Company (Hong Kong, Heinemann Asia, 1979. 115p.) number: 382.060492 B788Masselman, George, The cradle of colonialism (New Haven, Yale University Press, 1963) no.: 382.09492 MAS{{cite web|url=http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah03.shtml|title=Timeline Milestones 2|publisher=Gimonca.com|access-date=4 December 2013}}

Eurasian men were recruited by the colonial regime as go-betweens in both the civil administration and the military, where their mastery of two languages was useful. 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.{{cite book|title=A Historical Companion to Postcolonial Literatures: Continental Europe|publisher=Edinburgh University Press|page=342}} 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.{{cite book|last=Lehning |first=James|title=European Colonialism since 1700|year=2013|publisher=Cambridge University Press|pages=145, 147}}

Using the evidence of centuries old Portuguese family names many Indos carried matriarchal kinship relations within Eurasian communities, it has been argued by Tjalie Robinson that the origin of the Indo was less of a thin facade laid over a Dutch foundation, but sprang from an ancient mestizo culture going back all the way to the beginning of the European involvement in Asia.Goss, Andrew From Tong-Tong to Tempo Doeloe: Eurasian Memory Work and the Bracketing of Dutch Colonial History, 1957-1961 (Publisher: University of New Orleans, New Orleans, 2000) P.26-27 Online History Faculty Publications UNO

In 1720, Batavia's population consisted of 2,000 Europeans, mainly Dutch merchants (2.2 percent of the total population), 1,100 Eurasians, 11,700 Chinese, 9,000 non-Indonesian Asians of Portuguese culture (mardijkers), 600 Indo-Arab Muslims, 5,600 immigrants from a dozen islands, 3,500 Malays, 27,600 Javanese and Balinese, and 29,000 slaves of varying ethnic origins including Africans.{{cite book|last=Dirk|first=Hoerder|title=Cultures in Contact: World Migrations in the Second Millennium|year=2002|publisher=Duke University Press|page=183}}

By the beginning of the eighteenth century, there were new arrivals of Europeans in Malacca who made it their new home and became part of the Malacca Dutch community.Laura Jarnagin, Portuguese and Luso-Asian Legacies in Southeast Asia, 1511-2011, vol. 2: Culture and Identity in the Luso-Asian World: Tenacities & Plasticities (2012) p. 266

{{See also|Dutch East Indies}}

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Studioportret van een Indo-Europese familie TMnr 60050185.jpg|Studio portrait of an Indo-European family, Dutch East Indies (ca. 1900)

File:COLLECTIE TROPENMUSEUM Eerste steenlegging van de Europeesche school te Solok (Sumatra) TMnr 10021633.jpg|Europeans and Eurasians in Sumatra, early 20th century

In 1854, over half of the 18,000 Europeans in Java were Eurasians.{{cite journal|last1=van der Kroef|first1=J.|title=The Eurasian Minority in Indonesia|journal=American Sociological Review|date=1953|doi=10.2307/2087431|volume=18|issue=5|pages=484–493|jstor=2087431}} 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.{{cite book|last=Therborn|first=Göran|title=Between Sex and Power: Family in the World, 1900-2000|year=2004|publisher=Psychology Press|isbn=978-0415300773|page=54}} Indo influence on the nature of colonial society waned following World War I and the opening of the Suez Canal, when there was a substantial influx of white Dutch families.

By 1925, 27.5 percent of all Europeans in Indonesia who married chose either native or mixed-blood spouses, a proportion that remained high until 1940, when it was still 20 percent.Frances Gouda, Dutch Culture Overseas: Colonial Practice in the Netherlands Indies, 1900-1942 (2008) p. 165 By 1930, there were more than 240,000 people with European legal status in the colony, still making up less than half of one percent of the population.Beck, Sanderson, South Asia, 1800–1950 – World Peace Communications (2008) {{ISBN|978-0-9792532-3-2}} By 1930 more European women had arrived in the colony, and they made up 113,000 out of the 240,000 Europeans. Almost 75% of these Europeans were in fact native Eurasians known as Indo-Europeans.Van Nimwegen, Nico De demografische geschiedenis van Indische Nederlanders, Report no. 64 (Publisher: NIDI, The Hague, 2002) p. 36 {{ISBN|9789070990923}} The majority of legally acknowledged Dutchmen were bi-lingual Indo Eurasians.{{cite book|last=Meijer|first=Hans|title=In Indie geworteld|publisher=Bert bakker|year=2004|isbn=978-90-351-2617-6|pages=33,35,36,76,77,371,389|url=http://www.nrcboeken.nl/boek/in-indie-geworteld-druk-1-meijer-h}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} Eurasian antecedents were no bar to the highest levels of colonial society.{{cite book|last=Knight|first= G.|title=Narratives of Colonialism: Sugar, Java, and the Dutch|year=2000|publisher=Nova Science Publishers|page=48}} In 1940, it was estimated that they were 80 percent of the European population, which at the previous census had numbered 250,000.

An Indo movement led by the Indo Europeesch Verbond (Indo European Alliance) voiced the idea of independence from the Netherlands, however only an Indo minority led by Ernest Douwes Dekker and P.F.Dahler joined the indigenous Indonesian independence movement.'E.F.E. Douwes Dekker (known after 1946 as Danudirja Setyabuddhi), a Eurasian journalist, descendant of the author Max Havelaar, a veteran of the Boer War (1899–1902) fighting on the Afrikaner side. Douwes Dekker criticized the Ethical Policy as excessively conservative and advocated self-government for the islands and a kind of "Indies nationalism" that encompassed all the islands' permanent residents but not the racially exclusive expatriates (Dutch: Trekkers) (Indonesian: Totok).' [http://countrystudies.us/indonesia/14.htm Ref: Country studies. US Library of Congress.] Examples of famous Indo people in the Dutch East Indies include Gerardus Johannes Berenschot.

• Indische Party est. 1912
• Insulinde (Political Party) est. 1913
• Indo Europeesch Verbond est. 1919
• Freemasonry in the Dutch East Indies

{{See also|Japanese occupation of the Dutch East Indies}}

During World War II, the European colonies in South East Asia, including the Dutch East Indies, were invaded and annexed by the Japanese Empire.{{cite web|first=Klemen |last=L. |url=https://warfare.gq/dutcheastindies/index.html |title=Forgotten Campaign: The Dutch East Indies Campaign 1941-1942 |date=1999–2000 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726053035/http://www.dutcheastindies.webs.com/index.html |archive-date=26 July 2011}} The Japanese sought to eradicate anything reminiscent of European government. Many of the Indies Dutch had spent World War II in Japanese concentration camps.{{cite book|last=Smith|first=Andrea|title=Europe's Invisible Migrants: Consequences of the Colonists' Return|year=2003|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|page=16}} All full blooded Europeans were put in Japanese concentration camps while the larger (Indo) European population, who could prove close native ancestry, were subjected to a curfew, usually in their homes, which was known as Buiten Kampers (Dutch for outside campers).{{Cite web|url=https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/32096/Final.docx?sequence=1|title = Buitenkampers: The outlawed Eurasians? The position of binnen-and buitenkampers compared from 1942 to 1949|date = 31 January 2015}} First the POWs, then all male adults and finally all females with their children and adolescents were interned. Boys of 10 years old and older were separated from their mothers and put into a boys camp usually together with old men. While the women were interned with children in women's camps, Vrouwenkampen{{Cite web | url=http://www.vrouwenkampen.nl/ | title=Stichting Japanse Vrouwenkampen - Welkom}} all working age men were interned as forced unpaid labor.{{citation needed|date=October 2020}} The Japanese failed in their attempts to win over the Indo community, and Indos were made subject to the same forceful measures.Touwen-Bouwsma, Elly Japanese minority policy: the Eurasians on Java and the dilemma of ethnic loyalty No.4 vol. 152 (1996) pp. 553-572 (KITLV Press, Leiden, Netherlands, 1997) {{ISSN|0006-2294}}

"Nine-tenths of the so-called Europeans are the offspring of whites married to native women. These mixed people are called Indo-Europeans… They have formed the backbone of officialdom. In general they feel the same loyalty to the Netherlands as do the white Dutch. They have full rights as Dutch citizens and they are Christians and follow Dutch customs. This group has suffered more than any other during the Japanese occupation".

— Official US Army publication for the benefit of G.I.'s, 1944.War and Navy Departments of the United States Army, 'A pocket guide to the Netherlands East Indies.' (Facsimile by Army Information Branch of the Army Service Forces re-published by Elsevier/Reed Business November 2009) {{ISBN|978-90-6882-748-4}} p. 18

{{See also|Bersiap}}

Leaders of the Indonesian independence movement cooperated with the Japanese to realise an independent nation. Two days after Japan's surrender in August 1945, the independence leaders declared an independent Republic of Indonesia. The majority of Indo males were either captive or in hiding and remained oblivious to these developments.{{cite web|url=http://www.indischekamparchieven.nl/en/general-information/about-de-camps|title=NIOD (Dutch War Documentation) website with camp overview|publisher=Indischekamparchieven.nl|date=8 December 1941|access-date=4 December 2013}} During the occupation, the Japanese had imprisoned some 42,000 Dutch military personnel and around 100,000 civilians, mostly Dutch people who could not provide proof of Indonesian descent.{{cite book|last1=Raben|first1=Remco|title=Representing the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia. Personal Testimonies and Public Images in Indonesia, Japan, and the Netherlands|year=1999|publisher=Washington University Press|page=56}} During the Japanese occupation, the Dutch were put into the lowest class. Native blood was the only thing that could free Indos from being put into concentration camps,{{cite news|title=Who is responsible for 'Bersiap'?|first=Calvin Michel|last=Sidjaja|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/10/22/who-responsible-bersiap.html|newspaper=The Jakarta Post|date=22 October 2011|access-date=21 December 2013}} 160,000 Indos (Eurasians) were not herded into camps. It is estimated that 8,200 european POW and 16,800 Indo people and European civilians died in Japanese concentration camps and the number of Indo people who died outside the camps is unknown.{{Cite web|url=https://www.niod.nl/en/frequently-asked-questions/japanese-occupation-and-pacific-war-numbers|title=The Japanese Occupation and Pacific War (in numbers)|website=www.niod.nl}}

On 24 November 1945, Sutomo leaked propaganda to specifically kill the Dutch, Indo, Ambonese and unarmed civilians, Hundreds of Eurasians were killed in attacks by fanatical nationalistic Indonesian youth groups in the Bersiap Period during the last quarter of 1945,{{cite book|last1=Post|first1=Peter|last2=Touwen-Bouwsma|first2=Elly|title=Japan, Indonesia, and the War: Myths and Realities|year=1997|publisher=KITLV Press|page=48}}{{Cite journal | doi=10.1080/14623528.2012.719370|title = The killing of Dutch and Eurasians in Indonesia's national revolution (1945–49): A 'brief genocide' reconsidered| journal=Journal of Genocide Research| volume=14| issue=3–4| pages=359–380|year = 2012|last1 = Frederick|first1 = William H.|s2cid = 145622878}} and it is estimated that around 5,500 to 20,000 Indo people and European civilians people were killed and 2,500 went missing during bersiap period.{{cite web|url=https://www.niod.nl/en/frequently-asked-questions/indonesian-war-independence-numbers|title=Indonesian War of Independence (in numbers)|publisher=NIOD|access-date=12 August 2022}}{{cite web|url=https://niodbibliotheek.blogspot.com/2014/05/de-slachtoffers-van-de-bersiap_16.html|title=De slachtoffers van de Bersiap|trans-title=The Victims of the Bersiap|last=Kemperman|first=Jeroen|date=16 May 2014|website=Niodbibliotheek.blogspot.com|language=nl|access-date=2 December 2023}}{{Cite web|url=https://voi.id/en/memori/11326|title=The Dark Side Of The Revolution Of Independence: A Period Of Unscrupulous Preparedness|website=VOI - Waktunya Merevolusi Pemberitaan}}{{Cite book| url=https://academic.oup.com/book/9827/chapter/157061044 | doi=10.1093/oso/9780198777168.003.0002 | date=2017 | last1=Borch | first1=Fred L. | title=Military Trials of War Criminals in the Netherlands East Indies 1946-1949 | chapter=Setting the Stage: The Dutch in the East Indies from 1595 to 1942 | volume=1 | publisher=Oxford University Press | isbn=978-0-19-877716-8 }}

So of the 290,000 Indo people and Europeans, 260,000 of whom had Dutch citizenship before the Japanese occupation, it is estimated that more than 50,000 died during the Japanese occupation until the Bersiap period.

Over 10% of the "Indo-Europeans" took Indonesian citizenship after Indonesian independence.R. B. Cribb, Audrey Kahin, Historical Dictionary of Indonesia (2004) p. 185 Most retained full Dutch citizenship after the transfer of sovereignty to Indonesia in 1949.

In 1949, 300,000 Eurasians who had been socialized into many Dutch customs were repatriated.Thomas Janoski, The Ironies of Citizenship: Naturalization and Integration in Industrialized Countries (Cambridge University Press, 2010) pp. 163,168 {{ISBN|0-521-14541-4}} The Dutch established a repatriation programme which lasted until 1967. Over a 15-year period after the Republic of Indonesia became an independent state, virtually the entire Dutch population, Indische Nederlanders (Dutch Indonesians), estimated at between 250,000 and 300,000, left the former Dutch East Indies.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jee-0p_-rEEC&q=indo|title=Spreading the 'burden'?: A Review of Policies to Disperse Asylum Seekers and ... - Vaughan Robinson, Roger Andersson, Sako Musterd - Google Books|access-date=4 December 2013|isbn=9781861344175|last1=Robinson|first1=Vaughan|last2=Andersson|first2=Roger|last3=Musterd|first3=Sako|date=2003-07-30|publisher=Policy Press }}{{cite book|last=Herzog|first=B.|title=Anticolonialism, decolonialism, neocolonialism|year=2013|publisher=Blackwell Publishing|page=21}}

Most of them moved to the Netherlands. Many had never been there before. Some of them went to Australia, the United States or Canada. 18.5% departed for the United States.{{cite web|url=http://amerindo.berkeley.edu/history/status-of-indos-in-the-united-states/|title=Status of Indos in the United States|publisher=Amerindo.berkeley.edu|access-date=4 December 2013|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131212045835/http://amerindo.berkeley.edu/history/status-of-indos-in-the-united-states/|archive-date=12 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://latitudes.nu/indo%E2%80%99s-and-moluccans-in-the-netherlands/|title=Indo's and Moluccans in the Netherlands: How did they get there? | YOUR GATEWAY TO SOUTHEAST ASIA|publisher=Latitudes.nu|access-date=4 December 2013}} In 1959, Dutch people who did not embrace Indonesian citizenship were expelled. An estimated 60,000 immigrated to the United States in the 1960s.

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The migration pattern of the so-called Repatriation progressed in five distinct waves over a period of 20 years.

• The first wave, 1945–1950: After Japan's capitulation and Indonesia's declaration of independence, around 100,000 people, many former captives that spent the war years in Japanese concentration camps and then faced the turmoil of the violent Bersiap period, left for the Netherlands. Although Indos suffered greatly during this period, with 5,500 people killed in the last Bersiap period, the great majority did not leave their place of birth until the next few waves.
• The second wave, 1950–1957: After formal Dutch recognition of Indonesia's independence,{{cite web|url=http://cgi.omroep.nl/cgi-bin/streams?/ibg/sn079032-sb.wmv?|title=uit Indonesi overdracht souvereiniteit en intocht van president Sukarno in Djakarta;embed=1 Link to video footage|access-date=4 December 2013}} many civil servants, law enforcement, and defence personnel left for the Netherlands. The colonial army was disbanded and at least 4,000 of the South Moluccan price soldiers and their families were also relocated to the Netherlands. The exact number of people that left Indonesia during the second wave is unknown. According to one estimate, 200,000 moved to the Netherlands in 1956.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JZfvCVndvXoC&q=indo|title=Dutch Culture in a European Perspective: 1950, prosperity and welfare - Google Books|access-date=4 December 2013|isbn=9789023239666|last1=Frijhoff|first1=Willem|last2=Spies|first2=Marijke|year=2004|publisher=Royal Van Gorcum }}
• The third wave, 1957–1958: During the political conflict around the 'New-Guinea Issue', Dutch citizens were declared undesired elements by the young Republic of Indonesia and around 20,000 more people left for the Netherlands.
• The fourth wave, 1962–1964: When the last Dutch-controlled territory (New Guinea), was released to the Republic of Indonesia, the last remaining Dutch citizens left for the Netherlands, including around 500 Papua civil servants and their families. The total number of people that migrated is estimated at 14,000.
• The fifth wave, 1949–1967: During this overlapping period a distinctive group of people, known as Spijtoptanten (Repentis), who originally opted for Indonesian citizenship found that they were unable to integrate into Indonesian society and also left for the Netherlands. In 1967, the Dutch government formally terminated this option. Of the 31,000 people who originally opted for Indonesian citizenship (Indonesian term: Warga negara Indonesia), 25,000 withdrew their decision over the years.Note: These people are known by the Dutch term: 'Spijtoptanten' See::nl:Spijtoptant (English: Repentis){{cite web|url=http://www.gimonca.com/sejarah/sejarah09.shtml|title=Timeline Milestones 8|publisher=Gimonca.com|access-date=4 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.passagierslijsten1945-1964.nl/boten/|title=Passenger lists archive|publisher=Passagierslijsten1945-1964.nl|access-date=4 December 2013}}

Many Indos who left for the Netherlands often continued the journey of their diaspora to warmer places, such as California and Florida in the United States.{{cite web|last=Brinks|first= Herbert|title=Dutch Americans, Countries and Their Cultures|year=2010|url=http://www.everyculture.com/multi/Du-Ha/Dutch-Americans.html}} A 2005 study estimates the number of Indos who went to Australia around 10,000.{{cite book|last1=Cote|first1=Joost|last2=Westerbeek|first2=Loes|title=Recalling the Indies: Colonial Culture and Postcolonial Identities|publisher=Askant Academic Publishers|year=2005|isbn=978-90-5260-119-9|url=http://www.asiabookroom.com/AsiaBookRoom/search.cfm?rtd=50&ss=r&sst=Dutch%20East%20Indies&kf=yes&MainTopic=Indonesia%20-%20Struggle%20for%20Independence|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141111140859/http://www.asiabookroom.com/AsiaBookRoom/search.cfm?rtd=50&ss=r&sst=Dutch%20East%20Indies&kf=yes&MainTopic=Indonesia%20-%20Struggle%20for%20Independence|archive-date=11 November 2014}} Research has shown that most Indo immigrants are assimilating into their host societies. The Indos are disappearing as a group.David Levinson, Melvin Ember, American immigrant cultures: builders of a nation (1997) p. 441

Notable Americans whose families came from the Dutch East Indies include the musicians Eddie Van Halen, Alex Van Halen{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time/36|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090725054403/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time/36|url-status=dead|archive-date=25 July 2009|title=Music News: Latest and Breaking Music News|magazine=Rolling Stone|access-date=4 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://guitar.about.com/library/bl100greatest.htm|title=100 Greatest Guitar Solos - tablature for the best guitar solos of all time|publisher=Guitar.about.com|date=14 November 2013|access-date=4 December 2013|archive-date=5 March 2016|archive-url=https://archive.today/20160305022334/http://guitar.about.com/od/guitaristsatoz/tp/100-Greatest-Guitar-Solos.htm|url-status=dead}}[{{AllMusic|class=artist|id=p133912|pure_url=yes}} Allmusic.org] and Michelle Branch, the actor Mark-Paul Gosselaar,{{cite news|title=Catching up with...Mark-Paul Gosselaar|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/discussion/2008/10/13/DI2008101301751.html|newspaper=The Washington Post|date=15 October 2008|access-date=11 August 2014|first=Mark-Paul|last=Gosselaar}}{{cite news|last=Rohit|first=Parimal M.|title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar Discusses Franklin and Bash|work=Santa Monica Mirror|date=3 March 2011|url=http://www.smmirror.com/articles/Life-and-Arts/Mark-Paul-Gosselaar-Discusses-Franklin-and-Bash/32309|access-date=11 August 2014}}{{cite web|title=Mark-Paul Gosselaar...From Outrageous Con Man To Reluctant Icon!|publisher=Mark-Paul Gosselaar.net|year=2005|url=http://www.markpaulgosselaar.net/articles/outrageousconman.htm|access-date=11 August 2014|archive-date=31 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201031135236/http://www.markpaulgosselaar.net/articles/outrageousconman.htm|url-status=dead}} and the video game designer Henk Rogers.{{cite web|title=The Story of Tetris: Henk Rogers|url=http://www.sramanamitra.com/2009/09/16/the-story-of-tetris-henk-rogers-part-1/|work=Sramana Mitra|access-date=7 September 2011|date=16 September 2009}}{{cite web|title=Henk B. Rogers' Page|url=http://www.techhui.com/profile/HenkBRogers|work=TechHui|access-date=7 September 2011}}

During the 1950s and 1960s an estimated 60,000 Indos arrived in the US, where they have integrated into mainstream American society. These Indos were sometimes also referred to as Indo-Europeans and Amerindos. They are a relatively small Eurasian refugee-immigrant group in the US.

Indos who emigrated to the US following Indonesian independence assimilated into their new country, marrying people outside the community; most never returned to Indonesia.{{cite news|title=Dutch Indonesians' search for home|first=Tifa|last=Asrianti|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/01/10/dutch-indonesians039-search-home.html|newspaper=The Jakarta Post|date=10 January 2010|access-date=25 September 2013}} Migration to the US occurred under legislative refugee measures; these immigrants were sponsored by Christian organizations such as the Church World Service and the Catholic Relief Services. An accurate count of Indo immigrants is not available, as the US Census classified people according to their self-determined ethnic affiliation. The Indos may have been included in overlapping categories of "country of origin", "other Asians," "total foreign", "mixed parentage", "total foreign-born" and "foreign mother tongue". However the Indos who settled via the legislative refugee measures number at least 25,000.Willems, Wim "De uittocht uit Indie (1945–1995), De geschiedenis van Indische Nederlanders" (Publisher: Bert Bakker, Amsterdam, 2001) p. 254 {{ISBN|90-351-2361-1}}

The original post-war refugee legislation of 1948, already adhering to a strict 'affidavit of support' policy, was still maintaining a color bar making it difficult for Indos to emigrate to the US. By 1951, US consulates in the Netherlands registered 33,500 requests and had waiting times of 3 to 5 years. Also the US Walter-McCarran Act (1953) adhered to the traditional American policy of limiting immigrants from Asia. The yearly quota for Indonesia was limited to 100 visas, even though Dutch foreign affairs attempted to profile Indos as refugees from the alleged pro-communist Sukarno administration.

The 1953 flood disaster in the Netherlands resulted in the US Refugee Relief Act including a slot for 15,000 ethnic Dutch who had at least 50% European blood (one year later loosened to Dutch citizens with at least two Dutch grandparents) and a clean legal and political record. In 1954, only 187 visas were actually granted. Partly influenced by the anti-western rhetoric and policies of the Sukarno administration, anti-communist US Representative Francis E. Walter pleaded for a second term of the Refugee Relief Act in 1957 and an additional slot of 15,000 visas in 1958.

In 1958, the US Pastore-Walter Act ("Act for the relief of certain distressed aliens") was passed allowing for a one-off acceptance of 10,000 Dutchmen from Indonesia (excluding the regular annual quota of 3,136 visas). It was hoped however that only 10% of these Dutch refugees would in fact be racially mixed Indos and the American embassy in The Hague was frustrated with the fact that Canada, which was more strict in ethnic profiling, was getting the full–blooded Dutch and the US was getting Dutch "all rather heavily dark". Still in 1960 senators Pastore and Walter managed to get a second 2-year term for their act which was used by a great number of Indo 'Spijtoptanten' (Repentis).

The Indos who immigrated and their descendants can be found in all fifty US states, with a majority in southern California.{{cite web|url=http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/dailydish/2009/05/double-dutch-indonesian-cuisine-at-the-holland-festival.html|title=Holland Festival in L.A., CA|publisher=Latimesblogs.latimes.com|date=26 May 2009|access-date=4 December 2013}} The 1970 US Census recorded 28,000 foreign-born Dutch (Dutch not born in the Netherlands) in California, while the six traditional states with strong Dutch population numbers (Michigan, New York, New Jersey, Illinois, Washington and Florida) hosted most of the other 50,000 foreign-born Dutch. The formation of Indo enclaves did not occur because of various factors. Indos settled initially with their sponsors or in locations offered them by the sponsor. Indos also had a wide variety of occupations and in this respect were not limited to certain geographic areas. There were no forces in the host society limiting the choice of location; there was a full choice as to where to settle.Krancher, Jan Indos: The Last Eurasian Community in the USA? Article adapted from "American Immigrant Cultures – Builders of a Nation," volume 1, 1997, Simon and Schuster McMillan. (Publisher: Eurasian Nation, April 2003) Online transcript: [http://dutch.berkeley.edu/amerindo/indos-the-last-eurasian-community-in-the-usa/ Berkeley University Website]{{dead link|date=April 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}

Unlike in the Netherlands, US Indos did not increase numerically because of their relative small numbers and their geographical dispersion. Also the disappearance of a proverbial "old country" able to supply a continual influx of new immigrants stimulates the rapid assimilation of Indos into the US. Although several Indo clubs[http://www.deindo.com/ American Indo organisation publishing the magazine De Indo once established by] Tjalie Robinson. In 2007 its publisher Creutzburg was awarded Dutch royal honours in Anaheim, California for 44 years of dedication to his community. have existed throughout the second half of the 20th century, though the community's elders are passing away steadily. Some experts expect that within the lifespan of the second and third-generation descendants, the community will be assimilated and disappear completely into American multicultural society.[https://web.archive.org/web/20080922184903/http://www.eurasiannation.com/articlespol2003-04indos.htm Indos in the USA] (article on the Eurasian Nation platform) The great leap in technological innovation of the 20th and 21st centuries, in the areas of communication and media, is mitigating the geographical dispersion and diversity of American Indos. Triggered by the loss of family and community elders, US Indos are starting to rapidly reclaim their cultural heritage as well as a sense of community.{{cite web|author=Joe Fitzgibbon/Special to The Oregonian |url=http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/11/film_will_tell_story_of_dutch.html |title=Portland (US) News Article about new Indo Eurasian documentary (dd. Nov. 2009) |publisher=Oregonlive.com |date=2009-11-05 |access-date=2013-12-04}}

Notwithstanding Australia's ‘White Australia policy’ during the 1950s and 1960s, approximately 10,000 Indos migrated to Australia, mostly via the Netherlands. With regard to mixed-race Eurasians, who were called NPEO (Non Pure European Origine) by the Australian Ministries, subjective decision-making became the norm of the policy until the 1970s.

During WWII, a large refugee community from the Dutch East Indies existed in Australia of which 1,000 chose to stay in Australia after the War. The Dutch-Australian agreement (1951), to stimulate immigration to Australia did not bypass Australia's overall 'White Australia Policy', which considerably hampered the immigration of Indos.

In the early 1950s, Australian immigration officials based in the Netherlands screened potential Indo migrants on skin color and western orientation. Refusals were never explained. Notes to the applicants contained this standard sentence in English: "It is not the policy of the department to give reasons so please do not ask". In 1956, an Australian security official publicly stated in the Australian newspaper that Dutch Eurasians may become a serious social problem and even an Asian fifth column.

In the early 1960s, only vocationally skilled migrants were accepted to Australia. Originally, applicants were required to be of 100% European descent. Later, Indos were required to show a family tree proving 75% European descent. Eventually, the key question posed by Australian officials was: "Would they be noticed, if they walked down the streets of Canberra or Melbourne or Sydney, as being European or non-European?"

In the 1970s, in an attempt to make the policy more objective, a procedure was implemented that gave the applicant the opportunity to ask for a second opinion from a different official. Both decisions were then weighed by a higher official. Moreover, Anti-Asian migration policies started to change and in 1976 Australian immigration officials were even dispatched to Asia. Consequently, Indo-migrants were less and less subject to discrimination based on skin color.

:See also List of Dutch Indos

File:Demonstratie Indische Nederlanders Den Haag, Bestanddeelnr 906-7445.jpg|Demonstration of Indische Euraziatischen in The Hague (1954).

Indos in the Netherlands are considered an ethnic minority, and most of them are of mixed European-Indonesian origin bearing European family names.{{cite book|last1=Spaan|first1=Ernst|last2=Hillmann|first2=Felicitas|last3=van Naerssen|first3=Ton|title=Asian Migrants and European Labour Markets: Patterns and Processes of Immigrant Labour Market Insertion in Europe|year=2005|publisher=Taylor & Francis US|page=240}}

In 1990, the Dutch Central Bureau for Statistics (CBS) registered the number of first-generation Indos living in the Netherlands at around 180,000 people. In 2001, official registration, including the second generation, accumulate their numbers to around half a million. Based on this the estimations, which include the third-generation descendants, reach up to at least 800,000 people. However, researcher Dr. Peter Post of the NIOD estimates 1.5 to 2 million people with Indo blood live in the Netherlands. The Indo-Dutch living abroad were not included. That makes them by far the largest minority community in the Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.nl/NR/rdonlyres/E577EC62-CCEF-40DD-9087-C74E9B1801E0/0/b150301.pdf|title=Official CBS 2001 census document, p. 58|access-date=4 December 2013}}

The Indo community is considered the best-integrated ethnic and cultural minority in the Netherlands. Statistical data compiled by CBS shows that Indos belong to the group with the country's lowest crime rates.{{cite journal|title=Indo immigration as a colonial inheritance: post-colonial immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2002|journal=Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies|volume=32|issue=3|pages=323–346|doi=10.1080/13691830600555210|year=2006|last1=Van Amersfoort|first1=Hans|last2=Van Niekerk|first2=Mies|s2cid=216142383 }}

A 1999 CBS study reveals that of all foreign-born groups living in the Netherlands, only the Indos have an average income similar to that of citizens born in the Netherlands. Job participation in government, education, and health care is similar as well. A 2005 CBS study, among foreign-born citizens and their children living in the Netherlands, shows that on average, Indos own the largest number of independent enterprises. A 2007 CBS study shows that over 50% of first-generation Indos have married a native-born Dutch person, which increased to 80% for the second generation.{{cite book|last=De Vries|first=Marlene|title=Indisch is een gevoel, de tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|year=2009|isbn=978-90-8964-125-0|url=http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html|pages=369|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817070552/http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html|archive-date=17 August 2009}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PNo0ZYamYsUC&q='Indisch%20is%20een%20gevoel'|title='Indisch is een gevoel': de tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders|first=Marlene de|last=Vries|date=1 January 2009|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|via=Google Books|isbn=9789089641250}} One of the first and oldest Indo organisations that supported the integration of Indo repatriates into the Netherlands is Pelita.{{Cite web|url=http://www.pelita.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?themeid=1|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131031234451/http://www.pelita.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?themeid=1|url-status=dead|title=Pelita founded and operated by Indos celebrated its 60-year jubilee in 2007.|archivedate=31 October 2013}}

Although Indo repatriates,{{cite web|url=http://www.cbs.nl/nl-NL/menu/home/default.htm|title=CBS|last=CBS}} being born overseas, are officially registered as Dutch citizens of foreign descent, their Eurasian background puts them in the Western sub-class instead of the Non-Western (Asian) sub-class.

Two factors are usually attributed to the essence of their apparently seamless assimilation into Dutch society: Dutch citizenship, and the amount of 'Dutch cultural capital', in the form of school attainments and familiarity with the Dutch language and culture, which Indos already possessed before migrating to the Netherlands.{{cite journal|last=Van Amersfoort|first=Hans|title= Immigration as a Colonial Inheritance: Post-Colonial Immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945–2002|journal= Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies|volume=32|issue=3|pages=323–346|doi=10.1080/13691830600555210|year=2006|s2cid=216142383 }}

There were few public signs of the Indo culture. The most visible one was the yearly event Pasar Malam Besar (the Great Night Market) in The Hague that currently continues under the name Tong Tong Fair.{{cite book|last1=Thanh-Dam|first1=Truong|last2=Gasper|first2=Des|title=Transnational Migration and Human Security: The Migration-Development-Security Nexus|year=2011|publisher=Springer|page=201}}

Indo culinary culture has made an enduring impact on Dutch society. There is no other place outside Indonesia with such an abundance of Indonesian food available.{{cite book|last=Keasberry|first= Jeff |title=Indische Keukengeheimen, recepten en verhalen van 3 generaties Keasberry's| publisher= Karakter Uitgevers BV|location= Uithoorn|year= 2012| isbn= 978-90-452-0274-7 |page= 33 |url=http://www.keasberry.com/en/about/about/}} Indos played a pivotal role in introducing both Indonesian cuisine and Indo fusion cuisine to the Netherlands, making it so popular that some consider it an integral part of Dutch cuisine.C. Countess van Limburg Stirum, The Art of Dutch Cooking (Publisher: Andre Deutsch Limited, London, 1962) pp. 179-185 The Countess C. van Limburg Stirum writes in her book "The Art of Dutch Cooking" (1962): here exist countless Indonesian dishes, some of which take hours to prepare; but a few easy ones have become so popular that they can be regarded as "national dishes". She provides recipes for dishes that have become commonplace in the Netherlands: nasi goreng (fried rice), pisang goreng (fried bananas), lumpia goreng (fried spring rolls), bami (fried noodles), satay (grilled skewered meat), satay sauce (peanut sauce), and sambal ulek (chilli paste). Most towns in the Netherlands will have an Indies or Indonesian restaurant and toko (shop). Even most Chinese restaurants have added Indonesian dishes to their menu such as babi panggang (roasted pork), and many now call themselves Chinese Indies Restaurants.

Indo influence in Dutch society is also reflected in the arts, i.e. music{{cite web|url=http://www.rockabillyeurope.com/general/indorock.htm|title=Indo music in Europe|publisher=Rockabillyeurope.com|access-date=4 December 2013}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.storyofindorock.nl/crazy2004.htm|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927230941/http://www.storyofindorock.nl/crazy2004.htm|url-status=dead|title=storyofindorock.nl|archivedate=27 September 2007|website=www.storyofindorock.nl}} and literature.

An important champion of Indo culture was the writer Tjalie Robinson (1911–1974), who co-founded the Tong Tong Fair.Willems, Wim Tjalie Robinson; Biografie van een Indo-schrijver (Publisher: Bert Bakker, 2008) {{ISBN|978-90-351-3309-9}}{{cite book|last=Nieuwenhuys|first= Rob |title=Mirror of the Indies: A History of Dutch Colonial Literature|translator=E. M. Beekman |publisher= Periplus|year= 1999|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=I4I7D3U19OsC&q=Mirror+of+the+Indies:+a+history+of+Dutch+colonial+literature|isbn= 978-0870233685 }} Louis Couperus' Of Old People, the Things that Pass (Van oude mensen, de dingen die voorbij gaan, 1906) is a well-known example of an older Indies narrative. Maria Dermoût is known as a nostalgic Indies writer. Marion Bloem's postmemory work evolves around an artistic exploration of Indo identity and culture, which puts her in the tradition of Tjalie Robinson.{{cite book|last=Bosma|first=Ulbe|title=Post-Colonial Immigrants and Identity Formations in the Netherlands|year=2012|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|page=139}}{{cite book|last1=Boehmer|first1=Elleke|last2=de Mul|first2=Sarah|title=The Postcolonial Low Countries: Literature, Colonialism, and Multiculturalism|year=2012|publisher=Lexington Books|pages=100, 109}}

Eurasians were officially part of the European legal class. They were formally considered to be Dutch and held Dutch passports.{{cite journal|last1=Entzinger|first1=H.|title=East and West Indian Migration to the Netherlands|journal=The Cambridge Survey of World Migration|date=1995}}

Notwithstanding the fact that Indos in the former colony of the Dutch East Indies were officially part of the European legal class and were formally considered to be Dutch nationals, the Dutch government always practiced an official policy of discouragement with regard to the post-WWII repatriation of Indos to the Netherlands.{{cite web|url=http://www.geschiedenis24.nl/speler.program.7028352.html|title=Dossier Karpaan (NCRV TV channel, 16-10-1961) Original video footage (Spijtoptanten) |website=geschiedenis24.nl |access-date=10 September 2011}} While Dutch policy was in fact aimed at stimulating Indos to give up Dutch citizenship and opt for Indonesian citizenship, simultaneously the young Indonesian Republic implemented policies increasingly intolerant towards anything remotely reminiscent of Dutch influence. Even though actual aggression against Indos decreased after the extreme violence of the Bersiap period, all Dutch (language) institutions, schools and businesses were gradually eliminated and public discrimination and racism against Indos in the Indonesian job market continued. In the end, 98% of the original community moved to Europe.{{cite book|language=nl|last=Iburg|first=Nora|title=Van Pasar Malam tot I Love Indo, identiteitsconstructie en manifestatie door drie generaties Indische Nederlanders (Master thesis, Arnhem University)|year=2009|publisher=Ellessy Publishers, 2010|isbn=978-90-8660-104-2|url=http://www.vanstockum.nl/product/12299438/Van-Pasar-Malam-tot-%27I-love-Indo%27.html|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130112063805/http://www.vanstockum.nl/product/12299438/Van-Pasar-Malam-tot-'I-love-Indo'.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=12 January 2013}}

In the Netherlands, the first generation immigrants quickly adapted to the host society's culture and at least outwardly adopted its customs.van Amersfoort, Hans Immigration as a colonial inheritance: post-colonial immigrants in the Netherlands, 1945-2002 (Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, Commission for racial equality, 2006) Exactly as was the case in the old colony the necessity to blend in with dominant Dutch culture remained paramount for social and professional advancement.Willems, Wim Sporen van een Indisch verleden (1600-1942) (COMT, Leiden, 1994) {{ISBN|90-71042-44-8}}

Unlike in the Dutch East Indies, pressure to assimilate invaded even the intimacy of the private household. On a regular basis, Indos who were lodged in guest houses were carefully screened by social workers for so–called 'oriental practices', including the private use of any language other than Dutch, the home preparation of Indonesian food, wearing clothing from the Indies, using water for hygiene in the toilet and even the practice of taking daily baths.Note: The Indo practice of taking frequent baths was considered extravagant by social workers as the Dutch at the time were accustomed to taking weekly baths only.

Dutch society does not impose a compulsory ethnic identity on "Dutch Eurasians" because no community exists. Although third- and fourth-generation IndosThe academic definition in sociological studies often used to determine first-generation Indos: Indo repatriates who could consciousnessly make the decision to immigrate. As of age 12. are part of a fairly large minority community in the Netherlands, the path of assimilation ventured by their parents and grandparents has left them with little knowledge of their actual roots and history, even to the point that they find it hard to recognise their own cultural features. Some Indos find it hard to grasp the concept of their Eurasian identity and tend to either disregard their Indonesian roots or attempt to profile themselves as Indonesian.{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lKHEO7um2nQC|author=Crul, Lindo and Pang|title=Culture, Structure and Beyond, Changing identities and social positions of immigrants and their children|publisher=Het Spinhuis Publishers|date= 1999| isbn =978-90-5589-173-3|page=37|access-date=4 December 2013}}{{Cite web|url=http://www.indisch3.nl/|title=Indisch 3.0 - voor en door jongeren met Indische roots (2007 - 2014) | archiefsite over de Indische jongerencultuur}} In recent years, the reinvigorated search for roots and identity has also produced several academic studies.Recent Dutch academic studies include:

[https://www.scribd.com/doc/2257628/Indovation Boersma, Amis, Agung. Indovation, de Indische identiteit van de derde generatie (Master thesis, Leiden University, Faculty Languages and cultures of South East Asia and Oceania, Leiden, 2003)]; [http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html De Vries, Marlene. Indisch is een gevoel, de tweede en derde generatie Indische Nederlanders] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090817070552/http://www.imes.uva.nl/research/IMESsecondthirdgenerationsDutchEurasians.html |date=17 August 2009 }} (Amsterdam University Press, 2009) {{ISBN|978-90-8964-125-0}}; Vos, Kirsten Indie Tabe, Opvattingen in kranten van Indische Nederlanders in Indonesië over de repatriëring (Master Thesis, Media and Journalism, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Faculty of history and art, The Hague, 2007) {{cite web

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In her master thesis published in 2010, Dutch scholar Nora IburgHerself a third-generation Indo descendant argues that for third-generation descendants of Indos in the Netherlands there is no need to define the essence of a common Indo group identity and concludes that for them there is in fact no true essence of Indo identity except for its hybrid nature.{{in lang|nl}} [https://archive.today/20130112063805/http://www.vanstockum.nl/product/12299438/Van-Pasar-Malam-tot-'I-love-Indo'.html Iburg, Nora Van Pasar Malam tot I Love Indo, identiteitsconstructie en manifestatie door drie generaties Indische Nederlanders] (Master thesis, Arnhem University, 2009, Ellessy Publishers, 2010) p. 134 {{ISBN|978-90-8660-104-2}}

:See also List of Indonesian Indos

{{Blockquote|text=“[…] the place that the Indos […] occupy in our colonial society has been altered. In spite of everything, the Indos are gradually becoming Indonesians, or one could say that the Indonesians are gradually coming to the level of the Indos. The evolution of the deeply ingrained process of transformation in our society first established the Indos in a privileged position, and now that same process is withdrawing those privileges. Even if they retain their 'European' status before the law, they will still be on a level with the Indonesians, because there are and will continue to be many more educated Indonesians than Indos. Their privileged position thus is losing its social foundation, and as a result that position itself will also disappear".|author=Sutan Sjahrir, 1937{{cite web|url=http://www.asaa2000.unimelb.edu.au/papers/wiseman.html#_edn55|title=Panel paper ASAA conference by Dr. Roger Wiseman, University of Adelaide|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070830165135/http://www.asaa2000.unimelb.edu.au/papers/wiseman.html#_edn55|archive-date=30 August 2007}}}}

During colonial times, Indos were not always formally recognized and registered as Europeans. A considerable number of Indos integrated into their respective local indigenous societies and have never been officially registered as either European or Eurasian sub-group. The exact numbers are unknown.

In Malang, the Indo upper class is clustered in particular neighbourhoods and Sunday ceremony in the Sion Church is still in Dutch. In Bandung, over 2000 poor Indos are supported by overseas organisations such as Halin{{cite web|title=Halin Website|url=http://www.stichtinghalin.nl/|access-date=4 December 2013|publisher=Stichtinghalin.nl}} and the Alan Neys Memorial Fund.{{in lang|nl}} [http://www.hetindischplein.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?pageid=285 Alan Neys Memorial Fundraise Website. Retrieved 19 April 2010] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110724153835/http://www.hetindischplein.nl/cms/publish/content/showpage.asp?pageid=285 |date=24 July 2011 }} In Garut, there are ethnic Indos (Dutch Indonesians) there are Dutch Villages (Kampung Belanda) in the Dayeuh Manggung Tea Plantation Area. In Jakarta, some services in Immanuel Church are still in Dutch.{{cite news |last1=Sari |first1=Nursita |title=Ibadah Berbahasa Belanda Hanya Ada di GPIB Immanuel Jakarta |url=https://megapolitan.kompas.com/read/2017/12/25/13235401/ibadah-berbahasa-belanda-hanya-ada-di-gpib-immanuel-jakarta |access-date=25 January 2022 |work=KOMPAS.com |date=25 December 2017 |language=id}} Cities like Semarang, Surabaya, Magelang and Sukabumi still have significant communities.

Another place with a relatively large Dutch-speaking Indo community is Depok, on Java.{{Cite web|url=https://depok.nl/|title=Depok - Haar geschiedenis en die van de familie Loen|date=28 June 2024|website=depok.nl}} Smaller communities still exist in places such as Kampung Tugu in Koja, Jakarta.The Indo community of Tugu descend from the old Portuguese mestizo. [http://www.volkskrantreizen.nl/redactie/michel_maas/artikel10477120/tokkelend_hart_van_toegoe Dutch newspaper article: 'Tokkelend hart van Toegoe', Maas, Michel (Volkskrant, 9 January 2009)] Recently after the Aceh region in Sumatra became more widely accessible, following post-tsunami relief work, the media also discovered a closed Indo Eurasian community of devout Muslims in the Lamno area, mostly of Portuguese origin.{{in lang|id}} [http://raulmoorish.multiply.com/journal/item/55 Online article (id) about the Blue Eyed People from Lanbo, Aceh, Sumatra] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100318083508/http://raulmoorish.multiply.com/journal/item/55 |date=18 March 2010 }}{{Cite web|url=http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2005/02/17/last-portugueseacehnese-lamno.html|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120623225209/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2005/02/17/last-portugueseacehnese-lamno.html|url-status=dead|title=Jakarta Post article about the 'Portuguese Achenese' People from Lanbo, Aceh, Sumatra|archivedate=23 June 2012}}{{cite web|url=http://thejakartapost.com/news/2005/02/17/last-portugueseacehnese-lamno.html |title=The last Portuguese-Acehnese of Lamno | the Jakarta Post |access-date=2014-04-21 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131227044627/http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2005/02/17/last-portugueseacehnese-lamno.html |archive-date=27 December 2013}}{{cite web|url=http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps05_035.pdf |title=Archived copy |access-date=2006-08-13 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060810162700/http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/docs/wps/wps05_035.pdf |archive-date=10 August 2006}}{{Cite journal | url=https://www.academia.edu/9848422 | title=Tsunami 10 years ago: The last Portuguese-Acehnese of Lamno (Feb. 2005)| last1=Santoso| first1=Aboeprijadi}}{{Cite web|url=http://redaksi.waspada.co.id/v2024/?option=com_content&view=article&id=7324%3Aportugal-bangun-puskesmas-dan-madrasah-di-lamno&catid=13%3Aaceh&Itemid=26|title=Home 1|website=Waspada Online}}

During the Suharto era, like the Chinese minority in Indonesia also most Indos have changed their family names and some have converted to Islam to blend into the Pribumi-dominated society and prevent discrimination. The latest trend among Indo-Chinese and Indo-Europeans is to change them back.{{Cite web|url=http://www.kunci.or.id/esai/misc/juliastuti_indis.htm/|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709063031/http://www.kunci.or.id/esai/misc/juliastuti_indis.htm/|url-status=dead|title=Indonesian language article on KUNCI Cultural Studies Website|archivedate=9 July 2007}}

• Anglo-Burmese people
• Anglo-Indian people
• Afrikaners
• Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad
• Bayingyi people
• Bersiap
• Bụi đời
• Decolonisation of Asia
• Dutch Indies literature
• Hafu
• Hotel des Indes (Batavia)
• Indies Monument
• Indo cuisine
• Kristang people
• Luso-Indian
• Njai
• Pasar Malam Besar
• Spanish Filipino
• Stranger King (Concept)
• Volksraad (Dutch East Indies)

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• [https://web.archive.org/web/20070830165135/http://www.asaa2000.unimelb.edu.au/papers/wiseman.html Assimilation Out:Europeans, Indo-Europeans and Indonesians seen through sugar from the 1880s to the 1950s]
• [https://books.google.com/books?id=lKHEO7um2nQC&dq=Dutch+Eurasians&pg=PA28 Culture, structure and beyond]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20090827113827/http://dutcheastindies.web.id/ Dutch East Indies, website dedicated to the Dutch-Indonesian community]
• {{in lang|nl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20120916030215/http://oaithesis.eur.nl/ir/repub/asset/4233/Master%20Thesis%20Kirsten%20Vos%202007%20v%201.2.pdf 'Indie Tabe' Master Thesis Erasmus University by Kirsten Vos about the Indo repatriation (1950–1958)]
• [http://theindoproject.org/ The Indo Project, dedicated to the preservation, promotion and celebration of Indo culture and history through education and raising public awareness]
• [http://easts.dukejournals.org/content/3/2-3/173.full Medical Journal: European Physicians and Botanists, Indigenous Herbal Medicine in the Dutch East Indies, and Colonial Networks of Mediation via Indo-European women Hans Pols, University of Sydney]
• [https://web.archive.org/web/20121107152940/http://libguides.nl.sg/content.php?pid=354036&sid=2895953 Eurasians: A Resource Guide]

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