Indos in the Dutch East Indies
| Regions with significant populations | |
|---|---|
| Indonesia | estimated 1,000,000 |
| Netherlands | 431,000 (dd.2001 incl. 2nd generation). |
| United States | 100,000 (incl. 2nd generation). |
| Australia | 10,000 (excl. 2nd generation) |
| Languages | |
| Mainly Dutch, English and Indonesian; historically: Malay,Petjo and Javindo | |
| Religion | |
| Predominantly Christianity (Protestantism—especially Dutch Reformed or Lutheran; Roman Catholicism), minority Islam | |
| Related ethnic groups | |
| Dutch people, other European peoples and Indonesian peoples, Afrikaners | |
The Indo people are Eurasian people who were a migrant population that associated themselves with and experienced the colonial culture of the former Dutch East Indies, a Dutch colony in Southeast Asia that became Indonesia after World War II. It was used to describe people acknowledged to be of mixed Dutch and Indonesian descent, or it was a term used in the Dutch East Indies to apply to Europeans who had partial Asian ancestry. The European ancestry of these people was predominantly Dutch, but also included Portuguese, British, French, Belgian, German, and others.
Other terms used were Indos, Dutch Indonesians, Eurasians,Indo-Europeans, Indo-Dutch, and Dutch-Indos.
Studio portrait of an Indo-European family, Dutch East Indies (ca. 1900)
Studio portrait of the family Engelenburg, Banyuwangi (1919)
Portrait of a child in Indo sarong and kabaja (before 1931)
Mrs. Mertens in sarong and kabaja, Java (ca. 1888)
Japanese Indonesian identity card in the name of Johanna Maria Durand, born Leeuwenburgh, Malang (1942)
In the Indonesian language, common synonymous terms are Sinjo, Belanda-Indo, Indo-Belanda, and Indo means Eurasian: a person with European and Indonesian parentage.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. Indische is an abbreviation of the Dutch term Indische Nederlander. Indische was a term that could be applied to everything connected with the Dutch East Indies. In the Netherlands the term 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 did not form "a racially, culturally and socially homogenous community between the Totoks (European newcomers) and the indigenous population". They were historically Christians and spoke Dutch, Portuguese, English and Indonesian. They were compared to Afrikaners from South Africa, who also share Dutch ancestry and culture.
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