Indo people

Indo is a term used to describe Europeans, Asians, and 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, and also Portuguese, British, French, Belgian, German, and others.

Other terms used were Indos, Dutch Indonesians, Eurasians,Indo-Europeans, Indo-Dutch, and Dutch-Indos.

Overview

Studio portrait of an Indo-European family, Dutch East Indies(1890-1910)

Studio portrait of an Indo-European family, Dutch East Indies(1890-1910)

Studio portrait of the family Engelenburg Banjoewangi (1919)

Studio portrait of the family Engelenburg Banjoewangi (1919)

Portrait of a child in Indo sarong and kabaja (1907-1931)