Hi, an update from Dutch-Indonesian group regarding The Indo Project:
High-Resolution Photos Wanted for Web Site: The Indo Project web site is being developed. We will have a fading in/out photo slideshow, but the quality of the photos need to be at least 250 dpi high-res. If you’d like to submit a photo please send to biancacc@yahoo.com. The slideshow will feature Indos and Indo-related subjects and can be changed and varied
If you have photos of your families (grandfather, etc) during Dutch East Indies, you could contribute in this project by allowing the team to use your photos.
Hi everyone, just recently Mike was interviewed by Jakarta Post regarding the The Indo Project. This post is an archive of the article as usual, you could read the news here.
Just recently bought this book from Periplus for $6. This is story about a rich dutchman of French heritage, lived in Jatinegara in late 19th century. This is not book about eurasian, but it’s still useful to see the social life among dutch, eurasian, and indonesians in the dutch east indies. The author, Edward du Perron was born in Dutch East Indies. He was probaby best classified as Creoles, the european people who was born in Dutch East Indies.
Charles Edgar du perron was born in Java 1899, his parents, the only son of french-dutch descent. Even though he was Dutch, the author is remoted from friends at his age, so his friends were only the native children.
Part of this book describing his life in Dutch east Indies as boy, and the others living in Europe as man. It’s like visiting the past and its people, looked through glass of dutch, like how the young boy was very close with his guardian angel Alima (an indigenous), and how he was taught by mistress/teachers of eurasian and dutch background.
For these who are looking for dutch east indies literature, I recommend you to pick this one, though I must admit I’m too lazy to read anything not related of his life in dutch east indies. I skipped the first chapters or anything about his life in Europe, because I only see this book as reference about life and social reality in the Dutch East Indies.