{"id":11215,"date":"2011-01-02T23:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-01-02T23:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=11215"},"modified":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T02:49:17","slug":"the-eurasians-of-indonesia-a-problem-and-challenge-in-colonial-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=11215","title":{"rendered":"The Eurasians of Indonesia: A Problem and Challenge in Colonial History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S021778110000466X\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>The Eurasians of Indonesia: A Problem and Challenge in Colonial History<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=SEH\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Southeast Asian History<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=SEH&amp;volumeId=9&amp;seriesId=0&amp;issueId=02\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 9, Issue 2<\/a> (1968)<br \/>\npages 191-207<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S021778110000466X\">10.1017\/S021778110000466X<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Paul W. van der Veur<\/strong>, Professor of History<br \/>\n<em>Australian National University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Persons of mixed European and Asian parentage appeared in the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Indonesia\" target=\"_blank\">Indonesian<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Archipelago\" target=\"_blank\">archipelago<\/a> shortly after the arrival of the first \u201cWesterners\u201d in the sixteenth century. Although most of them were absorbed by the indigenous population, some were not and came to constitute a separate, identifiable group. The main reason, apart from paternal pride, seems to have been religious. <strong>Christianity, especially during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, encouraged a strong feeling of responsibility toward the biracial offspring of non-European women. A moral obligation was felt to baptize the child and give it the name of the father. Legal rules and regulations facilitated the process: the European father, for example, could \u201crecognize\u201d his natural child by a non-European woman, adopt it, or request a \u201cLetter of legitimation\u201d. <\/strong>Possession of \u201cthe status of European\u201d in the nineteenth century permitted persons of mixed descent to benefit educationally from the rapid expansion of \u201cEuropean\u201d (i.e. Dutch) schools. Finally, the Dutch nationality law of 1892\u2014based squarely on the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jus_sanguinis\" target=\"_blank\"><em>jus sanguinis<\/em><\/a> principle\u2014contained the crucial provision that all those who were considered Europeans when the act came into force (July 1, 1893)\u2014including those who were legally assimilated and socially a part of the European group\u2014became Dutch citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=5867268&amp;fulltextType=RA&amp;fileId=S021778110000466X#\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Eurasians of Indonesia: A Problem and Challenge in Colonial History Journal of Southeast Asian History Volume 9, Issue 2 (1968) pages 191-207 DOI: 10.1017\/S021778110000466X Paul W. van der Veur, Professor of History Australian National University Persons of mixed European and Asian parentage appeared in the Indonesian archipelago shortly after the arrival of the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,459,8,4405,820],"tags":[5011,5010,5009],"class_list":["post-11215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-history","category-media-archive","category-oceania","category-religion","tag-indonesia","tag-journal-of-southeast-asian-history","tag-paul-w-van-der-veur"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}