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THE INDO-EUROPEAN LEAGUE
Spotlight on Dutch-Indonesian History (XXII
In the preceding chapter a survey was
given of the several organizations in the
Dutch East Indies around the year 1915: the
Budi Utomo, the Sarekat Islam, the Muham-
madyah, the Indische Bond, the vereniging
Insulinde and the Indische Partij The first
three were purely Indonesian; the second
three had Indonesian as well as Dutch members.
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All these organizations only worked for
improvement of social standards in the Dutch
East Indies; there were no political aspiration s
- yet! But slowly marxistic and socialistic
influences creeped in (Semaun, Sneevliet
Still no Dutch Organization existed, as the
Dutch society lived divided and widely spr
ead over all Indonesia. The number of pure
white Dutch was very small and on top of
that split u p by social barriers. White sold
iers for instance were considered of such
low status, that they were not admitted to
the clubs of the better-off Dutch,and even
the better restaurants were closed for them.
The vast masses of Europeans of mixed par
entage did not exist officially and even had
no name to indicate their indentity.
Then a journalist, Karei Zaalberg, editor
of the "Bataviaasch Nieuwsblad", started
a rally to bring all these citizens of Europeo-
an-lndonesian parentage together and the
Indo-European League Indo-Europpes ver
bond was founded, the indentity of their
members carefully defined and given a name
Indo-Europeans are:
A. All persons of European blood living
in the Dutch East Indies, and their
descendants, on the understanding
that the first persons referred to are
born in the D.E. Indies.
B. All persons of European blood, hav
ing children born in the D.E. Indies
or are married to Indo-Europeans
formulated in A.
Often to the Indo-Europeans is referred
as Eurasians with a special name.
This is not correct. Eurasians, living in the
English colonies, are of English and mixed
Asian parentage. Indo-Europeans are from
mixed European and only Indonesian paren
tage. Furthermore Eurasians only lived (and
still live) as a uncertain group not official
ly recognized. The Indo-Europeans however,
