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[Book] The Social World of BataviaFew days ago I bought book titled "The Social World of Batavia" by Jean Gelman Taylor. This book is rarity among history-related books in the market. This is a very good book for these who are interested to see the social life in Dutch east indie which was centralized in Batavia, which was once called "the Queen of South East Asia". The price is Rp. 90,000 (around $10). It's bit expensive for translated books (because most books here priced around Rp. 30.000-65.000) but I think the content worth the price. This book explains many missing points from our history books, it fills the ...
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Sejarah Orang Indo di Indonesia(to english reader: this is translation of this article) Beberapa waktu ini saya memulai lagi membaca literatur mengenai eurasia dan orang Indo di Hindia Belanda. Seperti yang saya tulis di artikel terkait mengenai eurasia, saya sedang mengadakan penelitian pribadi mengenai Indo di Hindia Belanda untuk memuaskan rasa penasaran. Nyaris semua saudara dari oma saya telah meninggal. Yang tertua sedang hidup di Belanda, dan mengalami kepikunan karena usia lanjut. Anaknya (sepupu mama saya) tidak terlalu tahu tentang sejarah keluarga kami, sekarang saya satu-satunya yang mau menginvestigasi. Kakak saya ada rencana untuk studi ke Belanda, tapi tidak dalam waktu dekat, dan saya benar-benar khawatir kalau ...
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Indische in East IndieAh just recently I start reading a lot of literature regarding Eurasians/Indische/Indo in East Indie. As I have wrote in my related articles about eurasian, I was conducting personal research about indische in east indie to satisfy my curiosity. Indeed, most of all my oma's siblings passed away already. The oldest one is in netherlands, and having memory detoriation due nature of her old age. Her son (my mother's cousin) didn't know much about history of our family, now I'm the only one left to investigate. My sister has plan to study to Netherlands, but it won't happen anytime soon and I ...
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The Quest for Family Tree (part 1)It’s always nice to conduct genealogy research of our own family, especially when there is no family tree to look at. I’m one of these people who are curious to know the history of their own family. Maybe we could find something interesting. My nuclear family unfortunately, doesn’t keep family tree. My maternal grandmother come from dutch family de Wilde, while her husband came from Manado, with family surname Yap. In other side, my paternal grandfather is a hokkien chinese came from fujian province, with surname Sie. My paternal family is bigger than my maternal counterpart. It’s BIG enough to give me ...
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Eurasian TragedyBagi yang demen nonton Infotainment, mungkin mengetahui bahwa akhir-akhir ini ada perdebatan publik menarik mengenai artis-artis "Indo". Kasus yang dialami Rianty Cartwright cukup menarik perhatian saya, soalnya saya pernah mengalami pasang surut mengenai identitas saya sebagai orang Indonesia. Saya sedikit banyak mengerti kebingungan yang dialami perasaan Rianty "saya orang apaan sih? Apakah salah bila saya mencintai Indonesia karena saya berbeda dengan orang-orang lain?" Tulisan ini berisi opini dari pengalaman pribadi keluarga saya yang sedang saya lacak genealoginya sebelum terlambat (soalnya nggak ada seorangpun yang mau memulai, iCapeD). Artikel ini mungkin agak sedikit etnosentris, tapi kalau saya menulis dengan berbau rasis, silahkan tegur saya. Saya ...
