The 31st Annual Holland Festival in Long Beach is scheduled to be held on September 5th, 2021. Due to the pandemic the festivals usually held during Memorial Day Weekend in May of last year and this year had to be canceled. With more events coming back as California reopens, the United Netherlands Organizations, have started…
On the weekend of April 26–27, 2026, The Indo Project took part in two wonderful Dutch and Indo community events across Southern California. We first stopped in San Diego for Koningsdag San Diego before heading north to Long Beach for the 36th annual Holland Festival also celebrating Dutch King’s Day (dutchkingsday.com), organized by the United…
By Inge Oosterhoff | Article Highlights by The Indo Project Featured image: The meeting where the DURF began, in the living room of the Attinger family, 1961. Indo author Tjalie Robinson in white shirt in the middle. Photo courtesy of Attinger family archive. Introduction In October 2023, The Indo Project featured Inge Oosterhoff’s widely received article,…
by Astrid Berg, PhD I interviewed three female cousins, all third-generation Americans in their thirties and forties, who have Indo mothers and African-American fathers. I began the interview by sharing my experience as a white-bodied child of interracial parents—an Indo father and Dutch mother. Growing up, I encountered subtle remarks and impressions from my mother…
by Arthur Fickel, president of the IGV About The Indische Genealogical Society (IGV) was established in 1988 by individuals seeking information about their ancestors who once lived in the Dutch East Indies. They found the existing resources to be grossly inadequate and faced challenges in accessing genealogical sources from both the former Dutch East Indies…
By Cindy Rodermond, Winnie Piccolo (nee Gravendaal), Ingrid Gravendaal, Linda Gravendaal, and Peggy Gravendaal Prior to the 1980s, movie posters were a one-off in that they were original, authentic drawings and paintings, even the billboard-sized ones that loomed high above city traffic. In the Netherlands, the artists behind these creations were called bioscoopschilders (cinema painters).…
by Jane Vogel Mantiri War is hell. My parents survived two wars: World War II and the Indonesian National Revolution that followed. Although those wars ended, my parents’ trauma never did. This story is dedicated to my parents. I was my parents’ only daughter. My father was a brave, strong, and loving man who lived…
In Colorado, Indos are meeting regularly to share a meal and build community. The Colorado Kumpulan is hosted by Alice Dohne and Teda DaCosta. The group of 40+ members meet for lunch every month at different restaurants, mostly Asian, in the greater Denver Area. The December kumpulan is the only event that is planned in…
The Indo Project is asking you to save the date: Sunday, April 30th, 2023. There will be an ultimate event this year: the combination of the annual Holland Festival and the annual Dutch King’s Day celebration! This will allow everyone a unified event to celebrate our Dutch and Dutch East Indies heritage background. This event…
By Edward E. E. Frietman This is the second installment in a three-part series (see part 1 and part 3) featuring Indo luminary Edward E. E. Frietman. In this chapter, he recounts his experiences as a young child in the immediate aftermath of World War II, during the violent and chaotic Bersiap period in what is…