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My name is Michael Passage, born to an Indo Dutch/Belgian father and Indonesian mother, dad was born in 1933 in Cirebon in The Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia) and mom was born in 1941 in Manado, on the island of Celebes (now Sulawesi). While most Indos (Eurasians in particular those with Dutch etnicity decided to leave their land of birth right after WWII in 1945, my parents were the last of Indos who left “The Gordel of Smaragd” in 1966. I was born on 27 April 1967, the same day as our King Willem Alexander of The Netherlands and moved at the age of three to a Belgian small town village called Witgoor Dessel, 30 minutes North of Antwerp, Belgium. In the late eighties I have lived in Jakarta, Indonesia and worked for Surveyor Indonesia, an Indonesian Government owned company responsible for pre-shipment inspections on export to Indonesia. Since 2009 I’ve been in Sun Valley, So Cal among so many Indos. I am a proud So-Cal Indo, proud of my Indo Heritage and our delicious cuisine and look forward to share all the beautiful things of being Indo with all of you. I was born and raised with Indo family values and live by Indo rules and am loyal to my Botol Cebok. I started SoCal Indo to raise AWARENESS of our beautiful Indo Culture, to UNITE our Indo people and to SUPPORT our Indo people and since May 2017 I proudly can say I’m a FlAmerIndo, raised in beautiful Flanders, American by Naturalization and Indo by birth. Klik hier voor de So Cal Indo site
Inez Hollander, PhD, is the Academic Director of The Indo Project. Since her book Silenced Voices (Verstilde stemmen en verzwegen levens: Een Indische familiegeschiedenis), Hollander has become fully aware of the Indische Kwestie, an unfinished story in her family and many families in the Netherlands and abroad. Operating from the US, she hopes she can be a liaison between the Indisch and Indo community in the Netherlands and that same community worldwide. 
