When the Dutch government eventually granted independence to their former colony, the Dutch (Netherland) East Indies in 1949, a large community of some 200,000 Indos were forced to find a new homeland. They were the offspring (descendants) of former Dutch and other European settlers, who often intermarried with women of Indonesian or other mixed ancestry. For more than three centuries they primarily lived on Java, but some also were from other islands of the large archipelago.    Jan Krancher, The Indo Project.