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Indo of the month 2018

Dec 01 2018

Jenn Spiller

Hi Everyone! My name is Jenn Meijer (now Spiller…as soon as I officially change my name) and I am happy to be proud of SoCal Indo! I originally am from Orange County (hometown Huntington Beach). In High School, I moved to “the bay” and have been here for 15 years. Even though I am in […]

Nov 02 2018

Carl Bröker

Hi there, my name is Carl Böker, born in 1944 in Batoe, Malang, Java, Dutch East Indies. My Grandfather (father\’s side) and my father served in the KNIL (Koninklijke Nederland’s Indië Leger/Royal Dutch East Indies Army). Unfortunately with WW-II and then the subsequent Merdeka time (Indonesian takeover of The  Dutch East Indies). I never got to […]

Sep 30 2018

Liz Mahina Souza

Hi there, My name is Elizabeth \”Liz\” Mahina Souza, very often strangers speculate about my ethnicity, of course, living in Southern California I get the most obvious guesses first, Latino, Hawaiian, part Japanese. Very often people approach me so certain I am Native American, that their first words are “What tribe?” You know I have […]

Sep 08 2018

Peter Van Roey

My name is Peter Van Roey, born in the year when the first man walked on the moon in a Belgian village called Brasschaat, close to Antwerp. Belgian dad and Sumatran mom. My story is so similar like the other Indos in the previous months but I like to share my experience what happened on […]

Jul 31 2018

Catherine Loeffen

My name is Catherine Loeffen and I am a Wood and temporary tattoo artisan. I have a B.S. degree in Apparel Manufacturing and Management from California Polytechnic University, Pomona. I was born on August 7th, 1979 to the parents of Elisa Solis of Mexican ancestry and Franklin Arthur Loeffen of Dutch-Indonesian descent. I am currently […]

Jul 02 2018

Jedediah Kerkhoff

Greetings from West Covina, \”SoCal\” I am number 3 of four boys in my Indo Dutch family. Both of my parents are Indo Dutch and their families are originally from Indonesia. My Father, Jeffrey Kerkhoff, born in Jakarta, Indonesia and moved to live in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 45 minutesNorth of Rotterdam, where he lived until […]

Jun 03 2018

Jeanette Chaires

Hello, my name is Jeanette Chaires. I’m 21 years old and was born in Riverside, California. I’m a third generation Indo/African American and have lived in southern California my entire life. My Oma was born in Makassar on the island of Celebes (now Sulawesi). My grandfather on my mother’s side was also born in Indonesia […]

May 02 2018

Adam De Boer

                            Salam Komunitas So Cal Indo! My name is Adam de Boer and I am an American painter, with Indo ancestry, currently living and working in Los Angeles. For the past seven years I’ve travelled throughout Indoneisa to investigate my Eurasian heritage […]

Apr 13 2018

Rochelle Lether

My Oma was from the small city of Klaten and grew up on a tobacco plantation, where her father was a book keeper. My Opa was from Jogja and his father was in the dutch army, with his mother being his fathers servant. The Indonesian part of our family is Javanese (Orang Jawa) with the […]

Apr 13 2018

Jace Barton

Hello, my name is Jace Barton. I am 19 years old and was born in Wichita, Kansas. My Oma, Virginia Astrid Davis, was born in Holland but moved to America with her family to better the lives of our family and future generations to come. Growing up I was always teased at school for having […]

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