INTERRACIAL marriage was a common phenomenon during the Dutch colonial era. The large population of European men who came and lived in a number of areas of the archipelago from the 17th to 18th centuries was not directly proportional to the number of European women in the respective region. As a result, many of those European men chose to live with local women, who then gave birth to mixed-blood children, known as Eurasian or Mestizo.

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