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The Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project (MDDP) welcomes you to it's web site!
The Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project website is dedicated to the minority and forgotten community of Dutch descendants living in Malaysia. We invite you to discover more about this community and how you can assist.
Kuala Lumpur, 11th April 2003 - First official contact between the government of
the Netherlands and the Malaysian Dutch descendants in 178 years.
"I am concious of the fact that if, a couple of hundred years ago,
an ancestor of mine had decided to join the Dutch East India Company
- as did many respectable Europeans in search of adventure, on simply intend
on landing a good job as their counterparts today might opt for a British merchant bank -
today I could be that white Dutch Burgher, boy in a sarong."
From: Lost White Tribes, Journeys Among The Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio.
The Malaysian Dutch Descendants Project website is dedicated to the minority and forgotten community of Dutch descendants living in Malaysia. We invite you to discover more about this community and how you can assist.
Kuala Lumpur, 11th April 2003 - First official contact between the government of
the Netherlands and the Malaysian Dutch descendants in 178 years.
an ancestor of mine had decided to join the Dutch East India Company
- as did many respectable Europeans in search of adventure, on simply intend
on landing a good job as their counterparts today might opt for a British merchant bank -
today I could be that white Dutch Burgher, boy in a sarong."
From: Lost White Tribes, Journeys Among The Forgotten by Riccardo Orizio.