Indonesia and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. The name "Indonesia" derives from the Greek name of the "Indos" (Ἰνδός) and the word "nesos" (νῆσος), meaning "Indian islands". The name dates to the 18th century, far predating the formation of independent Indonesia. In 1850, George Windsor Earl, an English ethnologist, proposed the terms "Indunesians"—and, his preference, "Malayunesians"—for the inhabitants of the "Indian Archipelago or Malayan Archipelago". In the same publication, one of his students, James Richardson Logan, used "Indonesia" as a synonym for "Indian Archipelago". However, Dutch academics writing in East Indies publications were reluctant to use "Indonesia"; they preferred "Malay Archipelago" ("Maleische
Indos in colonial history Robinson was a Komic entertainer and writer/journalist loved by the people, but he did not initiated the Pasar Malam Tong Tong or the Dutch Indisch Arts. Please correct this to Mary Bruckel Beitens name instead of Tjalie Robinson. And find out the titel that Mary Bruckel Beiten is given. That will be enough proof. Thank you for you time Geraldine Indos in colonial history Indos (short for Indo-Europeans, from Dutch "Indo-Europeanen") are a Eurasian people of mixed Indonesian and European descent. The earliest evidence of Eurasian communities in the East Indies coincides with the arrival of Portuguese traders in the