Betawi People, A Big Salad Bowl

Betawi People Betawi or Batavian is Jakarta indigenous people who are exist because of marriage from some ethnic groups in the past. The Betawis are mostly descended from various Southeast Asian ethnic groups, Portuguese and Dutch plus Arab, Chinese and Indian brought to or attracted to Batavia to meet labour needs, including people from various parts of Indonesia. The history remain that Betawi ethnic was being form by 1815-1893. In the Dutch colonial era, the governments always did the census, which was based on the nation or ethnic group. In…