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Foreign Orientals
Foreign Orientals (Vreemde Oosterlingen) was a legal category in the Dutch East Indies for residents of Asian origin who were neither Europeans nor natives, chiefly Chinese, Arabs and Indians. The classification subjected them to separate rules on law, residence, travel and taxation, including pass and quarter systems that confined many to designated urban districts. Together with the categories of Europeans and natives, it structured colonial society until Indonesian independence.
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