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Chinese-Indonesians in the Netherlands still feel the pull of home Huihan Lie with his wife and children. Photo: Handout
Entrepreneur Huihan Lie, 42, grew up in the Dutch provinces of Gelderland and Groningen and found it just strange when he realised he was the only student of Chinese descent in his class who spoke fluent Dutch and had an Indonesian background - compared with some other students at his school or in his village who had migrated from mainland China and had parents speaking Mandarin or other Chinese languages at home with them.
His Surabaya-born father and Jakarta-born mother had migrated to the Netherlands as young children with their families in 1949.