Fig. 2 - Country of birth of registered stateless people in NL
Indonesia
Netherlands
All others (48 nationalities)
Source: CBS, situation 1 January 2010
Fig. 3 - Registered stateless people born in the
Netherlands - father's country of birth (N> 20)
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
Source: CBS, situation 1 January 2010. “N > 20” indicates that data is only included where it concerns
at least 20 individuals.
54. Clearly, the vast majority of stateless persons born in the Netherlands are of Indonesian
origins. These stateless persons born in Indonesia and of Indonesian descent may at least
in part be the Moluccans and their children referred to in section 3.1 above. Where Van
Oers et al. estimated this group to consist of approximately 1,000 individuals, according
to these figures it would seem that this figure is lower. Of all registered stateless people
in the Netherlands, a group of 260 persons was born in Indonesia, whereas another 494
persons were born in the Netherlands but to an Indonesian father. Taken together, the
group of people of Indonesian origins comprises 754 individuals. The fact that these
presumed Moluccans are registered in the GBA as stateless persons is consistent
with the fact that – though for all intents and purposes treated as such – they are not
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