A bullet-torn shirt and photos of freedom fighters are among the exhibits documenting Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch in a groundbreaking show at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.
Writer-director Ena Sendijarević’s second feature, Sweet Dreams, follows a recent trend of arthouse films — including Zama, The Settlers and The Tale of King Crab — that explore Europe’s troubled ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
Indonesia is celebrating 80 years of independence from the Dutch. “Sukarno, my late father, was its founding father,” says Kartika Soekarno, my godchild whose son is now studying in an American ...
After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto’s regime wrote it out of the history books. Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness ...
Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s apology followed the publication of a government-funded report into the conduct of Dutch troops during the 1945-49 conflict. Dutch forces drive a column of M3 Stuart tanks ...
Associate Professor of History, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Deakin University The Dutch government formally apologised last week for its role in “systematic and extreme violence” during ...
A new book by a Dutch historian has revealed that Christian pastors and priests not only justified the colonial war with Indonesia, but also remained silent about war crimes. Koos-Jan de Jager’s ...
On April 2, UCA News published a short book review highlighting the Dutch clergy who defended the colonial war in Indonesia from 1945 to 1949. This conflict is commonly known as the Indonesian ...
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