Lecture ‘The Dutch East Indies and the resistance’
Until April 2020 the Freemasonry Museum in The Hague is offering a series of lectures alongside its exhibition 'Avontuur in Azië'. On 28 March 2020 Ron Habiboe gives a lecture on 'The Dutch East Indies and the resistance'.
CAPITULATION
On 15 August 1945 the Japanese army capitulated, bringing an end to the Second World War in Asia. Two days later the Indonesian nationalist Soekarno proclaimed the independence of Indonesia. There followed a last colonial war by the Netherlands, which ended with the transfer of sovereignty over Indonesia.
NO CLEAN WAR
Recent historical research has brought to light that excessive violence by the Dutch colonial army during the decolonisation of Indonesia was not incidental but structural in character. There is no such thing as a clean war. Gradually the less attractive events are coming to light for the Netherlands too. But there are more sides to the decolonisation story. All of this has to do with different political, ethnic and cultural perspectives.
RON HABIBOE
Ron Habiboe studied history at Leiden University. As a freelance historian he focuses on all kinds of aspects of the history of the Dutch East Indies, Indonesia and the Moluccas in particular. In 2016, for instance, he carried out research for the National Committee for 4 and 5 May (Amsterdam) into indigenous victims during the Second World War and the decolonisation war that followed in Indonesia. He recently contributed to putting together the resistance exhibition at Museum Sophiahof (The Hague): Vechten voor Vrijheid.
VENUE
Date: 28 March 2020 Time: 15:00 – 16:00 Venue: Freemasonry Museum / Cultureel Maçonniek Centrum (CMC), Javastraat 2B, The Hague
AVONTUUR IN AZIË
This event is organised as part of the temporary exhibition Avontuur in Azië, on view at the Freemasonry Museum until April 2020. Tickets are available here.
Photo: 'Moluccan soldiers at the time of the police actions', 1945 – 1949 (Moluks Historisch Museum collection, inv. F 96.6169)
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