Livestream Event 'Decolonization or Recolonization?'

Save the date: September 13 Pakhuis de Zwijger

What is the state of the research program? Which questions and pressing themes do the researchers have to deal with? What impact does the decolonization war have on Dutch and Indonesian people to this day?
On Thursday evening, September 13th, a second meeting will take place in Pakhuis de Zwijger, exactly one year after the public kick-off of the investigation. More information about the program will follow shortly.

Henk Schulte Nordholt: 'War crime study: Cover-up or opening up the past?'

On August 1 the Ikatan Keluarga Alumni Lemhannas convened a seminar in Jakarta on the legitimacy of a Dutch research project on the Indonesian Independence War 1945-1950. In a statement the conveners write that they are afraid that the Dutch government supports this research project in order to cover up Dutch war crimes during the Indonesian war of independence and that it seems that cooperation with Indonesian historians from Universitas Gadjah Mada is used to legitimize this effort. This would be a serious misrepresentation of the research project and would also harm the integrity of our Indonesian colleagues in an unjustified manner.