Sandra den Hamer, CEO of the Netherlands Film Fund, highlighted that the treaty emerged from grassroots interest rather than top-down policy. “It comes from the filmmakers and producers. There’s a lot ...
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 ...
Tunku Varadarajan is always a good read, but in his review of David Van Reybrouck’s “Revolusi: Indonesia and the Birth of the Modern World” (Books, May 25), he is wrong in stating that the Japanese ...
Dutch King Willem-Alexander apologised to Indonesia on Tuesday for "excessive violence" during the former colony's independence struggle in the 1940s. King Willem-Alexander's apology to Indonesia for ...
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - A Dutch appeals court in The Hague on Tuesday ruled that a lawsuit brought by five Indonesians who hold the Netherlands responsible for the execution of their fathers by Dutch ...
A few hours before dawn, a bleary-eyed night porter at The Hague’s stuffy Hotel des Indes (named for The Netherlands’ once vast and profitable colonies) opened the heavy oaken door for a weary guest, ...