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• History before 1965 (Indonesia)

  Grappling with Indonesia’s Colonial Past

  17 May 2018, by ELLIONA Gladhys

  The opening of Indonesia’s first anti-colonial museum highlights the importance of critical and holistic engagement with one’s history.
  There’s no shortage of museums in Indonesia, but the Museum Multatuli, opened in February 2018, is special. Adopting the pen name of former administrative (...)

• History before 1965 (Indonesia)

  Indonesia in WWII: Documents detail how Japan Imperial military forced Dutch females to be “comfort women”

  7 October 2013, by Kyodo News

  FUKUOKA — A set of official documents detailing how the wartime Japanese military carted off about 35 Dutch women from a prison camp in what is now Indonesia and made them provide sex as “comfort women” has been disclosed to a civic group at the National Archives of Japan in Tokyo, group members (...)