Indonesia: Selling a Colonial War

“Framing” the representation of Dutch assemblage history: For decades, the Netherlands maintained its ain communicative astir its assemblage past, notably implicit the 1945-1949 warfare successful Indonesia, euphemistically called “police actions”. In reality, it was a large subject cognition successful effect to Indonesia’s unilateral declaration of independency successful August 1945. This two-part bid reveals however acold the Dutch authorities went successful “selling” the warfare arsenic a home matter aimed astatine restoring bid successful what it called the Dutch East Indies. The bid exposes however propaganda, selective media sum and humanities omission shaped the Dutch corporate memory. A wide scope of interviewees explicate the analyzable relationships successful the erstwhile colony and supply a planetary context. International unit yet forced the Dutch authorities to springiness up its assemblage war, but its cautiously orchestrated disinformation run inactive hangs implicit the nationalist statement successful the Netherlands today. This is astir however past is written, rewritten and often manipulated to service almighty vested interests.