Review: ‘Revolusi’, an exhibition – Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Review: 'Revolusi', an exhibition - Inside Indonesia: The peoples and cultures of Indonesia

Kate McGregor From 11 February to 6 June 2022, the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam hosted the first ever exhibition on the Indonesian Revolution of 1945-1949. The exhibition, Revolusi!, was jointly curated by Rijksmuseum curators Harm Stevens and Marion Anker and two Indonesian guest curators, Bonnie Triyana and Amir Sidharta, with contributions from others. … Read more

Interview: Bonnie Triyana on history as a movement

Yatun Sastramidjaja Bonnie Triyana is founder and chief editor of Historia, a popular history magazine. He was a guest curator of the exhibition Revolusi! Indonesia Independent, held at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam from 11 February to 6 June 2022. Triyana caused a public stir in the Netherlands when, in an opinion piece … Read more

A Moluccan soldier and his daughter

Huib Akihary Petrus Akihary was born in 1908 in the village of Aboru, on the island of Haruku in the Moluccas. He was a sergeant major instructor in the Royal Dutch East Indies Army (KNIL). His eldest daughter Martha Anthony-Akihary was born in 1936 in Sigli, Sumatra, and now lives in Maarssen … Read more

The Jakarta Maritime Museum highlights the struggles of Indonesian seafaring tribes – Art & Culture

Sylviana Hamdani (The Jakarta Post) Jakarta   ●   Wed, January 4, 2023 2023-01-04 12:00 2 c97e657e05ceb3aec6820f63ef6cba21 1 Art & Culture exhibition,Museum,maritime,art-exhibition,sailing,ocean,Museum-Kebaharian-Jakarta,Jakarta-Maritime-Museum Free The Art.The.Fact! Suku Bangsa Bahari Nusantara exhibition features many aspects of the maritime people of South Sulawesi and Madura.  The song “Nenek Moyangku” (“Our Ancestors,” Ibu Soed, 1940) echoes throughout the halls … Read more