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

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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

A Moluccan soldier and his daughter

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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