Remco Raben
(1962) is a researcher at the Dutch Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) and teaches the history of ethnic relationships in Batavia and Colombo in the time of the VOC (Dutch East India Company). He has published on Indonesia and Southeast Asia in early modern and modern history. Among his books are De geschiedenis van Indische Nederlanders (The history of the East-Indian Dutch) (2006), Being "Dutch" in the Indies. A history of creolisation and empire, 1500-1920 (2007), The World of Jan Brandes (2004), De oude Indische wereld (The Old East Indies' World) (2003) and Beelden van de Japanse bezetting van Indonesië (Images of the Japanese Occupation of Indonesia (1999).
Past events
From the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia
What is decolonization? It is the departure, gradually that is, of an old colonial power. Is it an arrival too? The decolonization of Indonesia is full of questions and uncertainties. Remco Raben will come to mention this in his introduction. Subsequently the researchers present the answers which their studies in the research programme 'From the Dutch East Indies to Indonesia' yielded. The Jakartan poet Zeffry Alkatiri opens the day with the poem Amsterdam-Batavia. He tells the story of Jakarta as an eyewitness of history.
Film: White Skin, Yellow Commander/ Shiroi Hada to Kiiroi Taicho
Controversial Japanese film on an internment camp for women and children on Sulawesi. Dutch subtitles. With an English spoken introduction by Kaori Maekawa and Remco Raben.
