Hans Pols, Writer of Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies: Javanese Doctors Knew of the Discrimination
In colonial times, the fight for independence was also driven by native doctors who graduated from the School tot Opleiding van Indische Artsen (STOVIA).
Isma Savitri
May 19, 2020
WHEN the pestilence hit Malang, East Java, in 1911, young doctors from STOVIA took to the field, including dr. Cipto Mangunkusumo. They treated patients in villages without protective gears, which did not exist at the time. Their actions were heroic because, at the same time, many Dutch East Indies doctors refused to go near the deadly disease.
Author of the book Nurturing Indonesia: Medicine and Decolonization in the Dutch East Indies, Hans Pol
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