ERNEST François Eugene Douwes Dekker, born in Pasuruan, always makes me think about the meaning of home. He makes me think about what Indonesia means to me.

Around the end of July 1913, he was held in a prison in Batavia. He was 33 years old. The colonial government had accused him of “inciting hatred and contempt towards the governments of Holland and the Netherlands Indies”. The accusation was false, but it was true that he did not like t