Indonesian Hero in Dutch Slavery Exhibition
Sunday, July 4, 2021
Indonesian anti-colonial hero Untung Surapati is prominently present at the Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ national museum, in its first major exhibition highlighting the country’s dark slavery history.
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FOCUS of the large 17th century canvas is on the Cnoll family: merchant Pieter, his wife Cornelia, and their daughters Catharina and Hester. In the shadowy background, however, are two other figures. One is a young man with long, dark curls, carrying a parasol, and a woman with a fruit basket.
“Yet this boy is not just anyone. He is most probably Surapati, a National hero of Indonesia, famed for his struggle against the Dutch in the 17th c
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