Saving a City’s Memories
Wednesday, July 20, 2011
A TALENTED and Esteemed Journalist’ was the caption on Dominique Willem Berretty’s obituary in The Singapore Free Press, December 22, 1934. This eccentric Baron of Italian-Javanese descent, died in a Uiver plane crash flying from Amsterdam to Batavia (Jakarta). He left behind four children and a distinguished villa in Jalan Setiabudi, Bandung, called Vila Isola.
Founder of Aneta, the first news agency in colonial Indonesia, Beretty spent hal
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