Spy or Opposition?
Tuesday, August 15, 2017
Datuk Hafiz Haberham did not have an easy time carrying out the various orders of Deli and Serdang’s assistant resident, A.R. Treffers. In April 1942, the noblemen from the Sultanate of Deli, North Sumatra, took seven months to build a pointed bamboo wall along the 288-kilometer coastline between Langkat and Asahan.
Datuk Hafiz was listed as a Dutch secret agent tasked with preventing the entry of Japanese forces into East Sumatra. Hafiz even
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