Three Men at the Gates of Independence
Saturday, August 17, 2019
LIEM Koen Hian was indeed an irony. He died without an Indonesian citizenship, a privilege that he fiercely fought for. Politics, an area that preoccupied him besides journalism, had broken his heart.
Sixteen years before Indonesia’s independence, Liem introduced the idea of Indonesierschap, or an Indonesian national identity. He criticized local-born ethnic Chinese in the Dutch East Indies whose allegiance was with China. To Liem, Indone
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