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Dutch Companies Nationalization Backlash

Monday, August 18, 2025

The military seized Dutch companies in the 1950s, a nationalization that would later bring remorse.

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ENGELINA Pattiasina was only 10 years old when a group of mid-ranking Army officers visited her father’s official residence in Medan, North Sumatra, in the late 1950s. She still remembers that among them were Ahmad Yani, Kemal Idris, Satibi Darwis, and Leonardus Benjamin “Benny” Moerdani. “Most were still majors, only Uncle Kemal was already a colonel,” Engelina, now 75, recalled at her Jakarta home on Friday, A

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