The exiles, victims of gross human rights violations in the past, are demanding historical rectification and an apology. Many are reluctant to return to Indonesia.

Why did the prominent figures from Papua fail to bring the Papuans to support the Republic of Indonesia?

The Exiles by Lola Amaria follows the bereaved path of 10 Indonesian exiles outside their home country after the September 1965 tragedy. They await the government’s next step.

Tempo compiled the tales of those who chose different migration paths. From one Chinese Indonesian family who went to the Netherlands and remained there, an Indo-European family who refused to leave, to a former KNIL soldier who left for the Netherlands and decided to return to Indonesia.

More than 300,000 Dutch, Indo Europeans, Chinese, Moluccan, Papuan, and others who used to live—and were even born—in Indonesia, chose to migrate to the Netherlands from 1945 until the early 1960s. Their stories were recorded and exhibited at the Sophiahof Museum in The Hague, the Netherlands, from February until June titled Ons Land: Dekolonisatie, Generaties, Verhalen.

THE grand exhibition Revolusi! Indonesië Onafhankelijk (Revolution! Indonesia Independent) opened in February at Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, involving guest curators Amir Sidharta and Bonnie Triyana. A month prior to opening, it already attracted ample attention due to an opinion piece by Bonnie Triyana.

Prime Minister Mark Rutte apologizes for extreme violence in the colonialism period. The ‘extreme violence’ is colonialism itself.

The Rijksmuseum, the Netherlands’ main museum, will roll out Revolusi!, a big exhibition on Indonesia. It promises to be a unique presentation on Indonesia’s Independence War. Indonesian experts have been involved in the exhibition since the very beginning.