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oapen-20.500.12657-531722022-03-08T02:54:49Z Over de grens NIOD Instituut voor Oorlogs- Holocaust- en Genocidestudies Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal- Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV) Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH) Oostindie, Gert Schoenmaker, Ben Van Vree, Frank Indonesia decolonization independence violence war Indonesië dekolonisatie onafhankelijkheid geweld oorlog bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBT History: specific events & topics::HBTR National liberation & independence, post-colonialism bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBW Military history::HBWS Military history: post WW2 conflicts bic Book Industry Communication::J Society & social sciences::JP Politics & government::JPW Political activism::JPWS Armed conflict On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged the war. The government’s 1969 position on the violence used by the Dutch armed forces during the war remained unchanged, however: although there had been ‘excesses’, on the whole the armed forces had behaved ‘correctly’. As the indications of Dutch extreme violence mounted, this official position proved increasingly difficult to maintain. In 2016, the Dutch government therefore decided to fund a broad study on the dynamics of the violence. The most important conclusions of that research programme are summarized in this book. The authors show that the Dutch armed forces used extreme violence on a structural basis, and that this was concealed both at the time and for many years after the war by the Dutch government and by society more broadly. All of this – like the entire colonial history – is at odds with the rose-tinted self-image of the Netherlands. 2022-03-02T11:08:14Z 2022-03-02T11:08:14Z 2022 book ONIX_20220302_9789463726382_6 9789463726382 9789048556779 9789463726481 9789048557172 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/53172 dut application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048556779.pdf Amsterdam University Press 10.5117/9789463726382 10.5117/9789463726382 dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789463726382 9789048556779 9789463726481 9789048557172 592 open access
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On 17 August 1945, two days after the Japanese surrender that also brought an end to the Second World War in Asia, Indonesia declared its independence. The declaration was not recognized by the Netherlands, which resorted to force in its attempt to take control of the inevitable process of decolonization. This led to four years of difficult negotiations and bitter warfare. In 2005, the Dutch government declared that the Netherlands should never have waged the war. The government’s 1969 position on the violence used by the Dutch armed forces during the war remained unchanged, however: although there had been ‘excesses’, on the whole the armed forces had behaved ‘correctly’. As the indications of Dutch extreme violence mounted, this official position proved increasingly difficult to maintain. In 2016, the Dutch government therefore decided to fund a broad study on the dynamics of the violence. The most important conclusions of that research programme are summarized in this book. The authors show that the Dutch armed forces used extreme violence on a structural basis, and that this was concealed both at the time and for many years after the war by the Dutch government and by society more broadly. All of this – like the entire colonial history – is at odds with the rose-tinted self-image of the Netherlands.
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