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Beschreibung

In early 2022, the issue of whether or not to remove the word 'bersiap' from an exhibition at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam prompted parliamentary questions, the initiation of legal proceedings against the museum, and an unusually fierce public debate about a word that had hitherto only been known to the Dutch Indies community. This book provides background and depth to this debate. In the first months following the declaration of independence, the battle-cry of 'bersiap!' resounded in countless cities and villages in Indonesia. The call to make ready for the young nation's struggle for freedom marked the start of the Indonesian Revolution, ushering in a period of extreme violence. Resonance of Violence outlines the dynamics of the extreme violence, in which Indonesian combat groups took up arms against Indo-Europeans, Moluccans, Dutch and Chinese, as well as Japanese civilians and disarmed Japanese and British (Indian) soldiers. The book also emphatically situates this terrifying period within the broader context of intra-Indonesian violence and the violence used by the Japanese, British and Dutch side against Indonesian non-combatants. It covers not only Java and Sumatra, but also the islands beyond, as well as the difficult task of establishing casualty numbers and the 'rediscovery' of the bersiap period in the 1980s.

In early 2022, the issue of whether or not to remove the word 'bersiap' from an exhibition at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam prompted parliamentary questions, the initiation of legal proceedings against the museum, and an unusually fierce public debate about a word that had hitherto only been known to the Dutch Indies community. This book provides background and depth to this debate. In the first months following the declaration of independence, the battle-cry of 'bersiap!' resounded in countless cities and villages in Indonesia. The call to make ready for the young nation's struggle for freedom marked the start of the Indonesian Revolution, ushering in a period of extreme violence. Resonance of Violence outlines the dynamics of the extreme violence, in which Indonesian combat groups took up arms against Indo-Europeans, Moluccans, Dutch and Chinese, as well as Japanese civilians and disarmed Japanese and British (Indian) soldiers. The book also emphatically situates this terrifying period within the broader context of intra-Indonesian violence and the violence used by the Japanese, British and Dutch side against Indonesian non-combatants. It covers not only Java and Sumatra, but also the islands beyond, as well as the difficult task of establishing casualty numbers and the 'rediscovery' of the bersiap period in the 1980s.

Über den Autor

Esther Captain is a historian and works as a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (kitlv) in Leiden. She is endowed professor of Intergenerational Impact of Colonialism and Slavery at Utrecht University. She is currently involved in a research programme on the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history.

Onno Sinke is a historian and works as a researcher for the Netherlands Institute for Military History in The Hague. During the research for this book he was seconded to the kitlv/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction Prologue - The sound of violence 1. Bersiap in broader context II. Historical Background 2. Violence from above: the colonial context of violence in Indonesia 3. Rising tensions III. Confrontations 4. Power constellations 5. The Eastern archipelago: Allied dominance 6. Java and Sumatra: rival international power blocks 7. The organization of Indonesian violence 8. Estimates of casualty numbers iv. Impact 9. The significance of bersiap in the Indonesian War of Independence (1946-1949)

Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2025
Genre: Geschichte, Importe
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Inhalt: Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9789463720892
ISBN-10: 9463720898
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Captain, Esther
Sinke, Onno
Hersteller: Taylor & Francis
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 16 mm
Von/Mit: Esther Captain (u. a.)
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.12.2025
Gewicht: 0,465 kg
Artikel-ID: 134648509

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