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jerryvandenbrink/colson: @ Utomo: Your posts, your grandchildren, were my inspiration :) .

Utomo: Wow...I am glad to see you together again with your beloved grandson Kris !

Colson: @ Utomo: Thanks :) . Hope your 2013 may be healthy, happy and prosperous too.

Utomo: Wish you Great Holidays & Happy New Year 2013

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Luke: It would be worth the money, it would redeem Jakarta's historical cultural debt and it would be great to all inhabitants. So [...]

Luke: Hi Colson, Kota Tua has so much to offer once you are there and any improvement and change to the area to make tourist [...]

jerry van den brink/colson: I'll check my email :) .

Uti: Hi, Colson! I sent you an email. Just so you know, in case my email went to spam. :D

jerry van den brink/colson: @ Harry Nizam: Hope to keep it that way :) .

Harry Nizam: Hi Colson, your blog is okay now.

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A coup d’état in Papua?

Papua’s bad luck is not over yet.

One and a half month ago the workers at the Freeport mine went on strike. Since than the situation went from bad to worse. At least partly because of passivity on the part of the government in Jakarta. And now it’s is running out of control in Papua.

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Dutch War Crimes

Just some quotes from the International Edition of NRC-Handelsblad 25.11.08:

In an incident during the five years of guerrilla warfare before Indonesia won its independence, Dutch soldiers executed a group of around 431 men and boys in the West Java village of Rawagede on December 9, 1947.

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In a civil [...]

The rights of Papuans

Prior to the latest edition of  “Inside Indonesia” my knowledge about West Papua was near zero. The facts I was aware of were scarce. I did know about the pretty dirty circumstances the Dutch colonial rule was ended in the early sixties of course, had read about some real nasty and even disastrous environmental [...]

Nagabonar

Last Saturday night we went to visit the Indonesian Film Festival. “We” means a mixed company of six – in a fair distribution of men and women and of native Bahassa speakers and Bahasa illiterates. Actually we choose only one of the many movies. But it was a lucky choice. At least our band [...]

August the 17th: Congratulations!

This very interesting blogger wonders what’s the use of Independence Day, the 17th of August. His doubts are to be understood. His question is correct and his considerations should be taken serious. Yet, I think looking to the past is necessary to understand the present. Which in it’s turn is a requirement to make a [...]

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