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Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by people, s
cholars, and historian
By: guest30 Date: March 16, 2021, 1:15 am
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NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!
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The dark history of slavery and racism in [s]Indonesia[/s]
[b]Nusantara during the Dutch colonial period[/b]
Memorial of slave traders
Although some novels and academic writings have described the
life of indentured labour in North Sumatra, the general public
rarely discuss the history of slavery.
Even until the end of the 20th century, the Dutch government
never acknowledged the violence during colonial times.
Medan, famous as a trading city in the early 20th century, once
erected two monuments to commemorate the glory of slave traders.
In 1915, a fountain was erected in front of the Medan Post
Office to commemorate Jacob Nienhuys as the “pioneer” of the
Deli plantation.
.....
White racism
The Dutch planters treated the coolies inhumanely and like
slaves.
A letter dated October 28, 1876, by Frans Carl Valck, the
Assistant Resident in East Sumatra noted:
“It would be a miracle indeed, if respectable Chinese coolies
would be attracted to a place where coolies are beaten to death
or at least so mistreated that the thrashings leave permanent
scars, where manhunts are the order of the day. …. Just recently
I heard a rumour about a certain European who prided himself on
having hung him down after the coolie had turned entirely blue.”
Nienhuys wrote that “Chinese are bold arch-swindlers and the
Javanese are lazy and hot tempered” and “Batak is a stupid race,
on the whole”.
An article dated May 30th, 1913 in Sumatra Post wrote that
around 1867, Nienhuys was indicted of flogging seven Chinese
coolies to death. The case was never proven nor disproved, but
the Sultan of Deli ordered Nienhuys to leave the land of Deli
and never to return.
In 1869, JT Cremer replaced Nienhuys as the administrator of the
Deli company. To control thousands of workers from China and
Java, Cremer designed the Coolie Ordinance, passed by the Dutch
East Indies government in 1880. The regulation allowed companies
to engage coolies in a contract that bound them for three years.
The workers were meant to pay for their “debt” of transportation
cost to Deli land.
The contract included a penal sanction that allowed the company
to punish the workers if they forfeited the agreement. The
ordinance gave power to the planters to punish coolies who were
thought to be disobedient, lazy or tried to run away.
.....
Anticolonial activist from [s]Indonesia[/s] Nusantara, Tan
Malaka, who was teacher a in Deli plantation in the 1920s,
described the life there:
Deli, a land of gold, a haven for the capitalist, but a land of
sweat, tears, and death, a hell for the workers.
The coolies were forced to work; they were slaves. The coolies
worked from dawn to night, received enough wages to fill in
their stomachs and cover their back; they lived in a shed like
goats in their cages, they were called godverdom and could be
beaten any time and could lose their wives and daughters as
desired by the master.
Breman estimated that a fourth of the coolies died before their
contract ended.
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: 90sRetroFan Date: March 16, 2021, 3:29 am
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See also:
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NEVER FORGIVE. NEVER FORGET.
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: 90sRetroFan Date: June 21, 2021, 9:58 pm
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: 90sRetroFan Date: July 3, 2021, 10:17 pm
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[quote]AMSTERDAM (AP) — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized
Thursday for the extensive involvement of the Dutch capital’s
former governors in the global slave trade, saying the moment
had come for the city to confront its grim history.
Debate about the role of Amsterdam’s city fathers in the slave
trade has been going on for years, but it has gained more
attention amid the global reckoning with racial injustice that
followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.
“It is time to engrave the great injustice of colonial slavery
into our city’s identity. With big-hearted and unconditional
recognition,” Mayor Femke Halsema said. “Because we want to be a
government for those for whom the past is painful and its legacy
a burden.”[/quote]
So will you stop prohibiting immigration to the Netherlands from
all former Dutch colonies?
[quote]While apologizing, she also stressed that “not a single
Amsterdammer alive today is to blame for the past.”[/quote]
This is correct. But any Amsterdammer who has reason to suspect
they might be descended from anyone who participated in Dutch
colonialism, and who voluntarily reproduces, thereupon takes on
the blame.
[quote]Halsema said it showed that “from the end of the 16th
century until well into the 19th century, Amsterdam’s
involvement was direct, worldwide, large-scale, multifaceted and
protracted.”
...
Halsema doesn’t have to leave her official residence on one of
Amsterdam’s mansion-lined canals to be reminded of the city’s
deeply rooted ties to slavery.
The residence was formerly the home of Paulus Godin, who was a
board member of the West-India Company and director of the
Society of Suriname that were both heavily involved in slavery
in the 17th century.
A stone plaque outside the house recalls that history and calls
the slave trade and slavery crimes against humanity.
Amsterdam municipality says that former city fathers in the time
that slavery was rife in Dutch colonies were deeply involved in
the trade.
“Mayors were also owners of plantations or traded in people.
They helped, through their public office, to maintain slavery
because they profited from it,” the city says on its
website.[/quote]
It would have been similarly profitable to also use "white"
slaves. So why did the Dutch colonies not do so? (We all know
why not.)
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: antihellenistic Date: November 7, 2022, 12:18 pm
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Dutch Colonialism Resulting Exclusivism on Particular Ethnics
Group and Arousing Hatred
See this re-written book content below :
[quote]Relations between Chinese and Indonesians under Dutch
Rule
Under Dutch rule the Chinese had come to dominate the internal
trade and commerce of the entire archipelago. They gathered the
products of the land and sold them to big Dutch trading
companies. Most of the small-scale manufacturing enterprises of
the country were owned and managed by them. Except for the
smallest shops and market stands, retailing was also largely in
their hands. And Chinese shopkeepers, traders, and usurers
remained the main source of credit for the Indonesian people, in
spite of their unconscionably high rates of interest. This meant
that the average Chinese was far better off than the average
Indonesian, and that there were a conspicuous number of very
wealthy Chinese, in contrast to the very few wealthy
Indonesians. Furthermore, the advantageous economic position of
the Chinese was accompanied by superiority attitudes and social
exclusiveness.
The policy of the government, also, had the effect of setting
the two communities apart and sharpening the differences in
their interest. When residential segregration was finally
abolished, educational segregration took its place. The whole
series of concessions to the Chinese after 1900 amounted to
preferential treatment, since Indonesians participated in very
few of the new privileges. And until the last decade before
World War II, the two communities were ruled under separate
administrative systems. While the Dutch idealistically claimed
that this policy was a matter of regulating each community
according to its own customs and habits, the system was in
effect a very successful example of the colonial practice of
"divide and rule."
...
...the Chinese showed little sympathy for the Indonesian
nationalist movement, and were therefore generally considered to
be pro-Dutch.
...
...The great Indonesian nationalist organization, Sarekat Islam,
was originally founded as an association of Javanese merchants
whose purpose was to resist the competition of Chinese traders.
The boycott movement which they launched in 1912 was accompanied
by violent attacks on the Chinese quite beyond the policy of
leadership. Most serious of these were the anti-Chinese riots in
Surakarta and Surabaja. At about the same time violence broke
out between members of Sarekat Islam and Chinese in Tangerang,
which was to be the scene of a large-scale massacre of Chinese
during the revolutionary war. In 1918 an anti-Chinese incident
involving looting, arson, and murder occured in Kudus, where the
rivalry between Indonesian and Chinese kretek cigarette
merchants and manufacturers was extremely bitter. A similar
incident pccured in Pekalongan in 1931.
Source : The National Status of the Chinese in Indonesia
1900-1958 by Donald E. Willmott page 25, 26, 27[/quote]
Book can be accessed online at this link/URL :
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Another information on a book which explaining about the Dutch
Social Policies during Colonialism
[quote]...The Indies-oriented view was first espoused by the
political group Chung Hwa Hui (CHH) which was formed in 1928
mostly by Dutch educated peranakan intellectuals and
businessmen. However, the CHH was seen as too pro-Dutch and was
not popular with the Chinese nationalist or the pribumi
population which believed that the CHH was not supportive of
Indonesian independence..
In 1932, a rival party, the Partai Tionghoa Indonesia
(Indonesian Chinese Party, PTI) was established. The PTI opposed
the pro-Dutch CHH which was made up exclusively of the very rich
Chinese. It sought dominion status for Indonesia and citizenship
for all people irrespective of race but it advocated retaining
the cultural identity of the Chinese community. However the
party had little support. The PTI's support for Indonesians
independence merged with an anti-colonial sentiment which
brought them in harmony with the Chinese nationalist for a while
but this was short-lived as the PTI's concern for the special
interest of the Peranakan alienated the two groups (Coppel,
1976: 35). It also did not get the support from the Indonesian
nationalist political parties because of the strong racial
division between the Chinese and the pribumi nationalist leaders
(Greif, 1988: 5)
Source : Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia:
Racializing Chineseness by Chee Kiong Tong page 118[/quote]
Book can be accessed online at this link/URL :
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: 90sRetroFan Date: December 19, 2022, 9:09 pm
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So what does Rutte intend to do about all the colonialist
bloodlines which still exist? We do not care about money. We
only care about eliminating colonialist bloodlines.
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Re: Netherlands's colonial brutality which rarely known by peopl
e, scholars, and historian
By: antihellenistic Date: April 2, 2023, 4:33 am
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[quote author=90sRetroFan link=topic=563.msg17121#msg17121
date=1671505754]
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So what does Rutte intend to do about all the colonialist
bloodlines which still exist? We do not care about money. We
only care about eliminating colonialist bloodlines.
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No more apologize, but take accountability for the crimes which
they did in the past. Reparation, population-share from the
former colonized people to the colonizer's homeland
(Netherlands), and change democracy. As long as they not do
that, they ("whites") remain guilty forever. Nusantara people's
also got unfair treatment during gaining independence, they
still must pay "reparation cost" to the Netherlands because they
broke Netherlands's colonial authority on their own homeland.
That's not fair, the oppressed cannot forced to take
accountability to their oppressor because they aren't guilty.
But of course, western's system of judicial cannot know what is
absolutism, only moderatism which humiliating the victim and
never totally punish the oppressor
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