This different perspective in viewing the revolution is discussed further in the book entitled The World of Revolution: Local Perspectives and Dynamics during the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 (Foundation Pustaka Torch Indonesia, 2023). There are seventeen manuscripts resulting from a joint study by a number of historians from the
Between 1970 and 1988, average production of Indonesian features rose to 70 per year, partly due to the introduction of wide screen and colour. In the 1970s new directors, such as Moscow-trained
Santa Anna advanced into Texas with 4,000 men, headed for the Alamo, where almost 200 American and Tejano volunteers huddled, awaiting an attack. The now-infamous battle that occurred on March 6
In 1969, the Dutch Government, in response to a spate of published stories highlighting incidents of severe human rights abuses by Dutch forces during the Indonesian war of independence, issued a formal statement. “The armed forces as a whole,” it insisted, “had behaved correctly in Indonesia” (p. 100).
broadcast throughout the entire country: ‘We the People of Indonesia hereby declare the independence of Indonesia. Matters which concern the Transfer of Power and other things will be executed by careful means and in the shortest possible time’.1 A Dutch colony since 1819, Indonesia fell to Japanese occupation in 1942.
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