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Beyond the Pale: Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 book cover

1st Edition

Beyond the Pale Dutch Extreme Violence in the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949

Edited By Gert Oostindie, Ben Schoenmaker, Frank van Vree Copyright 2022
592 Pages
by Amsterdam University Press

Dutch Edition/Nederlandse editie: Over de grens 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... Read more
1. Introduction 1 Background, guiding principles and methodology Gert Oostindie 2 The Netherlands and Indonesia 1945-1949. The political-historical context Gert Oostindie 3 The war in Indonesia 1945-1949. The military-historical context Gert Oostindie and Rémy Limpach Interim conclusions 2. Intermezzo The human dimension. The search for stories about the Indonesian War of Independence Eveline Buchheim, Fridus Steijlen, Stephanie Welvaart III. Research results 1 'Hatred of foreign elements and their accomplices' Extreme violence in the first phase of the Indonesian Revolution (17 August 1945 to 31 March 1946) Esther Captain and Onno Sinke 2 Revolutionary worlds. Legitimacy, violence and loyalty during the Indonesian War of Independence Roel Frakking and Martijn Eickhoff 3 'Information costs lives.' The intelligence war for Indonesia, 1945-1949 Rémy Limpach 4 The myth of the 'Dutch Method'. Heavy weapons in the Indonesian War of Independence Azarja Harmanny 5 The law as a weapon. The actions of the Dutch judiciary during the Indonesian War of Independence Esther Zwinkels 6 Silence, information and deception in the Indonesian War of Independence Remco Raben and Peter Romijn 7 Silence as a strategy. International visions of the Indonesian War of Independence Jeroen Kemperman 8 Beyond colonial guilt ranking. Dutch, British and French extreme violence in comparative perspective, 1945-1962 Thijs Brocades Zaalberg and Bart Luttikhuis 9 A guilty conscience. The painful processing of the Indonesian War of Independence in the Netherlands Gert Oostindie and Meindert van der Kaaij 4. Closing remarks Conclusions 5. Epilogue Dealing with the legacies of a violent past Hilmar Farid, Notes, Abbreviations, Further reading, Acknowledgements, About the authors, Index

Biography

All of the authors – Gert Oostindie, Thijs Brocades Zaalberg, Eveline Buchheim, Esther Captain, Martijn Eickhoff, Roel Frakking, Azarja Harmanny, Meindert van der Kaaij, Jeroen Kemperman, Rémy Limpach, Bart Luttikhuis, Remco Raben, Peter Romijn, Onno Sinke, Fridus Steijlen, Stephanie Welvaart and Esther Zwinkels – are or were affiliated with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (kitlv), the Netherlands Institute for Military History (nimh), or the niod Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The editorial team consisted of Gert Oostindie, Ben Schoenmaker and Frank van Vree. The Indonesian historian Hilmar Farid wrote the epilogue.

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