De Waarheid article by Joop Morriën (6 Feb 1988, p.9) on Jan Maassen's plan for a reunion of Dutch conscripts who refused to serve in Indonesia in 1948-49 (Schoonhoven boys), recounting his three years' imprisonment and the arbitrary sentencing. Lawyers Trees Sunito-Heyligers and Clara Enthoven defended refusers by lin
Rudy Kousbroek's column 'Oost is Oost en West is West' in NRC Handelsblad (19 Feb 1988): an anecdote of a Minahasan surveyor in Maluku shocked by his atheism, with remarks on Indonesian attitudes to feminism and childlessness. Ends as the surveyor asks whether they are communists. No mention of Gerwani; background colo
Front-page De Waarheid listing (9 Apr 1988) of paper contents and events: Jan de Wit's story as a refuser, an essay on Kartini by Annie van Ommeren-Averink, a VPRO radio series on conscientious objectors, and a 21 April Kartini evening at the Tropenmuseum where Wertheim speaks and Francisca Fanggidaej discusses the pos
De Waarheid book review (30 Apr 1988, p.5) of a De Jong volume on Dutch troop shipments to Indonesia, arguing the 1946-47 deployments lacked a constitutional basis and that resistance (Amsterdam strike of Sept 1946, Indonesia refusers, Schoonhoven boys) was more significant than De Jong suggests. Lawyers Trees Sunito-H
Interview with Dr Go Gien Tjwan in NRC Handelsblad's 'Hun Indië' series (30 Apr 1988): memories of peranakan Chinese life in colonial Malang, racial hierarchy, schooling, Chinese revival in the 1930s and student politics at Batavia under Wertheim. Background on Chinese Indonesians; no Gerwani content.
De Waarheid text (7 May 1988, p.6), apparently a speech/interview by an unnamed Indonesian woman, on the Indonesian women's movement. She says Gerwani, with about 1.5 million members after 1949, gave the movement its mass character defending peasant and working women, while Perwari led on polygamy; after 1965 Gerwani w
De Waarheid obituary-style note (15 Oct 1988, p.7) on Trees Sunito-Heyligers, Dutch lawyer who defended the Schoonhoven refusers and Piet van Staveren and was first chair of the Nederlandse Vrouwen Beweging (NVB) in 1946; her husband chaired Perhimpunan Indonesia. It summarises her defence arguments linking refusal to
De Waarheid report (17 Oct 1988, p.2) on the reunion of hundreds of Dutch Indonesia refusers in Dronten, organised by Jan Maassen, with historian Ger Harmsen speaking and a 'comité eerherstel' formed to explore rehabilitation. Trees Soenito-Heyligers is honoured as defender of many refusers; supporting bodies include t
De Waarheid report (24 Nov 1988, p.3) on a Komitee Indonesië solidarity evening in Amsterdam for East Timor, thirteen years after Fretilin's independence declaration. Francisca Fanggidaej, former MP from West Timor, says both Indonesians and East Timorese are victims of Suharto's regime; Fretilin's Abilio de Araujo pre