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GA-01299 1958-01-20 Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant rel C

Captain Cook met vreemd stille kinderen: Het Hollandse huis, een kille uitgestorven haven (Captain Cook with strangely quiet children)

Captain Cook with strangely quiet children: the Dutch house, a cold deserted harbour

Nieuwe Haarlemsche Courant, 20 January 1958, p. 3: reporter's account of the arrival at IJmuiden of the Captain Cook with about a thousand Dutch and Indo-Dutch evacuees expelled from Indonesia after the December 1957 takeover of Dutch enterprises. It records broken families, fears and a claim that communist union cars

GA-00994 1968-01-05 Friese Koerier OnafhankelijK Dagblad Voor Friesland En Aangrenzende Gebieden rel C

Uit Zwolle afkomstig mevrouw Soenito in Indonesië gearresteerd

Mrs Soenito from Zwolle arrested in Indonesia

Friese Koerier Reuters item (5 Jan 1968, p.11): Jakarta police arrested Dutch-born lawyer Trees Soenito-Heyligers, 52, on suspicion of membership of the banned communist scholars' association HSI. She had defended trade unionist Njono two years earlier; her husband Soenito, parliament secretary, was arrested after the

GA-01389 1974-07-02 Vrije Stem Onafhankelijk Weekblad Voor Suriname rel C

Mavis Wirio miss Djawa (Mavis Wirio Miss Java)

Mavis Wirio Miss Java

Photo caption in the Surinamese weekly Vrije Stem (2 Jul 1974): the 'Miss Djawa' contest organised by Trie Djokko Moeljo, won by Mavis Wirioredjo. Concerns Javanese-Surinamese community life; nothing on Indonesia's women's movement or Gerwani.