Revolution in Indonesia - David Van Reybrouck is Looking For The Last Witnesses
Een Hoge Prijs
Directed by Marlou van den Berge, Djoeke VeeningaS1 • E3 Feb 3, 2021 51m
In episode 3, Van Reybrouck examines the question: why did it take so long for the conflict between the self-declared Indonesian Republic and the old Dutch colonizer to be resolved diplomatically? Why did it have to take months of warfare and hundreds of thousands of deaths? He comes face to face with the death mask of the first prime minister of Indonesia, Sutan Sjahrir, who advocated for a peaceful solution. He listens to the gripping accounts of war on both sides of the conflict. Finally, he asks what happened to the hope for a new world order that was created when the newly liberated world gathered in Bandung in 1955.
