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Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: April 02, 2023, 04:33:59 am »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKMbzqZm30

So what does Rutte intend to do about all the colonialist bloodlines which still exist? We do not care about money. We only care about eliminating colonialist bloodlines.

No more apologize, but take accountability for the crimes which they did in the past. Reparation, population-share from the former colonized people to the colonizer's homeland (Netherlands), and change democracy. As long as they not do that, they ("whites") remain guilty forever. Nusantara people's also got unfair treatment during gaining independence, they still must pay "reparation cost" to the Netherlands because they broke Netherlands's colonial authority on their own homeland. That's not fair, the oppressed cannot forced to take accountability to their oppressor because they aren't guilty. But of course, western's system of judicial cannot know what is absolutism, only moderatism which humiliating the victim and never totally punish the oppressor
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: December 19, 2022, 09:09:14 pm »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVKMbzqZm30

So what does Rutte intend to do about all the colonialist bloodlines which still exist? We do not care about money. We only care about eliminating colonialist bloodlines.

Posted by: antihellenistic
« on: November 07, 2022, 12:18:29 pm »

Dutch Colonialism Resulting Exclusivism on Particular Ethnics Group and Arousing Hatred

See this re-written book content below :

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Relations between Chinese and Indonesians under Dutch Rule

Under Dutch rule the Chinese had come to dominate the internal trade and commerce of the entire archipelago. They gathered the products of the land and sold them to big Dutch trading companies. Most of the small-scale manufacturing enterprises of the country were owned and managed by them. Except for the smallest shops and market stands, retailing was also largely in their hands. And Chinese shopkeepers, traders, and usurers remained the main source of credit for the Indonesian people, in spite of their unconscionably high rates of interest. This meant that the average Chinese was far better off than the average Indonesian, and that there were a conspicuous number of very wealthy Chinese, in contrast to the very few wealthy Indonesians. Furthermore, the advantageous economic position of the Chinese was accompanied by superiority attitudes and social exclusiveness.

The policy of the government, also, had the effect of setting the two communities apart and sharpening the differences in their interest. When residential segregration was finally abolished, educational segregration took its place. The whole series of concessions to the Chinese after 1900 amounted to preferential treatment, since Indonesians participated in very few of the new privileges. And until the last decade before World War II, the two communities were ruled under separate administrative systems. While the Dutch idealistically claimed that this policy was a matter of regulating each community according to its own customs and habits, the system was in effect a very successful example of the colonial practice of "divide and rule."


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...the Chinese showed little sympathy for the Indonesian nationalist movement, and were therefore generally considered to be pro-Dutch.

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...The great Indonesian nationalist organization, Sarekat Islam, was originally founded as an association of Javanese merchants whose purpose was to resist the competition of Chinese traders. The boycott movement which they launched in 1912 was accompanied by violent attacks on the Chinese quite beyond the policy of leadership. Most serious of these were the anti-Chinese riots in Surakarta and Surabaja. At about the same time violence broke out between members of Sarekat Islam and Chinese in Tangerang, which was to be the scene of a large-scale massacre of Chinese during the revolutionary war. In 1918 an anti-Chinese incident involving looting, arson, and murder occured in Kudus, where the rivalry between Indonesian and Chinese kretek cigarette merchants and manufacturers was extremely bitter. A similar incident pccured in Pekalongan in 1931.

Source : The National Status of the Chinese in Indonesia 1900-1958 by Donald E. Willmott page 25, 26, 27

Book can be accessed online at this link/URL : https://books.google.co.id/books?id=rKuw1yShGDYC&printsec=frontcover&hl=id&source=gbs_atb#v=onepage&q&f=false

Another information on a book which explaining about the Dutch Social Policies during Colonialism

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...The Indies-oriented view was first espoused by the political group Chung Hwa Hui (CHH) which was formed in 1928 mostly by Dutch educated peranakan intellectuals and businessmen. However, the CHH was seen as too pro-Dutch and was not popular with the Chinese nationalist or the pribumi population which believed that the CHH was not supportive of Indonesian independence..

In 1932, a rival party, the Partai Tionghoa Indonesia (Indonesian Chinese Party, PTI) was established. The PTI opposed the pro-Dutch CHH which was made up exclusively of the very rich Chinese. It sought dominion status for Indonesia and citizenship for all people irrespective of race but it advocated retaining the cultural identity of the Chinese community. However the party had little support. The PTI's support for Indonesians independence merged with an anti-colonial sentiment which brought them in harmony with the Chinese nationalist for a while but this was short-lived as the PTI's concern for the special interest of the Peranakan alienated the two groups (Coppel, 1976: 35). It also did not get the support from the Indonesian nationalist political parties because of the strong racial division between the Chinese and the pribumi nationalist leaders (Greif, 1988: 5)

Source : Identity and Ethnic Relations in Southeast Asia: Racializing Chineseness by Chee Kiong Tong page 118

Book can be accessed online at this link/URL : https://books.google.co.id/books?id=8bXnUL46_X0C&printsec=copyright&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q&f=false

Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: July 03, 2021, 10:17:55 pm »

https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-amsterdam-europe-business-global-trade-c8aaf243782f0ce65301ead7c4a29488

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AMSTERDAM (AP) — The mayor of Amsterdam apologized Thursday for the extensive involvement of the Dutch capital’s former governors in the global slave trade, saying the moment had come for the city to confront its grim history.

Debate about the role of Amsterdam’s city fathers in the slave trade has been going on for years, but it has gained more attention amid the global reckoning with racial injustice that followed the death of George Floyd in Minneapolis.

“It is time to engrave the great injustice of colonial slavery into our city’s identity. With big-hearted and unconditional recognition,” Mayor Femke Halsema said. “Because we want to be a government for those for whom the past is painful and its legacy a burden.”

So will you stop prohibiting immigration to the Netherlands from all former Dutch colonies?

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While apologizing, she also stressed that “not a single Amsterdammer alive today is to blame for the past.”

This is correct. But any Amsterdammer who has reason to suspect they might be descended from anyone who participated in Dutch colonialism, and who voluntarily reproduces, thereupon takes on the blame.

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Halsema said it showed that “from the end of the 16th century until well into the 19th century, Amsterdam’s involvement was direct, worldwide, large-scale, multifaceted and protracted.”
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Halsema doesn’t have to leave her official residence on one of Amsterdam’s mansion-lined canals to be reminded of the city’s deeply rooted ties to slavery.

The residence was formerly the home of Paulus Godin, who was a board member of the West-India Company and director of the Society of Suriname that were both heavily involved in slavery in the 17th century.

A stone plaque outside the house recalls that history and calls the slave trade and slavery crimes against humanity.

Amsterdam municipality says that former city fathers in the time that slavery was rife in Dutch colonies were deeply involved in the trade.

“Mayors were also owners of plantations or traded in people. They helped, through their public office, to maintain slavery because they profited from it,” the city says on its website.

It would have been similarly profitable to also use "white" slaves. So why did the Dutch colonies not do so? (We all know why not.)
Posted by: 90sRetroFan
« on: June 21, 2021, 09:58:06 pm »

Posted by: guest30
« on: March 16, 2021, 01:15:01 am »

NEVER FORGIVE, NEVER FORGET!

https://theconversation.com/the-dark-history-of-slavery-and-racism-in-indonesia-during-the-dutch-colonial-period-141457

The dark history of slavery and racism in Indonesia Nusantara during the Dutch colonial period

Memorial of slave traders

Although some novels and academic writings have described the life of indentured labour in North Sumatra, the general public rarely discuss the history of slavery.

Even until the end of the 20th century, the Dutch government never acknowledged the violence during colonial times.

Medan, famous as a trading city in the early 20th century, once erected two monuments to commemorate the glory of slave traders. In 1915, a fountain was erected in front of the Medan Post Office to commemorate Jacob Nienhuys as the “pioneer” of the Deli plantation.

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White racism

The Dutch planters treated the coolies inhumanely and like slaves.

A letter dated October 28, 1876, by Frans Carl Valck, the Assistant Resident in East Sumatra noted:

“It would be a miracle indeed, if respectable Chinese coolies would be attracted to a place where coolies are beaten to death or at least so mistreated that the thrashings leave permanent scars, where manhunts are the order of the day. …. Just recently I heard a rumour about a certain European who prided himself on having hung him down after the coolie had turned entirely blue.”

Nienhuys wrote that “Chinese are bold arch-swindlers and the Javanese are lazy and hot tempered” and “Batak is a stupid race, on the whole”.

An article dated May 30th, 1913 in Sumatra Post wrote that around 1867, Nienhuys was indicted of flogging seven Chinese coolies to death. The case was never proven nor disproved, but the Sultan of Deli ordered Nienhuys to leave the land of Deli and never to return.

In 1869, JT Cremer replaced Nienhuys as the administrator of the Deli company. To control thousands of workers from China and Java, Cremer designed the Coolie Ordinance, passed by the Dutch East Indies government in 1880. The regulation allowed companies to engage coolies in a contract that bound them for three years. The workers were meant to pay for their “debt” of transportation cost to Deli land.

The contract included a penal sanction that allowed the company to punish the workers if they forfeited the agreement. The ordinance gave power to the planters to punish coolies who were thought to be disobedient, lazy or tried to run away.

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Anticolonial activist from Indonesia Nusantara, Tan Malaka, who was teacher a in Deli plantation in the 1920s, described the life there:

Deli, a land of gold, a haven for the capitalist, but a land of sweat, tears, and death, a hell for the workers.

The coolies were forced to work; they were slaves. The coolies worked from dawn to night, received enough wages to fill in their stomachs and cover their back; they lived in a shed like goats in their cages, they were called godverdom and could be beaten any time and could lose their wives and daughters as desired by the master.

Breman estimated that a fourth of the coolies died before their contract ended.