The Indonesian Reckoning 1 2 1080p

After Indonesia s independence, hundreds of thousands of returnees and thousands of veterans come to the Netherlands. During the postwar reconstruction there is little room to dwell on their experiences. The people, the stories and the facts certainly when it comes to the war that was waged to preserve the Dutch East Indies are hidden away as much as possible. But the past continues to gnaw. Hans Goedkoop himself from a family with roots in the Dutch East Indies goes in search of the remains of colonial history in a twopart story. He speaks with the first, second and third generations about the reception in the Netherlands, the silence, the humiliations and the bond with a lost country and culture.