Tabé – Arendo Joustra

Eyewitnesses about the final decades of the Dutch East Indies

The Netherlands took a long time to say goodbye to its colony in the East. And the Indies still do not want to become a closed book. As historians dig deeper and deeper, homesickness, pain and nostalgia linger just beneath the surface.

This book is a journalistic account of the final decades of the Dutch East Indies. Told by the last eyewitnesses, reporters on the spot and experts involved. About exiled rebels in the Boven-Digul camp, where the guards were behind barbed wire and the prisoners walked around freely. About captivity in Japan and the atomic bomb as a savior. About the forgotten bloodshed during the Bersiap. About soldiers returning as tourists. About the fatal flight of the Franeker. And Henk Lunshof's scoop on Linggadjati.

The Netherlands' hesitant farewell to the Indies still provides an inexhaustible source of special stories that apparently need to be told. Tabé. The long farewell to our Indies , compiled by Arendo Joustra, editor-in-chief of EW , is proof of this. This paperback has 236 pages, including an index.