After the bloody repression of the Indonesian left in the 1960s, Suharto’s regime wrote it out of the history books. Indonesian communists played a crucial role in developing national consciousness ...

A bullet-torn shirt and photos of freedom fighters are among the exhibits documenting Indonesia's struggle for independence from the Dutch in a groundbreaking show at Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum.

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces ...

On April 2, UCA News published a short book review highlighting the Dutch clergy who defended the colonial war in Indonesia from 1945 to 1949. This conflict is commonly known as the Indonesian ...

Writer-director Ena Sendijarević’s movie, about a Dutch family whose small colonial empire crumbles, premiered in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. By Jordan Mintzer Writer-director Ena ...

THE HAGUE – Dutch troops used “extreme violence” — often deliberately — during Indonesia's 1940s war for independence, and military leaders and politicians in the Netherlands largely ignored the ...

A new book by a Dutch historian has revealed that Christian pastors and priests not only justified the colonial war with Indonesia, but also remained silent about war crimes. Koos-Jan de Jager’s ...

Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s apology followed the publication of a government-funded report into the conduct of Dutch troops during the 1945-49 conflict. Dutch forces drive a column of M3 Stuart tanks ...

Writer-director Ena Sendijarević’s second feature, Sweet Dreams, follows a recent trend of arthouse films — including Zama, The Settlers and The Tale of King Crab — that explore Europe’s troubled ...

It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly denounces the violence of Dutch colonialism in Indonesia, but one can always ...