2 Representations during the War
Journal: Amsterdam University Press eBooks
Year: 2021

During the Indonesian War of Independence (1945-1949) Dutch national media collaborated with the authorities in providing a sanitized representation of the conflict. The public was complicit in this early unremembering. Some left-wing media carried reports of Dutch atrocities. Joris Ivens' documentary Indonesia Calling (1946) represented the conflict as one of international liberation which contested colonialism, but was viewed by few members of the Dutch public. Hella Haasse's novel Oeroeg (194