THE HAGUE, Netherlands — The Dutch government has agreed to return thousands of fossils to Indonesia from a world-renowned collection, after a commission ruled that they were removed in the colonial ...
MANILA, Philippines — Hundreds of priceless, cultural artifacts looted during the Dutch colonization of Indonesia and Sri Lanka are finally on their way home. In a ceremony Monday at the Museum ...
The items were taken in the late 19th century from what was then called the Dutch East Indies. Indonesia had been trying to get them back for decades. By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam The ...
Colloquially known as the Maybank building, this colonial-era structure and its clock loom over a busy street in Surabaya, Indonesia on November 4, 2024. (Lasse Sørensen/Courthouse News) SURABAYA, ...
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 ...