{"id":41541,"date":"2022-02-09T23:12:33","date_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:12:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/dutch-officials-drop-case-against-rijksmuseum-over-racist-word"},"modified":"2022-02-09T23:12:33","modified_gmt":"2022-02-09T14:12:33","slug":"dutch-officials-drop-case-against-rijksmuseum-over-racist-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=41541","title":{"rendered":"Dutch officials drop case against Rijksmuseum over \u2018racist\u2019 word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to avoid word in exhibition on Indonesian independence led to accusations of genocide denial<\/p>\n<p>The director of the Rijksmuseum said he was \u201chappy\u201d as Dutch prosecutors announced they would not proceed with an investigation into complaints over a newly opened exhibition on Indonesian independence, the first of its kind in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition, <em>Revolusi! Indonesia Independent<\/em>, at the Netherlands\u2019 national museum, has been a source a controversy since one of its curators, Bonnie Triyana, said the term \u201c<em>bersiap<\/em>\u201d, or stand by, would not be used in reference to the violent upheaval that followed a declaration of independence from the Dutch state.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/feb\/09\/dutch-officials-drop-case-against-rijksmuseum-over-racist-word\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Decision to avoid word in exhibition on Indonesian independence led to accusations of genocide denialThe director of the Rijksmuseum said he was \u201chappy\u201d as Dutch prosecutors announced they would not proceed with an investigation into complaints over a &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":164,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,71,221,156,89,219,362,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41541","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-culture","category-europe","category-indonesia","category-museums","category-netherlands","category-race","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41541"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41542,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41541\/revisions\/41542"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41541"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41541"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41541"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}