{"id":59328,"date":"2023-10-21T13:00:36","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/21\/dutch-self-image-challenged-as-country-confronts-its-colonial-past"},"modified":"2023-10-21T13:00:36","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T04:00:36","slug":"dutch-self-image-challenged-as-country-confronts-its-colonial-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=59328","title":{"rendered":"Dutch self-image challenged as country confronts its colonial past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence Indonesia<\/p>\n<p>Its political centre, The Hague, may call itself \u201cthe city of peace and justice\u201d. But in few European countries is the process of confronting the colonial period proving as fractious and divisive as in the Netherlands, where opposing sides have in recent years struggled to agree on who was victim and who was perpetrator.<\/p>\n<p>This month, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nieuwekerk.nl\/tentoonstellingen\/de-grote-indonesie-tentoonstelling\/\">exhibition at Amsterdam\u2019s Nieuwe Kerk<\/a> gallery space and two new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niod.nl\/nl\/activiteiten\/boekpresentaties-op-3-oktober-geweld-en-verantwoording\">books<\/a> in a major historical series try to establish common ground over the violence that ensued after Indonesia declared independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1945.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2023\/oct\/21\/dutch-self-image-challenged-as-country-confronts-its-colonial-past\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exhibition aims to establish common ground amid fractious debate over violence in post-independence IndonesiaIts political centre, The Hague, may call itself \u201cthe city of peace and justice\u201d. But in few European countries is the process of confronting t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4015,"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":[749,221,156,219,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59328","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-colonialism","category-europe","category-indonesia","category-netherlands","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\/59328","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\/4015"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59329,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59328\/revisions\/59329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}