AMSTERDAM (AP) Video of Dutch troops overseeing the torching of houses in an Indonesian village plays in one room of the Rijks Museum's new exhibition, while a few meters away, a baby's clothes sown from book covers the only scraps of cloth the mother could find are laid out.
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A new exhibition opens this week at the Dutch national museum that examines the violent birth of the Southeast Asian nation of Indonesia. The show, “Revolusi! Indonesia Independent,” portrays the
Video of Dutch troops overseeing the torching of houses in an Indonesian village plays in one room of the Rijks Museum in Amsterdam. A few meters away, a baby's clothes sewn from book covers the only scraps of cloth the mother could find are laid out.
As countries begin to confront their darker history, the Netherlands may have a model. An exhibit at the Dutch national museum addresses Indonesia’s independence struggle, long told from the colonizer’s perspective, through the Indonesian experience.