Memories of "the East": abstracts of the Dutch interviews about the Netherlands East Indies, Indonesia and New Guinea (1930-1962) in the Oral History Project Collection

Abstract

Between 1997 and 2001 the Stichting Mondelinge Geschiedenis Indonesie (SMGI, Foundation for the Oral History of Indonesia) conducted interviews with 724 individuals, among them "full-blooded" Dutch, Indo-Europeans, Chinese, Moluccans, Menadonese and Javanese. The interviews document "the end of the Netherlands colonial presence in Asia", also giving a view on ordinary daylife in these days. The abstracts presented in this volume are an introduction to the sound archive comprising 2.800 hours of recording. (DÜI-Alb)