Revolusi

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For five years, David Van Reybrouck worked on his monumental work, Revolusi, interviewing nearly two hundred people, the last living witnesses of the Indonesian struggle for independence. His research, which spanned from Indonesian retirement homes to Japanese megacities and remote islands, revealed numerous new stories, including those from the Netherlands. The multitude of perspectives and memories he weaves together creates a poignant narrative of Indonesian independence, a process marked by blood, pain, and hope. The struggle, which peaked in the 1940s, was often viewed as a conflict between the Netherlands and Indonesia, but it was, in fact, a global event. This book pulls the struggle from a national perspective and emphasizes its significance as a world-historical event. Indonesia was the first country to declare independence after World War II. Following the Japanese occupation, young rebels rose up against any new form of domination. The presence of British, Australian, and Dutch troops led to the first modern decolonization war, inspiring independence movements worldwide, especially after the 1955 Bandung Conference, the first world congress without the West. The world had engaged with Revolusi and was transformed by it.