Friends and Exiles: A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement

by Des Alwi, Barbara S. Harvey (Editor)

Overview

Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experiences on Banda and Java during the Japanese Occupation and his involvement in the underground struggle for Independence.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780877277743
Publisher:	Cornell University Press
Publication date:	12/06/2007
Series:	Studies on Southeast Asia , #44
Pages:	172
Product dimensions:	7.20(w) x 10.00(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations vi

Map of the Netherlands East Indies vii

Introduction 1

1 Family 9

2 Friends and School 21

3 Political Exiles in Banda 31

4 Boats for the Uncles 47

5 Life with the Exiles 55

6 Approach of War 69

7 Japanese Occupation in Banda 79

8 Leaving Banda 89

9 Arrival in Jakarta 103

10 Sjahrir and the Underground 113

11 Chairil Anwar-the Poet 125

12 Surabaya and East Java 129

13 East Java and the Underground 139

14 End of the Japanese Occupation and Start of the Revolution 149

Postscript 161

Index 165