Indonesia Calls!

Hans Goedkoop leaves for Indonesia in search of traces of his grandfather Rein van Langen. He was born in Java at the end of the 19th century and woul...

In the Dutch East Indies, things could not have happened in the 1920s. The economy is flourishing, the profits are enormous, especially at the extensi...

In the Dutch East Indies, the authorities want peace and prosperity, but in the 1930s things were brewing in the colony. There is an economic crisis,...

When the Germans invaded the Netherlands in May 1940, Hans Goedkoop's grandfather was on extended leave in The Hague. He refuses to sign a German decl...

Hans Goedkoop's grandfather, officer Rein van Langen, returns to the Dutch East Indies after the Japanese capitulation in 1945. The independent Republ...

After a year of fighting, the Dutch East Indies have still not been reconquered by the Dutch troops in 1947. Frustration is mounting. The army is orde...

In the battle for the Dutch East Indies, Dutch troops won the main prize in 1948. After a spectacular airborne landing, they conquer Jogjakarta, capit...

At the end of 1949, Dutch rule over Indonesia ended. The colonial army to which Hans Goedkoop's grandfather has been associated all his life is being...