Indonesian President Joko Widodo, left, walks with King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands as they inspect the honor guard during the welcoming ceremony at the presidential palace in Bogor, West Java ...
AMSTERDAM (AP) — 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 ...
At the Netherlands’ national museum, describing the events in which Indonesia threw off Dutch colonial rule was never going to be easy. By Nina Siegal AMSTERDAM — When the Rijksmuseum decided to stage ...
Sri Lanka’s foreign minister said Monday that his country welcomes the Netherlands’ plan to return hundreds of colonial-era artifacts — including a bejeweled, ceremonial cannon — and said the Indian ...
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch troops used “extreme violence” — often deliberately — during Indonesia’s 1940s war for independence, and military leaders and politicians in the Netherlands largely ...
(Handout/Suriname Presidential Press/AFP) Representatives of the descendants of African slaves and Indigenous peoples of Suriname on Monday formally accepted an apology from visiting King ...
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — Angry protesters in Cape Town confronted the king and queen of the Netherlands on Friday as they visited a museum that traces part of their country’s 150-year ...
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