"executed Bodjonegoro executed Ancol" "The Japanese executed hundreds of people here during WW II often by beheading." "What the Japanese did here would never have seen the light of day if it hadn't been for a deaf-mute guard of a Chinese temple nearby who witnessed it." "As well as he could, he reported it to the allied troops after the war." "As soon as our planes fly low over the target the big, round flowers open quickly." "The bright white parachutes unfold majestically and the many commandos descend from the azure sky." "On this moving, historical moment we see how the Imperial Paratroopers form the vanguard in this Great East-Asian War." "RESISTANCE IN THE DUTCH INDIES a film about a lost struggle" "The former resistance 1942 through 1945." "East Asia:" "The spirit is victorious." "This is the coat of arms of Batavia with the crown and the island realm." "Van Logchem sent it to me." "It's your due, he says." "That's all." ""It's your due."" "I called the resistance in Indonesia:" "the resistance of good intentions." "Even the word 'resistance was completely unfamiliar back then." "The Indies resistance arose spontaneously out of anger:" "Keep your hands off our country." "It was not organized beforehand." "We had nothing." "The weapons we needed had to be stolen." "There was hardly any leadership." "Some people just took the initiative and said:" "We won't put up with this." "We also underestimated a number of things." "In the Second World War I was a soldier in the Japanese army." "Japan started the Great Asian War." "So it was a Japanese liberation war." "Banzai!" "At that time, when the Japanese army invaded an Asian country it surrendered." "That also happened with the Dutch army." "That was Japan's strength." "We attacked and the countries surrendered." "The highlight of this Queen's Day in the capital of the Dutch Indies was the parade on the King Square." "That parade took place because the government felt a great need for boosting the morale of the Dutch." "So they had a big parade." "It was a public secret that the KNIL is not an army you can wage a war with." "August 31, 1941:" "A day on which we look at the future with self-confidence." "Secure in the knowledge that our Indies"." "...will remain one of the last bastions where the Dutch flag will wave." "As a role model we take the woman who leads us in everything:" "Queen Wilhelmina the Persistent." "For the fatherland:" "Hurray!" "Look:" "This is what happened." "On December 7, 1941 that treacherous attack on the American fleet took place in Pearl Harbor." "A lot of Americans died." "I was about to be demobilized and they said to us that we wouldn't be demobilized but that we would be put on active duty." "And that's how I was put on active duty on December 8, 1941." "Yasukuni sanctuary, Tokyo" "They were convinced that an Asiatic people didn't stand a chance in a war against the white race." "The Dutch soldiers were amazed." ""We don't stand a chance."" "That's what the Dutch thought." "Right away they lost the courage to fight." "I asked Captain Boes Lutjens for permission if I could go to Batavia on my Harley Davidson." "He said:" ""You've got my blessing." "I hope you'll reach Batavia."" "I met a lot of people from my unit." "I said:" "I'm trying to get to Batavia." "They said: "Come back with us." "The whole area is infiltrated by Japs." "As soon as they see a soldier, they'll kill him."" "So that's what I did:" "I went back and reported to Boes Lutjens again." "Another reason that contributed to the rapid success of the invasion was the help of the Indonesian population to the Japanese army." "When the Japanese came I considered them to be heroes at first." "I trusted them to give me a better life." "That's why!" "I had great expectations." "We, and by that I mean the resistance failed largely because of the attitude of the Indonesians." "We were counting on them." "On their goodwill and that wasn't there." "They all came on bicycles wearing caps with flaps in the neck." "They had very long rifles." "I thought:" "Are these little guys..." "The whole population was cheering and waving Japanese flags." "They pointed and laughed at us." "They had lots of fun." "When the Japanese occupying forces invaded and that's true for all of the Dutch Indies the people experienced a shock effect." "The Japs took advantage of that." "We know the cruel stories about people being beheaded on the spot and bayonetted." "That all happened in the first few days." "Prisoners of war were executed." "That all happened at the beginning." "People were so frightened by that." "So, end of story." "About 135 Australian and British soldiers are buried in this field of honor." "They belonged to a British artillery detachment that served on the Dutch side when the Japanese invaded Java in 1942." "That happened at Subang where there were wounded in a military hospital." "The Japanese needed that space." "So they removed the sick from the hospital and executed them." "Can you imagine that in a society like ours, where people are startled when someone gets robbed something like this happens?" "You'd be speechless." "You'd be paralyzed." "That's what happened in the Indies." "Throughout the country, people like Sukarno and Hatta fanned the flames." "Destroy the power of America." "Destroy the power of Great Britain." "We'll raze America." "We'll break open Great Britain." "They all said:" ""Crush our enemies." "The Dutch, British and Americans." "Beat the British with a crowbar and raze the Americans."" "They were all singing that." "As far as the Indonesians went after 300 years under a colonial regime they were filled with rancor." "So the Dutch were interned in camps for their own safety." "After the capitulation all KNIL soldiers had to report." "In various locations there were small KNIL units that said:" "No way." "We won't do that." "Later on, they were forced to report because of lack of food, for instance." "Or they were captured by the Japanese." "Ordinary citizens, all women and children were in internment camps such as Ambarawa and others." "I had a brother who I took out of the camp during that period." "I brought him home, because I hoped he would take part in the resistance." "We still had to start, right?" "He said: "Resistance?" "You're insane."" "I have to say that he was wiser than I was." ""Resistance?" "That's completely useless."" "I had to take him back." "I was angry about that for nearly my whole life." "I was furious." "Three guys had escaped." "They were captured by 10.30 pm." "They were tied to trees." "They were beaten every half an hour." "When we were all present, six Japanese were chosen to stab those guys." "I didn't watch the bayonetting, but I saw them later." "They had to remain there for 24 hours." "They said that harakiri was part of the Japanese belief system." "By letting their blood flow they'd get to heaven." "That's what they thought." "It's better to stab someone because shooting someone might not get him into heaven." "Only few people know this Kempei monument." "If the Yasukuni sanctuary had been burned down by bombardments the Kempei would have committed harakiri in repentance." "With that conviction the Kempei defended the sanctuary." "That's why this Kempei monument was erected here at the Yasukuni." "The Yasukuni granted permission for this." "We don't have a permit to film here." "Go get one, or we have to take action." "We'll go to the office to get a permit." "I'm a Kempei veteran." "I understand." "Nevertheless, you need a permit." "Please go get a permit." "Then we can film at the Kempei monument." "If you don't have a permit, we have to fulfill our duty." "In the Ambonese camp this also happened in our camp they had to have a statement of loyalty to the Japs." "They refused to sign it." "Then they put all the Ambonese in a row during roll call." "Some people were chosen at random and put up against the wall." "Shot to death, because they refused to sign." "The next day they were asked again if they wanted to sign." "They refused." "That went on for a week and then they stopped." "But about ten people were killed in this way by the Japanese." "Indos are called half-castes, right?" "For example, the father is from the Netherlands and the mother from Indonesia." "The other way around was seldom the case." "I don't think we made a distinction between the various Indonesian communities." "But..." "We did say..." ""That's a half-caste", or "that's a Moluccan"." "The women were pretty." "And the men were handsome." "Because they had a light skin." "The father had a light skin so many of the children had that as well." "My brother came home with a certain Niggebrugge." "He called himself Barry." "He was a KNIL guy." "He became the leader of our group." "He said: "We have to get weapons as soon as possible." "We can help the Americans attack them."" "That was the beginning." "Captain De Lange was a KNIL officer charged with preparing a guerilla war." "He did so at the Christian high school." "Where I went to as well." "He looked there for a few young people who were crazy enough to do that work." "Who seemed trustworthy." "And who had some wild oats to sow." "You could find weapons everywhere in the grass, so we took them." "With the barrel of one of the shotguns we forced open the lock of the depot." "We took all sorts of weapons and ammunition from there." "Revolvers." "All sorts of things." "Of course there was sabotage." "Just think of the ammunition depot in Bandung." "I was about five kilometers outside of Bandung." "I felt the tremors." "I thought:" "All of Bandung is going up." "It was sabotaged by the resistance." "We went to get TNT and dynamite." "Anything we could get our hands on." "That was easy at the beginning." "During Japanese troop relocation and weapon transports there were bomb attacks on the rail road." "It was placed low with a few stones, for example." "It was primitive, but it worked." "And then it was lit." "We quickly got away." "Some of them had long wires." "Then the detonator received an electrical current." "You quickly reeled in the wire and got out." "They went looking for us, but never found a trace." "So the Moluccans and half-castes and sometimes Dutch people people like that illegally sent out messages about Japanese troop movements by way of coded radio messages." "There was a lot of espionage." "It was one of my jobs." "We were still assuming that in a few months, a year at the most the allied forces will be here." "So we have to know what's going on over here." "People who were suspected to be active in the resistance were executed here." "But sometimes that went wrong." "Over here is the grave of Mrs. L. Ubels." "Her brother, also called L. Ubels was suspected of acts of resistance against the Japanese." "But instead of Mr. L. Ubels they brought Mrs. L. Ubels over here." "She was beheaded and lies buried here." "A group of boys were trained in an old country house." "They received a basic training to become a soldier." "That happened relatively out in the open." "So sooner or later they'd be bound to be rounded up." "So they were arrested." "As a result of interrogating these boys, they also arrested De Lange." "Eventually, he was executed." "A guerilla in the Dutch Indies was a nice notion." "There was a lot of jungle where that could have been possible." "There were large supplies of ammo and food stored everywhere in the jungle." "When we needed that, everything was stolen." "It was impossible to do anything in secret in Indonesia." "It was a country where there were a lot of traitors." "Then it becomes useless." "There were guys who waged a guerilla battle at some point." "But they also perished." "It was all suicide, right?" "You know beforehand that, should you surrender you'll be beheaded." "That happened to sergeant Van de Muur." "He was arrested taken to Manokwari, interrogated, and his head was chopped off." "We had to report for duty in the name of the queen." "So you reported." "And when the Japs landed on April 12 about 66 people went into the interior." "Colonists, civil servants and professional soldiers." "66 people in total." "Before the war, we foolishly thought you could survive in the jungle because of everything that grows there." "Actually, the jungle is the first place you'll die." "There's nothing there." "If you'd had stocks and supplies you could have waged a guerilla war." "But that's exactly what we didn't have." "Scared... most of us were not scared." "Isn't that strange?" "You're only trying to survive." "During the attack, one guy in the group was hit." "He stayed on the ground and the Japs came." "He pretended to be dead." "Five days later, he was brought by the Papuans." "The Papuans knew exactly where we were." "He said: "The only way in which I could survive was for me to stay down." "So the laps passed right by me."" "That was quite the stunt." "Mostly, they walked through the jungle suffering from hunger and misery." "They lost men." "I can hardly call that a military success." "Humanly speaking, however, it's incredible that they endured that." "During a battle one or two people were killed." "So we just did the math." "66 minus whatever and then minus that again until only 14 were left." "Then the Japanese came at us from two sides." "That showed how serious they were about completely destroying the guerilla unit." "They didn't succeed." "During Dutch rule I wasn't yet responsible for providing for a family." "But I truly enjoyed the security in the country." "That security was never violated." "There were never robberies or slayings." "I was able to live in peace." "The houseboy was someone who could write." "He had a salary of 15 guilders a month." "The cook earned 12.50 a month." "The laundry maid didn't have a lot to do so she got 5 guilders a month." "Imagine." "What can you do on such a small salary?" "Still, life wasn't tough." "That's why I did feel happy." "My grandparents were still from the time of the Dutch East Indies Company." "So in order to establish a station in the bay it was important to safeguard the route to Ambon for the shipping of cloves and so on." "They died there." "We're the descendants." "This is my mother's father and his Javanese wife." "The Dutch government didn't allow them to be photographed together." "A Chinese man put two photo's together and there you go!" "It was so free and wonderful and harmonious." "It was a great time." "We had a piano and we dragged it outside." "Wally de Visser came and he played the piano." "We had a lot of fun." "Two sateh salesmen came into the yard." "People ate them out of house and home." "Everyone bought sateh." "It was very hard to find a job at that time." "The civil servants had a good life." "They were affluent enough." "Those were teachers, police and other civil servants." "Before the war in the Dutch Indies we had a kind of Secret Service." "It was called the Political Information Service." "They operated covertly." "The average civilian knew very little about them." "That service was staffed by Indonesians." "That was another reason why we knew so little about it." "Only the top consisted of Dutch police officers." "The service existed to keep up to date with what people throughout the archipelago from even the smallest villages and hamlets thought in terms of politics." "Come on in." "Don't look at the mess." "My father worked for the Dutch government." "We really don't know what he did exactly." "But it was called the Political Information Service." "The secret service had to know what the nationalists were up to." "But if my father ever impeded them, or what's it called?" "We really don't know." "We were too little." "It's too bad we can't find his books." "Otherwise we'd be able to explain." "That service ended up in Japanese hands like a party favor." "They only had to replace a few people by Japanese and it worked fine until the end of the war." "At night we always went to the air commando station near us to listen to the radio." "We took sateh which they were selling outside by that window." "Later it turned out that the salesmen were secret service detectives." "They knew everything." "At that moment all these sateh guys flew inside." "Everyone who was present was arrested at once." "People were handcuffed, thrown into a car and taken to headquarters." "When the Japanese came, my father still worked for the Dutch government." "Then he was arrested." "Papa was in jail for three months, I think." "The first week they really tortured him." "They put a hose in his mouth and ran water through it until his stomach was distended." "That was a real torture to him." "That's how my father later on ended up working for the Japanese." "With the other Indonesians, of course." "Everywhere the Kempei was stationed they made use of informants." "It is certain that everywhere, especially on Java the secret service was reasonably notorious." "They did a lot of work for the Kempeitai." "We undertook action on the basis of the information we received from the spies." "It was espionage." "The Japanese became family friends." "They came here every week, right?" "They had Dutch ladies what's it called?" "During the Japanese government, our house on 87 Trivelli Avenue it was a corner house..." " It belonged to my mother." "...and other houses like ours, was made into a women's camp for the Dutch ladies." "It was heaven on earth for these Japanese because they could do what they wanted with these ladies and girls." "Our father found it hard to work for the Japanese because he didn't always agree with what they wanted to achieve." "But, ah well there wasn't a lot he could do about it." "He always said: "I have to provide for my family." That was important to him." "That was his mantra." "When I was interrogated by the secret service, the boss was Japanese." "He had two or three assistants." "Other than that, they were all Indonesians." "Police chiefs trained by us worked there." "I often saw how suspects were interrogated." "Looking back on it I don't think they used excessive force." "Suspects who kept denying stubbornly even when you confronted them with evidence..." "If they stuck to their story, then..." "It's often called torture but giving someone a few slaps in the face every detective does that, not just the Kempeitai." "It was the Kempeitai's duty to collect evidence about incidents within the Japanese army for the martial court." "In Indonesia one had to uncover resistance and sabotage by the population and collect all sorts of evidence." "Interrogate suspects." "Sometimes a suspect accidentally died during an interrogation or someone was executed without a trial." "Therefore, the Kempeitai had the image of being terrifying." "For instance a suspect didn't respond to any questions." ""Why don't you reply?", they'd ask." "So, well..." "Those forceful questions accidentally led to a slap in the face." "That happened sometimes, but never anything worse than that." ""Do you want a cigarette?" They gave me coffee." "That was good." "I really needed that." "Did you listen to the radio, he said." "I said:" "No." "We don't have a radio." "That's how he started." ""You're lying."" ""Your mother is a whore." He struck me with a bayonet." "Here:" "He nearly chopped my finger off." "He took a pen nib and shoved it in here and one in there." "That was that." "Finger fixed." "The Japanese interrogations always started off with a beating." "Just a beating." "It was awful." "With fists and bamboo sticks." "You scream." "You scream." "They had some refined torture techniques." "The water test was the most notorious." "They put the hose in your mouth and opened the tap." "Your stomach and intestines were blown up until you were as tight as a drum." "And then they hit it with sticks." "The pain and the fear were horrific." "You might be mutilated." "They also had ordinary drowning." "I got a cloth around my face and slowly..." "At one point, I was abused to such an extent that I said to that officer:" ""Why are you doing this?" "You may as well kill me right away."" "He said: "We're not stupid." "Dead people are useless to us."" "Man oh man..." "They don't quit." "They just keep on going." "Yes, they went very far with that torture." "That was because they needed a confession." "I didn't know a thing!" "I said:" "I'm a schoolboy." "As I said, the Kempeitai's job is investigation and interrogation and handing the suspect over to the DA." "What happened after that I have never seen or heard, so I don't know." "Schoolboy, schoolboy, schoolboy..." "Some were released and others were executed." "I mean, some might have been executed." "But that was decided by the martial court." "That was not for me to know." "You weren't human anymore." "Anyone who'd been interrogated was full of despair." "Some didn't last and talked." "People who were tortured and confessed out of sheer desperation, were done for." ""I'm going to confess." "This is it."" "If he'd asked me if I were Jesus, I would have said 'yes.'" ""I'm glad I'm back." Right?" "If you didn't confess, like me then you were lucky." "I don't recall what they asked me." ""Was I a resistance fighter?" I said: "We have weapons." "I went along." That's what I confessed." "I happened to have a small radio." "I did confess that." "But you don't get a death penalty for that." "You couldn't defend yourself, because you didn't understand that guy." "He was just jabbering away." "I got a three-and-a-half year sentence." "I got a relatively light sentence." "They demanded the death penalty, but in the end I got..." "Do you remember?" "Fifteen years and then seven." " Yes, I think I got about seven." "So, I was lucky." "The Indonesians trusted the Japanese." "So they were loyal to Japan." "Japan had a lot of power at that time." "Thousands of people stood in a square supervised by only one Japanese." "And no one dared to move." "When the Japanese needed anything food or clothes they only needed to ask and the Indonesians gave it to them." "They took all our buffaloes and the harvest and other livestock." "And they instituted forced labor." "The people were forced to work without pay, while they suffered more and more." "We Indonesians ate inferior rice." " And they had fish this big." "We only got these tiny fish." "Every month a civil servant came by because of the Japanese to ask for more aluminum pans and gems." "Every month my mother had to hand over jewelry because they wanted to build planes for the war." "The reason for the hostility of the Indonesians is that foreign trade stagnated and there were food shortages." "And their freedom was limited to a certain extent." "Attack Japan?" "If you're talking about specific resistance against Japan I've never heard about that." "But there were people who in their heart weren't happy with Japan." "That's for sure." "I suppose you want to hear the story about Supriyadi?" "What are they yelling, you think?" "Always onwards." "Never retreat." "Something like that?" "Onwards." "Never retreat." " Advance!" "Always onwards." "Never retreat." "PETA stands for:" "Defenders of the Homeland." "That's it." ""Onwards, no retreat, never retreat!" Something like that, right?" "Come on." "Attack!" " Yes." "An independent Indonesia needed an army." "They were expecting to have to fight against the Dutch." "That's why the volunteer army PETA was established." "When I joined the PETA when that organization was established in 1944 I had several reasons." "First:" "I wanted to improve my destiny and relieve our suffering." "Second:" "I wanted a job." "This is..." " On that corner?" "Supriyadi!" " Supriyadi." "That's the leader of the PETA." "Supriyadi." "Day and night." "We did nothing but practice." "Life as a PETA soldier had a lot of shortcomings." "We got little food, we walked around in rags but it was especially the training that was really excessive." "To be able to be independent, half measures weren't enough." "They couldn't defeat the Dutch with just the Indonesian mentality." "That's why their training was tough." "For even the littlest mistake you got a beating." "You were really beaten." "I'm sure there were exceptions, but the methods of the Japanese instructors were sometimes very strict, so sometimes there was opposition." "But I've never heard of a rebellion." "The situation became worse and worse." "They should have treated me well as a member of the PETA." "But that didn't happen and we suffered almost as badly as the people." "We wanted to put a stop to all the suffering." "We wanted to defend our people, who were suffering more and more." "So we saw no other solution than a rebellion." "Careful!" "The secrets meetings of Commander Supriyadi were held here." "This is the place where they first met." "The rebellion started here." "This is where he lived." "So they held meetings here and slept here as well." "Incredible." "It's a good spot..." "...to isolate yourself in." "This place was kept a secret." "Good afternoon, children." " Good afternoon." "I'll introduce myself." "I'm Mr. Sukiarno." "I used to be a member of the PETA here, that was led by Supriyadi." "The rebellion started by firing eight mortar grenades from the barracks by two 'bucho'." "So February 14 isn't just..." "Which day?" "Valentine's Day." "But also the day of the PETA rebellion." "When the grenades had been fired, the machine guns started rattling." "They were put on the other side and aimed at the houses of the Kempeitai." "After the rebellion Supriyadi disappeared." "He was declared missing." "And received the death penalty in absentia." "Then the Japanese arrived from Malang and surrounded the area." "They arrived with a complete arsenal that included Bren carriers and tanks." "And I was in the thick of it!" "And six of his comrades received the death penalty with him." "These men were really executed in Ancol." "Ancol?" " You know." "In 1946 when this became a field of honor a couple of hundred victims of war lay buried here." "In the '60s re-burials took place of victims who were buried in other fields of honor in Indonesia." "Right now, there are about 2000 victims of war buried here." "It's hard to put a number on it." "There are mass graves where 50-100 unidentified victims lie buried." "The exact numbers are unknown, but there are about 2000 victims buried here in the Ancol field of honor." "Near Jakarta is Ancol." "Do you know that place?" "Anchon?" " Ancol." "Ancol?" "I've never heard of it." " He can't remember." "The six PETA leaders received the death penalty." "They were beheaded." "Hands tied behind, squatting and start cutting away." "Their heads were chopped by the Samurai sword." "That's what happened, right?" "Terrifying." "The image of the beheading stayed with me long after I was 40." "I was always beheaded in my nightmares." "Of the many war comrades who have died in the meantime there's no one who ever spoke about this." "On August 15, 1945, the armistice took effect and at that moment Tokyo ordered all secret documents to be burned." "That applied to Tokyo itself, but also to outlying districts such as Indonesia." "Everything had to be burned." "Not just secret documents, but also personal diaries and other material had to be burned." "It's hard to imagine that everything was really burned but nearly all secret documents are lost." "I got three-and-a-half years." "I had to take off my civilian clothes to wear jail clothes." "A black headscarf, brown short pants." "At the back red-brown with the words RP Rumah Penjara, that's the jail." "I don't know when this picture was taken." "I think he was a boy scout here." "Later on in jail, I ran into him." "He was one of the prisoners." "He said:" "Don't you recognize me?" "I said:" "I don't." "He said:" "I'm your brother, Boelo." "I said:" "You're kidding." "He was emaciated and had injuries everywhere that were infected." "He got permission to stay in our cell for two days." "After that, I never saw him again." "68 men were convicted of having committed a major of fence." "They were sent to jail in Jakarta." "They had a tough time there." "The case was handed over to the brutal Kempeitai." "We had to drink soapy water." "They pulled a buddy of mine up and dropped him." "I was repeatedly hit with a ruler." "They practiced judo on me." "I went through it all!" "I was taken to Japan." "For about three years I had to work in a granite quarry at a depth of 750 meters." "We didn't look black with coal dust but white with granite dust." "Camp number 10 in Inatshukumachi." "Because you were a miner you wore one of those lamps." "You had a battery for it." "They burned themselves with that battery acid in order to get of working in the mine." "Later on, they discovered that and meted out punishment." "The flag waved every day at headquarters." "That flag we just..." "They wanted to turn it into something meaningful." "So they asked to put the names of the survivors on it." ""February 28, 1945." "Your idea to send me that flag which you honored during your long and fearless guerilla war moved me deeply."" "You'd done your duty as a soldier." "And you defended the flag." "So it had to go back to the queen." "We persevered because of that flag." ""I'd like to express my deep appreciation."" "Signed by Queen Wilhelmina." "Banzai!" "At a certain point, the air sirens went off." "And when we wanted to go to the bomb shelter we saw what seemed like lightning in the distance." "I went to Nagasaki, because there were several people I knew there Lapré en Vandermeulen, for instance." "When I arrived at that camp, I recognized Lapré but Vandermeuien had been maimed so much, I didn't recognize him." "It was as if he was made of wax and had stood before a fireplace." "He was all..." "I didn't recognize him at all." "After the atom bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan surrendered." "It was a golden opportunity for the government to declare independence." "I was disappointed that Japan lost and surrendered." "I didn't agree with that." "That's why I joined Indonesia." "As a former PETA soldier, I became one of the founders of the Indonesian army." "I trained the young people to become soldiers." "I don't like to brag." "I was only a small cog in the machinery but I was prepared to give my life to help Indonesia." "I fled from the Japanese army and reported to the Indonesian army." "A lot of Japanese were of the same opinion." "After the war we found out that we had been betrayed." "We were on the patio and my sister happened to look outside." "She became completely rigid." "I watched to see what was going on." "I saw that guy." "He saw me and took off." "I jumped over the fence." "I chased him and shot him in the butt." "He spun around, so I shot him in the chest." "Finished." "It was finished." "I can tell very little about him, because I didn't know him." "I know that before the war, he attended the military academy." "He was in the resistance in Surabaya." "The Kempeitai caught him." "After his first torture he caved and started working for them." "I was one of his victims." "I know there were more." "He betrayed a lot of people." "If you think you're cut out of the right cloth to become an army officer and you had military training but you become a defector in two days, then I think that you should be held accountable." "That's what I think." "His colleagues did." "Much later I heard that they really hunted him down." "He knew what was awaiting him." "His men caught up with him and he was executed." "It was announced on the radio that he would be executed." "We had to leave our home within 24 hours because we were in danger." "We had to leave everything behind." "We only took our jewelry hidden in a bag and that was it." "Everything..." " It was a painful situation." "We lost absolutely everything." "What's going on, Papi?" "These Dutch people interviewed me." "Are you considered to be a hero in Indonesia, Pak Ono?" "Yes, I also get a war veteran pension." "And the people in the village?" " Yes, they respect me." "The Indonesians are very grateful." "No one charged or accused me." "Just because I was with the Kempeitai, I was suspected of war crimes." "I was interned in Glodok, Jakarta." "We got just enough food to stay alive." "I'm amazed I didn't die of starvation." "Those who were interrogated by the Dutch about war crimes and refused to answer, returned from the interrogation with on their face or in other spots visible injuries." "Some had their eyes beaten shut." "So it wasn't just the Kempeitai that did that but any investigation officer who cross-examined." "Welcome to the Netherlands." "The first repatriates arrive in IJmuiden from our East." "Amsterdam is ready to receive our fellow countrymen." "They will receive a warm welcome so that they can soon forget the hardships they endured." "The government's attitude was simple." "They literally told me this:" ""Sir, we have nothing to do with the Dutch Indies resistance." "If you want acknowledgement go to Jakarta." "We have nothing to do with the Dutch Indies resistance."" "We were left out in the cold." "That was grossly insulting." "We were second-class citizens." "Maybe even worse." "We were parasites!" "We were supposed to have been well-off there." ""Impossible!" "They never went hungry there." "Here they ate tulip bulbs, yes." "But not there." "The bananas flew right into your mouth."" "We weren't eligible." "Thanks to the, at that time still-present, Communist Party matters took a different course." "But until the very last moment in 1985, when that law passed they tried to sabotage things in thousands of ways." "If I had been locked up in a doghouse, I would have been entitled to benefits." "Then it would have been clear I was in the resistance, because you had to prove you were locked up in a doghouse." "And I never was, right?" "Do you know how many committed suicide later on?" "They felt they were made a fool of." "And that continues until today." "We just had a flood." "It's a drag." "The fields of honor usually look fine." "Green grass." "Nothing is left." "It's flooded with salty seawater." "It looks terrible." "On the other hand, now you can see what it was like in WWII." "A desolate swamp with a path of a few hundred meters long running through it." "And somewhere behind there, secretively people were executed." "The boat left the shore and someone started to sing." "♪ when I think back on those long-ago days" "♪ when my nanny still carried me in her sling" "♪ and now and then brought me something" "♪ when I asked for something good to eat" "♪ holy land..." "♪ oh, mighty Indonesia" "♪ my heart longs so much for the mountains" "♪ oh, my beloved land" "♪ I still adore you" "♪ I would love to eat some katjang goreng" "♪ and nasi goreng is a true pleasure" "♪ with prawn crackers and chili sauce" "♪ that sets your tongue on fire" "♪ holy land, oh mighty Indonesia" "♪ my heart longs so much for the mountains" "♪ oh my beloved land" "♪ I still adore you ♪"