Forum on Decolonisation and Violence in Indonesia: Examining the ODGOI Project (‘Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië’/‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’)

Susie Protschky; Pepijn Brandon

doi:10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19564

Forum on Decolonisation and Violence in Indonesia

Examining the ODGOI Project (‘Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië’/‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’)

Author(s)

Susie Protschky VU Amsterdam
Pepijn Brandon VU Amsterdam

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19564

Abstract

This forum discusses the results of the large-scale research project ‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’ (ODGOI). The research was conducted by the Nederlands Instituut voor Militaire Historie (NIMH), the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV), and the Nederlands Instituut voor Oorlogs-, Holocaust- en Genocidestudies (NIOD) from 2017-2022, resulting in thirteen monographs and edited volumes appearing thus far. This introduction situates ODGOI in the Netherlands’ long and troubled process of coming to terms with the failed Dutch attempt to violently suppress Indonesian independence, looks at the present-day memory politics surrounding the research, and introduces the contributing authors and scope of this forum.

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Author Biographies

Susie Protschky, VU Amsterdam

Susie Protschky is Professor of Global Political History at VU Amsterdam. She is a historian of Dutch colonialism, nineteenth- and twentieth-century Indonesia, and an expert on politics and visual culture. She is the author of Photographic Subjects: Monarchy and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Manchester University Press 2019), Images of the Tropics: Environment and Visual Culture in Colonial Indonesia (Brill 2011), and various edited collections on modern history and photography in Indonesia. Her current book project, contracted to Cornell University Press, is Seeing Like a Soldier: Photography and Colonial Violence in Dutch Indonesia. E-mail: s.protschky@vu.nl.
Pepijn Brandon, VU Amsterdam

Pepijn Brandon is Professor of Global Economic and Social History at VU Amsterdam and Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History. His work focuses on the intersections of the histories of capitalism, colonialism, slavery, and war. He is the author of War, Capital, and the Dutch State (1588-1795) (Brill 2015). Brandon coordinated several large-scale research projects on the Dutch involvement in global slavery, including the project commissioned by the City of Amsterdam that led to formal apologies by Amsterdam’s mayor Femke Halsema. Brandon is currently the chair of the editorial board of BMGN – Low Countries Historical Review. His work on this forum was conducted before he accepted that position. E-mail: p.brandon@vu.nl.

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Published

2025-06-30

Issue

Vol. 140 No. 2 (2025)

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Forum

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Protschky, S., & Brandon, P. (2025). Forum on Decolonisation and Violence in Indonesia: Examining the ODGOI Project (‘Onafhankelijkheid, Dekolonisatie, Geweld en Oorlog in Indonesië’/‘Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’). BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review, 140(2), 32-42. https://doi.org/10.51769/bmgn-lchr.19564