
I’ll share from my work tracing ancestors across centuries, exploring how their unresolved experiences move through generations, along with reflections on how intuition is shaped by research and how ancestral and collective history becomes narrative.
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In nineteenth-century Java, the priyayi formed the hereditary administrative elite. Serving as regents, wedana, and other officials, they governed local communities according to Javanese custom while also administering Dutch colonial polici...
During the Padri War (1821–1837), the Dutch East Indies expanded its military presence in West Sumatra, where Minangkabau communities resisted colonial rule. Before officers and military surgeons reached the front, many first served in majo...
Hendrik van Ravenswaaij was born in a fortified river town where the Linge and Merwede met. During his childhood, the Netherlands came under Napoleon’s rule before regaining its independence in 1813 and becoming the Kingdom of the Netherlan...
Writing about colonial ancestors, my thoughts and felt-sense are with the experience of the Indo-European, the Indisch, the Indo. It feels as if the Indisch ancestors have been waiting for me to arrive in the Indies. When writing about the...
The office is busy with Dutch officials, Javanese messengers, Chinese merchants, and local regents or their representatives making petitions or waiting for permits, licenses, or other paperwork that n...
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