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Friends and Exiles : A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement /

Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experiences on Banda and Java during the Japanese Occupation an...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Alwi, Des (Author)
Other Authors: Harvey, Barbara S. (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
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Summary:Des Alwi tells of his childhood on the eastern Indonesian island of Banda, where he was befriended and adopted by the two nationalist leaders, Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, exiled there by the Dutch colonial regime. He describes his experiences on Banda and Java during the Japanese Occupation and his involvement in the underground struggle for Independence.
Physical Description:1 online resource (172 pages): 21 illustrations
ISBN:9781501720598