Friends and Exiles: A Memoir of the Nutmeg Isles and the Indonesian Nationalist Movement 9781501720598

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

Cornell University

DesAlwi edited by Barbara S. Harvey

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

SoUTHEAST AsiA PROGRAM PUBLICATIONS

Southeast Asia Program Cornell University Ithaca, New York

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2008

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Editorial Board Benedict R. O'G. Anderson Tamara Loos Stanley J. O'Connor Keith Taylor Andrew C. Willford Cornell Southeast Asia Program Publications 640 Stewart Avenue, Ithaca, NY 14850-3857 Studies on Southeast Asia No. 44

© 2008 Cornell Southeast Asia Program

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, no part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the Cornell Southeast Asia Program. Printed in the United States of America ISBN: hc978-0-87727-774-3 ISBN: pb 978-0-87727-744-6 Cover Design: Maureen Viele

TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations

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Map of the Netherlands East Indies

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Introduction

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Family

9

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Friends and School

21

3

Political Exiles in Banda

31

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Boats for the Uncles

47

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Life with the Exiles

55

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Approach of War

69

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Japanese Occupation in Banda

79

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Leaving Banda

89

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Arrival in Jakarta

103

10

Sjahrir and the Underground

113

11

Chairil Anwar-the Poet

125

12

Surabaya and East Java

129

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East Java and the Underground

139

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End of the Japanese Occupation and Start of the Revolution

149

Postscript

161

Index

165

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Map of the Banda Islands Said Tjong Baadilla, grandfather of Des Alwi The family The house where Des Alwi was born The house that belonged to Des Alwi's grandparents Map of Banda Neira Des Alwi's European Elementary School Dr. Tjipto Mangunkusumo; Dr. Tjipto Mangunkusumo with his wife Fomalhaut-the ship that brought Hatta and Sjahrir to Banda Neira Families of exiles in Banda The school organized and run by Hatta Does and Des Alwi in front of the house where Hatta and Sjahrir lived Sjahrir, students, and children in Hatta' s orambai Postcard showing Kampung China from an overview Sjahrir and the Bandanese childen Chinese Kapitein Ho Kok Chai and one of his daughters Munir, Miss van der Poll, Oen, Alwi, and Moem Des Alwi in Surabaya, 1945 Johan Sjahruzah with members of the underground in East Java Des Alwi's family by the car Des Alwi with Hatta and Mrs. Hatta

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