Author: MERDEKA - DE OPDRACHT,
Title: De Opdracht. Tijdschrift gewijd aan het nieuwe Indië, nr. 16-September 1945. Orig. issue.
Description: S.L. ['s=Gravenhage], s.n.,, 1945. small folio, stapled. 18pp. printed in 3 collumns. With a portrait of A.W.L. Tjarda van Starkenburgh Stachouwer, Governor-General of dutch colonial Indonesia, table of contents. WINKEL, 596. Contains 17 articles by various contributors, with as theme the liberation of dutch colonial Indonesia from the japanese occupation, incl. an article on V.J.-Day at Panama and on Aruba (dutch territory of the West-Indies) and an article on dutch reformed missionaries during the occupation by K.J. Brouwer. An odd issue of this dutch language monthly, for the greater part dealing with the dutch-indonesian dispute, 1945-1950. Together 46 issues published, August 1944-February 1947, of which Nrs. 1-8 have been illegally published under the german nazi-occupation of the Netherlands. Very well preserved. (centre-folded, not disturbung however).

Keywords: periodical monthly newspaper merdeka politics victory japan day liberation japanese occupation colonialism indonesia southeast asia odd issue