Interactive lecture: Will the real Moluccan stand up?

What to expect

75 years ago, the first ships with Moluccan families arrived in the Netherlands from the newly independent Indonesia, including many Royal Netherlands East Indies Army soldiers who had fought under the Dutch flag.

The lecture explores Moluccan identity across generations and asks how multiple identities relate to roots, places, communities, and whether ‘pure’ cultures exist.

The questions are not only relevant for Moluccans.

• Dismissed and housed in remote camps nationwide
• Long legal limbo: neither Dutch nor Indonesian
• Struggle for independent Moluccan Republic fell short
• Question: identity when a country is not recognized
• Den Haag: 60% migration background, 170 nationalities
• Cultural diversity brings encounters, exchange and mixing
• Open, safe setting for experiences and perspectives
• Topics: cultural and political identity
• Collective memory, art and education
• Solidarity and heritage