Resonance of Violence: Bersiap and the Dynamics of Violence in the First Phase of the Indonesian Revolution, 1945-1946 - Paperback

by Esther Captain (Author), Onno Sinke (Author)

Examines the extreme violence that erupted across Indonesia following the August 17, 1945 declaration of independence, when the battle cry Bersiap! (stand by) marked the start of the Indonesian national revolution and a period of violence.

Author Biography

Esther Captain is a historian and works as a senior researcher at the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (kitlv) in Leiden. She is endowed professor of Intergenerational Impact of Colonialism and Slavery at Utrecht University. She is currently involved in a research programme on the role of the House of Orange-Nassau in Dutch colonial history.

Onno Sinke is a historian and works as a researcher for the Netherlands Institute for Military History in The Hague. During the research for this book he was seconded to the kitlv/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in Leiden.