Boven-Digoel, often simply called Digoel, was a Dutch concentration camp for political detainees operated in the Dutch East Indies from 1927 to 1947. The Dutch used it to detain thousands of Indonesia
A view of Boven-Digoel concentration camp, Dutch East Indies, 1927.
Indonesian communist prisoners being exiled to Boven-Digoel, 1927
Title page of Drama di Boven Digoel by Kwee Tek Hoay, 1938
Internees at Tanah Merah preparing the set for an opera performance, late 1920s
Mohammad Hatta
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Mohammad Hatta was an Indonesian statesman, nationalist, and independence activist who served as the country's first vice president as well as the third prime minister. Known as "The Proclamator", he
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…Muslim Indonesia, the Partai Sarekat Islam Indonesia, Partindo, and other groups were targeted. Eventually even high-profile intellectuals such as Mohammad Hatta, who would become the first vice president of Indonesia, and Sutan Sjahrir, future first Indonesian Prime Minister were both exiled in 1935. However…
Official portrait, c. 1950s
Bung Hatta's birth house, which is now located on Sukarno-Hatta street, Bukittinggi
Leaders of Perhimpoenan Indonesia. Left to right: Gunawan Mangunkusumo, Mohammad Hatta, Iwa Kusumasumantri, Sastro Mulyono, and R.M. Sartono
Mohammad Hatta Indonesian statesman, nationalist, and one of the founding fathers