Boven Digoel Regency
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Boven Digoel Regency is an inland regency in the northeastern part of the Indonesian province of South Papua. It was split off from Merauke Regency on 12 November 2002. It is bordered to the south by
Coat of arms
Communist prisoners to Boven Digoel in 1927; 99 years ago (1927)
Statue in rememberence of Mohammad Hatta near the airport and former prison building.
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
Boven Digoel Regency
…In the Dutch East Indies era, the present Boven Digoel Regency was known as Digul Atas (Upper Digul), located on the banks of the Digul River. Boven-Digoel was a Dutch prison camp in the Dutch East Indies at the headwaters of the Digul River, where Indonesian nationalists and communists were interned between…
A view of Boven-Digoel concentration camp, Dutch East Indies, 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