[Talk] Banda Islands: Echoes of the Past

Readers may be interested in this talk by the Indonesian Heritage Society happening tomorrow (19 October).

The Banda Islands are famous for the spices and infamous for the massacre that was instigated by Jan Pieterszoon Coen 400
years ago. To obtain a spice monopoly for the Dutch East India Company (VOC), prominent figures were slaughtered. The
murder is still commemorated through a local version of the Cakalele dance, and the Fort itself stands witness to the fight
for freedom and independence.

Joella van Donkersgoed will tell the story and meanings of Dutch Fort Nassau, and explain how heritage management could
be used to empower local communities and their perspective on the colonial past.

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