Collection former Stichting Film en Wetenschap
Number of persons: 3
Number of interviews: 4
Interviewer: Peter van der Vusse
Production date: June-November 1984
Type of interview: scientific
Carrier: 4 audiotapes
Accessibility: for research purposes
Transcription: none
‘De Partij van de Arbeid, Nederland en de Indonesische Revolutie’ (doctoraalscriptie RUU, 1984) – M.P. van der Vusse
Further information:
The interviewees discuss the attitude of the PvdA towards Indonesia in the years after 1945. Van der Vusse interviewed them for his doctoral thesis on history (UvA).The interviewees discuss the attitude of the PvdA towards Indonesia in the years after 1945. Van der Vusse interviewed them for his doctoral thesis on history (UvA).
Bernard van Tijn (1900-1990) belonged to the left wing of the SDAP and later the PvdA. He went to the Dutch East Indies in 1930. In addition to his
working as a lawyer at the land council in the small principality of Solo on Java, he was active in the Indian Social Democratic Party (ISDP). He also founded the Dutch East Indies Zionist League. He spent the war in a Japanese camp. Returning to the Netherlands in 1945, he became a member of the Dutch Labour Party (PvdA) and was a member of the Indonesia Committee. He also functioned in the Social-Democratic Centre (SDC), a left-wing opposition group within the party. He was strongly opposed to the police actions and the party’s attitude towards them. From 1948-51 he stayed in Indonesia again. After his final return, he continued to be an opposition member of the party. In 1959 he called it quits. In the mid-sixties he became a municipal councillor for the PSP in Amsterdam.
Andere Tijden: Drees and Indonesia