ABSTRACT
The press initially collaborated with the authorities by representing a sanitized war. Until the late 1960s, the press exhibited indifference when it came to decolonization. With the Hueting interview of 1969, television, as well as radio, provided veterans a platform to represent their experiences. Literary works for the most part provided nostalgic memories of loss. However, Moluccan activists as well as postmemory novelists problematized unremembering during the 1970s and 1980s. De Jong's work of the late 1980s broke the silence of the historical guild. By the mid-1990s the collective memory of decolonization had become highly contested. Today, with the legal courts writing history, historians seek to reclaim the initiative of undoing the decades of unremembering of previous generations.
