Finally starting on this book which I brought to NY with me since I didn't have time to look at it in Vancouver in January. The Indonesian translation of IFM Salim's memoir of being interned by the Dutch in Boven Digoel for 15 years.

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my latest bio for #WikipediaAsianMonth ; I was focusing on internees at the Dutch camp at Boven Digoel but I realized the guy who founded and built the camp did not have an article. Laurens Theodorus "Theo" Becking (1887–1945); he was quite a piece of work, a fascist leader in the NSB in the 1930s and interned by the Dutch in a camp in Surinam during WWII, where he died.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theo_Becking

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