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World Service,05 Aug 1999,4 mins

Living in Colonial Sumatra

My Century

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Rosihan Anwar was born in 1922 in West Sumatra and experienced life under Dutch rule. The Dutch East Indies were amongst the richest European colonies in the world. At the end of the Second World War in 1945, Indonesian nationalists proclaimed independence.

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