Author: Felix
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Wildlife Hunters
The Dutch and Europeans are well-known wildlife hunters . They are responsible for killing endangered animals in Sumatra.
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White Society
De Witte Sociëteit Medan or The White Society , as the name said, is a White Supremacist club established in Medan. The Dutch White Supremacist club ‘Sociëteit de Witte’ was founded in September 1879. A provisional accommodation was built in 1882. A new building was built in 1887 at Esplanade, next to the post office. The Club…
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The Emigrants
Emigrants By Madelon SZÉKELY-LULOFS The Colonel was the only one who farmed for pleasure. He had a young Australian wife and was retired from the British Indian Army. He no longer fit into English society and Muriel, his wife, preferred Australia. The Colonel’s farm was also the only friendly spot within a radius of seventy-five…
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A Seng and Pieter Klaassen
EMIGRANTS AND OTHER STORIES BY M. H. SZÉKELY-LULOFS “A Seng !!”… “Toewan”… Somewhere, way back from the farthest outbuildings of the assistant’s house, the long-drawn-out reverberation sounded. A minute later, panting and with his bathtub only half on, A Seng ran into the front veranda, then stood waiting and catching his breath in front of…
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Rural Sanitation in the Tropics
Rural Sanitation in the Tropics by Malcolm Watson (1915). http://watcut.uwaterloo.ca/rural-sanitation/Sumatra.html 6 Notes on Sumatra Across the Straits of Malacca from the Malay Peninsula lies the island of Sumatra, part of Netherlands India. At its nearest point it is only 35 miles from the Peninsula, and, at its northern end, it is no more than 100…
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Guide to Deli
Johan Frans van Bemmelen, 1897 Guide to the Dutch East Indies: Composed by invitation of the Koninklyke Paketvaart Maatschappij (Royal Steam Packet Company) http://seasiavisions.library.cornell.edu/catalog/sea:165 FROM BATAVIA TO DELI. For those who wish to reach Deli (Langkat, Serdang) in the quickest manner, the direct steamer of the Royal Packet Company to the Belawan is the best…
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Cabo
Madelon Lulofs, De andere wereld It was a quiet evening, without a moon, but full of starlight. Perhaps it was even more pleasant to take a walk after the long boat trip … He left the hotel garden. At once he was assailed by a dozen rickshaw koelies, who showered him with a flood of wild, incomprehensible…
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The Opulent Sultanates
Anthony Reid, DELI-LANGKAT-SERDANG: THE OPULENT SULTANATES,1920-30s Prior to the devastating invasion of the foreign plantations East Sumatra had been the home of a primarily agricultural population of coastal Malays, and Karo and Simalungun Bataks. It was the three Malay statelets of Deli, Langkat, and Serdang, in the tobacco-growing area, which experienced first and most intensively…
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Europeans in Deli
Anthony Reid, Deli in 1920-30 In the eyes of Western capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century, the scattered Malay and Batak indigenous population of East Sumatra might not have existed. The area was a frontier; whose essential image was a European planter and a team of perspiring Chinese coolies clearing a patch of…
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A land of gold
Tan Malaka, 1919-1921 A land of gold, a haven for the capitalist class, but also a land of sweat, tears, and death, a hell for the proletariat. The very memories of Deli at the time I was there (December 1919 to June 1921) even now tear at my heart. There the sharp conflict between capital…
Stories from Deli 