@article{ref1,
title="Death in Slawi: the "sugar factory murders," ethnicity, conflicted loyalties and the context of violence in the early revolution in Indonesia, October 1945",
journal="Itinerario (Leiden, Netherlands)",
year="2017",
author="Knight, G. Roger",
volume="41",
number="3",
pages="606-626",
abstract="In mid-October 1945, Edward and Frederika van der Sluys were murdered in gruesome circumstances, along with a number of other Dutch Eurasians, most probably in the yard of a Dutch-owned sugar factory in the Slawi district of the north coast of Central Java at which the husband had been employed since his youth. Their fate forms part of a larger narrative of the Bersiap! (&quot;Get Ready!&quot;) period of the Indonesian national revolution, which has attracted considerable attention from historians. Indeed, there are already two well-trod narratives of the violence accompanying the revolution and of ethnic cleansing during the Bersiap. The present paper argues, however, that there is room for a third: that of the sugar industry--and factory communities that lay at its heart--as a much older arena of social difference and conflicted loyalties. The account proceeds on the assumption that, without being embedded in a broader and deeper narrative, the story of what happened to the Van der Sluys couple remains incomplete.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0165-1153",
doi="10.1017/S0165115317000705",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0165115317000705"
}