In the Pacific Ocean, to the east of Sulawesi, west of New Guinea and north of Timor Island, there is the Moluccas Islands, also translated as the Maluku Islands. In the Netherlands, there is a community that can be said to love and hate the Netherlands, that is, the Moluccas community Morukken, which currently has tens of thousands of people in the Netherlands, and today (March 21) evening, they held a commemoration of the 65th anniversary of the arrival of the first Moluccas in the Netherlands, which was reported by the Dutch media.
The first Moluccas came to the Netherlands by boat in 1951, what did they come for? This starts with the history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. Indonesia was a dutch colony and later fought for independence, declaring the establishment of the Independent Republic of Indonesia from the Netherlands in 1945 and continuing to fight against the Dutch until 1949, when the Netherlands completely withdrew its troops and the Federal Republic of Indonesia was born.
The Native Indonesia Moluccas, who had always sided with the Dutch, fought against the Indonesians as an elite unit in the Royal Dutch Army of the Netherlands and India (KNIL). As a result, the Indonesian government views the Moluccas as traitors and traitors. The RMS of the Sudanese Republic of Moluccas, established in April 1950, was also suppressed by the Indonesian government.
Although the Moluccas were reluctant to leave the homes where they had lived for generations, they had to accept the advice of the Dutch Government and go to Western Europe for temporary shelter. On March 21, 1951, the first thousand Moluccas arrived in Rotterdam aboard the ocean-going transport ship KotaInten, men, women and children. Since then, a total of 12 ships have brought in 4,000 Moluca soldiers, along with their families, a total of 12,500 people, landing from Rotterdam and Amsterdam.
The assumption was that the Moluccaans were only temporarily confined to the Netherlands, as the international community was still mediating to get the Indonesian government to agree to Molucca's autonomy. Therefore, this group of Molucas always wants to return to their homeland.
The Dutch government placed them in areas such as in houses such as Westerbork and Vught, where the former German concentration camps were located, far from Dutch residential areas, and lived in the traditional molucca.
At that time, the Netherlands promised to send them back after half a year, so many families had their suitcases by their side and were ready to leave.
The men among them had been declared demobilized, and as a result, they could not continue to serve in the Dutch army, had no salary, and paid only a few living expenses every week.
Although life has food and drink, but it is very monotonous, they are not allowed to work outside, men play cards and billiards every day to live.
However, plans to send them back were stalled by a tug-of-war between the Dutch and Indian governments.
The days passed day by day. Around 1960, the Dutch government decided to stop supporting the Molucas, which made the Moluccans very angry, feeling that they had been deceived and betrayed, and the Dutch government did not support their demand for an independent state, nor put pressure on the Indonesian government, and now even the basic life was difficult to guarantee.
Beginning in the 1970s, the second generation of Moluccas became increasingly dissatisfied with the Netherlands, and there were many violent acts, most notably in 1975 and 1977, when the Dutch Moluccas hijacked trains, resulting in the deaths of people. It is said that they also planned to kidnap Juliana, the then Queen of the Netherlands. Until 2000, some prominent Dutch politicians were threatened by the Moluccas.
Today, the third generation of Molucas was born and raised in the Netherlands and can no longer go back. Although they still harbored the ideals of the Republic of Moluccas in the Netherlands, they also realized that they had to establish their careers and futures in the Netherlands.
However, it is said that it is difficult for the Government to integrate the Moluccans into society.
At present, most of the young Moluca people have left the Moluccas village established in the 50s and 60s, and half of the young people are married to foreign tribes.
The group also produced some famous figures, including the famous footballer Simon Tahamata in the 70s, who was selected for the Dutch national team and the Belgian national team, and more famously Giovannivan Bronckhorst, who was once the captain of the Dutch national team and is now in his prime as the head coach of The Feyenoord club.
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