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Raistiwar Pratama and Marjolein van Pagee

Navigating Colonial Politics

Navigating Colonial Politics: Dewi Sartika's School for Native Girls in Bandung

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About the authors

Raistiwar Pratama (1981) is a historian working as an archivist at the National Archives of Indonesia and teaching records and archives subjects at several public and private universities in Indonesia. He earned two BA's in History from Padjadjaran University and University of Leiden, and an MA in Archival Studies from the University of Leiden. He is currently pursuing a PhD at the Amsterdam School for Heritage, Memory, and Material Culture at the University of Amsterdam.

Marjolein van Pagee (1987) is a historian and writer from the Netherlands. She obtained a master in Colonial and Global History at Leiden University and is specialized in the history of the Dutch occupation of Indonesia. She is the author of Banda. De genocide van Jan Pieterszoon Coen (Banda. The Genocide of Jan Pieterszoon Coen, Omniboek, 2021) and Bung Tomo. De revolutie van 1945 (Bung Tomo. The Revolution of 1945, Omniboek, 2023). She is the founder of the Histori Bersama Foundation and of Media Mondo, an anti-imperialist news website on geopolitics from a historical perspective.