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Find out more about the people and politics of this fascinating period of Australian and Indonesian history in short films, blogs, digital stories and further reading. 

Temukan lebih banyak tentang tokoh dan politik pada periode sejarah Australia dan Indonesia yang menarik ini melalui film pendek, blog, cerita digital dan bacan lebih lanjut.

Film

Watch Indonesia Calling, the 1946 film directed by Dutch film maker Joris Ivens. 

Ivens created a re-enactment of the mutiny by Indian seamen aboard the Patras, a ship laden with arms sailing for Indonesia from Sydney. Narrated by Australian actor Peter Finch, the film premiered to an audience of Indonesians in Kings Cross, Sydney, on 9 August 1946. It screened three times a day for a week, to packed houses. 

Film courtesy of the National Film and Sound Archive


Watch this film about a young Economics tutor Joe Isaac and the Australian ‘fact-finding’ delegation sent to Indonesia to report on the new republic in 1945.

Film courtesy of Graeme Isaac

Screen grab from the film Batavia 1945 depicting Graeme Isaac

Blogs

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Black Amada: Australian support in upholding Indonesian independence

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Personal and political: Australian women and Indonesian independence

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A complicated journey: Chinese, Indonesian and Australian family histories

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Indonesia's Gallipoli: Hari Pahlawan or Heroes' Day 10 November

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An Australian-Chinese link with the Indonesian independence struggle

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Indonesia's first Prime Minister addresses the Australian people in 1945

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