The masterpiece of the collection is an elegant copy of that Rietkerk agreement, named after the then Minister of the Interior Koos Rietkerk. An asset for the Drents Archief, finds archive employee Erwin de Leeuw. “This is such a piece that you as an archive can show off. Both with what it looks like, and because of the historical significance for the Moluccan community.”
For now it is still unknown what special information is in the released documents. Mahuwalan has neatly described the content of the archive, but the many thousands of documents did not fully read. “Now it’s up to the researchers.”