Etiket: Moluccan
Moluccan farewell for Ajax icon Simon Tahamata
Simon Tahamata received a guard of honor from the supporters prior to Ajax – FC Utrecht. The former player is saying goodbye after ten years as a technique coach at…
The city center of Assen will receive a Moluccan monument as a tribute to the first generation of Moluccan residents of Assen. ‘About time’
The Asser municipal council is making 47,000 euros available for a Moluccan monument in the center of Assen. The city council unanimously supported a proposal on Thursday evening to make…
How the Menyala exhibition helped break the Moluccan culture of silence
The past is not always discussed at home among Dutch Moluccans. The pain of forced departure to the Netherlands and growing up in camps outside society runs deep. But stories…
Moluccan artwork on the steps of DNK in Assen must keep history alive
There will be a Moluccan work of art in Assen. At least, the Asser working group Baru 21 wants that and the mayor and aldermen want to cooperate. That means…
Moluccan exhibition Menyala attracts considerably more visitors than expected
More than 54,000 people visited the exhibition, which closed this weekend Menyala – the extraordinary history of the Moluccans in Drenthe. That is almost double the number of visitors that…
Young people save community centers to preserve their Moluccan culture
A new generation of young people has saved the Moluccan community center Toma in the Breda district of Driesprong from destruction. In November, the community building had to close its…
No more grave rights for Moluccan graves in Assen for an indefinite period of time
The city council of Assen has unanimously decided that 180 Moluccan KNIL graves in the provincial capital will be given a special status. This means that they no longer have…
A journey of discovery in a theater show about Moluccan history is approaching a banging end
The question was whether the show could go ahead. After the plan had to give way twice because of corona and once because of the too short preparation time, the…
Member of the Senate of Moluccan origin felt like a real Zeelander
John LilipalyImage Marcelle Davidse John Lilipaly would have preferred to become a footballer. As a boy he was the star of VC Vlissingen, and when he was elected to the…
Moluccan foundation and school community work together for better education
The Vincent van Gogh school community in Assen and the Moluccan Heka Leka foundation are going to work together. They signed a statement today with the aim of improving education…