*Please don't forget to subscribe to my channel* ! and please listen to my comment at the end of this video: We can't change history, and the main purpose of this channel is to show what the world really was like about a century ago in stead of (mis)judging historic events against present day morals, norms and values. My apologies for not using original Indonesian music. The reason is that there simply wasn't any such music available in the copyright-free music database that I use and pay for. Making creative stuff for RU-vid is bound to all sorts of restrictions: I can't use any copyrighted music, I cannot use any footage that is already somewhere on RU-vid and restoring, enhancing & colorizing footage is not enough despite the huge effort, so hence all the recent documentary-style uploads with spoken commentary!
My Dad side of the family are from Dutch East Indies Medan Sumatra.He migranted to Noord Holland Wormerveer in 60s.He did his Dutch Army compulsory service in 60s West Germany for NATO.He moved to Adelaide Australia in 60s Regards from de Vries family
Wow! You still amaze me with every new video you post. This looks like it was filmed this week. That gorgeous waterfall. WOW! Incredible, Rick. Great narration and love the opening music.
@@Rick88888888 I am still on the comeback. I hope we can work together when I am finally ready. It's been a crazy comeback.😐 This Fall looks good, but I really hope you will be available. I was typing an email to you and then got called away and came back and saw your message.
@@Rick88888888 Oh no worries, Rick. I understand. It has been so crazy and unbelievable that I can see how my credibility is destroyed, but I promise I am on the road and really hoping it will be before the end of the year. I have something extra special I am working on and if that does come through it will be very, very well worth the wait. I appreciate you, Rick.
Heel fijn! Ik kon die laatste opmerking niet laten, want dit soort films trekken vaak een beerput open wat betreft kolonialisme. De geschiedenis kun je nu eenmaal niet meer veranderen.
Fascinating stuff. I for one had little understanding of the process- but your wonderful narration and description helped greatly. Many thanks, this really was wonderful.
Heb de afgelopen weken veel video's van je bekeken, maar deze is wel bijzonder. Het is niet vaak dat ik zulke fantastisch gerestaureerde beelden zie van Indonesië uit die tijd. Bedankt!
My granddad owned a tobacco plantage on Java, my father was born there in 1929. I feel a bit ashamed seeing those inlanders work so hard..my granddad was taken prison by the Japanese, my grandmother was in a women's camp where she gave birth to their daughter. My father and his brother were held captive in a boys camp. They never got over it...
My granddad was born in 1928 and also was taken in prison by the Japansese. Reason for this was operation Berlin. My granddad last name was german. But my granddad’s father was a soldier in the KNIL, a Dutch army in indonesia. But because of his last name they took him and his father.
Marvelous footage ! I think it is very important to have access to images of the past in such high quality, so that the world that was can be relived and maybe better understood by the present generation. I agree with your view that this was another time and we should not refrain for seing it like it was, unbiased. Please keep up the good work!
This doesnt look like free labour to me at all. Im also skeptic about the wealth u state it brought to the region. As far as I know, it was mostly the disgusting Dutch colonists invading, exploiting, and robbing local peoples. Where if at all, only some local chiefs and elite would partially benefit from.
Just a reminder, posted by Rick: "Note: Please refrain from discussing the negative effects of colonialisme and the Dutch rule over Indonesia. It was a different era with different customs, practices and living conditions. Judging the past by looking at it through present day eyes, and projecting current norms and values will not lead to a better understanding of life in that period of history. In stead, take this time travel trip and try to soak up the whole atmosphere of how life used to be in Indonesia a century ago."
@@UnusSedLeo-w5l Yes you are right sir, before the #MeToo movement rape also should not be apologized for right? Women were simply owned by their husbands and rape didnt legally exist and was therefore not an acknowlegded moral wrong. Sure, keep dreaming
@@UnusSedLeo-w5l Yes and its awful to see how life was permeated with exploitative social systems brought by colonialists. Its sad to see and the Dutch should start apologizing, oh and btw Im Dutch
The framing of these shots is magnificent! Do you have any information about who took the original footage? I would love to see more of their work. Thank you so much for restoring and preserving this window back in time.
I wan to do a little correction for the video, this is clearly Sumatra Island indicated by the traditional house of the Northern Sumatrans. Tobacco plantanation also present on the area mainly in Deli so, my best guest this video is taken in Deli, North Sumatera
Well alcohol destroys millions of Americans lives and is the leading cause of liver diseases , the government sure loves all the billions of dollars from taxes as well.
Fantastic work! Was in Indonesia about 3 years ago. Saw baccy being grown on the slopes of Gunung Sumbing. Quite surprised by the film as it looks as tho its growing on the flat. Love to know the films location. Can only wonder what it is like now.
Mijn werk is niet zo maar copyright-vrij. Daarvoor steek is er veel te veel tijd, creativiteit en expertise in. Als je je muziekvideo niet op RU-vid zet (want dat geeft een hoop problemen) dan is het bespreekbaar. Zie mijn e-mail op dit kanaal.
@@Rick88888888 Pure coincidence. I happened to read this today - "History is not there for you to like or dislike. It is there for you to learn from it. And if it offends you, even better. Because then you are less likely to repeat it. It's not yours to erase or destroy."
Apparently you did not read nor listen to my request. This film is NOT intended to start a debate about colonisation. Such discussions have already frequently taken place under my other videos about Indonesia and they all ended in tears and nastyness. So please DON´T do it. Thank you.
What magnificent about Indonesian people's, is their mentality!! They never blame the Dutch or white people's for their failure 👍😇it's so different with Africans and Chinese mentality.
Plenty of Africans and Chinese don't fit your stereotyping, I'm white half dutch half English and I've worked for a black guy from Ghana and we are EQUALS......🌍🐕🌲🏜🏕
Who are you talking to? If you mean me, then I am on the same page as you. The symbiose of colonialisme (i.e. the win-win for both parties) is too often ignored or deliberately down-played. Colonialisme brought more prosterity, education, health care and development to these countries and frequently pulled them out of the stone age. Pity that is was accompanied by supression, racism, slavery and other negative influences. Both the positive and negative aspects deserve attention but not forgetting to use criteria based on how the world was a century ago in stead of only projecting todays norms and values. It was a totally different world then.
#174👍🎉👏🤑tobacco is ok if you avoid addiction but few people can. The Dutch were amazing slave drivers! Today people are replaced by automating artificial intelligence. History is just how it was.
Rick: colonization and slavery were totally okay, and you guys were just as bad. Anyway, that's all in the past. I don't want to talk about it anymore because it makes me uncomfortable. Also, it wasn't sLaVeRy okay? *I mean, the Dutch actually tried to invade Indonesia again in 1947, twice, but let's not talk about that.* "In the Netherlands, protesters called for the statue of Jan Pieterszoon Coen the Governor-General of the Dutch Trade Company (VOC) in the 17th century in the Dutch East Indies (Indonesia) to be removed. Slave trading was widely carried out during the Dutch colonial period in Indonesia. Especially in North Sumatra, human trading for plantation workers, known as coolies, was widely practiced around 150 years ago. Although some novels and academic writings have described the life of indentured labour in North Sumatra, the general public rarely discuss the history of slavery. Even until the end of the 20th century, the Dutch government never acknowledged the violence during colonial times. Medan, famous as a trading city in the early 20th century, once erected two monuments to commemorate the glory of slave traders. In 1915, a fountain was erected in front of the Medan Post Office to commemorate Jacob Nienhuys as the “pioneer” of the Deli plantation. In 1928, the statue of Jacob Theodoor Cremer was erected in front of the Deli Plantation Association office building (now the Putri Hijau military hospital) with an inscription “Cremer, 1847-1923. The founder of Deli tobacco plantations, the founder of the railway in Deli, a tireless warrior who worked for the benefit of this plantation country”. These two monuments no longer exist, but the legacy of coolies from the two colonial figures can still be felt today in North Sumatra." *You see them? These humans? They're slaves.*
Quote: "I don't want to talk about it anymore..." followed by a litany about colonisation... Not to condone colonisation, but that was what the world was like. It can never be rectified; uttering excuses nowadays to me is empty and hollow because present day society and governments are not responsible for history and definitely not for what started 350 or more years ago.
@@Rick88888888 no, it can never be unfixed. But you can be a bit more nuanced in terms of "bringing prosperity to both netherlands and local population". This simply was not the case. By stating that one cannot judge history with presents' standards is very incorrect. It's not about judging, it's about educating that the world wasn't 'just like that' but that real choices were made by govts and companies to exploit people. Multatuli (and many others) was an abolitionist and heavily anti-colonisation/colonial labor even in that era. So standards were already pretty high. I highly recommend 'Revolusi' by David Van Reybrouck.
@@Rick88888888350 years ago is a lie. Slavery has been integral to humans since we climb down from the trees. Every society every culture since humanity existed has taken part in that evil. MANY still do. The WEST ended it in the early 1800’s British and 1860’s US. I dare say it would still be a bigger part of humanity without that as evidenced by many nations / cultures still enslaving people. Victimhood will bring us back into caves from which we went when we kept from the trees. Victimhood will end civilization
Present day Indonesia hasn't changed. Vast majority of building and farming techniques is still manual labor. It's because 20 workers are still a lot cheaper than one machine when building a road for example. And the amount of available uneducated people to perform such jobs is staggering.
Was een maand op Bali, maar één negatieve reactie gehad op het verleden, voor de rest heel gastvrij, zou er best willen wonen de rest van mijn pensioentijd, je leeft daar in een paradijs, alleen wat broeierig, dat is jammer.
Juli tot en met september zijn de beste maanden. Vaak onder de 30 graden en lage vochtigheid. Ik had dan 's avonds of vroeg in de ochtend zelfs vaak een trui aan maar ik woon al lang in de tropen dus ben het klimaat gewend. Hou 1 ding in gedachten. De medische voorzieningen in Indonesië zijn naar internationale maatstaven ronduit slecht. Als je iets serieus krijgt dan moet je vooral maken dat je daar wegkomt en hulp zoekt in Singapore of Bangkok. De behandelingen lopen daar 40 jaar achter en artsen zijn vrijwel nooit internationaal getraind. Als je daar je oude dag wilt slijten dan zou ik dat even in gedachten houden. Ik heb bij elkaar zo'n 6 jaar in Bali gewoond. Heerlijk eiland. Erg druk maar desondanks heeft het z'n karakter nooit verloren. Ik ga er nog regelmatig naartoe.
