Daily Archives: December 2, 2013

A Brief History of the Dutch East Indies – Part 1.

Blog, HistoryBy Editor 1 December 2, 2013 18 Comments

By Kathryn Pentecost Introduction In this series of monthly essays, I hope to help the readers understand the great complexity that is the story of the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia. I write as both an ‘insider’ (an Indo) and an ‘outsider’ (an Australian). Having just completed my PhD on my own family history in…

Kumis Kucing through the ages.

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Under this heading I submitted a rather extended essay to MOESSON in the Netherlands. It was published in the December 1985 and January 1986 edition and I received several inquiries from the public at that time. This is a short summary of that article. Kumis kucing, remoedjoeng, cat’s whiskers or kidney tea, its English names,…