No Backpay for Descendants of KNIL Soldiers and Civil Servants from the Dutch East Indies
Relatives of former KNIL soldiers and civil servants from the Dutch East Indies will not receive any overdue salaries from their parents, once deceased. The Central Board of Appeal confirmed an earlier court ruling. . During the v (1942-1945), 82,000 former soldiers and civil servants in the former Dutch colony received no salary. For decades they…