Dutch War Cemetery Menteng Pulo

Menteng Pulo Dutch War Cemetery contains about 4,300 graves, of civilians who perished in the Japanese camps during the Japanese occupation which lasted from 1942 to 1945 as well as soldiers who were killed in the Second World War or the Indonesian Independence War. There is also a columbarium with more than 700 urns of Dutch POW’s who died in Japan. One of them was Private Buis, volunteer in the Hong Kong Volunteer Defence Corps.

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Source

• Text: Fedor de Vries
• Photos: Gerry Hooijenga