Sporen van Indië – Midden in Nederland
Filmic documentary in which television personality Hans Goedkoop outlines the history of the Netherlands and the East Indies through the city of Amersfoort.
After four centuries of shared history, nearly 10% of Dutch people have Indian blood in their family. The traces of this painful history can therefore be found throughout the whole of the Netherlands. Historian and documentary filmmaker Hans Goedkoop - of Indonesian descent himself - talks about these traces in the documentary SPOREN VAN INDIË – MIDDEN IN NEDERLAND. Goedkoop wrote the script and narrates the documentary, producer Reda van der Putten worked for two years on the preliminary research.
Many aspects of Indian-Dutch history are covered: the Indos and the Moluccans, the veterans and the Totoks, the plantations and the boarding houses.