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Warlovechildren in Indonesia
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Warlovechildren in Indonesia
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Written by Annegriet Wietsma
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Luwi Velleman was born in 1949 and lives in Semarang, in the Jangli district. His father, Louis Velleman, had the small Luwi in his arms and cherished him. Then in 1949 all Dutch soldiers had to return to the Netherlands. Father Louis left his girlfriend and child in Indonesia with the intention to return as quickly as possible, with a job and a future. But it never came to be. Luwi has never seen his father. He lived in the assumption that his father had abandoned him deliberately. Until he received a letter from Australia in 1990...
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Warlovechildren in Indonesia
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Written by Henk Schulte Nordholt
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Jecky was born and raised in Bali. His daddy soldier left the island even before the birth of his child to Java and then to the Netherlands. Only 34 years later, after a long search, Jecky traced his father Jack. His father did not want to travel to Indonesia to meet because of his advanced age. And Jecky, who had never been outside Bali, did not dare to travel to the Netherlands. Son and father would never meet. Yet father Jack eventually returned in Jecky's life.
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