Pasar Malam Selamat Datang in Holland - boek verkrijgbaar bij Amazon.met vertaalde Nederlandse artikelen - Engels
Pasar Malam Selamat Datang in Holland - boek verkrijgbaar bij Amazon.met vertaalde Nederlandse artikelen - Engels
Mary Bruckel-Beiten an ordinary person, a wife, a mother and grandmother. In this book the reader is introduced by her daughter in law Geraldine Bruckel-Lang, with many illustrations of Indonesia and of Mary's pioneering spirit. The reader is shown how it was in the days Mary lived in her birth land Indonesia and also during the Japanese occupation of the land. Mary and her 2 sons and many fellow country men and women were imprisoned.
Mary kept a sketched dairy of that time and kept it hidden in a dirty laundry basket. She would be severely punished if it would have been found out. The people like Mary are called Indisch or Indo. Those people got their origin in the days the Netherlands colonized the Indies and are of mixed blood with "all nations of the world, mostly Dutch/Indonesian born with a Dutch nationality on "Indisch" land now Indonesia.
They are like a "lost nation" and ended up in the Netherlands, driven out of their birth land because Indonesia became independent and they lost everything of their hopes and life's inheritances. This was a sad event for the Indisch people. But were glad that their fatherland Holland waited with open arms. But the Dutch had to get used to the new comers in the Netherlands,for they had to start all over again themselves after the second World War. After arrival in the Netherlands Mary found it her duty to make sure her people now settled in the Netherlands and they would have courage to go on. In those integration years of the 1940's Mary went many times from village to village to introduce the Indisch culture to the Dutch and started her tours in the rural farm area for housewives as well as men.
She wrote many cookbooks to introduce the Dutch to cook the oriental Indonesian foods themselves with their own ingredients. This went so well, today there are hundreds of Indonesian restaurants and outlets for Indonesian gatherings. These foods are now well loved by the native Dutch. Mary started to have Fancy Fairs in the late 1950's, the Indisch people were so delighted and commented to her, it feels like the olden times Pasar Malam (name originated in Indonesia meaning market) The Indisch called it like "Tempo Doeloe" She instigated to organize an Arts group the Indisch Arts Culture centre Tong Tong. And suggested a Pasar Malam like in the Tempo Doeloe time. Nobody had money in those days after the war.
But Mary and her family put all their little savings on the table..And so, she organized and founded the first post colonial Pasar Malam in 1958 in the Hague. The yearly pasar malam events she continued 8 more years. She was called "Mother of the Pasar Malams in the Netherlands" by the arts group Tong Tong. And after all Mary has done for the Dutch Indisch, today it is falsely documented in the Dutch archives Ned.Indisch history at the City of the Hague and incorrectly documented at Wikipidia, that one of Mary's co-worker Tjalie Robinson did it all. This is not olny unfair but a false honor nomination.
A false history is no history, but in this case a discrimination towards a woman. And a pity for us Indisch to know something is kept untrue for corrupted reasons. We are not like that, the Indisch people in general are honest and happy,love seeking, and always looking out for people to help.
All proof of original copy's of Mary's pioneering work is documented in this book.
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