Graphic Novel: Rampokan Jawa & Selebes ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

Indonesia declared independence on August 17, 1945 Driven from the Dutch East Indies when the Japanese landed in 1942, The Netherlands refuses to recognize this declaration and sets out to recover their colony. The Dutch government decides to send a contingent to fight those it calls "terrorists". Among them, Johan Knevel, who was born "in the indies", hopes to regain the lost paradise of his childhood. He is faced with the reality of a war in which no one's hands are clean. ...

Jawa, 1946 Johan Knevel adalah sinyo kelahiran Makassar, dan sedang bersekolah ke Belanda ketika PD II berkecamuk. Tahun 1946, sebagai tentara sukarelawan dia berangkat 'pulang' ke Hindia Belanda, demi kerinduan atas masa lalu, sebuah surga yang hilang, "tempo doeloe", dan... terhadap ninih alias babu pengasuhnya. Tapi apa lacur, Hindia Belanda kini sudah tidak setentram dulu lagi, surga yang didamba itu kini telah musnah ..... Ketika kapal melewati khatuliswa di Selat Malaka para serdadu ...