Boven-Digoel | |
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 Internees' houses in the Tanahmerah (Boven-Digoel) concentration camp, Dutch East Indies, late 1920s. | |
| Country | Kingdom of the Netherlands |
| Colony | Dutch East Indies |
| Location | Remote area on the banks of the river Digul |
| Opened | 1927 |
| Closed | 1947 |
| Founded by | Dutch colonial government |
Boven-Digoel was a Dutch concentration camp for political prisoners operated in the Dutch East Indies from 1927 to 1947. It was located in a remote area on the banks of the river Digul, in what is now Boven Digoel Regency in South Papua, Indonesia. The site was chosen in 1928 for the internal exile of Indonesians implicated in the 1926 and 1927 communist uprisings in Java and Sumatra.[1] Indonesian nationalists not associated with the Indonesian Communist Party were subsequently also sent there.
- ^ Robert Cribb, ‘Convict Exile and Penal Settlement in Colonial Indonesia’, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 18, no 3 (2017), online: DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/cch.2017.0043