History Task ( Multatuli )

 Multatuli

Judge who Dowes Eduard Dekker ( Multatuli ) is not as simple and lazy reasoning mainset all Indonesian people who believe that the Dutch colonists and the natives always always colonized ; Netherlands always evil while the natives are always right .
Understanding the history in some matter is complicated , as complicated ins and outs of the human drama in the history of the story itself. How to defend a Dutch native who should humiliated ? Or how can a wide white Protestant Eduard Douwes Dekker touched upon the plight of indigenous people who love to Banten revolt under the banner sabilillah ? In this position , Dekker an exception .
Multatuli , the pen name of Eduard Douwes Dekker , embarrassed watching extortion and persecution of the indigenous people by local authorities . For the Dutch , he also did not agree with the attitude of silence the Dutch colonial government 's tyranny .
Multatuli was born in Amsterdam , Netherlands , March 2, 1820 . He has a sister named Jan, grandfather of Ernest Douwes Dekker ( Setiabudi ) . Father's merchant ship captain who earn enough . Therefore he could receive education up to university . Initially he was diligent school . But soon he was bored . His performance plummeted . His father was immediately out of school and put him in a trade office .
At the age of 18, his father took him to the East Indies by sailing ship " Dorothe " . The ship was anchored in Batavia on January 4, 1839 . Eleven days later , he got a job as a clerk ( clerical level ) in Algemen Rekenkamer.Setahun then move up so the class II Commission .
In 1842 , he worked as a civil service Ambtenaar in West Sumatra . West Sumatra Governor General Andreas Victor Michiels sent to the city of Natal as a controller ( superintendent , assistant resident notch below ) . He is happy with life in the remote town . But he was not happy with his duties . One time , my boss who perform inspection , found the presence of losses in the government treasury . He suspended .
A year he lived in Padang without income . Eventually he returned to Batavia ; undergo rehabilitation and get " money waiting " . While waiting for placement , he having an affair with Everdine Huberte Cordial van Wijnbergen . In April 1846, he Tine - term gain Everdine - in Cianjur , when he was serving in the office of the Assistant Resident ambtenaarsementara Purwakarta .
Career creeping up . In 1846 he was appointed as a permanent employee . He was promoted to Commissioner in the office of the Resident Purworedjo . Then Resident Johan George Stuart Otto von Schmidt auf Altenstadt appointed him secretary of the resident , before being moved to Manado . Peak , he became a resident assistant , the second highest position in the Dutch East Indies Ambtenaar , with assignments in Ambon . But he did not fit in with the Governor of Maluku , which makes his subordinates had no initiative . He also filed a leave of absence for health reasons and a vacation to the Netherlands with his wife .
According Multatuli Moechtar in his book : Author Big , Small People Defenders , Justice and Truth Seekers (2005 ) , at the time that E. de Waal ( later became Colonial Regional Minister ) , who still have family with his wife , introduced by Governor General Duymaer van Twist . Since then , he often received an invitation from the palace and discuss with van Twist . Van Twist sympathetic . When a resident assistant positions vacant in Lebak , van Twist lifted on January 4, 1856 .
In Lebak , he tried to carry out their duties properly . But he encountered a very bad situation in the Valley . The people are suffering due to the rules or herendienst peonage ( forced labor ) . The government is also running again Actively cultivation ( culture system ) . "The people of the Valley and surrounding areas in general are in a state of destitute and often arise petty rebellion . As a result, frequent arrests of population , torture , burning of villages , and massacres by the forces in power at that time , "wrote Moechtar .
He was suspicious of the Regent of Lebak Raden Duke Kerta Natanegara . She filed a complaint about the actions Regent of Lebak and daughter , Raden Parungkujang Demat Wiranatakusuma . He also reports directly to the van Twist , which is regarded as his friend . To her surprise , van Kempen report it to the Raad van Indie ( Indian Council ) that he be fired .
Decree of the Governor -General , dated March 23, 1856 No. . 30 , contains warning and dismissal Multatuli as a resident assistant and transfer to a lower-ranking Ngawi . He officially filed perngunduran itself on March 29, 1856 . The answer received five days later , 4 April 1856 .
Multatuli had to look for another job .
His attempts to clean up the administration of the colonial government foundered . He was looking for another way to let the world know what depravity of Dutch colonial system in its colonies.