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Introduction: Colonial Dreams, National Awakenings, and Cosmopolitan Aspirations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 August 2018

Hans Pols
Hans Pols
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University of Sydney
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On 20 May 1908, a group of medical students at the Batavia Medical College founded Boedi Oetomo (Noble Endeavour), an association that advocated access to modern education for all Javanese. Boedi Oetomo is now widely viewed as Indonesia’s first nationalist organisation as many Indonesians view the former medical college as a place where a new form of political awareness emerged. The medical students who founded Boedi Oetomo were recipients of the most advanced form of education available in the Indies. They advocated to bring education, progress, and the fruits of modern science, technology, and medicine to Java and then to the archipelago. Today, the building of the Batavia Medical College houses the Museum of National Awakening to commemorate the founding of Boedi Oetomo and the political engagement of Indonesian physicians and medical students during the colonial era.
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Nurturing Indonesia
Medicine and Decolonisation in the Dutch East Indies
 , pp. 1 - 20
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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