Recordings of Radio broadcasts on or about West Papua. There also radio broadcasts especially of the RONG (Radio Omroep Nederlands Nieuw Guinea) on the pages of Freerk Kamma and Ad Delleman.
The audio media on this page are part of the audio collection of the foundation PACE Papua Cultural Inheritance. For more information or any messages or correspondence contact huublems81@gmail.com or srgales@ziggo.nl
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Bob van Rossum
It is on a Hema CD in a jewel box; it is a recording from a Tros and AVRO radio programme “De tijd van je leven” from 29-4-1998, with an interview by Hans Zoet with Bob van Rossum on his book “Met Kompas en Parang” which deals with his adventures in West Papua in the Dutch time. The introduction of the programme and the interview are roughly edited as one item.
CD is 13’40
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Victor Kasiepo
It is on a Fujifilm CD-R with a self-decorated sleeve by the item maker Gerrit Kalsbeek. It is an interview with Victor Kasiepo in which he reacts to historical audio from the time when he was young in Hollandia. It was broadcast on 24 November 2004 and can be listened to on https://www.vpro.nl/speel~POMS_VPRO_369916~de-avonden~.html
from 1 hour 9 minutes 56 onwards. In case this link doesn’t work and you want to listen to this item, mail to the above addresses.
CD is 25’01
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Radio Indigo Koen de Jager
It is on an Imation CD-R in a jewel box with a sleeve of the programme. It is a recording of the radio broadcast of the programme Radio Indigo from the radio station RTV Rijswijk with an interview by Piet Zevenbergen with Koen de Jager, a former member of the board of PACE and a veteran soldier in New Guinea. The interview was broadcast on 8 October 2009. The interview is enlivened with music from Kembang Melati, the Lani singers, Westlife, Julian Nunaki, the Black Brothers and Pujian anak Papua.
CD is 57’40
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Zending in Nieuw Guinea
It is a BASF CE II 120 cassette, as it was sent to people who were interested in a radio programme by the broadcasting organisation NCRV. It is a recording of the documentary “Geen tabak geen halleluja” about the mission in West Papua with Reverend Marcus and his wife who were stationed in the Bird Head, with Father Tetteroo, with the civil servant Rafael de Haan, scientist Lourens de Vries, civil servant Kees Lagerberg, missionary and inspector of education Bart Deus and former governor Jan van Baal. It was broadcast on 16-2-1996.
Side A is 53’59
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Kruispunt
It is on a Post cassette of 10 minutes that was sold as Cassettepost to revive the spoken letter. It is a recording from an item of the KRO radio programme Kruispunt on the Hendrik Kraemer symposium. It was broadcast on Thursday 2 June, at 12:10 on radio 5 with the voices of Philips Potter, Professor Mulder, Professor Verkuyl and the eldest daughter of Hendrik Kraemer.
As it has no direct link to West Papua, If you want to listen to this cassette, email to the above-mentioned addresses.
Side A is 5’10 and Side B is 1’50
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Passage Passanten literatuur van en over Nieuw-Guinea
The cassette is a TDK D60 with a VPRO sleeve. It is a cassette published by the VPRO radio with a recording of the VPRO radio programme Passages Passanten from 23-2-1988 on the literature from and about New Guinea by Lejo Siepe. It starts with a song of Sampari. During the broadcast one hears the anthropologists Jan Pouwer and Anton Ploeg, the writer Miek Dorrestein and the poet Mansorom.
You can listen to it through the link below; if at any time it has disappeared, email to PACE to the above-mentioned email addresses.
Side A is 30’27 and Side B is 28’32
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Passage Passanten F. Springer reis naar de Baliem 2
The cassette is a Maxell XLII 100. It is a recording of the VPRO radio programme Passage Passanten from 11-10-1990 with the second part of the return journey to the Baliem valley of the diplomat and writer F. Springer who worked there before as a civil servant. The first minutes of the broadcast were missed. The broascast should be 56’00 minutes but only 47’45 were recorded.
You can listen to the all 4 parts of the return journey to the Baliem of the writer F. Springer through the links below; if any time it has disappeared, email to PACE to the above-mentioned email addresses, but we can only help with an incomplete version of part 2.
Side A is 47’45
https://www.mixcloud.com/radioarchief2/de-terugkeer-van-f-springer-naar-de-baliemvallei-1/
https://www.mixcloud.com/radioarchief2/de-terugkeer-van-f-springer-naar-de-baliemvallei-2/
https://www.mixcloud.com/radioarchief2/de-terugkeer-van-f-springer-naar-de-baliemvallei-3/
https://www.mixcloud.com/radioarchief2/de-terugkeer-van-f-springer-naar-de-baliemvallei-4-en-slot/
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Het Gebouw Willem Visser 1
The cassette is a TDK D60 with a VPRO sleeve. It is a cassette published by the VPRO radio with a recording of the VPRO programme Het Gebouw from 26-8-1986 with the first part of the return journey of Willem Visser, a medical doctor, to West Papua, to the Agats area. He was also part of the expedition which first made contact with the people living in the coastal area of the “Casuarinenkust“ in 1957.
Side A 31’21 and Side B is 26’16
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Het Gebouw Willem Visser 2
The cassette is a TDK D60 with a VPRO sleeve. It is a cassette published by the VPRO radio with a recording of the VPRO programme Het Gebouw with the second part of the return journey of Willem Visser, a medical doctor to West Papua, to the Agats area. He was also part of the expedition which first made contact with the people living in the coastal area of the “Casuarinenkust“ in 1957.
Side A is 31’18 and Side B is 26’04
The following Radio broadcasts can also be listen to with the links provided thanks to the VPRO and their sense of history.
20-11-1990 “Het spoor terug” Part one of the seven-part series ‘Planted the cross’, about Roman Catholic missionary work worldwide. About the people who stayed at home and how they supported the missionary work. With Father Gerard Zegwaard, former missionary in New Guinea, about the many missionary exhibitions before the war and about his two brothers who also became missionaries, and with Father Vriens, about missionary exhibitions;
https://www.vpro.nl/speel~POMS_VPRO_406766~het-kruis-geplant-1-het-thuisfront-het-spoor-terug~.html
4-12-1990 “Het spoor terug” Part three of the seven-part series ‘Planted the cross’, about Roman Catholic missionary work. About the missionary work in New Guinea. Interviews about encounters with cannibalists, headhunters, missionary work and about present-day New Guinea with Father Zegwaard, Father Toon van der Wouw, Father Cleophas Ruijgrok and Father Verheijen, one of the ‘flying fathers’ who used a plane to penetrate deep into the area to carry out their missionary work.
24-12-1991 “Het spoor terug” The Passionate a seven-part series with portraits of Dutch people who devoted their lives to an ideal, reconstructed on the basis of diary fragments, letters and memories. Part 2 Father Jan Verschueren a missionary in New Guinea. Interviews with a sister of Verschueren, the nun Cecilia, Jan van Baal, former Governor of New Guinea, Father Arie Vriens, Father Jan Boelaars, both catholic missionaries in New Guinea and Maurice Dorren, former government physician.
6-9-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde’ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The first part focuses on the period before the Second World War. Interviews at various locations on Irian Jaya with former civil servant Frans Peeters, Father Ton Tromp, Frans Coenraad, son of an Indo-Dutch settler, and the Papuans Nicolaas Jouwe and Jos Marey. Topics of discussion are: the arrival of the first Dutch missionaries to New Guinea in 1855 and their dislike of the culture of the original Papuan population; the establishment of the Dutch administration in New Guinea in the towns of Manokwari and Fakfak from 1898; the hostile attitude of the Papuan population towards the Dutch; the democratic structure of the Papuan communities; the conflicts between Dutch law and the law that applied within the Papuan tribes; the place of exile that the Dutch government established in 1927 for political exiles from the Dutch East Indies in New Guinea; the settlement of Indo-Dutch settlers on New Guinea in the 1930s; the many hardships they endured; the increasing Dutch attention for New Guinea in the 1930s.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_520982~ovt~.html
13-9-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde‘ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The second episode focuses on the influence of the Second World War on West New Guinea. Interviews at various locations on Irian Jaya with former civil servant Frans Peters, the Ambonese Coos Ayal who lived with her aunt and uncle in New Guinea where her uncle was a civil servant, the Indo-Dutch settler Nonnie Kneefel and the Papuans Nicolaas Jouwe and Matheus Roembrawe. Discussion topics are: the influence of the occupation of the mother country, the Netherlands, on life in New Guinea; the Japanese invasion in 1942 that came as a surprise; the internment of the Dutch and Indo-Dutch settlers; the attitude of the Japanese towards the Papuan population; the modernization carried out by the Japanese administrators in New Guinea; the resistance in New Guinea against the Japanese; the appalling conditions under which the resistance fighters survived in the jungle; the awards awarded to the resistance fighters after the war.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_520983~ovt~.html
20-9-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde‘ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The third episode focuses on the post-war migration of Indisch Dutch to New Guinea. Interviews at various locations on Irian Jaya with the Indo-Dutch Anton Pelsmaeker, Jan de Wit, Art van Veldhoven, Bob Latuhassan, Fred Snacky, Papua Nicolaas Jouwe and former government official Frans Peters. Topics of discussion are the arrival and disappointing reception of the Indo-Dutch immigrants in New Guinea; the harsh conditions they found on the island; the propaganda about the emigration of Indo-Dutch people to New Guinea, which was to become their new homeland; the poor reception of the newcomers; the hierarchy within New Guinean society; the ideal of freedom that developed among the Papuan population under the influence of the American liberators of New Guinea; the growing dissatisfaction among the Indo-Dutch settlers in the 1950s, because the Dutch government refused to grant them property rights over the land they had bought; the tensions between Dutch marines and Indo-Dutch youth.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_520984~ovt~.html
27-9-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde‘ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The fourth episode focuses on ‘Papuanization’, the construction of West New Guinea from 1956 after the decolonization of the Dutch East Indies. Interviews at various locations on Irian Jaya with the Papuans Jos Marey, Karel Krey, and Nicolaas Jouwe, former vice-chairman of the New Guinea Council, former government officials Kees Lagerberg and Frans Peters and the Indonesian Dutchmen Art van Veldhoven and Puck Günthart. Topics of discussion are the claim that independent Indonesia made on New Guinea; the resistance of the Papuan population to a possible affiliation with Indonesia; the dichotomy that existed within the Dutch administration in New Guinea in the 1950s; Dutch development work in New Guinea; the crackdown by the Dutch government against rebellious Papuans in the 1950s; the migration of the Papuans to the city; the political awareness of the Papuan population; the Papua party PARNA, which was labeled pro-Indonesia by the Dutch government; the uncertain position of the Indo-Dutch in New Guinea; the installation of the New Guinea Council in 1961.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_520985~ovt~.html
4-10-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde‘ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The Fifth episode focuses on the transfer of New Guinea to Indonesia. Interviews with former marines Hans Langenberg, officers Henk Schotvanger, Eduard Schultz and Ed Dengering of the mobile police, former administrative officer Kees Lagerberg, Papuans Giovanni Hakkenberg and Nicolaas Jouwe, former vice-chairman of the New Guinea Council, Indonesian settler Anton Pelsmaeker and the Dutch Maud Wesselo. Discussion topics include: the threat of war between the Netherlands and Indonesia in the early 1960s, because Indonesia wanted to annex the island, while the Netherlands had promised the Papuan population an independent New Guinea; the activities of the mobile police fighting Indonesian infiltrations in New Guinea; the establishment of a Papuan army in 1961; the propaganda war waged by radio on New Guinea between the Netherlands and Indonesia; the 1962 US proposal to hand over New Guinea to Indonesia after a short term of administration under UN responsibility; the Dutch consent to this plan without consulting the representatives of the Papuan population; the departure of the Indo settlers from New Guinea for fear of the arrival of the Indonesians; the financial losses they suffered as a result of their forced departure; the short term of office by the UN in 1963; the annexation of New Guinea by Indonesia in 1963.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_521210~ovt~.html
11-10-1998 ‘De achterhoek der aarde‘ a series of six broadcast on the history of New Guinea. The sixth episode focuses on the history of New Guinea after the transfer of government to Indonesia in 1963. Interviews with Papuans Karel Krey, Jos Marey, Viktor Kaisiepo, Set Rumorem, Corry Ap, the Dutch Father Ton Tromp and OPM foreman Mozes Werror (in English) and former civil servant Frans Peters. Topics of discussion include: the direct deterioration of the relationship between the Indonesian regime and the Papuan population in 1963; the establishment of the Papuan Resistance Organization OPM in 1965; the Indonesian punitive measures against the armed resistance; Indonesia’s commitment to hold free elections in 1969; the failed attempt by the Papuans to hold Indonesia to this commitment; the revival of the Papuan resistance after New Guinea was definitively annexed to Indonesia in 1969; the proclamation of the independent state of West Papua by the OPM in 1971; the oppression of the Papuan population by the Indonesian rulers; the flight story of Corry Ap; the Indonesian ’transmigration policy’ that has made the Papuans a minority in their own country; the Islamization of the initially Christian New Guinea; the devastating impact of the multinationals on the wildlife and resources of New Guinea; the kidnapping in 1996 of a group of foreigners, including two Dutchmen, by the OPM; the revival of hopes for a free West Papua after the fall of Indonesian President Suharto.
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_521211~ovt~.html
28-5-2000 “OVT” an in memoriam of Papua leader Marcus Kaisiepo, who passed away at the age of 87. Fragment of an interview with Marcus Kaisiepo (with translation by his daughter) about the resistance of the Papuans on the Papuan island of Biak against the Japanese occupation in 1941. Kaisiepo, showing the interviewer a large sword, tells how Papuans a Japanese general chop into pieces
https://www.vpro.nl/programmas/ovt/speel~POMS_VPRO_210345~ovt~.html
23-7-2015 “Bureau buitenland” In our summer series we broadcast special reports from the past year. Today Baliem Valley in Papua. Despite the fact that the army does not allow snoopers, correspondent Wilma van der Maten saw the opportunity to enter Papua. There she was guided by the Dutch father Frans van Lieshout in the beautiful Baliem Valley, the pearl of the former Dutch crown colony. He has lived there for over 50 years