( Podcast )
Podcast Sudah
Sudah. A well-known phrase in the Patty family, as in many other Moluccan families. Sudah: enough, stop! It can also mean: we leave the past where it is. We are now in the Netherlands, and we look ahead. But what did this attitude mean for passing on Moluccan family history? And which family stories does Jessica, part of the third generation, want to pass on to her own daughter, Madelief?
Jessica’s grandfather, Johannes Patty, was born in the early twentieth century into a well-off, prominent Moluccan family on the island of Saparua. He married Maria Sipasulta, the daughter of a teacher. In the late 1930s they left their homeland because Johannes went to work for the oil company NNGPM in Dutch New Guinea. In 1960, just before New Guinea was handed over to Indonesia, they spent their entire savings on a passage to the Netherlands with their six daughters. In the Netherlands, Johannes went to work in a factory so that he could pay for his daughters’ education. A hard blow: all his life he had been Mister Patty, and now he was addressed with nothing more than “Hey, Patty”.
Looking ahead, that is what the Patty daughters did. They pursued an education, married blanda’s, and their children climbed even further. They became Dutch, yet remained Moluccan too. What is their Moluccan history, and how does it continue to affect their lives today? That is what the podcast Sudah explores, in four episodes.
The podcast is available, in Dutch, on this website as well as on spotify.
Colofon Podcast
Maker
Anita van der Hulst
Initiative & production
buro bordo, Judith Öfner, Jessica Voorwinde
Interviewed
Frieda Huiberts-Patty, Dana van Witzenburg-Patty, Nancy Voorwinde-Patty
Jessica Voorwinde, Madelief Holst, Tamara van Witzenburg
Ilona d’Abo, Wim Manuhutu, Ron Habiboe, Herman Keppy, Marc Lohnstein
Advisors
Marion Oskamp
Musical composition and performance
Maarten Bauer
Editing en sound design
Arno Peeters
Tile design
Eva van der Schans / Inedition
With thanks to
Wilhelmina Wind-Patty, Petra Patty, Greetje Rierra-Patty, Colette Voorwinde, Dick Voorwinde,
Koop Wind, Nick van Witzenburg, Riek Uhlenbusch-Suurmond
Paul Öfner, Katinka Baehr, Annegriet Wietsma, Joost Wilgenhof
Maarten Fornerod, IGV, Indische Genealogische Vereniging; Joost Jonker, Universiteit van Amsterdam; George Looms, Expatriate Archive Centre; Dik van der Meulen, Multatuli: leven en werk van Eduard Douwes Dekker; Jean Niewenhuijse, Conservator collecties CBG, Centrum voor familiegeschiedenis; Bart Schmitz, Het grote bestuurshervormingswerk; Jeroen Touwen, Universiteit Leiden
The podcast Sudah is made possible by financial contributions from the Mondriaan Fonds, Collective Recognition of Indisch and Moluccan Netherlands, Cultuurfonds Fonds ZOZ, and the Vfonds.
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