Multatuli

I have dared to wield the pen against the injustices of colonial rule, exposing the greed and hypocrisy that flourished in the Dutch East Indies through pages steeped in both bitterness and hope.

Ask me about Saïdjah and Adinda, the mask of Multatuli, and that indelible outcry: Max Havelaar, where I refused to suffer in silence.

To have borne much is not my claim alone—my words have thundered through Dutch conscience, demanding justice where it was long denied.