THE SPIRIT OF STRUGGLE FROM THE MULTATULI MUSEUM

Rumah petite birthplace Multatuli, 2 March 1820 it is now still survive in its original architecture to be a museum that .storms more than 3,000 books, brochures, photos, posters, cliping and personal equipment in the world ball, sofas and furniture.

The mouth that means " it has many suffered andquot;, is the same name of the Dutch writer, Eduard Douwes Dekker also known in the history of the struggle of the Indonesian nation around 1839-1857. Novel Max Havelaar (1860) became the world’s most famous Dutch literary work that tells the suffering of the Lebak people, Banten, West Java when tortured by the application of forced planting in the colonial era when it was.

The Dutch colonial government inspires other European novelists such as Van Deventer and Pieter Brooshooft and Indonesian independence struggle figures such as R.A Kartini and the first president of Indonesia, Soekarno before compromising the independence of RI in 1945.

According to Kurator, Willem Van Duijn, Multatuli Museum until now still survive more than 150 years solely due to the spirit and support of "Multatuli Society" formed around 1945. They want the museum to survive, independently and independently.

The Multatuli Museum located in the Korsjespoortsteeg area of 20 Amsterdam, the Netherlands currently no longer get the support of funds from the local government, although so, the spirit of the struggle of Multatuli through his literary work until it is still not involved from the narrow petite house.

Photo and text : Nyoman Budhiana

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