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My father, Wim F. Wertheim (1907-1998), Professor of Sociology and History of Southeast Asia, left behind approximately 4,000 books. We, his children, wanted to keep his library intact, and in the following article I describe our attempts to do so.<\/em><\/p>\n

My father Wim F. Wertheim\u2019s library<\/h1>\n

Anne-Ruth Wertheim<\/em><\/p>\n

How did his books eventually reach Jogya?<\/strong>
\nMy father Wim F. Wertheim (1907-1998), a professor of South-East Asian sociology and history, had a library of some four thousand books. When in the final years of his life we children asked him what should be done with it after he died, he always replied that it was entirely up to us. He believed that you should not burden your surviving relatives with tasks whose weight you cannot properly assess. We then just thought we would see when the time came, for even if he was old there was nothing wrong with him, and he was still writing articles and letters to newspapers, and even a book.<\/p>\n

But when the time did come in 1998, we faced awkward questions. Would we try to keep the whole library in one piece? After all, the combination of books said so much about him, his way of thinking, the things that mattered to him, and his affinity with the peoples of South-East Asia, especially Indonesia. It also said so much about his approach, and how year after year he had bought the books of relevance to his research at the time. And in quite a few of his books we found his marginal annotations in soft pencil \u2013 or at the front a dedication from the person, often the author, who had given him the book.<\/p>\n

My sister Marijke The-Wertheim, my brother-in-law The Siauw Giap, my brother Hugo Wertheim, my sister-in-law Pauline Wertheim-van Dillen, my life companion Rudi K\u00fcnzel and I therefore put our heads together and at first decided to find out if there was a university library somewhere that would like to have the whole collection. During his life he had been in touch with numerous universities throughout the world, so maybe one would be tempted. We therefore began writing to the universities, ranging from Europe to Asia and from the USA and Canada to Australia. But not one was interested. They only wanted the books they did not already have, and therefore asked us to send them a list of titles and authors.<\/p>\n

In her lifetime our mother Hetty Wertheim-Gijse Weenink (1903-1988) had carefully kept track of items received, both in her own library (which included books about her research into political developments in the eighteenth-century Netherlands) and my father\u2019s library. And in my father's, she had always faithfully left his mark. Her handwritten lists contained not only the titles and the names of the authors, but often also other important details. After her death in 1988 my father had continued this work, and so among his books, now often hidden behind the rows of books, we found eight outsize school notebooks filled with writing. These were then put on microfilm by the staff of the Amsterdam-based International Institute of Social History (IISH), so that the university libraries we had written to could choose which books they did or did not want.<\/p>\n

Since to our regret the library was going to be split up anyway, we decided to distribute some of the books among his friends. Every week we invited a few to come to his flat in the Dutch university town of Wageningen and pick out one book as a souvenir. These were pleasant encounters at which the guests were treated to Indonesian delicacies and we shared fond memories. Of course we kept a careful record of the books they took with them \u2013 about a hundred in total. This included the books that had been shipped to the Sociological Institute in Hanoi. The rest were then collected by the IISH and stored in their basement, and the staff ensured that the various universities were sent the ones they had requested.<\/p>\n

Reading books was instilled in us from childhood<\/strong>
\nWe children had been brought up to believe in the importance of reading books, and that was not interrupted during the years we spent in the Japanese internment camps. In both the women\u2019s and men\u2019s camps each of the approximately two thousand prisoners had brought one or more books with them, and these were swapped to form a diverse library.<\/p>\n

I can still remember my mother and her friends sitting together on the stacked suitcases outside our camp hut and pointing out interesting passages to each other. I myself had had little schooling, but can remember reading Fenna Feenstra\u2019s Een zomer op Heidehoeve and M. J. van Marle-Hubregtse\u2019s Ams houdt van Indi\u00eb. And long after our time in the camps, it became clear to me that books also played a key role in how our parents, independently of each other, came to the conclusion that the Indonesian people were entitled to independence.
\nFor one thing, they, and we children too had now experienced for ourselves what it meant to be treated in a racist manner, suffer hunger and be threatened with violence. But reading critical sociological works and talking about them to like-minded fellow prisoners had been of crucial importance to them.<\/p>\n

The IISH had just begun sorting out the books for the university libraries abroad when my sister Marijke suddenly had to travel to Indonesia because of a death in her Indonesian-Chinese husband\u2019s family. She then stayed in Yogyakarta with a friend and former pupil of my father\u2019s, Professor Sartono Kartodirdjo (1921-2007), and his wife Sri. The two families had lived together in Amsterdam for over a year during the 1960s when Sartono was working under supervision of my father on his research into the 1888 peasant revolt in Banten, a region of Western Java.<\/p>\n

When Marijke told Professor Sartono about our unsuccessful attempts to get the whole library housed in one place, he immediately offered to do so in his own institute at Yogyakarta\u2019s Gadjah Mada University (Indonesian acronym: UGM), the Institute for Rural and Regional Studies (Indonesian acronym: PSPK). He considered it an honour that scholars and students from all over the world, and especially from Indonesia itself, would be able to come to his institute and consult the books that his mentor had collected in the course of his life. And so the IISH did not have to scatter the books around the world but could send them all to Yogyakarta, where the Wertheim Collection was opened in 2002. On 10 April 2002 Rudi K\u00fcnzel and I attended the opening ceremony in Professor Sartono\u2019s office, which was followed by a guided tour of the shelves of books in the room where a sign with \u2018Wertheim Collection\u2019 was proudly displayed at the hallway.<\/p>\n

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Opening of the Wertheim Collection on April the 10th, 2002. Professor Sartono in batik shirt.<\/p><\/div>\n

We visited the library every few years<\/strong>
\nWe revisited the library on several occasions, in 2007, 2010, 2014 and 2023, with different children and grandchildren each time. So did my sister and brother, with their own children and grandchildren. On each of these visits the librarian on duty pointed out how often books were borrowed, which ones they were, who had borrowed them and for how long, all recorded by hand in a large ledger.<\/p>\n

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Visit in 2010 with daughter Dorothee, son-in-Law Harry and grandsons Milan and Ramon. The lady in white is Witha, professor Sartono\u2019s daughter.<\/p><\/div>\n

Sadly, Professor Sartono died in 2007. But his successors have since managed the library just as carefully \u2013 although they couldn\u2019t have been so involved that they wanted to keep a close personal eye on every single loan! As the giggling librarians told us, in those first few years the professor insisted on being notified of every loan so that he could come and check if it was being done properly. He lived with his wife in a villa just behind the institute and only had to cross the back garden to get to the library.<\/p>\n

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Visit in 2014, with our daughters Jessika and Kathelijne and granddaughter Mayte. On the far left is Professor Sartono\u2019s grandson Stefanus Nindito.<\/p><\/div>\n

There was also something interesting happening to the number of books borrowed. Up to our visit in 2010 it had always been limited, usually just a few each month. But in 2014 something suddenly changed: the number of visitors had greatly increased. We were told this by the then librarian Mrs Lestari Pudwi Astuti, who enthusiastically showed us the ledger with all the loan details. Because of the increase, a new room was even created next to the library with a large table in the middle where students could sit and work. When we delightedly asked how this had come about, we were told that history students at the UGM had for some time been required to learn Dutch. Many of the books in the Wertheim Collection were in other languages (English, French, German and of course Indonesian) \u2013 but quite a few were in Dutch, including bulky reports by government officials, for instance about rural development in Indonesia, and scholarly research reports that revealed a great deal about colonial way of ruling.<\/p>\n

Now the Wertheim Collection was there, all this outstanding academic research about the country and the people could finally be used for the benefit of the Indonesians themselves. After what the Dutch euphemistically called their \u2018policing operations\u2019 in Indonesia, my father had often told us that the worst thing about those colonial wars had of course been that so many people had been needlessly killed and injured \u2013 but that we should not forget that the short-sighted, warlike Dutch approach had also prevented a fair and balanced relationship from developing between the Netherlands and Indonesia, and that this had in turn prevented Indonesians from learning about all the scientific research on their country and people that was stored in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n

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In 1965-66, just a few years after gaining its independence, Indonesia fell prey to General Suharto\u2019s dictatorship, which was to last until 1998. Throughout that 32-year period, successive Dutch governments did not lift a finger against the Suharto regime. On the other hand, an Indonesian refugee community soon developed here in the Netherlands and did its utmost to assist its compatriots \u2013 with strong support of their Dutch allies, including my father.<\/p>\n

A remote user of my father\u2019s library<\/strong>
\nOne of the regime\u2019s political prisoners was the famous Indonesian writer Pramoedya Ananta Toer, who was jailed without any trial for fourteen years on the inhospitable island of Buru. In his final few years of his captivity he was allowed to write stories in daytime on a battered old typewriter, and so his fellow prisoners had to take his share of the collective forced labour. But they did not mind, for every evening he read out to them what he had written that day. This led to This earth of mankind, the first volume of his magnificent Buru Quartet whose main character, the Indonesian aristocrat Minke, was deeply in love with a Dutch-Indonesian woman, bringing him into repeated conflict with the colonial authorities.<\/p>\n

Minke was the historical figure Tirto Adhi Suryo (1880-1918), a nobleman and journalist, a pioneer of the Indonesian Nationalist Movement and so one of the first to dare rebel against colonial rule. So at the end of his jail sentence Pramoedya was allowed to write, but of course did not have access to a library. Political prisoners were not allowed contact with the outside world. But sometimes it was possible to smuggle letters in or out. When I visited my parents in their flat in Wageningen one afternoon in, I think 1977, my beaming father told me he was collecting the historical details that Pramoedya needed to flesh out his Minke character based on Tirto. I replied that it would probably be better not to ask him how he had managed to do this, and he said with a smile \u2018No, better not\u2019. And so Pramoedya became a remote user of my father\u2019s library.<\/p>\n

When my father died quite suddenly in November 1998, the Suharto regime had only just fallen in May. He was so happy, and we with him, that he was still able to witness the fall of that cruel regime. But afterward, I realized that in those few months, I hadn't gotten around to asking him how that exchange of letters with Pramoedya actually happened. I assume Father Martinus Brouwer (1923-1991) played a role in it, because as a religious counsellor, he had access to the camp and came to my parents' flat several times to collect money for medicine for the political prisoners.<\/p>\n

And recently, Joss Wibisono, an Indonesian science journalist, found correspondence between him and Pramoedya in my father's archive at the IISH. The first letters he found date from the 1980s, so after Pramoedya's imprisonment. In those letters, Pramoedya called my father \"Paman (=Uncle) WAG,\" and Wibisono wondered what this could mean. Until he realized it must have meant \"Wageningen\" a pseudonym to hide from the Suharto regime which was still in power at the time. It's therefore quite possible that my father and Pram were already using this same name when they corresponded about Tirto!<\/p>\n

Our last visit<\/strong>
\nOur last visit in 2023 was the subject of a report by the people at the PSPK \u2013 it was posted on Facebook, and I summarise it below.<\/p>\n

The Institute for Rural and Regional Studies (PSPK) of Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta welcomed special guests on Wednesday, May 24, 2023: the family of Prof. Dr. W.F. Wertheim, straight from the Netherlands, the land of windmills. Three people, Anne-Ruth Wertheim (W.F. Wertheim's biological daughter), her son-in-law, and her granddaughter, arrived at 10:00 sharp in the morning and were welcomed by Prof. Dr. Bambang Hudayana, M.A., head of the institute. The purpose of the visit was to evaluate Prof. Wertheim's contributions to the development of several UGM faculties, as well as his contributions to the \"Wertheim Collection,\" which is still carefully preserved in the PSPK library.<\/p>\n

After this welcome, the visit included a debate with PSPK researchers and librarians and UGM students. The debate was led by the researcher Dr Mohammad Ghofur, who gave a talk on written dedications in the front of some books from the Collection. These turned out to have been written by people who had donated the books to Professor Wertheim, usually the authors. The lively debate concerned the meaning of dedications in scholarly books.<\/p>\n

There was then a short presentation by Anne-Ruth Wertheim. She explained how her late father\u2019s collection of books had ended up in Professor Sartono Kartodirdjo\u2019s former institute \u2013 on the one hand in order to keep Wertheim\u2019s collection together in its original state, and on the other in the hope that it would be consulted by Indonesian students in particular. This hope was based on the assumption that it would prove useful to scholars and students who wanted to deepen and broaden their knowledge with the help of Wertheim\u2019s books, writings and ideas.<\/p>\n

This was followed by the presentation of three of his books that had remained in the Netherlands. Taufik, a master\u2019s student of history at the UGM, expressed his joy and gratitude at this, for one of the books was a scarce one that was of relevance to his dissertation. All three books have played a crucial role in the spread of knowledge, particularly in the field of rural and regional studies, social change in general and the inherent culture of every indigenous or local community in their region.
\nFinally, there was a guided tour of the rooms in the institute and Professor Wertheim\u2019s collection of books, the Wertheim family said goodbye and farewell greetings were exchanged.<\/p>\n

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2023. Presentation to Professor Our saying goodbye to the Staff of the PSPK Bambang Hudayana with granddaughter Lucien and son-in-law Jean-Yves.<\/p><\/div>\n

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