Prime Minister apologizes to Moluccan community at national monument opening

The UN General Assembly adopted Resolution 80/250 on the transatlantic trafficking and racialized enslavement of Africans. The declaration renewed international debate about historical...

Following advice from the Colonial Collections Committee, the Netherlands signed an agreement to return two objects from the Wereldmuseum collection to Indonesia. One was seized by Dutch forces...

The Royal Collections announced completion of research into the legality and ethics of objects with colonial origins. Examples included a weapon taken after Dutch soldiers killed Lampung ruler Raden...

The government published translated regulations outlining civil settlements for widows and children of victims of mass executions in the former Dutch East Indies. The settlements emerged from...

The House approved legislation to increase the number of elected council members and executive officials on the three Caribbean Netherlands islands. The change addressed representation in small island...

At the National Slavery Remembrance ceremony, Prime Minister Rob Jetten invited public institutions to raise the Dutch flag on 1 July and stressed action on slavery’s present-day social and economic...

The Senate completed parliamentary approval of a law expanding elected representation on the BES islands. The amendment adjusted local institutions within the Dutch state but did not change the...

The Royal House announced that King Willem-Alexander would receive the results of an independent study into the House of Orange-Nassau’s role in Dutch colonial history on 2 October. The research...

King Willem-Alexander received an independent study of the monarchy’s colonial history. Researchers concluded that the royal house shared responsibility for the survival of Dutch slavery and...

The government announced the return of twenty Indonesian cultural objects, including centuries-old sculptures. The decision followed earlier returns and long-standing Indonesian requests, and was...