Based on the search she did, Hilde finally got information that the four women posing in the photo were Annie Kobus and her two sisters, Betsy and Miny, and Dolly. They were about 20 years old when they left Amsterdam at the end of 1946 with their Indonesian husbands. They did not feel a serious sense of fear when they returned to Indonesia, instead choosing to travel around Java. The decision they made to go to Indonesia was based on their determination that they were Indonesian citizens because they were married to Indonesians/ “I support the Republic.” For her and other women who arrived in Indonesia, they stated emphatically that choosing an Indonesian husband meant choosing a new homeland, namely Indonesia (see page 19). The women from the Netherlands were finally involved in the struggle for Indonesian independence, and even committed to support Indonesia in the following years. The author is also a Dutch, he is able to understand the psychological conditions of the four women he wrote quite well.
