The Japanese occupation was a crucial period in the social and political development of the Ambon island. The impact of this brief interlude was most deeply felt in three areas of society.
This paper will deal with an aspect of the history of Ambon Island during the period that is totally called the zaman Portugis, a period on the past, later than the period in which the ancestors founded the settlements, but distant enough not to remember clearly the big events that must have occurred.rnsaif 3/3/25
Thus this pleasant book, which is other than an art book, other than a travel book, other than a log. Naturally, as an artist, I am chiefly concerned with the author's visualisation of the strange and beautiful, and often terrible, country, and of the exquisite dramatic life which he found there. I have long been interested in the development of Jan Poortenaar's art, and in the exotic life of t…