Bonnie Triyana (born 27 June 1979) is an Indonesian historian, PDI Perjuangan politician and museum curator. She is currently the editor-in-chief of Indonesia’s first popular history magazine, Majalah Historia. She completed her BA in History at Diponegoro University, Semarang (2003). She took a postgraduate degree in history at the University of Indonesia in 2005.
In early 2022, she was a guest curator for an exhibition on the Indonesian National Revolution at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam. Her participation was controversial in the Netherlands at the time. In a column in the Dutch newspaper NRC Handelsblad, she explained her view that the word “Bersiap” should be removed from the exhibition, and said that the use of the term in the exhibition would oversimplify the narrative in the exhibition and reinforce the stereotype of Indonesians as cruel and barbaric. The Dutch-Indonesian Federation (Dutch: Federatie Indische Nederlanders) filed a complaint with the Dutch police about the issue in January 2022, accusing Triyana of stigmatizing Indonesian and Dutch survivors of that historical period and trivializing the violence against them. The police decided not to pursue charges, while the Rijksmuseum continued to use the term in its exhibitions and noted that Triyana had expressed his personal opinions in editorials.
On 23 May 2022, he appeared before the Dutch standing committee on Foreign Affairs in the House of Representatives (Netherlands) to present the Indonesian perspective on the violence that occurred during the Dutch departure from Indonesia.
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