title: Medical care as the carrot: the Red Cross in Indonesia during the war of decolonization, 1945-1950.
abstract: During the war of decolonisation in Indonesia 1945-1950, the Dutch Red Cross and the Dutch East Indies Red Cross delivered aid to sick and wounded soldiers and civilians. This was supposed to happen in cooperation with organisations including the Indonesian Red Cross, the International Committee of the Red Cross, the military health service and civilian health services. Due to lack of resources, doctors and nurses, and due to differing interests, cooperation went anything but smoothly, severely undermining medical aid. On top of that, the aid that was given turned out be a tool of propaganda for the Dutch cause. Aid was deliberately--and with Red Cross consent--used as a political-military tool in the service of Dutch national interests. In a military strategy of carrot and stick, medical care served as the carrot.
authors.affiliation: KITLV-Leiden (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies), Leiden, Netherlands. l.vanbergen@kpnmail.nl
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: van Bergen
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000266:history*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D007214:Indonesia; D007391:International Cooperation / Q000266:history; D009426:Netherlands; D011057:Politics; D011406:Propaganda; D012011:Red Cross / Q000266:history*; D014857:Warfare