In mid-October 1945, Edward and Frederika van der Sluys were murdered in gruesome circumstances, along with a number of other Dutch Eurasians, most probably in the yard of a Dutch-owned sugar factory in the Slawi district of the north coast of Central Java at which the husband had been employed since his youth. Their fate forms part of a larger narrative of the Bersiap! (“Get Ready!”) period of the Indonesian national revolution, which has attracted considerable attention from historians. Indeed, there are already two well-trod narratives of the violence accompanying the revolution and of ethnic cleansing during the Bersiap. The present paper argues, however, that there is room for a third: that of the sugar industry—and factory communities that lay at its heart—as a much older arena of social difference and conflicted loyalties. The account proceeds on the assumption that, without being embedded in a broader and deeper narrative, the story of what happened to the Van der Sluys couple remains incomplete.

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斯拉维之死：1945 年 10 月印度尼西亚早期革命中的“糖厂谋杀案”、种族、忠诚冲突和暴力背景

1945 年 10 月中旬，Edward 和 Frederika van der Sluys 以及其他一些荷兰欧亚人在可怕的情况下被谋杀，最有可能是在中爪哇北部海岸斯拉威区一家荷兰糖厂的院子里丈夫从小就在那里工作。他们的命运构成了 Bersiap 更大叙事的一部分！（“准备好！”）印度尼西亚民族革命时期，这引起了历史学家的极大关注。事实上，已经有两种广为流传的关于伴随革命的暴力和在 Bersiap 期间的种族清洗的叙述。然而，本文认为还有第三个空间：制糖业——以及处于其核心的工厂社区——作为一个社会差异和相互冲突的忠诚度的古老领域。