New Dutch government will prioritise higher spending

Significance His new government, which took a record 271 days to form, is a reiteration of the previous four-party coalition involving Rutte's centre-right People's Party for Freedom and Democracy (VVD), the centrist liberals of Democrats 66 (D66) and two Christian democratic parties, the Christian Democratic Appeal (CDA) and the more conservative Christian Union (CU). The coalition deal promises a significant shift away from the austerity policies of previous governments. Impacts The collective rise of the far-right vote means the far right will continue to worry centrist parties and thus influence government policy. Higher structural spending in education should improve medium-to-long-term productivity development and output. The government promises to strengthen cyber capabilities in order to crack down on intellectual property theft.

Dutch government will prioritise higher spending

Headline NETHERLANDS: New government will spend much more

Nyai Ontosoroh: a Female Hero and Her Resistance to Gender Injustice

Nyai Ontosoroh is a character in Pramudya Ananta Toer's novel Bumi Manusia, which depicts a woman's struggle against injustice in her life. R. Giryadi adapted Nyai Ontosoroh's struggle in this novel into a short drama titled "Nyai Ontosoroh." The plot of this drama revolves around Nyai Ontosoroh's opposition to her husband and the Dutch government, which wants to take over the company and custody of her child. A Javanese woman's resistance to the colonial government was courageous at the time. Despite being defeated, Nyai Ontosoroh had fought for his rights in a dignified manner. She deserved to be referred to as a "hero." The purpose of this study is to explain and describe the various forms of gender injustice against women in R. Giryadi's drama script "Nyai Ontosoroh." This study is descriptive qualitative in nature. It is tailored to the formulation of determined research problems. It is a qualitative study that is thoroughly and analytically described. Forms of gender injustice against women are described. The conclusion of this paper indicates that women in Indonesia continue to face numerous gender injustices. Women must fight for gender equality as they should.

Number of Seclusions in the Netherlands Higher in the 7 Years Since the End of a Nationwide Seclusion-Reduction Program

Introduction: Between 2006 and 2012 the Dutch government funded a nationwide program for reducing the use of seclusion. Although an initial first trend study showed that the reported number of seclusions declined during the program, the objective of a 10% annual decrease was not met. We wished to establish whether the decline had continued after funding ended in 2012.Method: Using quasi Poisson time series modeling, we retrospectively analyzed the nationally reported numbers of seclusion and involuntary medication between 1998 and 2019, i.e., before, during and after the end of the nationwide program, with and without correction for the number of involuntary admissions.Results: With and without correction for the number of involuntary admissions, there were more seclusions in the seven years after the nationwide program than during the nationwide program. Although the reported number of involuntary medications also increased, the rate of increase was slower after the end of the nationwide program than before.Conclusions: Rather than continuing to decrease after the end of the nationwide program, the number of seclusions rose. This may mean that interventions intended to reduce the use of seclusion within this program are not properly sustained in daily clinical care without an ongoing national program.

Framework for Assessing Ethical Aspects of Algorithms and Their Encompassing Socio-Technical System

In the transition to a data-driven society, organizations have introduced data-driven algorithms that often apply artificial intelligence. In this research, an ethical framework was developed to ensure robustness and completeness and to avoid and mitigate potential public uproar. We take a socio-technical perspective, i.e., view the algorithm embedded in an organization with infrastructure, rules, and procedures as one to-be-designed system. The framework consists of five ethical principles: beneficence, non-maleficence, autonomy, justice, and explicability. It can be used during the design for identification of relevant concerns. The framework has been validated by applying it to real-world fraud detection cases: Systeem Risico Indicatie (SyRI) of the Dutch government and the algorithm of the municipality of Amersfoort. The former is a controversial country-wide algorithm that was ultimately prohibited by court. The latter is an algorithm in development. In both cases, it proved effective in identifying all ethical risks. For SyRI, all concerns found in the media were also identified by the framework, mainly focused on transparency of the entire socio-technical system. For the municipality of Amersfoort, the framework highlighted risks regarding the amount of sensitive data and communication to and with the public, presenting a more thorough overview compared to the risks the media raised.

The role of the judiciary in environmental securitisation. Urgenda Foundation v. The State of the Netherlands

Since climate change is broadly recognised as a threat multiplier, the environmental problems are considered in the sense of security. Academic articles are focused on analysing states, international non-governmental organisations, as well as regional entities such as the European Union as securitising actors. Limited attention has been given to the judiciary. This article fills the existing gap. The aim of the research is to analyse how do the Dutch Courts securitise the climate in adjudicating the case Urgenda Foundation v. The State of the Netherlands’, through the lens of the securitisation theory. The implementation of discourse analysis as a research methodology has proved that the Dutch courts have contributed to environmental securitisation by ruling on the legal obligation of the Dutch government to prevent dangerous climate change in order to protect its citizens

Balai Pustaka and the Politics of Knowledge

During the colonial period of Indonesia the Dutch government was an important source of knowledge which was disseminated through the production of books, such as textbooks and other printed material. In response to the establishment of many new commercial printers and publishers, the colonial government, in 1917, set up its own publishing company, Balai Pustaka, which also published attractive and popular books. This new publishing house intentionally and unintentionally served several goals at a time that was characterized by the rise of young Indonesian intellectuals who were part of new political movements formed in the first decades of the 20th century.

The Hypocrisy of Dutch Actions in Indonesia

At the end of World War 2 the Netherlands, through its own military tribunals, tried and convicted several members of the Japanese and German militaries for their participation in the war crime of extra judicial executions in Indonesia and the Netherlands. Several of the convicted men were executed by the Netherlands while others sentenced to lengthy prison terms. From 1946-1949 the Netherlands, primarily through commando Raymond Westerling, engaged in the same actions they accused the Japanese of having committed. While no specific order was ever revealed showing that Westerling’s actions were ordered by the military, the Netherlands tacitly approved his actions by failing to control him and his men and by their unwillingness to take responsibility for his actions before or after the Netherlands withdrew its forces from Indonesia in 1949. This research paper explores the extrajudicial executions conducted by Westerling, his men, other Dutch military and the Dutch government in order to provide a better and more thorough understanding of these events and the lack of national or international action against war crimes committed after World War 2. It concludes that the Netherlands has failed to try or even accuse Westerling and others of war crimes or take actions to discipline them, and in fact has covered up his actions and failed to make public those war crimes. Further that the reason for this continued hypocritical refusal is a concern for the reputation of the Netherlands in the world and a belief that high levels of government would be found complicit.

PERPADUAN WISATA SEJARAH DENGAN WISATA AIR DI KAWASAN BENTENG VASTENBURG SURAKARTA

Abstrak Taman benteng Vastenburg merupakan bagian tak terpisahkan dari destinasi wisata sejarah di kota Surakarta. Salah satu bagian terpenting taman benteng Vastenburg adalah keberadaan Parit/Selokan yang berbentuk melingkar. Fungsi Parit yang sebenarnya pada jaman kolonial belanda dulu adalah untuk pengamanan Pemerintahan Belanda dari serangan musuh. Fungsi itu saat ini sudah tidak ada lagi seiring tidak berfungsinya benteng sebagai bangunan pertahanan. Kondisi parit saat ini sudah tidak terpelihara lagi, talut banyak yang rusak, dasar parit sudah kering ,tidak berair, banyak sampah, dan ditumbuhi semak. Lokasi Benteng yang berada di pusat kota (pusat perkantoran dan perdagangan) sangat strategis untuk dikembangkan menjadi pusat wisata kota. Disamping wisata sejarah, komplek benteng Vastenburg bisa juga dikolaborasikan dengan wisata yang moderen, salah satunya ialah wisata air. Wisata air banyak macamnya, diantaranya adalah wisata perahu, pasar apung, kolam pancing, kolam renang, dan kolam luncur. Untuk lokasi parit benteng vastenburg yang paling cocok adalah wisata perahu. Wisata perahu ini bisa digabung dengan wisata kolam renang dan kolam luncur yang bisa dibangun disekitar bangunan benteng. Dengan dihidupkannya wisata sejarah benteng dengan wisata air dan sekaligus didukung oleh fasilitas perdagangan dan perkantoran di sekelilingnya, komplek benteng vastenburg akan bisa menjadi pusat rekreasi kota yang hidup dan ramai pengunjung. Kata kunci: kolaborasi, wisata sejarah, wisata air Abstract Vastenburg Fort Park is an integral part of historical tourist destinations in the city of Surakarta. One of the most important parts of the Vastenburg Fort Park is the existence of the Moat / Gutter which is circular in shape. The actual function of the Trench in the Dutch colonial era was to protect the Dutch Government from enemy attacks. This function is now no longer in existence due to the dysfunction of the fort as a defensive building. The condition of the ditch is no longer maintained, the gutters are damaged, the bottom of the trench is dry, no water, lots of garbage, and overgrown with shrubs. The location of the fort, which is in the city center (the center of offices and trade), is very strategic to be developed into a city tourism center. Besides historical tourism, the Vastenburg Fort complex can also be collaborated with modern tours, one of which is water tourism. There are many kinds of water tourism, including boat tours, floating markets, fishing ponds, swimming pools, and sliding pools. For the location of the vastenburg fort moat it is most suitable for a boat tour. This boat tour can be combined with a swimming pool tour and a slide that can be built around the fort. With the historical fortifications turned on with water tours and at the same time supported by the surrounding trade and office facilities, the vastenburg fort complex will become the center of the city's vibrant recreation and bustling with visitors. Keywords: collaboration, historical tourism, water tours

Staging Expertise in Times of COVID-19: An Analysis of the Science-Policy-Society Interface in the Dutch “Intelligent Lockdown”

The corona crisis of 2020 took many by surprise. Quite suddenly, politicians had to make drastic decisions to guarantee public health, affecting basic civil liberties. In justifying their decisions, politicians internationally reverted back to a direct staging of experts to legitimize their proposals for what internationally became known as the “lockdown”. In this article we analyze the performance of the Dutch government that, early on, labeled its approach to COVID-19 as an “intelligent lockdown”. Our analysis examines the dramaturgy of expertise during this period. We selected two interrelated “stages”: the official press conferences, fully controlled by the government, and the responses on Twitter, as focal channel for critique from the general public, but also from opposition parties and (alleged) experts. 26 press conferences of the Dutch Prime Minister were analyzed and a search for the most popular posts on Twitter referring to the press conference(s) was carried out covering the period between March 6th and May 29th, 2020. The results show that the technocratic framing of expertise remained stable during the sampling period, regarding the undisputed status of expertise as the clear-cut basis for decision-making in uncertain times. Framing on Twitter challenged the omnipotence of the experts advising the government in various ways, namely, by referring to dissenting opinions of other experts, by questioning the underlying motives of experts’ advice or by pointing out that the policies were clearly contrary to everyday experience. We argue that it is not so much the facts themselves that are at stake here but hidden moralities, which include the government’s alleged complacency while asking citizens to blindly trust, its unpredictable behavior in the light of the promised straight line between scientific evidence and policy making, and its motivated behavior while claiming that the facts speak for themselves.