Boven-Digoel

Boven-Digoel was an internment camp on the upper Digul River in southern New Guinea, set up by the Dutch colonial government in 1927 after the failed communist uprisings of 1926–1927. Isolated by jungle and swamp and rife with malaria, it held more than a thousand political prisoners and their families, among them the nationalists Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir in 1935–1936. It became a symbol of colonial repression in Indonesian memory.