
They then settled in Sarangan by Mount Lawu in East Java, and set up a German school, or Deutsche Schule. According to Coerper’s notes, those prisoners were released after the Japanese entered the territories in 1942.

In his recent books, Geerken delved into the diaries of Otto Coerper, which gave detailed descriptions on some 300 Germans who had been jailed in the Dutch Indies. These two newest editions, published last year, continued what Geerken started in his previous volumes with the same title. GERMAN author Horst Henry Geerken follows the trace of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi ideology in Indonesia through the third and fourth volume of his book Hitlers Griff nach Asien. Nazi Graves and the Story of Deutsche Schule The documentary by director Alvin Yunata raised the query whether sports centers could go back to being creative spaces for young people in an era when everything is digital. A slice of memory surrounding the glory of these sports centers for musicians has been recorded in a documentary about the Saparua Sports Arena, broadcast on several live streaming channels in June. Some are still standing, but they no longer service the performing arts. Unfortunately, several of these sports centers have been pulled down. There is the Manahan Sports Arena in Solo, Bulungan in Jakarta, also Pulosari in Malang. Sports stadiums in other cities also provided space for the glory of local bands.

The Saparua Sports Arena in Bandung, for instance, was the place for underground music communities to see bands emerge in the 1990s. These included Burgerkill, Puppen, Jasad, Koil, PAS Band, Pure Saturday, and Dajjal, who later became big and were the pioneers for other bands which came after.


These places gave birth to many talented musicians. In the period between the 1970s to 1990s, aside from being places for sport events, sports arenas in many cities were locations for music concerts. The History of Underground Music in Sports Arenas
