[1] The stated goals of the Dutch Honorary Debts Committee Foundation are:[1] The Dutch Honorary Debts Committee Foundation, represented on a pro bono basis by human rights lawyer Liesbeth Zegveld, fought its first successful legal battle on behalf of seven widows of men summarily executed by the Royal Netherlands East Indies Army (KNIL) under Major Alphons Wijnen during the Rawagede massacre of 9 December 1947.
[3][4] On 14 September 2011, the court in The Hague ruled that the Dutch government was to offer a public apology and reparations to the still living relatives of the 431 victims of the massacre.
[7] On 10 January 2022, Dutch newspaper NRC published an opinion piece by Bonnie Triyana, Indonesian historian and guest curator at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, which called into question the usage of the term Bersiap in the then-upcoming exhibition "Revolusi!
[15] On 21 January 2022, the Dutch Honorary Debts Committee Foundation became involved when it filed a police report against the Rijksmuseum, its director, and the lead curator of the exhibition for their intention to continue using the term Bersiap, which the KUKB too considers to have racist connotations.
[18] The Dutch Honorary Debts Committee Foundation announced on 4 July it had filed a complaint with the Amsterdam Court of Appeal[19] and chairman Jeffry M. Pondaag, secretary Dida Pattipilohy, and historian Marjolein van Pagee presented their arguments in a hearing on 13 October.