Kerkhof Petjut is a silent witness to the Aceh War
Kerkhof Petjut is a Dutch cemetery complex in Banda Aceh, where thousands of soldiers are buried.
8 min readJun 16, 2020
A man with a chisel in his hand looks to cement a headstone. He smoothed the plastered marks on the corners of the broken gravestone walls. A hat protected his head in the still-hot afternoon. He seemed not to care…