Author of the novel Oeroeg by Hella Haasse

Hella Haasse was born in Batavia in 1918, died in Amsterdam on September 30, 2011. She spent her childhood in Buitenzorg/Bogor, Surabaya and Bandoeng. The author of the novel "Oeroeg" a novel containing 144 pages, tells the story of the friendship of two boys from different social strata in the colonial era. The story takes the background of the life of the community on the Kebon Jati plantation, far in the interior of the Priangan Mountains, Sukabumi, West Java