“This is not a novel but an indictment,” was more or less the theme of the 190 years’ celebration of the birth of Douwes Dekker also known as Multatuli, the former Assistant Resident of Lebak who later wrote the book Max Havelaar. In Holland the name is currently used by a tourist ship, a road, a discussion group, and a host of other things. The Universiteit van Amsterdam has proposed the novel Max Havelaar as part of world heritage literature. The following are several articles based on Tempo’s reports covering Havelaar in Amsterdam and in Lebak.