Indonesia ft. Hannah Kendaru

Today's guest is Hannah Kendaru. Hannah’s father hails from an ancestral lineage from West Java and Sulawesi, Indonesia and her mother comes from Essex, England. Hannah was born in Bandung, Indonesia and currently resides there. A gentle note - this episode contains some mentions of sexual assault. In this fascinating episode, Hannah eloquently captures the distinction between historical and intergenerational trauma, weaving her personal history between the two. As someone whose parents are Indonesian and white British, she speaks powerfully of the relationship between the colonizer and the colonized parts within herself, of truth and forgiveness, and how she learned to move through these challenges into heart-led action. We speak about the current colonial energies affecting Bali, where Hannah lived for a while, and how corrosive yet now-needed western tourism continues to be for the people of the land. Hannah's work can be found here.