The story of Boxer Moen - 'Javakampioen' (1907-?)
A nother photo album with many photos taken in Java during the Dutch East Indies colonial era in my collection is the album of Louis Frederic Guillaume Dinger, who lived in Surabaya.[1] Louis Dinger in 1937 The album contains pictures of places like Tosari, Surabaya harbour and many more but also some newspapers and photos of different kind of sports in Indonesia. One of the pages has two photos of a boxer, a young man named Moen / Moenandar. We see him photographed in the years 1926 and 1933. The note above the page says that he is born in December 1907. I was a little bit intrigued about Moen and decided to do some research on him and dedicated this blog to him. During my research I found out that L.F.G. (Louis) Dinger, the owner of the album was his manager! Moen in 1926 I started my online research on www.delpher.nl to see what kind of information was to find in the newspapers, in combination with the words of ‘ bokser ’ (Dutch for boxer) and it seems Moen was pretty...