Summary

Translated copy (in English) of a record of employment of Hans Hukom as a bookkeeper with the Department of Agriculture, Indonesia, from 1 August 1955 to 15 August 1966. The document is dated 13 August 1966 and has been supplied for reference purposes.

This document is one of eight documents attached to a List of Enclosures (HT 56133) which lists the contents of the attached group. All the documents relate to the training and employment of Hans Hukom by various companies in Indonesia between 1955 and 1968.

This is one of a collection of 40 documents and four photographs relating to the unsuccessful attempts by Hans Hukom, an Indonesian citizen, to migrate to Australia between 1968 and 1972.

Significance

Statement of Historical Significance:
This collection and its associated story explores notions of absence in both the museum's collection and in the national migration narrative. Having the intent to migrate defines these experiences as Australian stories (like the stories of asylum seekers) but they are easily overlooked as such. Hans Hukom's documents provide an insight, at times frustrating and poignant, into one person's attempts to seek approval to immigrate, the vagaries of bureaucracy, and the likely influence of the White Australia policy in his ultimate lack of success, still officially in force at that time.

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