Episode #1.15
- Episode aired Dec 1, 1997
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- TriviaThe court case that was discussed amongst the characters and the fallout from the court verdict was based on the actual Maria Hertogh case, with actual newspaper clippings shown in between scenes.
Maria Hertogh was an Indonesian-born Dutch teenager who was to be in the middle of a custody battle in Singapore in December 1950 between her natural parents claiming her back after the war and her adopted Indonesian mother. The teenage Maria was called Nadra by her adopted Indonesian mother Aminah, who is a family friend of the Hertoghs. The Hertoghs did survive the war and tried to claim their daughter back, but this led to a custody battle which came to take place in Singapore. In the intervening years Maria had become a Muslim and her age (14) before the custody battle meant that she was allowed to be married (which she did) under Muslim law, which came to be contested in the courts, and was to be in favour of the Hertoghs. Along with the press coverage at the time (shown in the episode), it eventually got out of hand and descended into a riot after the court ruling. Maria and her biological mother would soon leave Singapore for the Netherlands and been there ever since, even if since then Maria would come to have an unhappy marriage and came to pass away in 2009 in the Netherlands.
- SoundtracksSong of Rove
Music by Teck Yenn Wong
Lyrics by Git-Yan Ching
Performed by Christopher Ming-Shun Lee
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