Our editors will review what you’ve submitted and determine whether to revise the article In 1838 Multatuli went to the Dutch East Indies where he held a number of government posts until 1856 he was not supported by the colonial government in his attempts to protect the Javanese from their own chiefs The conversational style and type of humor were far in advance of Multatuli’s time and the book long remained a solitary phenomenon in the Netherlands Apart from Minnebrieven (1861; “Love Letters”), a fictitious romantic correspondence between Multatuli in which he gives his anachronistically radical views on woman’s position in society and on education Included in the Ideën is his autobiographical novel Woutertje Pieterse 400 Aerobic-athletes from a total of 13 countries performed for the strict judges at the weekend at the FISAF European Championships in Lloret de Mar (Spain) Performing with supreme confidence and perfect technique Rita Niemi from Finland won the individual title beating Silvie Galikova (CZE) and Denisa Baresova (CZE) In the men's competition Jonatan Cananda fron Spain beating the world champion Jan Pochobradski who had been in the lead up to the semi-final. Jouni Vitanen (FIN) came third.  Krystina Prochazkova and Pavel Sirotek came top in the pairs while the trio and group competitions were won by strong Czech teams The Czech team won the title in the team competition Katrin Engel (r.) and Dirk Engel-Korus (l.) outside the gymnasium in Spain