Upon the attainment of a new status in 2010, the Dutch Caribbean islands kept the political institutions they inherited from their former colonial power. According to Wouter Veenendaal, these...
Fidel Castro has died. Over the final years of his long life he admonished his compatriots to complete the mission he started in the 1950s. Will they? Gert Oostindie does not think so: but neither does he expect a sudden regime change....
Fidel Castro is overleden. Afgelopen zondag 27 november werd in het radioprogramma OVT zijn leven en zijn dood besproken met o.a. Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV. Klik hier om de uitzending te beluisteren...
In het Nederlands Dagblad van afgelopen zaterdag stond een interview met KITLV-onderzoekers Christiaan Harinck en Bart Luttikhuis over gereformeerde militairen in...
Henk Schulte Nordholt was afgelopen zondag 6 november te zien in het VPRO programma Buitenhof over de onrust en machtsstrijd in Jakarta na uitspraken van Basuki Tjahja Purnama 'Ahok', de christelijke ...
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide is now online available (open access). This edition also includes the articles of KITLV researcher Wouter Veenendaal and former KITLV fellow Chelsea Schields...
The repercussions of rumor: An adultery case from Curaçao', in Michael Stedemund-Halevy (ed.), A Sephardic Pepper -Pot in the Caribbean, p.124-135. Barcelona:...
Uitgeverij AUP en boekhandel Scheltema nodigen u op vrijdag 4 november om 17:30u van harte uit voor de boekpresentatie van: Een geschiedenis van Zuidoost-Azië van Henk Schulte Nordholt. Zuidoost-Azië is ...
On the initiative of Obor publishers and KITLV-Jakarta, an Indonesian edition of Soldaat in Indonesië has just been published. Between the 13th and 26th of September, Ireen Hoogenboom...
How do smallness and migration contribute to oligarchy? In a new co-authored publication, CCC-researchers...
Researcher Dr. Kasia Mika discusses Hurricane Matthew’s effect on Haiti, why natural disasters are anything but, and how helpful helping really is. The destruction caused by hurricane Matthew in Haiti is not...
'The price you pay: Choosing family, friends, and familiarity over freedom in the Leeward Islands, 1835-1863'. Planters and colonial officials throughout the Caribbean feared the consequences of ...
Is child marriage a clear cut human rights violation? Ph.D. researcher Hoko Horii doesn’t think so. Based on her research into Indonesian courts, and her work with Indonesians living in the Netherlands...
While the concept of a ‘sharing economy’ is gaining popularity in modern societies, in Eastern Indonesia it is a traditional way of coping with daily life. Based on her fieldwork in Sumba, Jacqueline Vel outlines some of the difficulties that researchers and...
In het voormalige Nederlands-Indië is structureel massageweld gebruikt en zijn oorlogsmisdaden gepleegd door Nederlandse militairen, met medeweten van de...
Oral history is a promising source for further research in the KITLV project on Dutch military operations in Indonesia between 1945 and 1950. Interviews with Dutch war veterans give new insights into the use of ...
“Is it true you never lay a hand on a book?”, “Then what do you do all day?” These are very common questions for Marije Plomp, the newly appointed subject librarian of South and Southeast Asia. ...
Last year, Gert Oostindie published a book about the Dutch military in the Indonesian Revolution. He is now touring with Ireen Hoogenboom, who contributed greatly to the book, in Indonesia to promote the translated...
The two-volume special edition of Jurnal Wacana – Stories and Storytelling in Indonesian – edited by Clara Brakel, Susi Moeimam and Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) is now online available! The two volumes delve...
This workshop in May 2016 discussed a new type of village studies in Indonesia. The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of...
Van Michiel van Kempen verscheen afgelopen zaterdag het boek Rusteloos en overal; Het leven van Albert Helman. De biografie is het fascinerende levensverhaal van de eerste belangrijke migrant-schrijver...
Door voormalig KITLV-fellow Anne-Lot Hoek: 'Iedereen wist het, maar niemand kon het zeggen'. "Oorlog werd ‘politionele acties’, structureel geweld werden ‘excessen’. De manier waarop Cees Fasseur en andere ...
'Rengat, 1949 (Part 1)': Dutch paratroopers massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a Sumatran town during the Indonesian Revolution, yet nobody outside Rengat seems to know. Read more ...
On 13 September in the Erasmus House in Jakarta, Gert Oostindie, director of KITLV will present the Indonesian edition of his book Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950 (Soldier in Indonesia, 1945-1950). This will...
Door Meindert van der Kaaij, redactie binnenland van het dagblad Trouw: "Auteur Gert Oostindie hoopt dat Indonesische historici met een frisse blik gaan kijken naar het oorlogsverleden". Lees het artikel in Trouw...
Op 13 september presenteert Gert Oostindie, directeur van het KITLV-KNAW in het Erasmushuis te Jakarta de Indonesische editie van zijn boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950. ...
When in 2002 Indonesia established a constitutional court nobody anticipated just how important this new institution was going to be. Its rulings are widely reported and they have had an impact on fields ranging from economic policy...
President Jokowi is popular enough to do without military support. Yet New Order-era soldiers have always been close by his side. Now he has gone one further. Who is Wiranto? In a cabinet reshuffle on 27 July he ...
The Indonesian translation of Soldaat in Indonesië 1945-1950: Getuigenissen van een oorlog aan de verkeerde kant van de geschiedenis...
NPO Radio 1: vandaag wordt internationaal stilgestaan bij het slavernijverleden. Het is de internationale dag ter herinnering aan de slavenhandel en de afschaffing daarvan. Aan...
One of the most common social sciences research methods is (online) surveys. While there are many benefits to this method, there are also many pitfalls, like, not being able to get people to fill out the survey you ...
Economics, Empire, Eschatology: the Global Context of Jewish Settlement in the Americas, 1650-70'. In: Itinerario 40, special issue 02, August 2016, pp. 293-310. The Dutch and English offered Spanish and Portuguese ...
KITLV directeur Gert Oostindie sprak met diverse media over de Indië-herdenking. Op 15 augustus vond in Nederland de jaarlijkse Indië-herdenking plaats. Op die datum in 1945 capituleerde namelijk Japan, waarmee de Tweede Wereldoorlog...
Indonesia’s Chinese authored literature reached its peak of popularity in the 1930s. Access to these unique sources is slowly improving. Tom Hoogervorst escaped Jakarta’s archives for a rendezvous with two passionate...
A special issue of the Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde) is now available, in print ...
Young people’s desires to become educated and upwardly mobile are often understood as signs of rising affluence and changing markets for education and work in Southeast Asia. Meanings that young people attribute...
The road to Enlightenment is never easy, but for some people it is easier than for others. Last May I visited Borobudur. This giant eighth century Buddhist shrine and world heritage site is located in Indonesia where now ...
Over 3000 historic photographs and prints with images from the Dutch East Indies, China, Japan, Singapore and Suriname from the KITLV were donated to Wikimedia Commons, the image database of Wikipedia,...
KITLV researcher Wouter Veenendaal has been awarded a Veni grant for young excellent researchers. His research project 'Explaining Political Stability in Small States' examines why small countries...
Confronting Caribbean Challenges researcher, Sanne Rotmeijer, is just back from almost a year doing fieldwork on Curaçao and St. Maarten. She shares her perspective on identity, belonging, and what Brexit and nationalist...
Welcome to the sixth CCC newsletter! As you will see from the reports written by our team members, a lot of exciting work has been done. Sanne Rotmeijer concluded an extended period of field research, working in ...
Op 6 juli jl. verscheen een artikel van KITLV-onderzoeker in het dagblad Trouw. "Op Bonaire groeit het verzet tegen Nederland. De echte problemen van het eiland worden genegeerd, zegt Wouter Veenendaal". Wouter Veenendaal is postdoctoraal onderzoeker bij het KITLV...
Walking through the entrance gate to the shopping street ‘Pasar Baru’, Jakarta, was like stepping into my favourite movie, says Jemma Middleton. I recognised the different shops, the old and new architecture, the way a shopkeeper was advertising...
Het boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950: Getuigenissen van een oorlog aan de verkeerde kant van de geschiedenis, door Gert Oostindie met medewerking van...
Bali in the early nineteenth century; The ethnographic accounts of Pierre Dubois, by Helen Creese, University of Queensland. In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest...
Confronting Caribbean Challenges researcher Jessica Vance Roitman was recently in Havana, Cuba for the yearly Association of Caribbean Historians conference. In this blog, she contemplates her role as a tourist feeding...
Shortly before his unexpected death Cees Fasseur accepted honorary membership of the Association KITLV. The chairperson of the Association, Susan Legêne, made the announcement at the Annual General Meeting on 10th June. The board of...
Kort voor zijn onverwachte overlijden accepteerde Cees Fasseur het erelidmaatschap van de Vereniging KITLV. De voorzitter van de Vereniging, Susan Legêne, maakte dit bekend op de Algemene Ledenvergadering van 10 juni jl. Het bestuur van de Vereniging ...
Javanese literature is the oldest literature in Southeast Asia. Its history goes back to the ninth century. The Dvenadcat vekov Javanskoj literaturi. Obzornija kurs (‘Twelve centuries of Javanese literature. A survey’) sets...
The fasting month in Indonesia comes with new gadgets and ‘special offers’ advertisements. Chris Chaplin wonders whether or not this affects the pious character of fasting. On the 6th June the majority of Muslims across the world welcomed the start...