This groundbreaking book tells the untold story of Indonesian Islam in museums. Often overshadowed by Hindu-Buddhist art, Indonesian Islamic heritage rarely receives the attention it deserves in museum ...
New article written by Ward Berenschot et al. titled 'The perils of legal formalism: Litigating land conflicts in Indonesia', in the Journal of Contemporary Asia. The authors analyse the capacity of Indonesia’s...
In 2024 the PCF grant was awarded to the following winners: Feba Sukmana & Lara Nuberg for their project on a new publication of Kartini's letters; Maarten Manse for his project to finalize and resubmit a book manuscript on the topic of...
Article ‘The infrastructure of domestic influence operations: Cyber troops and public opinion manipulation through social media in Indonesia’ in The International ...
Article ‘Setelah Kementerian Kebudayaan terbentuk’ in Jawa Pos of 25 October 2024, written by KITLV researcher Adrian Perkasa. The newly elected Indonesian President, Prabowo Subianto...
Article 'Jokowi weakens civil society, Prabowo should reverse course' in The Jakarta Post of 13 September 2024, written by KITLV researchers Widya Tuslian and Ward Berenschot....
On June 1st, 2021, The Corts Foundation (TCF) formally terminated its activities and transferred its financial assets to the Members’ Association KITLV / Vereniging KITLV. With this capital a fund has been realized ...
The Members’ Association KITLV (Vereniging KITLV) invites its members (and those willing to become members) to actively contribute to realizing the goals of the Association....
The KITLV invites scholars working in the fields of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies to apply for a Visiting Fellowship. Fellows are invited to send in a proposal of the work they wish to carry ...
KITLV is looking for three PhD candidates for the research project Trajectories of Taste: An Analytical Framework of Culinary Change after Migration (TASTE), a European Research Council-funded ...
Onderzoeker Rosemarijn Hoefte deed in opdracht van de gemeente onderzoek naar het koloniaal verleden van Tilburg. Inwoners Eri-Ann, Tony en Eric namen deel aan het onderzoek. Zij vertellen in een video ...
The phallus, or lingga, is a prominent symbol in Indonesian culture. It can be found in various artifacts and sites – from the 15th-century Javanese-Hindu temple Sukuh in Central Java to the Monas...
During Amsterdam Art Week, Framer Framed presents the exhibition Breaking Waves by artist Clara Jo, who has been Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed artist in residence for the past year. Through a story about epidemiological and maritime movement...
‘Continues to amaze me’, ‘it is dangerous’, ‘they drive like lunatics’ – these were some of the comments on social media when friends posted pictures of motorcyclists in Ambon. Last year I took to the streets of Ambon on my motorcycle, travelling...
Het KITLV heeft met grote instemming kennisgenomen van de oproep van het Koninklijk Nederlands Historisch Genootschap aan de stichting Histori Bersama en de stichting KUKB om te stoppen met de intimidaties aan het adres van Anne-Lot Hoek....
The call for the fellowship 'Moving objects, mobilising culture' is open from 15 January to 18 March 12.00 (noon) CET 2024. We look forward to welcoming four fellows ...
On 28 November Watchdoc launched the documentary Tanah Moyangku in Taman Ismail Marzuki in Jakarta. Over the last year KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot has worked with Watchdoc to produce this 90 min film ...
KITLV researcher Tom Hoogervorst received an ERC Consolidator Grant for his proposal on culinary change. This competitive five-year grant is awarded by the ...
On the 17th of November John Leerdam congratulates Francio Guadeloupe, Luc Alofs and Alex van Stipriaan on the publication of the book Caribbean cultural heritage...
In de Indonesië podcast gaat Edwin Mooibroek in gesprek met KITLV onderzoeker en politiek antropoloog Ward Berenschot over de aankomende presidentsverkiezingen in Indonesië....
Applying to PCF is open to students and researchers working in the Netherlands, or to a joint Dutch Indonesian team, conducting scientific research in collections in The Netherlands or Indonesia in line with ...
Saya terenyuh ketika mendengar kabar Jaap telah berpulang. Sepanjang masa tugasnya sebagai perwakilan KITLV di Jakarta sejak 1974 hingga 2003, juga setelah masa tugasnya berakhir, Jaap tak pernah terpisahkan dari janggut dan juga cangklongnya....
I was deeply touched to learn of Jaap’s passing. During and after his long service as representative of KITLV in Jakarta, from 1974 until 2003, Jaap was always there with his beard and inseparable pipe, which gave him an appearance and an...
KITLV-KNAW is looking for two 2 postdocs, with experience in provenance research or research into the social history of manuscripts. The postdocs will be ...
KITLV and Framer Framed are pleased to announce the international open call for the 2024 Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist Residency. Applications are currently being accepted online with a submission deadline ...
Rosemarijn Hoefte vertelt in een podcast van de Universiteitsbibliotheek Leiden hoe Javaanse contractarbeiders uit Indonesië de rol van de tot slaaf gemaakten op de Surinaamse ...
Expensive elections campaigns are a threat to democracies around the world, because they generate corruption and political inequality. Yet, due to methodological obstacles and a western ...
There are things in daily life that seem to always continue without notice. For me, one of them is going to the hairdresser, more or less every six weeks. I only changed a hairdresser when he retired or when I moved. Visits...
KITLV and Framer Framed are pleased to announce Clara Jo as the new Atelier KITLV-Framer Framed Artist in Residence. In the coming months, we will work closely with the artist in developing her project ...
Researcher Anne van Mourik talks with historians Abdul Wahid, Yulianti and Roel Frakking about their book Revolutionary worlds: Local perspectives and dynamics during the Indonesian ...
Journalist Frank Vermeulen besteedt in het NRC van 2 februari jl. aandacht aan de presentatie van twee nieuwe boeken over de Indonesische revolutie op donderdag...
My most memorable Lunar New Year was a quarter of a century ago in Pontianak, the provincial capital of West Kalimantan. One month prior to this, news had started coming in about deadly clashes between the indigenous Dayak people ...
Op 19 januari jl. was Fridus Steijlen te gast in het KRO-NCRV radioprogramma Spraakmakers op Radio 1. Presentator Michel Maas sprak met Fridus over de spijtbetuiging door Widodo ...
Op 6 december dit jaar ontviel ons plotseling onze zeer gewaardeerde oud-collega Meindert van der Kaaij. Meindert was van 2017 tot 2021 werkzaam op het KITLV als onderzoeker in het KITLV-NIMH-NIOD...
De koning laat onafhankelijk onderzoek doen naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau in de koloniale geschiedenis. Het onderzoek zal drie jaar in beslag nemen en omvat ...
As Selangor prepares to celebrate its Bugis Malay ruler’s birthday, it is interesting to look at how the sultanate itself was born from a mixture of Bugis and Malay elements. Sunday December 11th is the 78th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor...
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. Meet guest researcher Taufiq Hanafi who researched the role of literature in narrating Indonesia’s bleakest pages of history...
De Universiteit Leiden heeft dit jaar prof.dr. Gert Oostindie, emeritus hoogleraar Koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis, op de Cleveringaleerstoel benoemd. Hij zal deze leeropdracht vandaag ...
KITLV currently has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher to help with the proof-reading of a book manuscript, scheduled for publication in the summer of ...
Tom Hoogervorst has been appointed adjunct professor at the Department of Indonesian, Faculty of Letters, at the State University of Malang, from September 2022 ...
“What’s the point?” you inquire, adjusting your pince-nez sceptically. And to that, we reply: loanwords are monuments of cultural contact. Once detected as such, they reveal human agency and encounters previously concealed by the misty shrouds of time...
This new research project studies comparatively how social media-based public opinion manipulation is organised in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Computational ...
Leiden University and KITLV-KNAW are looking for a PhD candidate in the field of the anthropology of climate change and environmental justice....
In June, Rose-Mary Allen of the University of Curacao, Urwin Vyent of NiNsee, Matthias van Rossum of IISG and Esther Captain of KITLV received a large subsidy from...
Een podcast door podcast- en documentairemaker Joost Wilgenhof over de uitzonderlijke geschiedenis van de op zee geboren Ranchi baby's is vanaf 5 oktober 2022 beschikbaar...
Het boek Merdeka: De strijd om de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid en de ongewisse opkomst van de Republiek 1945-1950 door Harry Poeze en Henk Schulte Nordholt staat op de ...
In de podcast Hoog Tijd van uitgeverij Walburg Pers en Amsterdam University Press, gaat Bart Geeraedts in gesprek met Esther Captain en Onno Sinke over hun laatste boek Het geluid van geweld...
The Local Democracy Academy 2022 (Visby, Sweden) awarded the best conference paper to PhD researcher Yogi Permana for his paper 'Drainage politics: The flood management in Indonesian cities'. The conference, hosted by the Swedish International Centre...
De bekladding van het Indië-monument op 14 juni jl. in Leiden, leidde tot verhitte discussie. Gert Oostindie heeft begrip voor de kritiek van tegenstanders van koloniale monumenten, maar zegt ...
Op 2 juni is in het Nationaal Militair Museum te Soesterberg het eerste exemplaar van Het geluid van geweld: Bersiap en de dynamiek van geweld tijdens de ...