Podcastmaker Edwin Mooibroek praat in zijn Indonesië Podcast met Ward Berenschot over de opstelling van Indonesische regering in de oorlog tussen Rusland en Oekraïne. En klopt het ...
The NIAS Fellowship invites Yvonne Kunz, together with Eric Mijts as a fellow from Aruba and Sonny Mumbunan as a fellow from Indonesia to work on their project 'Climate change and the governance ...
Gesprek met Rosemarijn Hoefte in het NOS radioprogramma 'Met het oog op morgen' van 19 maart jl. over de geschiedenis van Surinaamse Javanen. Na de afschaffing van de slavernij in 1863 werden Javanen ...
Manuscripts from Sulawesi recount the legendary family relations between Mamuju in West Sulawesi and Badung in South Bali. This relationship is said to have commenced with the marriage between Puatta Mamuju and Mera’ara Puang ...
The first five Dutch publications resulting from the research programme, Over de grens, Sporen van betekenis, Een kwaad geweten, Van Rij en Stam and Diplomatie en geweld...
In the framework of the Atelier KITLV program, from February the 22nd until the 26th, KITLV guest researcher Kerstin Winking shares a photo story about the making of Painting Exile via Instagram...
The University of Leiden and the KITLV-KNAW are looking for a PhD Candidate in the field of transnational and transimperial cultural histories and decolonization in...
Interview met Gert Oostindie op de website van de Universiteit Leiden, over hoe Nederland structureel extreem geweld gebruikte in Indonesië en het daarna verzweeg. Nederlandse militairen...
The Dutch government and military leadership deliberately condoned the systematic and widespread use of extreme violence by the Dutch armed forces in the war against ...
On Thursday 17 February, the presentation of the results of the research programme ‘Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950’ will be broadcast online. The presentation will start at 9:00 AM...
Tropical coasts are being faced by unprecedented sustainability challenges, with climate change posing immediate threats, including ...
Onlangs verscheen het boek Zoeken, aangrijpen en vernietigen! Het Nederlandse militaire optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1949 van Christiaan Harinck. ...
Op 1 juni 2021 is een fonds in het leven geroepen ter ondersteuning van onderzoek, bronnenontsluiting en publicaties: het Philippus Corts Fonds (PCF). Het PCF heeft als taakstelling...
In de podcastserie Het verhaal van Nederland met Diederik van Vleuten sprak Esther Captain op 2 februari jl. over het leven en imago van Soekarno, strijder voor de onafhankelijkheid van Indonesië ...
KITLV onderzoeker Christiaan Harinck vertelt in het NOS programma 'Met het oog op morgen' over zijn onderzoek naar het Nederlandse militaire optreden tijdens de ...
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. Meet our PhD candidate Alison Fischer. Her project looks at post-colonial legacies in the Netherlands, especially in Dutch ...
On Wednesday 26 January KITLV and the Organization for Social Science and Humanities of the Indonesian National Agency of Research and Innovation (ISSH-BRIN) gave a new impulse to their ...
In 2022 it will be 55 years since the publication of Koentjaraningrat’s Villages in Indonesia. With contributions from some of the most outstanding Indonesia researchers at the time, the book was a ...
On 17 February 2022, the results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented. Because ...
Henk Schulte Nordholt in Trouw, 18 januari, over de commotie rondom de tentoonstelling 'Revolusi! Indonesië onafhankelijk'. Volgende maand opent deze...
On Tuesday 18 January, the new digital exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence/Perang Kemerdekaan Indonesia dalam Gambar/Beelden van ...
Op 7 januari jl. verscheen een interview met Gert Oostindie in Het Parool. In het interview door Sander van der Horst en Patrick Meershoek vertelt Oostindie over zijn vakgebied...
Op 8 februari 2022 verschijnt een nieuwe publicatie van Henk Schulte Nordholt en Harry Poeze, Merdeka; De strijd om de Indonesische onafhankelijkheid en de ongewisse ...
On Friday, 17 December 2021, Professor Gert Oostindie was appointed an Officer in the Order of Orange-Nassau. The royal honour was bestowed on him by Henri Lenferink Mayor of the City of Leiden...
Since the upsurge of global history in the 1990s, the historiography of Indonesia has undergone substantial change. In the Netherlands and in today’s democratic Indonesia, efforts are underway ...
Vanaf februari 2022 zullen twaalf boeken bij Amsterdam University Press verschijnen die voortkomen uit het onderzoeksprogramma ‘Onafhankelijkheid, dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië...
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. This time: meet our researcher Ward Berenschot, a political anthropologist who studies politics in Asia...
Op 16 november jl. verdedigde KITLV onderzoeker Christiaan Harinck zijn proefschrift waarin hij het Nederlandse militaire optreden in Indonesië tijdens de...
It is with great pleasure that the selection committee of Atelier KITLV announces Theo Frids Marulitua Hutabarat from Bandung, Indonesia as the winner of our Artist Call. The KITLV has commissioned an original work of visual art for our space at Leiden...
BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors especially welcome articles from anthropology, history, political science, law, sociology, social geography, development studies, urban studies...
Land conflicts between rural Indonesians and palm oil companies: new report finds that that Indonesia’s government is ineffective in resolving conflicts. The report will be launched on 27 October 2021 ...
In de eerste aflevering van History Matters - Thuis in een postkoloniale stad, staan Rotterdam en Rotterdammers centraal. Hoe is onze demografie te herleiden naar onze geschiedenis? History Matters ...
Sinophone Southeast Asia: Sinitic Voices across the Southern Seas, a new volume in the series Chinese Overseas, edited by Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) and Caroline Chia. Open access....
Podcast about Tom Hoogervorst's latest book Language ungoverned: Indonesia's Chinese print entrepreneurs, 1911–1949 which explores a fascinating archive of Sino-Malay texts, writings ...
A conversation with, among others, Indonesian novelist Ayu Utami and KITLV researcher Taufiq Hanafi about the writer Amir Hamza, a national hero in Indonesia, celebrated for both his poetry and his role in ...
Covid has brought misery and suffering, the lockdowns have caused anger and frustration. Once in a while, though, the pandemic and the restrictive measures have had advatageous effects. For example, Hawé Setiawan, a friend of KITLV researcher Tom van den Berge...
There is a long tradition of academic words being derived from Greek and Latin. In fact, some common words – such as neuroscience, metadata, and heteronormative – consist of one Greek and one Latin element...
Artikel door Esther Captain over het publieke debat over de film 'De Oost' in het tijdschrift Checkpoint. Het artikel verscheen eerder in Het Parool van 27 mei jl. Het publieke debat over de speelfilm ...
If you visit the Banda islands in the Moluccas by boat, the first you see when walking from the harbor is the Hatta-Sjahrir college. Named after Mohammad Hatta and Sutan Sjahrir, two of the founding ...
Manuscripts from Sulawesi recount the legendary family relations between Mamuju in West Sulawesi and Badung in South Bali. This relationship is said to have commenced with the marriage ...
Op verzoek van het Molukse Marinjo reflecteerde Fridus Steijlen op de documentaireserie ‘Molukkers in Nederland – zeventig jaar op weg naar huis’ en het gelijktijdig ...
The notebook of a Yogyanese dance master might not seem an obvious source for deepening our historical perspectives. And yet the notation of a female bedhaya ...
Article by Yogi Permana on politics and Indonesia's flood management at NewMandala.org. Flooding is the most significant hydrometeorological hazard...
Anne van Mourik en Roel Frakking betogen in hun stuk dat de oplaaiende discussies rond De Oost, door het benadrukken van 'goede bedoelingen', Nederlandse politiek-militaire gedragingen ...
Esther Captain is the author of the chapter ‘Sexual restraint, substitution, transgression and extreme sexual violence across the late-colonial and postcolonial...
The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies would like to commission an original work of visual art for our space at Leiden University. Atelier KITLV is a working group within the Institute....
The results of the research programme Independence, Decolonization, Violence and War in Indonesia, 1945-1950 will be presented on Thursday, February 17, 2022 ...
On April 22, 2021 KITLV is officially kicking-off the new project on climate change and governance in Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). Together with partners from Indonesia and the Caribbean...
Blog by David Kloos at leidenislamblog.nl about Citi Yousoff from Malaysia, one of the very few female calligraphers with an ijazah (a traditional licence) and...
Although I have been far from Indonesia for some time now, I still consider myself to have the right to regard the country that is 18,000 kilometres away as my source of information, entertainment...