O.a. Gert Oostindie reageert op NU.nl op de discussie over standbeelden van omstreden historische figuren uit het koloniale verleden zoals Jan Pieterszoon Coen. Op vrijdagavond 19 juni staat een protest gepland in de gemeente Hoorn...

An Inside Indonesia edition (April-June 2020) on Atheism in Indonesia, co-edited by Gerry van Klinken. In Europe, 20 percent of the population identify as atheist or irreligious. In France it is 40 percent. Yet in Indonesia we can hardly find...

In de ochtendpodcast 'Dit wordt het nieuws' van Nu.nl op 16 april jl. praat Ward Berenschot, onderzoeker bij het KITLV en sinds kort ook bijzonder hoogleraar politieke antropologie aan de Universiteit ...

Yesterday, 5 april Edisius Riyadi Terre died in a hospital in Jakarta. Edi was an English translator, a lawyer and lecturer in law at Universitas Multimedia Nusantara. He collaborated with several KITLV researchers. Adriaan Bedner and Jacqueline Vel...

PhD defense by KITLV/VVI researcher Hoko Horii, 18 March 2020: 'Child marriage as a choice: Rethinking agency in international human rights (Bali, Indonesia)'. Child marriage has become an increasingly ...

My search for Sultan Hamid II of Pontianak - about which I wrote in my previous blog - took me to Yogyakarta before visiting Pontianak itself. I was in Yogyakarta to improve my knowledge of the Indonesian language, culture and history. ...

On Thursday 10 January the annual Meijers Prizes were awarded for the best published article, per faculty research program, by researchers in the pre-promotion phase. The winners received a certificate ...

KITLV is looking for new interns to support the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts: Access to Justice in Indonesia’. This project engages in a first-ever study of general patterns and outcomes of conflicts related ...

An article by KITLV researcher Grace Leksana in online journal Inside Indonesia. As Indonesians are moving further from 1965, scholars and activists are starting to raise awareness about the risk of ‘collective ...

Nieuwe column van Fridus Steijlen in de november nieuwsbrief van Museum Maluku. "Op weg van het vliegveld naar het hotel vertelde de chauffeur dat het hotel de laatste tijd heel vol zit. Vooral met Molukkers uit Nederland, ‘Maluku-Belanda’....

The Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors especially welcome articles ...

Earlier this year KITLV-researcher Ward Berenschot published Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indonesia (co-authored with Edward Aspinall). In the light of ongoing protests in Indonesia against the revised law on Indonesia's anti-corruption...

KITLV is looking for two interns to support the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts: Access to Justice in Indonesia’ (https://news.kitlv.nl/palm-oil-conflicts-and-access-to-justice-in-indonesia/). This project engages in a first-ever study of general ...

Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands. With more than 265 million inhabitants, about 57% of whom inhabit the volcanic island of Java, it is also the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. ...