The research network Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past, in which KITLV participates with six other research institutes in Britain, France and Canada, was awarded a network grant from...
Matthieu Pereira reflects on the role of law and the use of legal discourse in rural contexts. He introduces one of the issues he tackles in his doctoral research. While statements about the lack of the rule of law in Indonesia and...
While the recent academic, public and legal attention for the decolonization of Indonesia rightly focuses on violence as one of its defining characteristics, we should not lose sight of the other aspects of the conflict....
Op donderdag 3 december organiseert het KITLV in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag een symposium over het lopende onderzoeksproject ‘Nederlands Militair Optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950’. Dit project ...
Now online available: special issue Asian Journal of Social Science on 'Digital Methods in Asian Studies'. With articles written by KITLV researchers Gerry van Klinken, Jacqueline Hicks, Vincent Traag and...
White Dutch people have recently entered the second stage of grief over losing their colonial innocence: anger, says Paul Bijl. For decades they thought that racist injustice, slavery, colonialism and mass killings were more characteristics of the Germans, Americans, British and ...
New special publication by David Kloos in Visual Anthropology Review: ‘Living in a Makeshift World? Mobility, Temporariness, and Everyday Life in Indonesia.’David wrote this article based on his research ...
…and no, Tom Hoogervorst is not referring to himself here. The late 19th-century Van der Pant expressed his discontent with the language skills of his compatriots. How much still rings true today?...
New publication: 'Islam and the limits of the state: Reconfigurations of practice, community and authority in contemporary Aceh'.Edited by R. Michael Feener, National University of Singapore, David Kloos, KITLV...
The governing body of world soccer, FIFA, has suspended the Indonesian Soccer Union (PSSI) for being taken over by Indonesian politics. Nico van Horn says: yeah, like sports and politics never go together....
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Colonialism and its legacies: a highly sensitive topic, no matter how and what ones writes about it. This surely applies to the decolonization war in Indonesia and the issue of Dutch war crimes. Gert Oostindie reflects ...
Kolonialisme en de nasleep ervan: wat en hoe je er ook over schrijft, het ligt altijd gevoelig. Dat geldt zeker voor de dekolonisatieoorlog in Indonesië, en de vraag naar Nederlandse oorlogsmisdaden. Gert Oostindie ...
Vanavond is Gert Oostindie om 20.25 uur te zien in Brandpunt (NPO 2) en vertelt hij meer over zijn nieuwste boek 'Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950: Getuigenissen van een oorlog'. Daarna is het boek te zien in de aflevering ...
In de aflevering ‘Onverwerkte oorlog in Indonesië’ van het geschiedenis programma Andere Tijden op dinsdag 27 oktober, 21.20 uur, NPO 2, is het nieuwste boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950: Getuigenissen ...
Op dinsdag 27 oktober was KITLV onderzoeker Gerry van Klinken te horen in EenVandaag (radio) over de grote bosbranden in Indonesië waarbij al meerdere doden zijn gevallen. Inmiddels zouden zo’n 43 miljoen...
(Only in Dutch) Henk Schulte Nordholt was vanmiddag te horen op 'Radio EenVandaag' n.a.v. een artikel in de Volkskrant over nieuw beeldmateriaal van executies in Indië. Vanavond zal Schulte Nordholt om 18.15 ...
One of the films screened at a recent conference about Indonesia’s 1965 mass killings was the Australian (Hollywood produced) The year of living dangerously (Peter Weir, 1982). David Kloos saw it for the first time...
While countries that experienced the Holocaust have reached reconciliation, Indonesians are still struggling to acknowledge the mass killings between 1965-1968. Grace Leksana reflects on conferences...
(Only in Dutch) Op woensdag 28 oktober a.s. verschijnt het boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950: Getuigenissen aan de verkeerde kant van de geschiedenis, door Gert Oostindie. Aan dit boek ligt een breed...
In the October-December edition of Inside Indonesia, the editors ask three questions: How do the events of 1965 continue to impact Indonesia today? What does ‘1965’ mean to Indonesians? How do they continue ...
(Only in Dutch) Documentaire 'De coup van '65', vrijdag 25 september, 21.05 uur, KRO-NCRV, NPO 2. In de documentaire blikt Aad van den Heuvel samen met filmmaker Aart Zeeman terug op de coup van 1965 in...
(Only in Dutch) Op woensdag 23 september jl. was Henk Schulte Nordholt te gast in het radioprogramma NTR Academie (NPO). Ben Kolster sprak met Schulte Nordholt over "70 jaar Indonesië". Klik hier ...
KITLV’s ever expanding “audiovisual archive of everyday life in Indonesia”, has among others produced documentaries. What it hasn’t done is engage with visual art. David Kloos sees opportunities for the future....
On 27 August this year, the Professor Teeuw Awards were awarded for the last time. In Jakarta, anthropologist and archeologist Hedi Hinzler and translator, editor and publisher John McGlynn received the prestigious ...
An article in the Jakarta Post on KITLV's research project 'From Clients to Citizens? Emerging Citizenship in Democratising Indonesia', coordinated by Gerry van Klinken and Ward Berenschot: 'Observations on ...
This year, the board published its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award, as the Foundation’s fund is nearing depletion. It was done with the confident belief that Indonesian-Dutch cultural ...
The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there’ wrote L. P. Hartley. Hidden in a park on the outskirts of Arnhem lies such a country, Bronbeek. Being both monument, veterans’ retirement home and ...
Article by Jacqueline Vel in online journal Inside Indonesia: 'Cash for the cashless'. Jacqueline Vel is a researcher at KITLV and the Van Vollenhoven Institute / Leiden University in Leiden. She is coordinator of the ...
Leiden based research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in Indonesia), to be released at the end of October...
Article by KITLV researchers Jacqueline Hicks, Vincent Traag and Ridho Reinanda in the International Journal of Comparative Sociology: 'Old questions, new techniques: Research note on the computational...
Last week more than 500 scholars convened in Vienna for the 8th conference of the European Association for Southeast Asian Studies. Previously held every three years and from now on biannually,...
President Jokowi is a source of inspiration for future new leaders in the districts of Indonesia. A friend of mine on the island of Sumba in Eastern Indonesia tried to register as an independent candidate for the December ...
(Only in Dutch) Dit jaar wordt voor de laatste keer de Professor Teeuw prijs uitgereikt. De Professor Teeuw Prijs werd in 1991 ingesteld door de Stichting Professor Teeuw Fonds, als een eerbetoon aan, de in 2012 ...
KITLV congratulates Tom Hoogervorst and David Kloos who received a Veni grant (max. 250.000 Euro) from the Dutch Organization of Scientific Research (NWO). Veni is part of the NWO’s so-called ‘Incentives Scheme’....
‘Oh my land Papua’: Izäak Samuel Kijne, 1899-1970: Missionary teacher in New Guinea. In the autumn of 2013 a Papua fanatic visited the KITLV. The Papua fanatic is an elder Dutch male social anthropologist and ...
Indonesia is of great importance to Leiden University for research and education. Therefore the new KITLV director in Jakarta is also the permanent representative of Leiden University in Indonesia.The responsibilities ...
Edited by Susan Legêne (Professor of Political History, VU University Amsterdam), Bambang Purwanto (Professor of History, Gadjah Mada University) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (Professor of Indonesian History, ...
Article by KITLV researcher Tom Hoogervorst in the latest IIAS Newsletter: 'Sailing the waves of convergence: cultural links and continuities across the Bay of Bengal'. Click here to read the article ...
(Only in Dutch). Gisteren verscheen in het NRC een reactie van Gert Oostindie, directeur KITLV, naar aanleiding van het opiniestuk van journaliste Anne-Lot Hoek over het belang van historisch onderzoek ...
(Only in Dutch) Gert Oostindie in EenVandaag (NPO, 13 juni) over de lijst van namen van slachtoffers die geëxecuteerd zijn tijdens het Nederlands militair optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950. Volgens de Correspondent ...
You can’t miss the official monuments in Indonesia. They are are everywhere. Statues of Diponegoro or General Sudirman gaze out over busy traffic, which takes little notice of them. The story of national ...
After 25 years, the Professor Teeuw Foundation now publishes its final open call for nominations for the Professor Teeuw Award. Linked to a KITLV-symposium on ‘Translation’, the Foundation intends to ...
The research project ‘Transformation of religions as reflected in Javanese texts’, in which Willem van der Molen (KITLV) is involved, has started a new series, entitled Javanese Studies. Contributions to the Study of ...
Leiden University Libraries would like to inform you that in week of the 18th of May 2015, the collections located in the Open Stacks on -1, one floor below the Information Centre Huygens, will be moved ...
(Only in Dutch) KITLV researcher David Kloos was interviewed about the implementation of Islamic law in Malaysia and Indonesia for the program “Bureau Buitenland” of the VPRO (Radio 1). Kloos discussed ...
Leiden University is proud to announce the new website of the Asian Library: asianlibraryleiden.nl. Here you can find the latest updates and information on The Asian Library project. Leiden University is about...
In March I had the privilege to visit one of our PhD students, Prio Sambodho, who is currently doing fieldwork in West Java. Prio’s research is part of a larger project on citizenship in Indonesia and investigates...
Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the History Department of Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM) in Yogyakarta and KITLV. The MOU was signed by Henk Schulte Nordholt (Head Research KITLV)...
(Only in Dutch) 'Kwartetten met Pattimura', een column van Fridus Steijlen in de nieuwsbrief van maart van Museum Maluku (MUMA). Aanleiding voor de column was de première van het toneelstuk ‘KRUIT! ...