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 ...

KITLV is pleased to announce that the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences/KNAW has appointed Dr Diana Suhardiman as the new director of the KITLV as of 1 January 2022. Dr Suhardiman succeeds Professor Gert Oostindie ...

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...

New advanced article in the New West Indian Guide (NWIG) titled 'A central voice in Caribbean literature: Media and memory in the novels of Astrid Roemer', written by Yra van Dijk & Ghamina Kowsoleea...

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...

The KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies proudly presents a series of short video portraits of people working at the institute. In these short films our researchers...

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 ...

Het in juni verschenen tweedelige boek over Antiliaans erfgoed, Toen en nu & Nu en verder, is officieel overhandig aan de waarnemend Gezaghebber van Bonaire, Reynold Oleana, en voorzitter van de ...

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...

Policy paper by the German Advisory Council on Global Change: 'Beyond climate neutrality'. One of the co-authors is KITLV researcher Yvonne Kunz who is involved in the project 'Climate change and governance in Indonesia ...

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 ...