Recent events in Indonesian politics, commonly characterized by chaos and the role that money plays, tell a story of tragedy and farce. The unexpected resignation of Ratu Ngadu Bonu Wollah, once seen as a beacon of hope for women in ...
Interview met Rosemarijn Hoefte over de politieke onrust in Haïti in het radio programma OVT van de VPRO op NPO 1. Het land verkeert momenteel in totale chaos nadat afgelopen week criminele bendes een ...
New article by Yogi Permana et al. in Pacific Affairs, 'The role of fear and memory in West Papua's ethnonationalist conflict'. In the West Papua conflict, fear fuels both Papuan ethnonationalist and Indonesian nationalist ...
From March 2024 KITLV will run a new pilot-project on the coloniality of Asian library and manuscript-formations. With KITLV Special Collections as point of departure, we study the social biographies of manuscripts...
In de 3de subsidieronde van het Philippus Corts Fonds werden vijf aanvragen gehonoreerd. Talisha Schilder ontving € 2.000,- voor haar onderzoek naar 'Mentawaian and Bornean tattooing practices in the Indonesian ...
Article by Sony Jean et al. in the Journal of African Diaspora Archaeology and Heritage, 'Renegotiating and theorizing heritage in the context of “disaster” in the ...
When I arrived in mid-January in Ambon for my second year at the Pattimura University I saw Christmas and New Year decor on the streets, which reminded me of the displays I saw the year before at the end of ...
New article by Diana Suhardiman et al. in Geoforum, 'Inter-village land conflicts in Laos’ upland frontiers: From state territorialization to powers of exclusion'. State territorialization, how the state exercises ...
KITLV is looking for a new intern to support the research project ‘Cyber troops and computational propaganda in Southeast Asia: A comparative study of public opinion...
A personal journey into the secrets of Indonesian cuisine Talking about terasi, the shrimp or seafood paste (fermented) from Indonesia, opens up many avenues of discussion. Such was my experience...