My work usually focuses on the semi-villains who animate local politics. Here is a celebration of one of its heroes. As a researcher working on murky topics like corruption and violence, I usually write only about the shady types. My explorations of...
An article in the Asian Journal of Law and Society, by Jacqueline Vel (KITLV/VVI), Yando Zakaria & Adriaan Bedner (KITLV/VVI). In 2014, the Indonesian president...
New publication by Bart Barendregt (Leiden University), Peter Keppy (NIOD) and Henk Schulte Nordholt (KITLV/Leiden University): Popular Music in Southeast Asia: Banal Beats, Muted Histories. Also Open Access...
In times of disaster, we are confronted with and shocked by the disrupting impact on our daily lives. Disasters, however, also reveal and enlarge structural inequalities, and power politics that already...
"This issue of our CCC Newsletter is late, for obvious reasons". With these words Gert Oostindie starts the introduction of our 10th Newsletter, in which he reflects on the devastating impact of the hurricanes...
Almost three weeks ago Hurricane Irma raged in full force over many Caribbean islands and Florida. It was the largest category-5 hurricane ever recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, breaking all known ...
I had a dream. Last week, there was a big party in Leiden’s cathedral, the Pieterskerk. There, an international community of esteemed scholars and enlightened visitors had flocked together to celebrate the event...
In december 2016 besloot het kabinet steun te geven aan een grootschalig onderzoek naar het gebruik van extreem geweld tijdens de dekolonisatieoorlog in Indonesië in de periode 1945-1950...
Opiniestuk van onderzoekers Jordi Halfman (UvA) en Sanne Rotmeijer (KITLV) in de Volkskrant van 13 september: 'Gelijkwaardig koninkrijk moet het doel zijn van wederopbouw Sint Maarten. ...
Hare Majesteit Koningin Máxima bracht donderdagmorgen 14 september een werkbezoek aan de Asian Library. Máxima bezocht de nieuwe bibliotheek en sprak daar met een aantal KITLV-onderzoekers ...