Recently an Indonesian colleague asked me to write a reflection on my fieldwork experiences studying politics in India and Indonesia, for an Indonesian book on ethnographic fieldwork. Here is the English version. Doing research in the field can be tough....
On National Hero’s day (Hari Pahlawan Nasional) on 10 November 2018, Dr. Harry Poeze gave a lecture about the life of Tan Malaka at the opening of the exhibition 'Surat Pendiri Bangsa' (Letters from...
Big conferences are crucial when it comes to meeting the celebrities in your field, and perhaps even striking up short conversations with them. And yet the cultural dynamics of these sites of gathering ...
On 8 and 9 October 2018, the KITLV organized a workshop on the subject of Academic research in a decolonizing world: Towards new ways of thinking and...
Laments about “transactional politics” (politik transaktional) are a regular feature of discussions about Indonesian politics. Voters, as well as a few politicians, can be frequently heard complaining about how ...
In this full open access article KITLV-researcher Ward Berenschot develops an explanation for why democratisation processes sometimes fail to...
New publication by Tom van den Berge and Susie Protschky: Modern times in Southeast Asia, 1920s-1970s. This book reveals how everyday experiences of being ‘modern’ (c. 1920s-70s) indexed continuity and ...
Henk Schulte Nordholt was donderdagochtend rond 7.00 uur te horen in het Radio 1 journaal. Schulte Nordholt vertelde in de uitzending meer over Palu (Sulawesi, Indonesië) na de tsunami en gaf daarbij meer ...
Fridus Steijlen schrijft maandelijks een column voor de nieuwsbrief van Museum Maluku. ‘Namen noemen’. “Noem mijn naam”, zei Onias Landveld tijdens een bijeenkomst op 16 augustus in het Verzetsmuseum te Amsterdam. ...
Precies een jaar geleden ging het onderzoeksprogramma 'Dekolonisatie, geweld en oorlog in Indonesië 1945-1950' van start. Wat is de stand van het onderzoek? Met welke vraagstukken en prangende thema’s hebben de onderzoekers te maken?...