By Antoinette Schapper. Wooi Fana. Ujir sepanjang masa (English title: Wooi Fana. Life in Times in Ujir) is a community source book created for the people of Ujir...
Who is Panji, and what exactly is a Panji tale? Recently, on 21 September 2018, a special symposium was organised by the Leiden University Library and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) ...
‘Het idee dat ik kolonialisme goedpraat is absurd’. Historicus Gert Oostindie krijgt kritiek als mede-initiator van een groot onderzoek naar het Nederlandse ...
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 ...