20 Jan Fridus Steijlen over de spijtbetuiging van president Widodo
Op 19 januari jl. was Fridus Steijlen te gast in het KRO-NCRV radioprogramma Spraakmakers op Radio 1. Presentator Michel Maas sprak met Fridus over de spijtbetuiging door Widodo ...
Spotlight on Southeast Asia
12 Dec In memoriam Meindert van der Kaaij (1959-2022)
Op 6 december dit jaar ontviel ons plotseling onze zeer gewaardeerde oud-collega Meindert van der Kaaij. Meindert was van 2017 tot 2021 werkzaam op het KITLV als onderzoeker in het KITLV-NIMH-NIOD...
10 Dec Onderzoek naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau in de koloniale geschiedenis
De koning laat onafhankelijk onderzoek doen naar de rol van het Huis Oranje-Nassau in de koloniale geschiedenis. Het onderzoek zal drie jaar in beslag nemen en omvat ...
06 Dec Blog: Bugis pride among the skyscrapers
As Selangor prepares to celebrate its Bugis Malay ruler’s birthday, it is interesting to look at how the sultanate itself was born from a mixture of Bugis and Malay elements. Sunday December 11th is the 78th birthday of the Sultan of Selangor...
05 Dec Meet the people working at KITLV (5): Taufiq Hanafi
KITLV proudly presents a new video portrait of the people working at the institute. Meet guest researcher Taufiq Hanafi who researched the role of literature in narrating Indonesia’s bleakest pages of history...
20 Nov Cleveringa oratie ‘Moed en miskenning’ door Gert Oostindie
De Universiteit Leiden heeft dit jaar prof.dr. Gert Oostindie, emeritus hoogleraar Koloniale en postkoloniale geschiedenis, op de Cleveringaleerstoel benoemd. Hij zal deze leeropdracht vandaag ...
01 Nov Vacancy: Postdoc position ‘Exploring Indian influences in Javanese civilization’
KITLV currently has a vacancy for a postdoctoral researcher to help with the proof-reading of a book manuscript, scheduled for publication in the summer of ...
01 Oct Tom Hoogervorst appointed as adjunct professor at the State University of Malang
Tom Hoogervorst has been appointed adjunct professor at the Department of Indonesian, Faculty of Letters, at the State University of Malang, from September 2022 ...
21 Sep Blog: We need to talk about loanwords!
“What’s the point?” you inquire, adjusting your pince-nez sceptically. And to that, we reply: loanwords are monuments of cultural contact. Once detected as such, they reveal human agency and encounters previously concealed by the misty shrouds of time...
13 Sep Cyber troops and computational propaganda in Southeast Asia
This new research project studies comparatively how social media-based public opinion manipulation is organised in Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia. Computational ...