In August 2019, Indonesia witnessed the largest street protests since the fall of President Suharto in 1998. Thousands of Indonesians, many of them students, took to the streets to protest against corruption, growing authoritarianism and human rights abuses.
In the recent international campaigns against child marriage, there is a puzzle of agency: while international human rights institutions celebrate when girls exercise their agency not to marry, they do not recognize their agency to marry.
Is populism a harbinger of fascism, or simply the people talking back to the establishment? Today’s worldwide debate about populism resonated in Indonesia during recent presidential elections
In the study of post-conflict transitions, a leading question has been how former soldiers and non-state combatants can ‘return to society’. Former combatants have often played key roles in the political developments of their respective societies, and in cases of renewed conflict frequently were key players.
Vanwege de Coronamaatregelen wordt de Algemene Ledenvergadering (ALV) dit jaar digitaal georganiseerd. Het bestuur van de Vereniging KITLV nodigt u hierbij uit voor een digitale ALV op donderdag 25 juni a.s. om 16.00 uur via het videoconferentie programma Zoom. Helaas vindt er dit jaar geen...
In Authoritarian modernization in Indonesia’s early independence period, Farabi Fakih offers a historical analysis of the foundational years leading to Indonesia’s New Order state (1966-1998) during the early independence period.
In recent weeks, mass protests have once again rocked cities across Indonesia. Students and labour unions have taken to the streets to protest against the Omnibus Law. This law, adopted by Indonesia’s parliament on October 5th, ranks among the most ambitious reform bills in its history: 900 pages long and affecting 79 laws, Omnibus Law aims to boost Indonesia’s economy by cutting back onerous environmental and labour regulations.
This webinar is the very first occasion for Freek Colombijn to present a slowly emerging research project, which is an offshoot of his research on environmental issues in Surabaya.
Step Vaessen was based as a correspondent in Jakarta from 1997 until 2019. She arrived when president Soeharto was still firmly in power but would soon witness one of the most turbulent transformations to democracy seen in recent history.
In 1961, filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition* to Netherlands New Guinea (current day West Papua). Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations,
