The rapid expansion of oil palm plantations across Southeast Asia is triggering equally rapid environmental, economic and social transformations. As the size of plantations is doubling nearly every decade, rural Southeast Asia is facing considerable challenges: not only do countries like Indonesia, Malaysia and Cambodia face an uphill struggle to protect remaining forests, but they are also confronted with widespread land conflicts, appalling labour conditions and a rapidly changing rural economies.

You are invited to the Island(er)s at the Helm public meeting on Wednesday 18 May 2022 from 7 pm to 10 pm in St. Maarten, hosted by the University of St. Martin.

This symposium commemorates the 100th anniversary of Partai Komunis Indonesia (PKI) by examining the party’s global legacies in the realms of history, politics, and culture. While not neglecting the atrocity of the 1965-66 massacre, this symposium proposes to probe the party-in-motion prior to the mass killings.

In the first part of his address, Rudolf Mrazek (Professor Emeritus of History at The University of Michigan) will be daringly personal. But he will argue that the story of his encounters with the problem of Communism may serve as a lesson in a serious study of Communism, revolution, and despair among other things

In recent years, it has become widely publicized that the “influence economy” centered on social media has become compromised, as the market for “fake” services has grown. “Click farms” or “follower factories” that produce and sell these services via digital marketplaces have been considered key actors in this market, with both terms suggesting the existence of an industry based on digital sweatshop labor.

From 1900 onwards, more and more Indonesian students came to the Netherlands to study in Leiden. Several of these students also played a role in their country’s nationalist movement and the building of an independent Indonesia. This walk takes you to some important places in their lives and introduces a number of the students.

Het bestuur van de Vereniging KITLV nodigt u graag uit voor de Algemene Ledenvergadering (ALV) 2022. De ALV zal op vrijdag 10 juni a.s. plaatsvinden van 15:30 tot 17:00 uur in de Verenigingskamer (kamer 1.68) van het instituut KITLV, Reuvensplaats 2 te Leiden en zal tevens hybride bij te wonen zijn via een Zoomlink.

Combining ethnographic fieldwork in the city of Kupang with an acute historical sensibility, Sylvia Tidey shows how good governance initiatives paradoxically perpetuate civil service corruption while