Earlier this year KITLV-researcher Ward Berenschot published Democracy for Sale: Elections, Clientelism and the State in Indonesia (co-authored with Edward Aspinall). In the light of ongoing protests in Indonesia against the revised law on Indonesia's anti-corruption...

KITLV is looking for two interns to support the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts: Access to Justice in Indonesia’ (https://www.kitlv.nl/palm-oil-conflicts-and-access-to-justice-in-indonesia/). This project engages in a first-ever study of general ...

Last June, LeidenGlobal officially said farewell to prof. dr. Gert Oostindie as Chairperson for its Executive Board after a period of three years. LeidenGlobal invited him to look back at his time at LeidenGlobal ...

Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands. With more than 265 million inhabitants, about 57% of whom inhabit the volcanic island of Java, it is also the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. ...

Een verslag van het Keti Koti-festival in Amsterdam op 1 juli jl. ter gelegenheid van de herdenking van het Nederlandse slavernijverleden. O.a. Valika Smeulders, KITLV onderzoeker en conservator bij het Rijksmuseum was te gast in de uitzending, waarin ze o.a. vertelt...