What’s not to love about a big Indonesian wedding? Food, socialization, and the chance to pull on your best kebaya. But, writes Jacqueline Hicks, for Indonesia’s political and economic elites, they are much more than that....
(Also in Dutch) We are looking for participants for a study on what motivates individuals to protect the cultural heritage, and / or the natural environment on the BES islands. This research is part of the 'Confronting...
Two new articles by KITLV researchers Jessica Vance Roitman and Wouter Veenendaal have come out in the past week. Wouter and Jessica are part of the ongoing...
(Also in Dutch) Leiden University Libraries has started the project Maps in the Crowd. Nearly 7,000 digitized maps of the Dutch East Indies will be unlocked with help from visitors, students and others who are interested...
The late Dr Silvia W. de Groot, historian and lifetime honorary member of the Members Association left a legacy to KITLV with the aim of financially supporting young Caribbean students or researchers, preferably ...
One-Tété Lohkay and Alida, the legend of the enslaved woman whose breast was cut off, have become folk heroines. What to do asks Jessica Roitman, an historian who wonders if these disfigurements occurred?...
Het krijgt in Nederland nog weinig aandacht, maar wat in New Delhi begon als een studentenprotest is uitgelopen op een dagenlange grote demonstratie voor vrijheid van meningsuiting. Ward Berenschot (KITLV), politicoloog en India-kenner...
As from 1 February Adriaan Bedner is the new KITLV professor (by special appointment) of Law and Society in Indonesia at the Van Vollenhoven Institute (VVI), ...
On 5 January 1949, the Sumatran city of Rengat was occupied by Dutch paratroopers, at the cost of large numbers of civilian casualties. NRC Handelsblad published a report on this massacre written by KITLV...
This weekend Anne-Lot Hoek reports for NRC Handelsblad and Reporter Radio KRO-NCRV about the forgotten bloodbath in Rengat, Sumatra. The idea was to find out what happened. But what happened was not what struck her most. Every year a memorial service ...