While the recent academic, public and legal attention for the decolonization of Indonesia rightly focuses on violence as one of its defining characteristics, we should not lose sight of the other aspects of the conflict....
Op donderdag 3 december organiseert het KITLV in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag een symposium over het lopende onderzoeksproject ‘Nederlands Militair Optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950’. Dit project ...
Now online available: special issue Asian Journal of Social Science on 'Digital Methods in Asian Studies'. With articles written by KITLV researchers Gerry van Klinken, Jacqueline Hicks, Vincent Traag and...
White Dutch people have recently entered the second stage of grief over losing their colonial innocence: anger, says Paul Bijl. For decades they thought that racist injustice, slavery, colonialism and mass killings were more characteristics of the Germans, Americans, British and ...
New special publication by David Kloos in Visual Anthropology Review: ‘Living in a Makeshift World? Mobility, Temporariness, and Everyday Life in Indonesia.’David wrote this article based on his research ...
…and no, Tom Hoogervorst is not referring to himself here. The late 19th-century Van der Pant expressed his discontent with the language skills of his compatriots. How much still rings true today?...
Ellen Klinkers sprak vorige week in het radioprogramma 'Met het oog op morgen' over haar nieuwste boek De troepenmacht in Suriname: De Nederlandse defensie in een veranderende koloniale wereld 1940-1975....
New publication: 'Islam and the limits of the state: Reconfigurations of practice, community and authority in contemporary Aceh'.Edited by R. Michael Feener, National University of Singapore, David Kloos, KITLV...
The governing body of world soccer, FIFA, has suspended the Indonesian Soccer Union (PSSI) for being taken over by Indonesian politics. Nico van Horn says: yeah, like sports and politics never go together....
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