Fridus Steijlen
Fridus Steijlen (1955) is researcher and staff member for special projects at the KITLV, an institute of the KNAW/Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Fridus Steijlen studied anthropology, with a specialization in Indonesia and ethnic minorities, especially Moluccans, in the Netherlands, at the University of Amsterdam (graduation 1984). After his graduation he worked at various institutions, particularly the University of Amsterdam and the Free University of Amsterdam. In 1996 he obtained his PhD at the University of Amsterdam with a doctoral thesis on the history of Moluccan nationalism in the Netherlands. After his completing his doctoral degree, he worked as a researcher at the Erasmus University, Rotterdam, until he became the co-ordinator of the Oral History Project on Indonesia at the KITLV. In 2002 he became a researcher and staff member for special projects at the KITLV.
Steijlen’s areas of research have been broad, ranging from ethnic minorities, especially of Moluccan and Caribbean backgrounds in the Netherlands, to the contemporary history of Indonesia. In his research Steijlen has combined different disciplines: criminology in research on delinquent Caribbean youngsters, political sciences in research on nationalism, and oral history in a project on the end of Dutch colonialism. At the moment Steijlen is a senior researcher in a government-sponsored research project on the history of Moluccans in the Netherlands, co-ordinated by the Moluccan Historical Museum in Utrecht. At the KITLV he works on modern Indonesia and is responsible for the new audiovisual project ‘Recording the future’. He organizes the KITLV’s annual course on Indonesia and is regularly involved in training programmes on oral history in the Netherlands and Indonesia.
Project:
Indisch Knooppunt
Recording the future
Enquête postkoloniale Nederlanders in Nederland
Contact:
A full list of KITLV publications and their authors can be obtained from our archive of annual reports.
Selected Publications
‘Kioku no corecsion wo tsukuru "oranda ni okeru oral history ton o sono kogo"' (Creating collections of oral history; Oral history and its effects in Holland), in: Okayama no kioku (Memory of Okayama) 4 (2002):128-139.
‘Sutiyoso’s re-election as Governor of Jakarta’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 158-3 (2002):513-527.
‘Het archief van het Commissariaat Ambonezenzorg’, Het Archievenblad (2002):18-23.
‘To talk them out, is to talk them out, is to shoot them out, is to...; A critical analysis of the "Dutch approach" to Moluccan terrorists’, The Netherlands Journal of Social Sciences 37-1 (2002):38-51.
Begintijd; Teksten van Tamme Wittermans over de Molukse gemeenschap direct na de aankomst. Utrecht: Moluks Historisch Museum/Landelijk Steunpunt Educatie Molukkers, 2002. (compiled), Memories of ‘The East’; Abstracts of the Dutch interviews about the Netherlands East Indies, Indonesia and New Guinea (1930-1962) in the Oral History Project Collection. Leiden: KITLV, 2002.
Kerusuhan, het misverstand over de Molukse onrust. Utrecht: Forum, 2001.
(with W. de Jong and K. Masson), Hoe doe je je ding; Antilliaanse jongeren en criminaliteit in de politieregio Rotterdam-Rijnmond. Delft: Eburon, 1997.
RMS: van ideaal tot symbool; Moluks nationalisme in Nederland 1951-1994. Amsterdam: Het Spinhuis, 1996.
‘Molukse militairen; Een nuancering’, Vraagstelling 1-2 (1994):65-75.
‘Het ontstaan van een RMS-beweging in Nederland’, in: C. Bouw and B. Kruithof (eds), Kern van het verschil; Culturen en identiteiten, pp. 217-331. Amsterdam: University Press, Amsterdam, 1993.
‘Nationalism in exile; Nationalism among Moluccans in the Netherlands 1951-1990’, History of European Ideas 15-4/6 (1992):779-784.
‘An unexplored history; Nationalism among Moluccans in the Netherlands, 1951-1990’, Cakalele; Maluku Research Journal 2-1 (1991):25-42.
(with I. Amesz and H. Vermeulen), Andere Antillianen; Carrières van lagergeschoolde Antilliaanse jongeren in een grote stad. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Spinhuis, 1989.
Gemiste kansen; Een onderzoek naar randgroepvormingsprocessen onder Antilliaanse jongens in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. Amsterdam: Gemeente Amsterdam, 1988.
