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. ...