New publication by KITLV researcher Wouter Veenendaal, co-authored with Jack Corbett, and published with Oxford University Press. This is the first book-length study of democracy in the...
Now available online: the latest New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, volume 92, issue 3-4. Published continuously since 1919, the NWIG is the oldest scholarly journal on the Caribbean, featuring...
In the short film 'Surat-surat Tan Malaka' (Tan Malaka's letters) KITLV researcher Harry Poeze tells about the life of Tan Malaka at the exhibition ‘Surat Pendiri Bangsa‘ (Letters from the Founding Fathers) at the ...
Article in Inside Indonesia by Hoko Horii. Child marriage, defined by international organisations as the marriage of someone under the age of 18, has come under increasing scrutiny in Indonesia in recent years....
By Antoinette Schapper. Wooi Fana. Ujir sepanjang masa (English title: Wooi Fana. Life in Times in Ujir) is a community source book created for the people of Ujir...
Who is Panji, and what exactly is a Panji tale? Recently, on 21 September 2018, a special symposium was organised by the Leiden University Library and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) ...
‘Het idee dat ik kolonialisme goedpraat is absurd’. Historicus Gert Oostindie krijgt kritiek als mede-initiator van een groot onderzoek naar het Nederlandse ...
Recently an Indonesian colleague asked me to write a reflection on my fieldwork experiences studying politics in India and Indonesia, for an Indonesian book on ethnographic fieldwork. Here is the English version. Doing research in the field can be tough....
On National Hero’s day (Hari Pahlawan Nasional) on 10 November 2018, Dr. Harry Poeze gave a lecture about the life of Tan Malaka at the opening of the exhibition 'Surat Pendiri Bangsa' (Letters from...
Big conferences are crucial when it comes to meeting the celebrities in your field, and perhaps even striking up short conversations with them. And yet the cultural dynamics of these sites of gathering ...