‘Continues to amaze me’, ‘it is dangerous’, ‘they drive like lunatics’ – these were some of the comments on social media when friends posted pictures of motorcyclists in Ambon. Last year I took to the streets of Ambon on my motorcycle, travelling...
As the latest Venezuelan security threat and the cycle of unrest in Haiti’s political morass came to a head, threatening to hem in Guyana’s quest for peaceful ...
New article by Vignesh Rajahmani et al. in the London School of Economics South Asia Blog, 'India goes to the polls'. The authors examine the electoral strategies via a resource-discourse-personnel matrix of the Bharatiya Janata Party. The authors present ...
An interview with KITLV director Diana Suhardiman on the Leiden University website. Diana will give her inaugural lecture 'Grassroots alliances in natural ...
KITLV is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher Political Ecology for a project that puts the role of grassroots institutions, local communities, and local actors central in climate governance. ...
KITLV is looking for a Postdoctoral Researcher Ecological History for a project that puts the role of grassroots institutions, local communities, and local actors central in climate governance. ...
Recent events in Indonesian politics, commonly characterized by chaos and the role that money plays, tell a story of tragedy and farce. The unexpected resignation of Ratu Ngadu Bonu Wollah, once seen as a beacon of hope for women in ...
Interview met Rosemarijn Hoefte over de politieke onrust in Haïti in het radio programma OVT van de VPRO op NPO 1. Het land verkeert momenteel in totale chaos nadat afgelopen week criminele bendes een ...
New article by Yogi Permana et al. in Pacific Affairs, 'The role of fear and memory in West Papua's ethnonationalist conflict'. In the West Papua conflict, fear fuels both Papuan ethnonationalist and Indonesian nationalist ...
From March 2024 KITLV will run a new pilot-project on the coloniality of Asian library and manuscript-formations. With KITLV Special Collections as point of departure, we study the social biographies of manuscripts...