12 Dec “Waterboarding gebeurde ook in Nederlands-Indie”
Volkskrant, 14 december: "Over martelingen of seksueel geweld tijdens de onafhankelijkheidsoorlog van Indonesië van 1945 tot 1949 is weinig bekend. Hetzelfde geldt voor verhoortechnieken ...
Author: KITLV
09 Dec Concluding ceremony Dutch-Indonesian Sandwich Programme
From September until December 2015, a group of 10 scholars from Indonesia visited Leiden. They were here within the framework of a Dutch-Indonesian Sandwich Programme as part of a longstanding ...
09 Dec Bart Luttikhuis in OVT (in Dutch): ‘Ons Indië, een tweede Vietnam?’
KITLV onderzoeker Bart Luttikhuis was afgelopen zondag 7 december te gast bij het radioprogramma OVT om te vertellen over het onderzoek naar het Nederlands militaire optreden in Indonesië, 1945-1950...
04 Dec Launch of the book ‘Agriculture Beyond Food’ in Indonesia
On 27 November the book 'Agriculture beyond food: Experiences from Indonesia' was launched in Jakarta as a result of the NWO-KNAW research programme 'Agriculture beyond food'. 'Agriculture beyond food'...
04 Dec Tracing messy processes of governance (blog by H. Schulte Nordholt)
KITLV is involved in a program called ‘Governance, Markets and Citizenship’. It consists of economists working on regional economic developments, public administration people looking at ...
02 Dec Economic growth, de- and reforestation (blog by P. Boomgaard)
Which country is doing better in economic terms, Indonesia or the Philippines? Not many people will hesitate when answering this question: Indonesia, of course. In 2011, Indonesia’s Gross Domestic ...
02 Dec Henk Schulte Nordholt appointed as professor of Indonesian history
The Leiden University Institute for Area Studies (LIAS) is pleased to announce that with the sponsorship of KITLV / the Royal Netherlands Institute for Southeast Asian and Caribbean ...
02 Dec Short interview with David Kloos in the Mare (only in Dutch)
Short interview with KITLV researcher David Kloos on female islamic leadership in Indonesia in the 'Mare', the weekly Leiden University magazine (only in Dutch). Kloos is a postdoctoral researcher ...
27 Nov Democracy can and does take root in poor countries
Blog by Wouter Veenendaal (KITLV) and Jack Corbett (Griffith Business School, Australia) on democraticaudit.com: 'Democracy can and does take root in poor countries, but only if we look at'...
17 Nov Jakarta Terus (blog by Fridus Steijlen)
Suddenly there were parking meters on Jalan Sabang in the centre of Jakarta. I saw them after I checked into a hotel around the corner and went for dinner. A novelty in an Indonesian city where tukang parkir (parking men) dominate the...