The Republic of Indonesia celebrated its 75th Independence Day on 17 August 2020. As a gift to celebrate this, on the initiative of a group of Leiden alumni, a biography will be written of Leiden and Indonesian scholar Hoesein Djajadiningrat.

This initiative has since received the support of over 100 of the alumni’s fellow students. KITLV researchers Marieke Bloembergen and Tom van den Berge, will write the biography. The alumni have raised funds to translate the biography into Indonesian.

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