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 ...
News Items
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'...
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 ...
15 Nov Open archief over staatsgreep Suriname
Op de opiniepagina van de Volkskrant van 15 november 2014 pleiten Ellen Klinkers en Peter Meel (Universiteit Leiden/ Geschiedenis, voormalig KITLV) voor hernieuwd onderzoek naar de vermeende ...
07 Nov Indonesian banks visit KITLV
On Monday 3 November, a group of 16 Indonesian banking archivsts and management staff, visited KITLV. The purpose of their stay in the Netherlands is to collect information on the subject of archives: documentation...
05 Nov Latest edition New West Indian Guide now online available
The latest edition of the New West Indian Guide / Nieuwe West-Indische Gids, Volume 88, Issue 3-4, is now online available (open access). Including the article: 'Black Pete, “Smug Ignorance,” and the Value of the Black Body in...
04 Nov ‘KITLV Reading Room gone, collection remains’
An article by Andy Fuller, associate fellow at KITLV, in Inside Indonesia, about the collection and reading room of KITLV. Fuller carried out research in the reading room during its last months and has fond memories of its ...