KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

Spotlight on Southeast Asia

18 Jul Internship: Palm Oil Conflicts

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KITLV is looking for two interns to support the research project ‘Palm Oil Conflicts: Access to Justice in Indonesia’ (https://www.kitlv.nl/palm-oil-conflicts-and-access-to-justice-in-indonesia/). This project engages in a first-ever study of general ...

11 Jul Blog: An Indonesianist’s guide to ICAS 2019

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Indonesia is a vast archipelago of 17,508 islands. With more than 265 million inhabitants, about 57% of whom inhabit the volcanic island of Java, it is also the world’s biggest Muslim-majority country. ...

02 Jul KITLV adviseert de gemeente Amsterdam over anti/postkoloniale straatnamen

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De gemeente Amsterdam heeft besloten dat een nieuwe wijk (Centrumeiland) in IJburg een dertigtal straatnamen zal dragen die verwijzen naar het koloniale verleden en/of de relaties tussen ...

01 Jul Blog: What I wish my PhD supervisors had told me (part 1)

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Area Studies is shooting itself in the foot with its singular focus on dissertations. To be clear: during my PhD trajectory I had two wonderful supervisors, whose kindness, erudition and inquisitiveness were ...

24 May Column Fridus Steijlen: Pattimura dag en een complexe Molukse loyaliteit

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"April en juni zijn hoogtijmaanden voor aandacht voor de geschiedenis van Molukkers in Nederland. Op 25 april wordt de proclamatie van de Republik Maluku Selatan, de vrije Zuid-Molukse republiek, in 1950 ...

21 May New publication: ‘Citizenship in Asian History’

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In June last year KITLV hosted a symposium on Citizenship in Precolonial Asia. This has now led to a special edition of the Journal of Citizenship Studies (vol. 23, nr. 3, 2019). Retitled 'Citizenship in Asian History'...

14 May Column Fridus Steijlen: ‘Kent u Hatta en De Kom?’

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“Wat is de betekenis van de verhalen van Mohammed Hatta en Anton de Kom voor de Indische en Molukse gemeenschap in Nederland?”, vroeg presentator Lara Nuberg mij tijdens het nagesprek na de voorstelling...

03 May Latest issue BKI online

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The Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia, volume 175, issue 1. BKI is an interdisciplinary fully open access journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia...

01 May ‘Onderzoek is er al genoeg’

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In het NRC van 29 april jl. geeft Fridus Steijlen een reactie op het hoofdredactionele stuk 'De behandeling van de Molukse veteranen verdient nader onderzoek' van 25 april jl. Steijlen: 'Ik zeg niet dat er niets meer te onderzoeken is. Er ligt...

19 Apr The beauty of Indonesian elections

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I love election day in Indonesia. Particularly the moment the votes are counted. This is the moment when Indonesia’s democracy is at its most likable. Yes, I can worry about the role of money in the elections, the dominance of economic elites...