04 Aug Nederland doodde op Sulawesi veel meer Indonesische mannen en kinderen dan bekend
Artikel op de website van De Correspondent: 'Nederland doodde op Sulawesi veel meer Indonesische mannen en kinderen dan bekend', door Manon van den Brekel. ...
Spotlight on Southeast Asia
03 Aug Interview Gert Oostindie over de koninkrijksrelaties in het Antilliaans Dagblad
Na het weekeinde worden in Nederland de onderhandelingen over een nieuwe regeringscoalitie voortgezet. De uitkomst is van belang voor de ...
26 Jul Article on the number of Indonesian casualties of war, 1945-1949
During the Decolonization War in Indonesia (1945-1949), the Netherlands initiated two large scale military operations and was also engaged in smaller actions on a daily basis. The number of Dutch military ...
20 Jul Blog: Book-hunting in the City of Heroes
Situated in an inconspicuous residential area in the south of Surabaya, one could easily overlook one of Indonesia’s most intriguing libraries and its equally fascinating owner. Tom Hoogervorst looks back on a fruitful week of research spent at Medayu Agung...
18 Jul Fridus Steijlen appointed as Professor Moluccan Migration and Culture
Starting September 1, 2017, Fridus Steijlen has been appointed as Professor Extraordinary in the Moluccan Migration and Culture in a comparative perspective at the Faculty of Social Sciences of the VU University...
15 Jul Latest issue BKI available online
Now available online: latest issue of the Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (BKI). BKI is an interdisciplinary journal on Southeast Asia, with a strong focus on Indonesia. The editors...
13 Jul Walk app ‘Envisioning Indonesia’
KITLV is pleased to invite you to experience Indonesia while walking through Leiden’s city center with the new walking app Envisioning Indonesia. Within the framework of the Leiden Asia Year KITLV developed the walk app Envisioning Indonesia. ...
03 Jul Fifth printing Soldaat in Indonesië
Soldaat in Indonesië 1945-1950 (Prometheus, 2015), written by Gert Oostindie, in collaboration with Ireen Hoogenboom and Jonathan Verwey is now in its fifth edition. The publication is based on letters, diaries, albums and memoires of members of the Dutch ...
23 Jun Blog: Complex calenders
21 June 2017 marks the first day of summer in the northern hemisphere. Dutch children still have to wait a few more weeks before their summer vacation starts, but in astronomical terms, summer officially arrives Wednesday. The difference in between...
20 Jun Leidsch Dagblad: ‘App tovert Leiden om in Indonesië’
Artikel in het Leidsch Dagblad over de app 'Envisioning Indonesia', die de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek en het KITLV op 19 juni jl. presenteerden. "Om het Aziëjaar in Leiden extra feestelijk te maken...