“Is it true you never lay a hand on a book?”, “Then what do you do all day?” These are very common questions for Marije Plomp, the newly appointed subject librarian of South and Southeast Asia. ...
Last year, Gert Oostindie published a book about the Dutch military in the Indonesian Revolution. He is now touring with Ireen Hoogenboom, who contributed greatly to the book, in Indonesia to promote the translated...
The two-volume special edition of Jurnal Wacana – Stories and Storytelling in Indonesian – edited by Clara Brakel, Susi Moeimam and Tom Hoogervorst (KITLV) is now online available! The two volumes delve...
This workshop in May 2016 discussed a new type of village studies in Indonesia. The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of...
Door voormalig KITLV-fellow Anne-Lot Hoek: 'Iedereen wist het, maar niemand kon het zeggen'. "Oorlog werd ‘politionele acties’, structureel geweld werden ‘excessen’. De manier waarop Cees Fasseur en andere ...
'Rengat, 1949 (Part 1)': Dutch paratroopers massacred hundreds, perhaps thousands, in a Sumatran town during the Indonesian Revolution, yet nobody outside Rengat seems to know. Read more ...
On 13 September in the Erasmus House in Jakarta, Gert Oostindie, director of KITLV will present the Indonesian edition of his book Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950 (Soldier in Indonesia, 1945-1950). This will...
Door Meindert van der Kaaij, redactie binnenland van het dagblad Trouw: "Auteur Gert Oostindie hoopt dat Indonesische historici met een frisse blik gaan kijken naar het oorlogsverleden". Lees het artikel in Trouw...
Op 13 september presenteert Gert Oostindie, directeur van het KITLV-KNAW in het Erasmushuis te Jakarta de Indonesische editie van zijn boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950. ...
When in 2002 Indonesia established a constitutional court nobody anticipated just how important this new institution was going to be. Its rulings are widely reported and they have had an impact on fields ranging from economic policy...