This Christmas it will be ten years ago that a huge tsunami struck the coasts of Indonesia, Malaysia, India and several other countries surrounding the Bengal Bay and the Indian Ocean. The huge waves...
The Oxis Group: "Ian Caldwell and Kathryn Wellen of the KITLV are currently working on a study of the genealogies of the Bugis-speaking kingdoms between circa 1400-1600 CE. The project aims to establish the extent...
Volkskrant, 14 december: "Over martelingen of seksueel geweld tijdens de onafhankelijkheidsoorlog van Indonesië van 1945 tot 1949 is weinig bekend. Hetzelfde geldt voor verhoortechnieken ...
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 ...
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...
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'...
KITLV is involved in a program called ‘Governance, Markets and Citizenship’. It consists of economists working on regional economic developments, public administration people looking at ...
Which country is doing better in economic terms, Indonesia or the Philippines? Not many people will hesitate when answering this question: Indonesia, of course. In 2011, Indonesia’s Gross Domestic ...
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 ...
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 ...