KITLV Events

Indonesian historiography is extremely compartmentalized. For most Indonesians their history starts in August 1945, unconnected with the colonial past. This prevents for instance an analysis of the transition of colonial modernity to its postcolonial manifestations, and may explain the near absence of postcolonial debates in Indonesia.

Sidney Jones, who returned to New York in June 2021 after two decades working for International Crisis Group and IPAC (and a few earlier incarnations) in Jakarta, will reflect on the trajectory of conflict in Indonesia and lessons learned in documenting it

All over the world, including Indonesia, social media platforms, such as Facebook and Twitter, and devices such as smartphones have increasingly played an instrumental role in facilitating and mobilizing collective actions and activism. The same technologies have also simultaneously been utilised by states and public...

The protests in response the devastating military coup in Myanmar in February of this year demonstrated an inspiring aspect of racial, ethnic and religious pluralism and solidarity.