Article in Inside Indonesia by Hoko Horii. Child marriage, defined by international organisations as the marriage of someone under the age of 18, has come under increasing scrutiny in Indonesia in recent years....
KITLV is looking for a talented and enthusiastic junior postdoctoral researcher, 38 hrs/week. The applicant has research experience in the field of the humanities or social sciences, on and in Southeast Asia and the Caribbean...
By Antoinette Schapper. Wooi Fana. Ujir sepanjang masa (English title: Wooi Fana. Life in Times in Ujir) is a community source book created for the people of Ujir...
Who is Panji, and what exactly is a Panji tale? Recently, on 21 September 2018, a special symposium was organised by the Leiden University Library and the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) ...
‘Het idee dat ik kolonialisme goedpraat is absurd’. Historicus Gert Oostindie krijgt kritiek als mede-initiator van een groot onderzoek naar het Nederlandse ...
Recently an Indonesian colleague asked me to write a reflection on my fieldwork experiences studying politics in India and Indonesia, for an Indonesian book on ethnographic fieldwork. Here is the English version. Doing research in the field can be tough....
On National Hero’s day (Hari Pahlawan Nasional) on 10 November 2018, Dr. Harry Poeze gave a lecture about the life of Tan Malaka at the opening of the exhibition 'Surat Pendiri Bangsa' (Letters from...
Big conferences are crucial when it comes to meeting the celebrities in your field, and perhaps even striking up short conversations with them. And yet the cultural dynamics of these sites of gathering ...
Op donderdagochtend 8 november sprak Radio 1 presentator Winfried Baijens met Gert Oostindie over de Cubaanse president Miguel Díaz-Canel die bezig is ...
By Kasia Mika. This article analyses Nick Lake’s In Darkness (2012), a young adult novel which joins ...