Historian Bart Luttikhuis examines the origins of the widely-used estimate of 100,000 Indonesian victims of the Dutch-Indonesian War of Decolonization (1945-1950), and calls into question its accuracy. Ultimately, he wonders, does the number really matter?...
Orang-kontrak: De verbeelding van Javaanse contractarbeiders in Suriname en Deli’, Acta Neerlandica 12 (2016): 145-71. In a special issue of Acta Neerlandica on Hungarians in the Dutch colonies, Rosemarijn Hoefte ...
Unlike social scientists, many historians do not very often engage in a dialogue with their research subjects. For, as far as we know, the dead don’t read or speak back. But what happens if a historian ...
Indonesia's democratisation process is a case of the half-full glass. Pessimists argue that elections have descended into an ugly spectacle of vote-buying and manipulation that does little to distribute power in...
Het bijzondere van de Vereniging KITLV is dat ze leden heeft in alle leeftijdscategorieën. Ruim drie generaties ontmoeten elkaar rondom het KITLV. In alle generaties zijn leden die vanwege hun levensloop, beroep of ...
Hoko Horii is a PhD candidate at KITLV, conducting research on international human rights law and its implication on child marriage practice in Indonesia. She has been working with Mies Grijns, who is an ...
At the end of his brief European tour (Germany, Belgium, the UK), President Joko Widodo (‘Jokowi’) last Friday paid a one day visit to the Netherlands. He had breakfast with the prime minister, and visited a large scale ...
Ward Berenschot was afgelopen woensdag te gast in het Wetenschapsprogramma Science071. Hij sprak tijdens de uitzending over democratie en 'rule of law' in Indonesië en de Caraïben. Op vrijdag 22 april...
What is the impact of Indonesia’s democratization process on everyday interactions between Indonesian citizens and power holders? Democratic reforms have led to a much livelier ...
Gender relations in an Indonesian society; Bugis practices of sexuality and marriage, by Nurul Ilmi Idrus (Hasanuddin University), offers a comprehensive ethnography of Bugis marriage through an exploration of gender ...