Lotte Akkerman, Kimberley Bootsma, and Bente de Leede reflect on a public symposium held at the National Archives about the KITLV project Dutch Military Operations in Indonesia, 1945-1950. They explain that...
Article 'Haze of democracy' by KITLV researcher Ward Berenschot in online journal Inside Indonesia: elections are fuelling the forest fires in Central Kalimantan. Berenschot is currently working on a book on local ...
With great sadness we announce the passing of professor Mario Rutten on December 26, 2015. Mario was the chair of KITLV’s wetenschapscommissie (Scientific Committee) from 2006 to 2012 and continued as ...
A little more than three years ago Ridho Reinanda joined KITLV as a researcher in the Elite Network Shifts project. Since then he found several things to be done that are unavoidable for applying computational approaches...
The research network Understanding Insurgencies: Resonances from the Colonial Past, in which KITLV participates with six other research institutes in Britain, France and Canada, was awarded a network grant from...
Op 8 december 1982 vonden de Decembermoorden in Suriname plaats. In de Stopera herdenken nabestaanden en betrokkenen de 15 slachtoffers voor de 33e keer. Hoe kijkt de Surinaamse gemeenschap aan tegen ...
Matthieu Pereira reflects on the role of law and the use of legal discourse in rural contexts. He introduces one of the issues he tackles in his doctoral research. While statements about the lack of the rule of law in Indonesia and...
While the recent academic, public and legal attention for the decolonization of Indonesia rightly focuses on violence as one of its defining characteristics, we should not lose sight of the other aspects of the conflict....
Op donderdag 3 december organiseert het KITLV in het Nationaal Archief in Den Haag een symposium over het lopende onderzoeksproject ‘Nederlands Militair Optreden in Indonesië 1945-1950’. Dit project ...
Now online available: special issue Asian Journal of Social Science on 'Digital Methods in Asian Studies'. With articles written by KITLV researchers Gerry van Klinken, Jacqueline Hicks, Vincent Traag and...