Walking through the entrance gate to the shopping street ‘Pasar Baru’, Jakarta, was like stepping into my favourite movie, says Jemma Middleton. I recognised the different shops, the old and new architecture, the way a shopkeeper was advertising...
Het boek Soldaat in Indonesië, 1945-1950: Getuigenissen van een oorlog aan de verkeerde kant van de geschiedenis, door Gert Oostindie met medewerking van...
Bali in the early nineteenth century; The ethnographic accounts of Pierre Dubois, by Helen Creese, University of Queensland. In Bali in the Early Nineteenth Century, Helen Creese examines the nature of the earliest...
Confronting Caribbean Challenges researcher Jessica Vance Roitman was recently in Havana, Cuba for the yearly Association of Caribbean Historians conference. In this blog, she contemplates her role as a tourist feeding...
Shortly before his unexpected death Cees Fasseur accepted honorary membership of the Association KITLV. The chairperson of the Association, Susan Legêne, made the announcement at the Annual General Meeting on 10th June. The board of...
Kort voor zijn onverwachte overlijden accepteerde Cees Fasseur het erelidmaatschap van de Vereniging KITLV. De voorzitter van de Vereniging, Susan Legêne, maakte dit bekend op de Algemene Ledenvergadering van 10 juni jl. Het bestuur van de Vereniging ...
Javanese literature is the oldest literature in Southeast Asia. Its history goes back to the ninth century. The Dvenadcat vekov Javanskoj literaturi. Obzornija kurs (‘Twelve centuries of Javanese literature. A survey’) sets...
The fasting month in Indonesia comes with new gadgets and ‘special offers’ advertisements. Chris Chaplin wonders whether or not this affects the pious character of fasting. On the 6th June the majority of Muslims across the world welcomed the start...
(Only in Dutch) Het KITLV jaarverslag 2015 is nu online beschikbaar via de website. Een samenvatting in het Engels volgt binnenkort. Leden van het KITLV die een lidmaatschap hebben inclusief een geprinte versie van ...
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?...