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  • “Framing Asia” – The next monthly film screening and discussion during the Leiden Asia Year – KITLV

    ‘Framing Asia’ is a monthly film screening and discussion on Asia during the Leiden Asia Year. We are very pleased to invite you to the fifth edition of  ‘Framing Asia’. You are welcome to join us on Wednesday 7 June at 19.30 h at Lipsius 028. This edition will screen three films centered around the…

  • ‘Adat law 100 years on: Towards a new interpretation?’ – KITLV

    REMINDER: The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI), in collaboration with the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV), organize an international conference on the continued importance of adat law in present day Indonesia on 22 May 2017. International Conference: ‘Adat law 100 years on: Towards a new interpretation?’…

  • Photography: Exhibition of Colonial Photography

    Images from the Dutch East Indies have been legitimizing Dutch colonial activity since the 17th century…

  • History: British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world, Asian and African studies blog, The British Library

    British ‘Islamic’ style seals from the Malay world Asian and African studies blog – The British Library The presence of an inscription in Arabic script is such a defining characteristic of seals used by Muslims that it tends to mask the fact that similar ‘Islamic’-style seals were also used by myriad other groups, including Christians…

  • Elections: The politics of Islam in Indonesia: 2017 Jakarta elections and beyond

    KITLV / Amnesty International Seminar 2017 The Politics of Islam in Indonesia: 2017 Jakarta Elections and Beyond By Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin (From KITLV) Is conservative Islam gaining ground in Indonesia? The gubernatorial elections in Jakarta have convinced many that the political clout of Islamic organizations has grown. Demands that the incumbent Basuki Tjahaja…

  • History: Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950: KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies

    Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950 KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies Decolonisation, violence and war in Indonesia, 1945-1950 is a large-scale, joint inquiry carried out by KITLV, the Netherlands Institute for Military History (NIMH) and the NIOD Institute for War, Holocaust and Genocide Studies. The project has been made financially…

  • Seminar: The politics of Islam in Indonesia: Jakarta elections and beyond, by Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin

    KITLV / Amnesty International Seminar, March 9 2017 ‘The Politics of Islam in Indonesia: Jakarta elections and beyond’, By Sidney Jones & Chris Chaplin Is conservative Islam gaining ground in Indonesia? The gubernatorial elections in Jakarta have convinced many that the political clout of Islamic organizations has grown. Demands that the incumbent Basuki Tjahaja Purnama –…

  • Event: Two films on transgender issues in Indonesia

    07 February 2017 Film screening The first screening of the ‘Framing Asia’ film series will focus on transgender issues in Indonesia. Two short films Renita, Renita and Accross Gender  will be followed by discussion with Intan Paramaditha, Indonesian author and lecturer in media and film studies and one of the filmmakers, Anouk Houtman. Films Renita, Renita (15min)…

  • Film: Where Do We Want to Take Our Cinema? Reblog from Melangit Merah

    “..I find it so hard to find any good Indonesian films..”

  • Poem: Request By Muhammad Yamin

    Request By Muhammad Yamin, 1921 Listening to the waves close to me Pounding to the left and to the right Chanting a song full of compassion A longing for the place of my birth is awakened. In the East on my side Shrouded in cloud-billowed skies Appears the island full of marvels That assuredly is…

  • Poem: Homeland By Muhammad Yamin 1920

    “Oh Andalas, island of Sumatra, Make sweet the name, from north to south!”

  • Face of a Hero

    By Kosim Pohan, December 1945 The sudden thought passes, the intangible transforms, In the mind, and makes the faces take form, Going deep into the feelings, to the gates of the soul, The spirit of the heroes of ancient times. In ages past, among the islands, in mother earth, Spilling blood flowed flooding the earth,…

  • Poem: Suffering by Marlupi By Utari Kusno

    “…all suffering will slowly / Vanish swept away by time.”

  • Batak manuscripts from Sumatra in the British Library – Asian and African studies blog

    “The Batak peoples of north Sumatra are associated with a distinctive writing culture, with manuscripts written on a range of organic materials, primarily tree bark, bamboo and bone.  Most characteristic are the bark books known as pustaha, written on strips of bark of the alim (Aquilaria malaccensis) tree, which is folded concertina-fashion, and sometime furnished with wooden…

  • Poem: Buffalo Herder By Muhammad Yamin

    Buffalo Herder By Muhammad Yamin, 1921 Who would not be deeply moved To see a small child singing Alone in the middle of a field No shirt, nothing on his head. Thus is the fate of the buffalo herder Shading under, a wooden shelter; After leaving the stable at dawn Only heading for home at…