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Food destruction and depopulation. How the Dutch East India Company gained a clove monopoly on the Ambon islands17 March 2023Nutmeg, mace and cloves: spices the Dutch East India Company (VOC) wanted to get its hands on. PhD candidate Tristan Mostert conducted research into t...
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Feminist fatwas: How female Islamic scholars influence the religious landscape in Indonesia02 January 2023If you have a question about the right way to live as a Muslim, to find the answer - the fatwa - you need to speak to an alim (plural ulama), an Isla...
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Book about villa in Bandung shows links between the Netherlands and Indonesia25 November 2022A new book about Villa Isola in Indonesia reveals some of the shared history of the Netherlands and Indonesia. The book was presented on Thursday to A...
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Cleveringa Lecture by Gert Oostindie: Leiden University should also reflect on its colonial history24 November 2022It is crucial that Leiden University reflects on its colonial history. These were the words of Cleveringa Professor Gert Oostindie in his inaugural le...
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Exhibition marks 100 years of Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands14 November 2022The Indonesian Student Association in the Netherlands, ‘Perhimpunan Pelajar Indonesia Belanda’, has teamed up with the Indonesian embassy in The Hague...
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Video series: The value of collaboration with Indonesia16 May 2022Researchers from Leiden and Indonesia work together on a range of projects on topics such as disappearing languages and cultures, the role of Islam, c...
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Censorship in cooperation: the representation of the Indonesian massacre in literature30 March 2022How do you recount historic events if you are not allowed to talk about them? For his dissertation, Taufiq Hanafi tried to find out how a period of ma...
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How the Netherlands systematically used extreme violence in Indonesia and concealed this afterwards17 February 2022Dutch troops, judges and politicians collectively condoned and concealed the systematic use of extreme violence during the Indonesian War of Independe...
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Students Sander, Linde and Melle create an online exhibition for the University Library15 February 2022With a recently published major research project and an exhibition at the Rijksmuseum, the struggle for independence in Indonesia has been thrusted ba...
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Indonesian resistance hero and Leiden student Irawan Soejono is given a face28 January 2022To mark its 75th anniversary, the Netherlands War Graves Foundation is publishing a portrait of a war victim every week this year. On 24 January the d...
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Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 - Online Exhibition18 January 2022Starting January 18, the online exhibition Images of the Indonesian War of Independence, 1945-1949 can be viewed via the UBL website. The exhibition i...
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Islamic TV in Indonesia: piety or commodity?09 November 2021In Indonesia, some Muslim preachers are TV stars with massive followings. Syahril Siddik studied how they operate and how their viewers react. On 9 No...
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Dutch armed forces were willing to accept high casualties in Indonesia09 November 2021The decolonisation war in Indonesia was violent partly because the Dutch military operated on the conviction that ‘an uprising had to be forcibly supp...
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Our man in Jakarta keeps the institute running from Venlo19 May 2021The COVID-19 pandemic forced many staff of Leiden institutes abroad to leave their posts in a hurry. How is the KITLV Jakarta team doing now? Director...
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Civil Liberties Under Pressure: Maartje van der Woude to hold webinar for Indonesian university17 July 2020On Wednesday 22 July, Professor Maartje van der Woude will hold a webinar for Nusantara University (Indonesia). Her lecture is entitled ‘Governing Thr...