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A picture tells a thousand words 26 October 2018Besides being a linguist, George Saad is also a photography fanatic. He shares his most beautiful and telling pictures, shot during his field research...
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Masterclass ‘Access to Justice in Indonesian frontier area’ 02 October 2018On 6 September 2018 Jacqueline Vel of the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society organised a master class on ‘Access to Justice’ at...
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Unstoppable urbanisation of Indonesia calls for interdisciplinary partnerships 05 July 2018More than half of the Indonesian population lives in cities. What does this mean for public health? How sustainable are these megacities? This is the ...
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Memorial stone points to turbulent history of Indonesian students 06 March 2018A new memorial stone on the facade of a student house in the Hugo de Grootstraat is a reminder of the dozens of Indonesian students who studied in Lei...
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Indonesia-Netherlands Security and Rule of Law Update 2018 in Jakarta 09 January 2018
The Indonesia-Netherlands Security and Rule of Law Update will take place on Wednesday January 17 and Thursday January 18, 2018, in Jakarta and consis...
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Doing justice to Indonesia's multicoloured society 13 October 2017A poor woman from Java plucks three cocoa fruits from a plantation, to use as seedlings. The judge convicts her of theft, but she is not sent to priso...
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The 1st Indonesian-Australian-Netherlands Socio-Legal Studies Conference 08 August 2017
The international conference “Legal Reform in Indonesia: towards Justice” will be held on 6-7 September 2017 at Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, In...
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Child Marriage in Indonesia: Research Sharing & Academic Writing Workshop 19 April 2017From April 27 to 29 April, the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance & Society in collaboration with the Law Faculty, the Gender Studies Grad...
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4.1 million for study on Dutch East Indies war of decolonisation 02 March 2017Three Dutch research institutes - including the Leiden University’s KITLV - will conduct a follow-up study on the use of violence during the Dutch Eas...
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‘Indonesians want more focus on fine details in research on war of decolonisation’ 05 December 2016
After a lobby lasting many years, the Dutch government has decided to finance an independent study of the war of decolonisation (1945-1950) in the for...
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How Wayang storytelling is changing 01 July 2016Wayang is a centuries-old Javanese tradition, but this style of puppet theatre is undergoing serious change. Kathryn Emerson shows this based on the w...
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Call for papers: New law, new villages: Changing rural Indonesia 03 February 2016The 2014 Village Law will likely cause a considerable change in the character of village governance and leadership in the coming years.
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Research cooperation on transnational law with Universitas Indonesia in Jakarta to start this month 17 September 2015
Late June EP Nuffic awarded a capacity building project in the field of Transnational Law, Asset Recovery and International Investment Arbitration at ...
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Leiden based research confirms systematic and excessive violence in Indonesia 03 September 2015
New research has confirmed that the Dutch military used systematic, extreme violence against Indonesians. In his book Soldaat in Indonesië (Soldier in...
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Celebration of 50 years of Independence of The Republic of Indonesia at LEAD 25 November 1995On Friday, the 24th of November 1995, a joint celebration took place in the Great Auditorium of the Academy of Leiden University on the occasion of th...