Indonesia
Lecture by Dr Max Lane
'The Dynamics of Political Radicalization in Indonesia Today: Labor, Left Regroupment and Ideological Curiosity'Abstract: As...
Rights to Justice Seminar
Annual Seminar of IPT 1965"Rights to Justice: Mass Graves and Memorialization"On the 9th of May 2016 the Indonesian government...
Sweated Labour in Java
Henri van Kol, a member of the First International and one of the founders of the Dutch Social Democratic Party, had owned a...
Rōmusha
Rōmusha is a Japanese word meaning "an unskilled laborer who carries out temporary contruction work". In Japanese-occupied...
New Guinea, Rugged and Humid
Not long ago, the eastern border of the Netherlands was to be found in New Guinea, the country of the Papuans, at a longitude of...
Ewald Vanvugt, Traveller, photographer, and publicist
Ewald Vanvugt's archive and photographs collection which he has donated to the IISH over the years, were recently made accessible...
PhD Defense Klaas Stutje: Indonesian nationalism in Europe
On Wednesday 15 June, IISH employee Klaas Stutje defended his thesis on Indonesian nationalism, in the Auditorium of the...
Symposium '1965' Today. Living with the Indonesian Massacres
Dit is een Engelstalige bijeenkomstRegister via NIOD.1965 marked a turning point in Indonesian history. A failed putsch on 1...
INDOC database
The INDOC database contains 24.766 references to articles on labour in Indonesian newspapers between 1996 and 2009.From 1996 to...
International People's Tribunal 1965, website launch
The International People’s Tribunal on 1965 Crimes Against Humanity in Indonesia invites you to attend the “Soft Launching” of...
Opium Smuggling
No commodity was smuggled as often or to such profit in Southeast Asia as opium. In the Dutch East Indies, many Dutch civil...
View of Slavery Atlanto-centric? Symposium Slavery in the Dutch Empire
In the Netherlands slavery is usually associated with Atlantic slavery. The current view of slavery might even be called '...
Mecca for Javanese
In the 19th century, substantial outmigration from Java was connected to the Hajj pilgrimage to Mecca. Indonesia was the country...
Warmth of the Motherland
After the independence of Indonesia, the government adopted a number of policies to restrict the business and trading of Chinese...
Balinese Revolt
In September 1782 a group of 79 Balinese slaves on board the Dutch East India Company ship Mercuur, sailing between Java and...
Book Launch and Seminar 'Sugar Plantation'
Seminar VU University Economic and Social History DepartmentProgram:16.00-16.05 opening & welcome16.05-16.35 book launch:...
Overseer Attacked
In the fermenting shed of a tobacco company on Sumatra's East coast, overseer mr. Lühmann was attacked and severely wounded by...
Output Figures
In the month of March 1900, 2106 convicts and 719 contractors in the Ombilin mines, West Sumatra, produced 16417 tons of coal,...
Chinese Coolies shot
Two Chinese contract labourers on the run in Sumatra, Dutch East Indies, were shot dead by 'caretakers' on 14 October 1902,...
Co-founder of the Indonesian Communist Party
In 2013 the IISH received a small accrual to the papers of Raden Darsono Notosurdirdjo. Darsono was co-founder of the Partis...
Radical 'zines' from Indonesia
In 2012 the IISH acquired a collection of Indonesian radical zines, issued in the period 1999-2005, the first years after the...
Polling Booths Set up in Indonesia
During Habibie's short presidency free elections were again held in Indonesia on June 7 1999, with 48 parties participating. The...
Christmas in a Detention Camp
From the diary of Poncke Princen, a Dutchman who was detained for deserting the Dutch army during the colonial war in Indonesia:"...
Day of the Heroes
10 November was known as Hari Pahlawan in Indonesia, the day of the heroes. On this day a victory over the Dutch occupying force...
UN Abandons West Papua
Since 1962 the former Dutch colony of West Papua was under UN protection. In fact, Indonesia ruled it and had no compassion...
Police Intervention by the Military
On 20 July 1947 in Indonesia political activists are arrested and imprisoned by the Dutch Army. On this day the Dutch government...
Republik Indonesia
"Better to the hell than to be colonized again" was painted on a streetcar in Jakarta on 17 August 1945. This is the day of the...
Machine Building Factory Braat
Labourers of the Machine Building Factory of Braat at Ngagel, a suburb of Surabaya (Java) upstream of the Kalimas River, receive...
A Socialist in the Dutch East Indies
The first socialist ever to set foot ashore the Dutch East Indies was Henri Hubertus van Kol (1852-1925). In 1876 Van Kol, who...
Between Ambon and Amsterdam
During the summer of 2001 the publicist and journalist Herman Keppy discovered two steamer trunks in a fully stacked room in the...
Elections in Indonesia
On April 5 2004, five years after the elections in 1999, Indonesia elected a new parliament and new regional councils. For about...
In Search of Silenced Voices
The collection In Search of Silenced Voices contains interviews with Indonesian exiles recorded by Hersri Setiawan and deposited...
Mohammad Hatta, Muslim and western intellectual
"I do not admire the practices of Western democracies, but I do hope that the spirit of democracy will win in the end." Mohammad...
Publishing house De Brug - Djambatan
In the late 1940s (following World War II) Henk van Randwijk (journalist and editor-in-chief of the Dutch weekly Vrij Nederland)...
Jacob Brandsteder and the suppression of the free press
In connection with World Press Freedom Day, the IISH wishes to call attention to Jacob Andries Brandsteder's (1887-1986) forced...
Political Prisoners in Indonesia
“Taporal” is an extensive oral history project about former political prisoners (tapols) in Indonesia. After the 1965 coup in...
Civil Servant in the Dutch East Indies
The IISH received the papers of Jan Petrus de Putter papers through the kind agency of his family.De Putter grew up in Zeeland-...
Papua Leader Viktor Kaisiëpo Msn
Recently three collections on the history of Papua were acquired by the IISH. In 2008 the archive of the Foundation Aid to...
From the Netherlands East Indies
A red leather album named "Precious Keepsake" contains copies of the letters written from the Dutch East Indies by Margot de...
Posters by Taring Padi
In 2002 the IISH Asia Department acquired a collection of 28 Indonesian posters created by Taring Padi, a group of Indonesian...
Piet van Staveren
At times the struggle between the Dutch and Indonesians for independence was not entirely black and white. Sometimes Dutch young...
Schijfsma-Reydon Archive
Letters from a Javanese princessPrincess Kaïda was born on 11 December 1893 as the daughter of the Javanese prince Notodirodjo....
Multatuli als Emancipator
Multatulitentoonstelling in IISGDe tentoonstelling toont een selectie van brieven, boeken, brochures, tijdschriften, politieke...
Making Money Off Migrants
Making Money Off Migrants is a case study of the plight of the migrant worker. While it focuses on the experience of Indonesian...
Wertheim Centenary
A freelance seminar on Blind Spots and Preoccupation in Dutch and Indonesian Historiography on Decolonization that revives the...
Multatuli als emancipator
Symposium, boekpresentatie en de finissage van een kleine tentoonstelling met Multatuliana uit de collecties van het Persmuseum...
1965: The Forgotten Holocaust of Indonesia
BackgroundFollowing an aborted coup attempt in October 1965, the Indonesian military organized what turned out to be one of the...
Media and the Elections 2004 in Indonesia and the Philippines
SeminarThe Dark Side of DemocratizationDemocratisation in Indonesia and the Philippines comes with several problems. First,...
Economic Growth and Institutional Change in Indonesia in the 19th and 20th Centuries
Background and aimThe `First Conference on Indonesia's Modern Economic History, 1815-1990' was held at the Indonesian Academy of...
Transnational Domestication.
Transnational Domestication. State Power and Indonesian Migrant Women in Saudi Arabia.
Indonesian Economic Development 1800-2000
This project is a concerted effort of several researchers at different universities and research institutions. The aim of the...
Reconstruction of the National Accounts of Indonesia 1900-2000
This project is a part of a wider research project entitled 'Strategies of Economic Development in the Twentieth Century: Europe...
