Explore the rise of Dutch colonial rule in Indonesia, from the arrival of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) to the establishment of the Dutch East Indies. Learn how trade, military conquest, and ...

It is quite an interesting choice for the largest film festival in the Netherlands to close with a film that explicitly ...

Last week in Maumere, in Indonesia’s Flores island, the Catholic Church came under fire for reclaiming Indigenous people's ...

We may have placed it with good intention in our recycling bins, but it is choking villages, rivers and seas on the other ...

One the one hand, he had a penchant for writing broad, sweeping historical novels like Arus Balik (Turning of the Tide) or ...

The International Film Festival Rotterdam (IFFR), wrapped over the weekend, having shone a spotlight on the Indonesian cinema ...

drawing attention to a lingering legacy of colonialism. “If we are scared of being sued, and we step back, we will not be a developed country," said Indonesia's President Joko Widodo.

Beurden, J. van (2017). Treasures in trusted hands: Negotiating the future of colonial cultural objects. Leiden: Sidestone Press. Bloembergen, M. and M. Eickhoff (2011). ‘Conserving the past, ...

This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit. This course looks at Indonesia, Malaysia,Thailand, the Philippines and Burma/Myanmar from the ...

That focus came on the back of a co-production agreement between Indonesia and the Netherlands ... “With or without the context of the colonial past and history, Indonesian cinema is something ...