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Projects

Colonial collections and restitution

Since November 2019 I am member of the NIOD Expert Centre Restitution. The Expert Centre conducts research into the history and topicality of looted art and restitution.

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Until March 2022 I was involved in the NIOD-ECR project PPROCE: Pilot Project Provenance Research on Objects of the Colonial Era. In this project, which was a collaboration between NIOD, the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam and the National Museum of World Cultures, I conducted provenance research on a large selection of museum objects from colonial Indonesia.

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Currently I am involved in the Colonial Collections Consortium.

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Publications:

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2022. 'The Diamond from Banjarmasin: A Story in Facets', The Rijksmuseum Bulletin 70 (4): 340-55.

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2022. With Jona Mooren and Frank van Vree, 'Clues Research into provenance history and significance of cultural objects and collections acquired in colonial situations', Final report PPROCE.

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2022. More than a dozen provenance reports about objects from the collections of Rijksmuseum and National Museum of World Cultures. Amongst others a report about the Banjarmasin diamond and about a battle flag from Kalimantan in Rijksmuseum.

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2022. With Jona Mooren, ‘Clues of Provenance: Tracing Colonialism and Imperialism through Museum Objects’, IIAS The Newsletter 92 (Summer 2022).

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2021. Presentation at meeting KVVAK (from min. 16.30)

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'Javanese man and 4 children in front of Buddhist idol at Borobudur', W.H. Jackson (1895) US Library of Congress, call.nr. LC-W7- 610 [P&P] (CC BY 4.0)

Final report PPROCE

Available in Dutch, English and Bahasa Indonesia

Prisons and convict labour colonial Indonesia

From 2016 to 2019, I was a postdoctoral researcher at the International Instituut of Social History in Amsterdam on a project about labour camps and penal labour in colonial Indonesia.

 

Publications:

2022. 'Nusakambangan in context: Life and labour conditions in a late-colonial penal plantation in the Netherlands Indies, 1905-1942', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies.

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2019. ‘From Across the Water: Nusakambangan and the Making of a Notorious Prison Island’, International Review of Social History 64, pp.1-21.

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2017. (review) ‘Christian G. De Vito and Alex Lichtenstein, Global Convict Labour’, review in: Tijdschrift voor Sociale en Economische Geschiedenis 14-1, pp. 120-122.

 

2017. (review) ‘Marc Buggeln: Slave Labor in Nazi Concentration Camps’, review in: International Review of Social History 62-1, pp. 164-167.

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Convicts and guards at Nusakambangan. Collectie Stichting Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen. Coll.nr. TM-10016323. (CC BY-SA 3.0)

Political history of colonial Indonesia

Over the years I have published extensively about late colonial Indonesian political history, in particular about Indonesian anticolonial networks, the history of Indonesian communism, migrant communities in the Netherlands and interwar anti-imperialism in Europe.

 

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Publications:

Book

2024Di Balik Bendera Persatuan: Kalangan Nasionalis Indonesia dan Gerakan Antikolonial Dunia 1917-1931 (Tangeran Jakarta: Marjin Kiri).

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​Monograph

2019. Campaigning in Europe for a Free Indonesia: Indonesian Nationalists and the Worldwide Anticolonial Movement, 1917–1931 (Copenhagen: NIAS Press).

 

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Dissertation

2016. 'Behind the Banner of Unity: Nationalism and Anticolonialism among Indonesian Students in Europe, 1917-1931' (dissertation University of Amsterdam).

 

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Articles and bookchapters

2020. ‘Herald of a Failed Revolt: Mohammad Hatta in Brussels, 1927’, in: Michele Louro, Carolien Stolte (a.o. eds), The League Against Imperialism, Lives and Afterlives (Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2020) 309-324.

 

2020. ‘Un rumbo independiente. El nacionalismo indonesio de entreguerras y el comunismo internacional en el escenario euro-holandés’, in: Enric Ucelay-Da Cal, Xosé M. Núñez Seixas, Arnau Gonzàlez i Vilalta (eds.), Patrias diversas, ¿misma lucha?: Alianzas transnacionalistas en el mundo de entreguerras (1912-1939) (Barcelona: Edicions Bellaterra 2020) 151-170.

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2020. (review) ‘Kris Alexanderson, Subversive Seas: Anticolonial Networks across the Twentieth-Century Dutch Empire’, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 135, review 66.

 

2018. ‘1908, Indonesische studenten leggen basis voor internationaal antikolonialisme’, in: Marjolein ’t Hart, Karel Davids e.a. (eds.), Wereldgeschiedenis van Nederland (Amsterdam: Ambo Anthos) 478-483.

 

2018. ‘Indonesian Nationalism in the Netherlands, 1920s-1930s: Long-Distance Internationalism of Elite Pilgrims in Homogeneous, Empty Time’, in: Gemma Blok, Vincent Kuitenbrouwer, and Claire Weeda (eds.), Imagining Communities: Historical Reflections on the Process of Community Formation (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press).

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2017. ‘”Volk van Java, de Russische Revolutie houdt ook lessen in voor U”; Indonesisch socialisme, bolsjewisme, en het spook van het anarchisme’, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 130-3, pp. 427-447.

 

2015. 'The Complex World of the Chung Hwa Hui: International Engagements of Chinese Indonesian Peranakan Students in the Netherlands, 1918–1931', Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 171-4, pp. 516–54.

 

2015. 'To Maintain an Independent Course: Inter-war Indonesian Nationalism and International Communism on a Dutch-European Stage', Dutch Crossing: Journal of Low Country Studies 39-3, pp. 204-220.

 

2013. ‘Indonesian Identities Abroad: International Engagement of Colonial Students in the Netherlands, 1908-1931’, BMGN - Low Countries Historical Review 128-1, pp. 151-172.

 

 

2015. ‘Indonesian Islam in Interwar Europe: Muslim Organizations in the Netherlands and Beyond’, in: Bekim Agai, Umar Ryad and Mehdi Sajid (eds.), Muslims in Interwar Europe: A Transcultural Historical Perspective (Leiden: Brill publishers) 125-150.

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2015. (review) 'Bart Luttikhuis: Negotiating Modernity, Europeannes in Late Colonial Indonesia',  dissertationreview.org.

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2014. (review) ‘John Ingleson: Workers, Unions and Politics. Indonesia in the 1920s and 1930s’, Bijdragen tot de Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde 170, pp. 583–584.

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2008. ‘De Indische Gids en de liberale, koloniale discussie’, Skript Historisch Tijdschrift 29-4, pp. 63-78.

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Meeting of students of Perhimpoenan Indonesia. Between 1924 and 1927. KITLV A624 53604 (CC BY 4.0)

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Selection of other projects and publications

2024. '11. Archieven van anti-koloniale bewegingen', in: Nederlands kolonialisme van archief tot geschiedschrijving (Leiden: LUP) pp. 209-216.

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2019. ‘Nederlands leed’ telt niet meer dan het leed van anderen’, overdemuur.org.

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2018. ‘Koloniaal geluk is niet los te zien van koloniaal leed’, NRC Handelsblad. With Thomas Smits and Suze Zijlstra.

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2017. Interview with Karin Amatmoekrim at De Correspondent

 

 

2017. Interview about Henk Sneevliet Radio 1

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2017. Podcast Radio Kunci.

 

2017. Onafhankelijkheid met het mes op de keel, overdemuur.org.

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2014. ‘Change in Indonesia: critical reflections on the Indonesian elections’, OpenDemocracy.net.

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