Cornelis Christiaan Berg werd geboren in Rotterdam-West op 18 december 1900. Van april 1907 tot september 1912 bezocht hij de lagere school, die hij in vijf en een half jaar doorliep. Vanaf zijn negende jaar zong hij mee in het parochiale jongenskoor en viel daar op door zijn muzika-liteit. De geestelijke die het koor leidde stelde voor om hem wat Latijn te leren, zodat hij de teksten die hij z…
Cornelis Dirk (Kees) Grijns was born in Delft as the second of the three children of Cornelis Dirk Grijns and Betty (.E.G.) van Bijlert. His grandfather Grijns was an associate of Dr Ch. Eijkman, the 1929 winner of the Nobel Prize for Medicine as one of the 'discoverers' of vitamins, whom he succeeded as director of the bacteriological laboratory in Batavia on Eijkman's return to the Netherland…
This issue of Bijd ragen tot de Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde offers a selection of the papers presented at the thirteenth KITLV International Workshop on South-East Asian Studies held in Leiden in December 1998. The theme of the workshop was the study of Old Javanese texts. Over the five days of the workshop more than twenty participants from seven different countries- Indonesia, the Netherlands,…
In a letter to the readers of this journal dated May 1999, the purpose of which was to explain a number of recent editorial developments, the editor pointed out that the journal's geographical focus, which traditionally has largely been limited to Indonesia, is in fact much wider and also includes other countries in Southeast Asia and Oceania. Articles on any country in the region but especiall…
Kesusasteraan Amerika berawal dari mitos-mitos, legenda, dongeng dan syair lagu kebudayaan kaum Indian yang menyebar dari mulut ke mulut.
Around 1910, the Netherlands Indies established its boundaries as they were to remain until, depending on how one chooses to view the matter, 1942 or 1949. In order to achieve this end, the government adopted an aggressive policy of forcibly subjecting those principalities in the Indies which previously it had indulged with considerable, if inconsistent, neglect.
The authoritarian regime and its leader are gone and the structures that maintained his power are weakened, but in post-New Order Indonesia violent conflict has become more frequent and more varied. It is no longer sufficient to explain the violence in the terms used by the regime and others during its rule.
The term 'British interregnum', in relation to Indonesia, refers to two short periods in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries when the British took control of most of the Netherlands Indies from the Dutch, only to hand it back a few years later. The British did this as a result of their wars with France. The first occupation occurred in 1795-1797 after a pro-France regime had been…
In 1977 I prepared a paper for the Second International Conference on Austronesian linguistics. It dealt with the possessive category, its general features, its evolution and its use in grammatical structures of Indonesian languages (Alieva, 1978). Among the problems connected with the possessive category, it is essential to discuss the problem of the possessive structure of a sentence over aga…