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Ratna Saptari is Assistant professor at Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Leiden University

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Remembering Sabine Luning

On 6 March 2025, our beloved colleague Sabine Luning passed away. In this blog, we share some of the speeches of colleagues, students, interlocutors, and friends presented at a commemoration in the summer of 2025.

Ratna Saptari, Erik de Maaker, Gerard Persoon and James McGrail • October 29, 2025

The Shifting Meanings of “(Il)Legality”: Indonesian Migrant Workers in the Netherlands

How do migrants become ‘illegal’? How does their ‘illegality’ affect their position in the receiving countries? Ratna Saptari discusses the experiences of Indonesian migrants in the Netherlands and how they try to obtain recognition amidst shifting positions of (il)legality.

Ratna Saptari • September 01, 2021 • 3 comments

Engaged research: should anthropologists be involved in activism?

To what extent can anthropologists be involved in social or political activism? How events like the 1965 People’s Tribunal on Crimes against Humanity can help us to reflect on the nature of engaged anthropology.

Ratna Saptari • February 08, 2017 • 4 comments