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David Henley   
Regional Coordinator Southeast Asia, Country Coordinator Indonesia and Malaysia 
Telephone +31 (0)71 527 2913 
Fax +31 (0)71 527 2638  
E-mail henley@kitlv.nl  
David Henley is Regional Coordinator (RC) responsible for the Asian component of Tracking Development. A geographer with a PhD from the Australian National University, he has worked as a researcher at the KITLV (Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies) since 1993, initially as a member of the EDEN (Ecology, Demography and Economy in Nusantara) project on the environmental history of Indonesia. His other research interests include the history of credit and debt relations, nationalism and regionalism, and the institutional dynamics of colonial expansion.
 
Selected publications

  • 'Microfinance in Indonesia; Evolution and revolution, 1900-2000', in Aditya Goenka and David Henley (eds), Southeast Asia's credit revolution; From moneylenders to microfinance (London: Routledge, 2010): 173-89.

  • 'Credit and debt in Indonesian history: an introduction', in David Henley and Peter Boomgaard (eds), Credit and Debt in Indonesia, 860-1930: from peonage to pawnshop, from kongsi to cooperative, pp. 1-40. Singapore: Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2009.


  • 'Natural resource management: historical lessons from Indonesia', Human Ecology 36 (2008):273-290.


  • Chalk and cheese? Africa and the lessons of Asian development. Paper prepared for the Fifth International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS 5), Kuala Lumpur, 2-5 August 2007.


  • 'Custom and koperasi; The cooperative ideal in Indonesia', in Jamie S. Davidson and David Henley (eds), The revival of tradition in Indonesian politics; The deployment of adat from colonialism to indigenism (London: Routledge, 2007):87-112.

  • 'From low to high fertility in Sulawesi (Indonesia) during the colonial period; Explaining the 'first fertility transition'', Population Studies 60 (2006):309-327.

  • Fertility, food and fever; Population, economy and environment in North and Central Sulawesi, 1600-1930. Leiden: KITLV Press, 2005.

  • 'Population and the means of subsistence; Explaining the historical demography of island Southeast Asia, with particular reference to Sulawesi', Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 36 (2005):337-72.

  • 'Agrarian change and diversity in the light of Brookfield, Boserup, and Malthus: historical illustrations from Sulawesi, Indonesia', Asia Pacific Viewpoint 46 (2005):153-72.

  • 'Conflict, justice, and the stranger-king; Indigenous roots of colonial rule in Indonesia and elsewhere', Modern Asian Studies 38 (2004):85-144.

  • 'Malaria past and present: the case of North Sulawesi, Indonesia', Southeast Asian Journal of Tropical Medicine and Public Health 32 (2001):595-607.

  • Nationalism and regionalism in a colonial context; Minahasa in the Dutch East Indies. Leiden: KITLV Press, 1996.

  • 'Ethnogeographic integration and exclusion in anticolonial nationalism: Indonesia and Indochina', Comparative Studies in Society and History 37 (1995):286-324.