Inside the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV) building in the university town of Leiden, is a room housing the most complete collection of Kartini's letters and documents. The archives are kept in a special room, not usually open to the public. We store the archives in acid-free material," Jan Rosmalen, the collection coordinator, told Tempo.

On rows of racks are stored invaluable old documents, including fi