Roger Tol (1950) is director of KITLV-Jakarta, the representative office in Indonesia of the KITLV/Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies, since 2003. From 1993 to 2003 he was KITLV’s Chief Librarian. He received his PhD in 1989 with a dissertation on a Bugis heroic poem. Roger Tol has written extensively on Bugis and Malay traditional texts.