Indonesia Council Digest - August 2022
The bad news is we do not have a host for the Indonesia Council Open Conference 2023. The luar biasa news is that we have TWO hosts! That’s right, the ICOC will be co-hosted by two universities in 2023: the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre at the University of Sydney, and Humanitarian and Development Studies at Western Sydney University.
Meanwhile, we’ve been busy behind the scenes setting up a new website, taking steps towards incorporation (more on that in coming months), and planning for a BRIN info session on visas and ethics in early September.
Send through your publications, news, ideas and questions to iclistdata@gmail.com
Until next month,
Natali
What's happening...
In conversation with BRIN: Indonesia's new research and ethics requirements
5 September 2022, hybrid (in person at Monash University and online)
Jointly presented by the Monash Herb Feith Indonesian Engagement Centre, Monash University Library, and the Indonesia Council, this information session features two senior representatives from BRIN who will share the latest updates on conducting research in Indonesia. Topics will include visas, ethics, local partnerships, and data management requirements. A key feature of the session will be the ability of attendees to submit queries in advance, providing a valuable opportunity for BRIN representatives to consider and respond in detail to your concerns and questions.
To register please click here. To submit your question(s) in advance, please email: iclistdata@gmail.com.
Other cool stuff
Indonesia Council’s new website
Our amazing Engagement Editor Nuke has whipped up a brand new website for us: it’s cheaper at the back end, and we plan to keep it up to date with previous Monthly Digests and a special collection of our popular Meet the Members section. Look at all those smiling faces!
If you’re not already following us on sosmed, you can find us on Facebook and Twitter.
AIYEP 2022
Back for its 40thyear of connecting people from Australia and Indonesia, applications for the Australian-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP) are now open. The deadline is 12 September, and the program starts 9 November 2022. Please spread the word to young Australians 21-25 years of age who have an interest in Indonesia or the Asia Pacific region. Indonesian language is not a prerequisite.
Scholarship to do a PhD on opioid policy in Indonesia!
Applications are closing soon for a 3.5 year scholarship (worth $39,550 per annum) at the University of Sydney for a PhD student to undertake research on the topic of opioid use in Indonesia and issues associated with government regulation, policing and hard reduction. The successful applicant will work alongside Dr Elisabeth Kramer and an amazing interdisciplinary team. Closing 31 August 2022, all the info you need is here.
Indonesia Council Open Conference
I am thrilled to be working with co-convenors Professor Michele Ford (SSEAC) and Associate Professor Zulfan Tadjoeddin (Western Sydney University) to bring you the next ICOC. Block out 26-27 September 2023 in your diaries (plus the 25thif you’re a postgraduate student) and stay tuned for more updates soon. Spoiler: the theme isIndonesia 25 Years On.
Indonesia Update
Registrations are now OPEN for the 39th annual Indonesia Update conference on gender equality and diversity, to be held in Canberra on 16th and 17th September 2022. Registrations are free and you can attend in person or online. Don’t miss what promises to be a fantastic conference.
Register to attend in-person
Register to attend online
Call for papers
CFP | Inter-Asian Legalities
This workshop will consider the contemporary realities and historical foundations that legal systems and cultures are built upon in Asia. It is jointly organised by the Inter-Asia Engagements and the Asian Urbanism Clusters at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.
To participate, please send your paper proposal, which should include a title, an abstract (200 words maximum) and a brief personal biography of 100 words to valerie.yeo@nus.edu.sg by 31 August 2022. Successful applicants will be notified by mid-September 2022.
More information.
Publications
Mobilizing for Elections: Patronage and Political Machines in Southeast Asia is out now with Cambridge University Press. Co-authored by Edward Aspinall, Meredith L. Weiss, Allen Hicken and Paul D. Hutchcroft, this book is the culmination of a ten year project involving collaborations with dozens of researchers across Southeast Asia.
It compares the ways patterns of patronage distribution, and the networks through which patronage is distributed, cohere into distinctive "electoral mobilization regimes" across three core countries: Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines. Congrats to all involved!
Liam Prince from ACICIS wrote this important piece for Policy Forum on the need for Australia to learn to listen in Asia – literally. As he points out, “Australia needs to start treating its language capability, particularly its Asian language capability, as a strategic asset, crucial to safeguarding its place as a trusted power in the region – which, among other things, it is.” Why aren’t more people talking about language skills as a strategic asset!
Meanwhile, in Sulawesi… Sandra Sardjono and Christopher Buckley have written about the discovery in Toraja of an incredible piece of blue-and-white batik that dates from the 13th or 14th century. It is the earliest material evidence (to date) for sophisticated batik production in Southeast Asia, and offers a glimpse into the early history of batik in Java and its connection with double-ikat weaving traditions.
Lontar has released Keith Foulcher’s translations of Putu Oka Sukanta’s trilogy—published in English as Threads of Dignity, The Turning Wheel and Spaces–in its entirety. You can read an extract of Threads of Dignity, a semi-autobiographical story and the first in the trilogy, here, and a book review of the whole trilogy here.
