Indonesia Council Digest - June 2023
It's thrilling to see the Indonesia Council Open Conference (26-27 September, Sydney) coming together.
Conference convenors at University of Sydney and Western Sydney University have put together a fantastic program with 325 registered speakers across 90 panels and roundtables, including 53 in-person and 37 online sessions, plus 13 book launches. Watch out for the program in your inbox and on the ICOC website within the coming weeks.
Non-speakers have until 31 August to register, which is also the final date to register for the PG Workshop and food tour (25 September). Registration is free.
We’re so looking forward to meeting all of you, and hearing as many panels and speakers as possible!
Till next month,
Natali
iclistdata@gmail.com
What's happening...
Indonesia Update 2023: Governing Urban Indonesia
More details are coming through about the next Indonesia Update, to be held in Canberra & online on Friday 15 and Saturday 16 September. Click here for the program, with registrations due to open next week. The conference will begin with a Political Update from Dr Jacqui Baker, Lecturer in Southeast Asian Politics at Murdoch University and Fellow of the Indo-Pacific Research Centre. This will be followed by the Economic Update by Dr Arianto Patunru, Fellow at the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics and member of ANU Indonesia Project. After this, Professor Abidin Kusno, Professor and Director of Undergraduate Program, Faculty of Urban and Environmental Change, York University, will deliver the Keynote Address on Governing urban Indonesia.
Other cool stuff
Our friends at Monash have put together a fantastic resource hub for researchers looking to do research on and in Indonesia. This is your first port of call if you’re in need of a research permit and visa – there is information on getting your research permit, instructions for obtaining a visa, a guarantor registration guide, links to our recent information webinar with BRIN and more. Do get in touch with us if you’ve recently gone through the research process and would like to contribute something to this hub.
University of Sydney hosted an Indonesian in Action Day earlier this month, for Year 8-12 students. As Chair of Indonesian Studies, Novi Djenar said, ‘By learning Indonesian, you are contributing to enriching Australia’s knowledge of other societies and our own. Read more about the event here: It's Australia's 'close friend' and a ‘future superpower’. Should more people learn its language?
Call for papers
International Forum on Spice Route (IFSR) 2023: ‘Reconnecting the Spice Routes: The Contribution of Maritime Southeast Asia to Global Transformation’.
20-23 September 2023
Hybrid from the National Research and Innovation Agency
Jl. Gatot Subroto 10 Jakarta, Indonesia
and virtual (zoom webinar format)
Negeri Rempah Foundation in collaboration with Research Center for Society and Culture, National Research and Innovation Agency (BRIN) invite contributors to submit an abstract for the IFSR 2023. A maximum of 300 words abstract include proposed research questions, main argument, and methodology. Please complete your submissions with a title, name of the author(s), institutional affiliation(s), e-mail address, and personal biography of 150 words. Abstracts are due 30 June. Those whose abstracts are accepted must submit a full paper between 5000-7000 words by 10 September. Selected papers will be published digitally in the Proceeding of International Forum on Spice Route published by BRIN. The abstract should be submitted to https://ocs.brin.go.id/ or to https://linktr.ee/negerirempahfoundation. Alternatively, please contact Lilis Mulyani (lilis.mulyani@brin.go.id) or Dewi Kumoratih (info@negerirempah.org) directly.
Publications
Ben Hegarty and Annisa Beta have just published a special issue in Inside Indonesia on The Politics of Knowledge. Contributors include Saiful Mahdi (Universitas Syiah Kuala) on From guided democracy to guided science?, Ben Laksana (Victoria University of Wellington) on Knowledge production in the age of neoliberal authoritarianism, Nicholas Long (London School of Economics and Political Science) on Foreign research permit reforms, Aryo Danusiri (Universitas Indonesia) on Culture as technology, Sidhi Vhisatya (Queer Indonesia Archive) on Imagining a safe space, Eni Puji Utami (Purple Code Collective) on Exchanging meanings, connecting energy, and Zara Aisyah Fauziah (Sanggar Swara) on Transgender communities and research ethics.
Elisabeth Jackson and Ekawati Liu have been working with a team of Indonesian disability researchers and activists to bring us new research on disability leadership in Indonesia. Finding self, leading others: Leadership journeys of persons with disabilities in Indonesia is available on the Developmental Leadership Program website, with longer reports in both English and Indonesian, and an Indonesian Executive Summary coming soon. The research was funded through DFAT’s Developmental leadership program.
Marcus Mietzner has a new book coming out with Cornell University Press, The Coalitions Presidents Make: Presidential Power and Its Limits in Democratic Indonesia. In it, he explains how Indonesia has turned its volatile post-authoritarian presidential system into one of the world's most stable through nuanced strategies of coalition building. It’s available for pre-order now.