Indonesia Council Digest - October 2024
We’re excited to announce that the call for papers for the Indonesia Council Open Conference 2025 is now OPEN.
You’ve got until 17 November to get your abstracts in, so get your skates on.
All the details below – and don’t forget, if you’re a postgrad, you can apply for one of our PG bursaries to support your attendance at the conference, provided you’re a signed up member of IC and meet the other eligibility requirements.
In other news, we were also pleased to be a sponsor (together with LPDP and the Discipline of Indonesian Studies at University of Sydney, AIYA NSW and the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia in Sydney) of the Sydney screening of Eksil, a new film by Director Lola Amaria which tells the stories of ten Indonesian exiles who have been living in Europe for the past 60 years. You can catch the trailer here.
Sadly, I missed the screening due to a clash (Jose Ramos-Horta was speaking at the Sydney Opera House that same night) but am hoping to catch it (and also Dutch filmmaker Jeremy Flohr’s Manual for the Displaced) at the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival later this month.
It also screened in Melbourne (hosted by the Indonesia Forum, Faculty of Arts, Faculty of Fine Arts & Music, and AIYA) and Canberra. Congrats to the organisers for bringing Eksil to so many venues on the east coast of Australia this month.
Meanwhile, all eyes on Indonesia this week as the Presidential inauguration takes place on 20 October, ushering in a new era for the country. We’re writing this newsletter in advance so there hasn’t been much coverage in the Aussie media just yet; no doubt there will be closer to the time.
Till next month,
Natali
What’s happening
Man inserting ballot papers during the 2009 Indonesian presidential elections. Photo by John Estey for the Australian Agency For International Development. Used with a CC- BY-2.0 license.
Indonesia Forum
Coming up in Melbourne next month:
the 43rd Indonesia Forum Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Symposium
The symposium will focus on:
Indonesia Post 2024 Elections: Research Contribution and Collaboration
📅 20-21 November, 2024
📍Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne
Indonesia Council Open Conference
7-10 July 2025
ICOC 2025 will be hosted by the University of Melbourne from 7-10 July 2025, and the call for papers is now open.
Key dates
Call for Papers closes: 17 November 2024
Notification of acceptance: mid-January 2025
Deadline for confirmation of acceptance/speaker registration: 28 February 2025
Postgraduate event: 7 July 2025
Conference: 8-10 July 2025
Call for papers
See above – now is the time to prepare your abstract and submit it for the Indonesia Council Open Conference!
These are our very first steps towards feeding benefits back to members. We know they are only small (so are we!), but the plan is that we will continue to invest in our members and return benefits directly to you through bursaries, exclusive events and other grants and prizes. Yay!
Publications
Winning presidential candidate Prabowo Subianto performing his signature ‘gemoy’ dance. Photo by Arif Firmansyah for Antara.
Our new digital engagement editor, Victoria Winata, published this piece with Monika Winarnita on the role that dance played in the Indonesian elections.
It’s a few months old but still very interesting in its analysis of how dangdut, the genre of choice for so long, is now seen as uncool and has been replaced by more cosmopolitan TikTok-style dance as part of election campaigning in Indonesia.
Membership
All the cool folks are signing up to become members of Indonesia Council – and you can too! Paid membership allows us to cover our modest operating costs and to support keynote speakers at the biennial ASAA conferences. It also provides added benefits for you, including eligibility for:
Biennial Indonesia Council Early Career Book Prize
Dedicated postgraduate events and workshops
Special members-only newsletters
Other events, activities and subsidies as suggested by you