Indonesia Forum Year in Review

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1 Indonesia Forum 2016 Year in Review

2 Contents Indonesia Forum: An Overview - 3 Convenor s Report - 4 Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable - 6 Faculty of Arts - 7 Asia Institute - 10 School of Social and Political Sciences - 16 School of Historical and Philosophical Studies - 20 Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation - 24 Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences - 25 The Nossal Institute for Global Health - 25 Department of Paediatrics - 28 Department of Medical Education - 30 Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning - 32 Faculty of Business and Economics - 36 Melbourne Graduate School of Education - 38 Melbourne School of Engineering - 39 Library - 40 Melbourne Law School - 41 Faculty of Science - 44 Faculty of Veterinary and Agricultural Sciences - 46 Vicorian College of the Arts - 47 Melbourne Conservatorium of Music - 47 AsiaLink - 50 Asialink Arts - 50 Asialink Business - 51 Asialink Diplomacy - 52 Asia Education Foundation - 53 Appendix 1: Publications - 54 Appendix 2: Staff with Indonesia interests - 59 Appendix 3: Postgraduate students with Indonesia-focused research topics - 70 Appendix 4: Indonesia-related theses completed in Appendix 5: Indonesian student enrolments by faculty - 73

3 3 Indonesia Forum: An Overview The University of Melbourne pioneered Indonesian studies in the mid-1950s. Over the decades, there has been a growth in student numbers, staffing and the diversity of Indonesia-related subjects offered to students. Research and teaching relating to Indonesia is conducted across several Faculties, Departments and Centres, including Architecture, Building and Planning, Arts, Business and Commerce, Economics, Engineering, Science, Law and Medicine. Formed in 1991 as the Indonesia Interest Group, the Indonesia Forum is an informal and open network of academics and administrative staff of the University who share a common interest and professional involvement in Indonesia. Members keep in touch by and hold regular meetings, seminars and discussions. For the past 25 years, the Indonesia Forum has hosted major functions that have brought together the wider Melbourne Indonesian and Indonesia-interested community on campus. The Indonesia Forum also plays a policy advisory role on Indonesia-related issues within the University and works closely with the Asia Institute and Asialink, whose missions are related but more broadly oriented towards Asia as a whole. The Forum also maintains close links with the Indonesian Postgraduate Students Association, international students from Indonesia and domestic students studying in Indonesia-related areas. Since 1999, the Indonesia Forum has convened six-monthly postgraduate roundtables for students studying in Indonesia-related fields. The Indonesia Forum maintains an bulletin, moderated by Charles A Coppel, to keep members up to date with Indonesia-related events on campus and elsewhere, including in Indonesia. Its website, indonesiaforum.arts.unimelb.edu.au, provides Indonesia-related information for staff, students, prospective students and colleagues from other institutions. From 2014, the Forum began running a Facebook page, which it uses to connect with the Indonesia-interested community and promote its events: facebook.com/indonesiaforummelbourne. The Indonesia at Melbourne blog, indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au, was founded by Indonesia Forum members, Professor Tim Lindsey and Dr Dave McRae, who comprise the editorial board along with Dr Ken Setiawan. The blog has been edited since its establishment by Tim Mann.

4 4 5 Convenor s Report Celebrating its 25th anniversary, the Indonesia Forum had a busy and highly productive 2016, and it is our pleasure to revisit our activities and achievements in this report. As one of the longest running university-wide forums, the Indonesia Forum has continued to remain true to its collegial and interdisciplinary nature. We are proud of the Forum s role in promoting and cultivating the University s long-standing engagement with Indonesia by facilitating and showcasing exchanges between academic, professional and broader communities. In 2016, the Forum continued its tradition of hosting two sessions of the Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable in what has become an institution among Indonesian postgraduate students in Victoria. The 34th and 35th roundtables welcomed participants from all major universities in Melbourne and from fields ranging from history, to politics and social sciences, medicine, science and engineering. About 90 presenters and guests attended the two roundtables. In its Public Seminar Series, the Forum explored the multifaceted historical, political, and socio-cultural dynamics of Indonesia. In June, Dr Linda Rae Bennet presented insightful analysis on pressing issues in public health in Indonesia, critiquing the artificial disconnection of sexual and reproductive health that has occurred in the country. Dr Manneke Budiman, from the University of Indonesia (UI), provided insight into the fascinating nature of identity formation among Indonesian youth, looking at the interaction between Islamic popular culture and the Korean pop culture wave. Dr Budi Hernawan, from Paramadina University and the Abdurrahman Wahid Centre for Interfaith Dialogue and Peace at UI, highlighted the worrying restriction of civil liberties that has emerged in democratic Indonesia. In a public lecture, Dr Abdul Wahid, from Gadjah Mada University (UGM), examined the elimination of leftist elements within Indonesian universities between , characterising the anti-communist campaign as a form of intellectual genocide. Budiman, Hernawan and Wahid were visiting academics to the University, sponsored by the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative. for the 33rd annual conference of the Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), held in Melbourne from 6-9 July. In 2016, the Forum also supported Indonesian postgraduate students to host a series of documentary movie screenings, which were paired with a critical discussion on the featured topic chaired by a University of Melbourne academic. Last year the Forum supported screenings of documentaries on the controversial Jakarta Bay reclamation project, the ongoing fear of communism in Indonesia, as well as the history of Darul Islam Tentara Islam Indonesia. We would like to acknowledge the financial support from the University of Melbourne s Chancellery, and we particularly wish to express our gratitude for the continuing guidance and support we receive from Professor Simon Evans, Pro Vice Chancellor International, Professor Mark Considine, Dean of Arts, and Professor Pookong Kee, from the Asia Institute. My personal gratitude goes to the 2015 Deputy Convenor Dr Ken Setiawan, Postgraduate Roundtable organiser Hani Yulindrasari, 2015 Indonesia Forum Report designer Tessa Shaw, Indonesia Forum mailing list convenor Charles Coppel, Indonesia at Melbourne blog editor and advisers Tim Mann, Tim Lindsey and Dave McRae, Indonesia Forum gatekeepers Helen Pausacker, Michael Ewing, Edwin Jurriëns and Kate McGregor, and Asia Institute logistics managers Rachael Ballamy and Cathleen Benevento. Through your support and reliable contribution, the Indonesia Forum continues to build on its proud tradition. I wish the new convenors, Dr Ken Setiawan and Dr Rachael Diprose, a productive, successful and undoubtedly highly engaging DR AMANDA ACHMADI Indonesia Forum Convenor 2016 Showcasing the Forum s commitment to promoting interdisciplinary dialogue on Indonesia, we hosted a series of panel discussions, featuring academics from diverse backgrounds. Early in the year, Asia Institute and the Forum co-hosted a panel discussion on Jokowi s economic policy, featuring Professor Vedi Hadiz (Asia Institute), Dr Matthew Wai-Poi (The World Bank), and Eve Warburton (Australian National University). The main Forum event last year was a panel discussion on Indonesian cities. This discussion addressed issues of the urban future in Indonesia, considering the environmental and social crises faced by Jakarta, and the role of politics in shaping them. The fascinating panel featured eminent scholars in urban history and urban studies, including Professor Abidin Kusno, from York University, Canada, Professor Widjaja Martokusumo, from Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), and University of Melbourne urban design expert Professor Kim Dovey, and Professor Vedi Hadiz. Further, in collaboration with the Herb Feith Foundation, the Forum co-hosted Kusno s talk, Shophouses, Chinese Indonesians and Other Stories, and with the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, co-sponsored his keynote lecture Dr Amanda Achmadi

5 6 7 Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable FACULTY OF ARTS Since 1999, the Indonesia Forum has hosted the Postgraduate Roundtable. This twice-yearly event creates an open forum for postgraduate students from the University of Melbourne (and across Australia) to disseminate and share their ideas, research, and experiences. It is an opportunity for postgraduate students to introduce their work to a wider audience and make connections with University of Melbourne staff and other students, rather than to present a formal conference paper. Indonesian postgraduate students and students of Indonesia from all disciplines are invited to submit abstracts. Students prepare minute presentations on their research, which can be delivered in English or Indonesian. Following the presentations, academics provide feedback, and conduct exercises on academic writing and writing for the media. In 2016, Roundtables were held on 9 April and 22 October, attracting about 90 postgraduate students, academics and observers from across Melbourne. In 2016, 19 students presented on a broad range of topics, including public health, architecture, urban planning, governance, education, religion, politics, and business. Indonesia Initiative The Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative is a visiting scholar program that aims to further enhance teaching and research relationships with colleagues in Indonesia. The initiative, led by Associate Professor Kate McGregor, Dr Edwin Jurriëns and Professor Thomas Reuter funds three to four visiting scholars per year from Indonesian universities and will provide opportunities for increased engagement. The initiative commenced in In 2016, the Initiative welcomed the following scholars: DR MANNEKE BUDIMAN Dr Manneke Budiman, Vice-Dean for Academic, Research, and Student Affairs, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia, visited as a University of Melbourne Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative visiting scholar in August. Hosted by Dr Michael Ewing, during his visit Budiman engaged with scholars from across the faculty, was a guest lecturer in several of our subjects and gave two stimulating public seminars on aspects of Indonesian politics, media and popular culture. During his visit, Budiman also wrote a very popular contribution for the Indonesia at Melbourne blog DR EVI FITRIANI Dr Evi Fitriani, Head of the Department of International Relations at the University of Indonesia visited the Asia Institute for three weeks in August under the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative, hosted by Dr Dave McRae. While in Melbourne, Dr Fitriani gave a public lecture on Jokowi s Foreign Policy and Australia- Indonesia relations, held roundtables and discussions with several government agencies in Canberra, participated in a Victorian government roundtable on education ties to Indonesia, and made several media appearances. Her visit has also led to the establishment of a joint intensive masters subject on Indonesian foreign policy to be held for the first time in July 2017 at the University of Indonesia s Depok campus. DR BUDI HERNAWAN Dr Budi Hernawan, research fellow at the Abdurrahman Wahid Centre at University of Indonesia and lecturer at Paramadina University, visited the Asia Institute for three weeks in October under the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative, hosted by Dr Richard Chauvel and Dr Ken Setiawan. During his visit, Hernawan met with scholars across the faculty, delivered a public seminar on civil liberties and spoke in the well-attended panel West Papua, Indonesia and the Pacific together with Nic Maclellan, journalist and researcher of the Pacific. Hernawan also contributed to the Indonesia at Melbourne blog and the Talking Indonesia podcast. DR ABDUL WAHID Dr Abdul Wahid is a lecturer in the Department of History, Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta. His research interests include the political and economic history of colonial and post-colonial Indonesia, the social dimensions of violence in modern Indonesia (during the revolutionary period of and in the transition to the New Order in ), and socio-political issues of minorities, particularly the Chinese in colonial and postcolonial Indonesia. During his visit to Melbourne, Wahid delivered a wellattended public lecture on the elimination of leftist elements from Indonesian higher education institutions from Wahid completed his PhD in Social and Economic History at the Research Institute for History and Culture, Utrecht University, The Netherlands in 2013, and holds a two master s in history, from Leiden University in 2009, and Gadjah Mada University, in Public Events Manneke Budiman, Banality of Expressions: Language and Politics in Post-New Order Indonesia, public lecture, 14 July. Manneke Budiman, Between Islamic Popular Culture and the Korean Wave: Cosmopolitan Identity Formation Among Indonesian Youth, seminar, 28 July. Abdul Wahid, Was It an Intellectual Genocide? The Elimination of Leftist Elements in the Indonesian Higher Education, , public lecture, 11 August. Abdul Wahid, Ivory Tower on Dirt: The Practice of Academic Freedom in Indonesian Universities before and after 1965, brown bag seminar, 18 August. Evi Fitriani, Jokowi s Foreign Policy and Australia-Indonesia Relations, public lecture, 22 August. Budi Hernawan, Shrinking Space of Civil Liberties in Indonesia, 20 October. Budi Hernawan, West Papua, Indonesia and the Pacific, discussion panel, 25 October. Exterior of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre

6 8 9 Two Decades of Reformasi: Reflections on Social and Political Change in Indonesia Conference Avery Poole Dave McRae Budiman Sudjatmiko Muhammad Najib Azca Ed Aspinall, Budiman Sudjatmiko, Dewi Fortuna Anwar Jemma Purdey Edwin Jurriëns Michael Ewing, Wahyu Susilo, Ken Setiawan, Edwin Jurriëns Two decades have passed since a broad-based movement for reform emerged in the final years of the Soeharto presidency, during which time Indonesia has undergone dramatic social, economic, administrative and political changes. The Two Decades of Reformasi conference, subtitled Reflections on Social and Political Change in Indonesia, discussed the various political, governance and economic reform initiatives that have taken place. The conference was held on 3-4 November 2016 and was funded and hosted by the School of Social and Political Sciences, the Asia Institute and the Faculty of Arts. The exciting conference attracted more than 100 participants, including scholars, government and the media, and was the first major Indonesia conference hosted by the Faculty of Arts for more than a decade. In addition to reaching the very engaged audience in Melbourne, most sessions were live-streamed, allowing interested individuals to connect with the conference remotely. Some session streams attracted more than 500 views during or shortly after the conference. The conference was convened by Dr Rachael Diprose (SSPS), and Professor Vedi Hadiz and Dr Dave McRae from the Asia Institute, and was supported by the Faculty of Arts, SSPS and the Asia Institute. The conference involved 47 renowned speakers and chairs from Australia and Indonesia, including academics, senior policy makers, researchers and civil society representatives. The keynote address from the conference, delivered by eminent Indonesian government advisor and analyst Dr Dewi Fortuna Anwar was published on the Indonesia at Melbourne blog. Prominent Indonesian officials Dr Hilmar Farid, the director general of culture at the Ministry of Education and Culture, and Budiman Sudjatmiko, member of the People s Representative Council (DPR) for the Indonesian Democratic Party of Struggle (PDI-P), also presented at the conference. A number of journal articles have been submitted as a result of the conference. Substantial support for organising the conference was also provided by Primatia Wulandari, who is undertaking her PhD at SSPS. Audience members Mark Considine, Rachael Diprose

7 10 11 Asia Institute The Asia Institute plays a leading role in Indonesia-focused research and engagement in the Faculty of Arts and the University in general. The Institute s Indonesian Program is one of the premier Indonesia-related programs in Australia and works closely with stakeholders from Victoria, across Australia and internationally to promote and develop Indonesian studies. It provides thorough training in the language and a broad understanding of contemporary Indonesian culture, politics and society. Teaching Indonesian Language: beginner, intermediate and advanced levels Diversity: Identities in Indonesia Literature: Reading Indonesian Lives Translation: Intercultural Indonesian Indonesia in the World Analysing Indonesia: Concepts and Issues Creative Industries in Indonesia Indonesian Languages in Social Context Popular Cultures in Indonesia Indonesian Politics and Society Topics in Indonesian Studies Honours Indonesian Asian Arts: Networks and Hubs Media and Urban Culture in Asia Language and Power in Asian Societies Genders and Desires in Asia Asian Religions in Societal Context Critical Asian Perspectives Human Rights in Southeast Asia In addition to the teaching of Indonesian politics, culture and society in Melbourne, in 2016, the University of Melbourne embarked on a new collaborative teaching partnership with Udayana University, in Denpasar. The Indonesian Program secured New Colombo Plan scholarships for University of Melbourne students to attend the overseas subject Analysing Indonesia: Concepts and Issues, taught in collaboration with the Faculty of Arts at Udayana, in January. Eleven University of Melbourne students joined this program in 2016 at its inaugural iteration under the coordination of Professor Thomas Reuter. Several Udayana University students joined the subject, providing a tremendous opportunity for the sharing of ideas between students from the two countries. Funding from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade s (DFAT) New Colombo Plan and the Melbourne Student Exchange Office has been secured until Professor Thomas Reuter (third from right) at Bali Udayana University In late 2016, Andrew Rosser was appointed as Professor in Southeast Asian Studies, taking up the position from February The Indonesian Program also developed a new program, the Indonesian Language Refresher Program, in conjunction with Victorian Department of Education and Training. The program, which was held from 28 June to 7 July, offered training in Indonesian language and opportunities for in-depth discussions on a range of topics on contemporary Indonesian politics and society for teachers from Victorian schools. It was coordinated by Dr Michael Ewing and taught by all members of staff in the Indonesian Program. Collaboration and Engagement The Indonesian Program at the Asia Institute again hosted the annual Victorian Indonesian Language Teachers Association (VILTA) Speech Competition Finals and Awards Night in June and July. The awards ceremony was hosted by Dr Edwin Jurriëns on 15 July. This collaboration helps to support and promote the teaching of Indonesian in Victoria and is also an opportunity for to showcase the University as an internationally recognised centre of Indonesian Studies to teachers, students and parents from across the state. Two public lectures held at the Asia Institute in 2016 were live-streamed via the Indonesia at Melbourne blog, in each case attracting a significant secondary audience as well as questions submitted via social media. In April, Professor Vedi Hadiz, Dr Matt Wai-Poi (World Bank) and Eve Warburton (ANU) spoke at a well-attended public panel on Who is benefiting from Jokowi s economic policies. In August, Dr Evi Fitriani, the head of the International Relations Department at the University of Indonesia, spoke on Jokowi s Foreign Policy and Australia-Indonesia relations, at another wellattended lecture. Jurriëns was also co-convenor of the 2016 Australian National University Indonesia Update, themed Digital Indonesia, together with Dr Ross Tapsell (ANU). Conducted annually since 1983, and funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, the Update is the premier conference on Indonesian Studies in Australia. The conference was held on September at the ANU in Canberra, and was attended by more than 400 people, including the Indonesian ambassador to Australia, the deputy chief of staff at the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia, two Indonesian former cabinet ministers, and academics from various universities in Indonesia and Australia. Several thousand people also followed and interacted through the live stream on the internet. The edited volume Digital Indonesia: Connectivity and Divergence, which is based on the conference, will be published by ISEAS, Singapore, in May In conjunction with the Indonesia Update, Jurriëns delivered a seminar, Art markets, communities and cultures of the digital revolution in Indonesia, for the Indonesia Study Group (ISG) at the ANU on 6 April. Jurriëns was involved in a series of activities involving visiting scholars and artists, as well as with the Indonesian community in Melbourne. He served as judge of the short film competition of the Indonesian Film Festival, Melbourne, in April, and the Indonesian Language Competition organised by Radio Kita 3ZZZ at the Consulate of the Republic of Indonesia, on 10 September. On 7 December, he also moderated the artists talk Crossing: Beyond Baliseering, part of the Mapping Melbourne Festival, Multicultural Arts Victoria. Jurriëns also organised a public seminar by curator Alia Swastika, from Ark Gallery, Yogyakarta, on Indonesian contemporary art at the University of Melbourne on 22 June, co-sponsored by Sherman Contemporary Art Foundation, Sydney. In 2016, Professor Vedi Hadiz initiated a documentary film screening and seminar series that was run by Indonesian postgraduate students in the Faculty of Arts, supported by the Asia Institute and Indonesia Forum. Five film screenings and discussions were held throughout the year, covering topics including radical Islam (specifically Darul Islam and Tentara Islam Indonesia), the 1965 violence, Papua, the Jakarta Bay reclamation project, and the murder of human rights activist Munir Said Thalib. Hadiz also continued to engage with institutions, researchers and policy makers in Indonesia. He gave keynote addresses at international conferences at Airlangga University in Surabaya and the University of North Sumatra (USU) in Medan, and a plenary address at an international conference held by the University of Indonesia in Denpasar. He was invited in December 2016 by the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to a gathering of world class Indonesian professors who teach overseas to provide advice on enhancing the research and publishing capabilities of Indonesian universities. As part of the program, he gave lectures at Diponegoro University in Semarang, Central Java, and Padjadjaran University in Bandung, West Java. Dr Richard Chauvel, Dr Rachael Diprose (from the School of Social and Political Sciences) and Dr Craig Thorburn (Monash University) were members of the Joint Selection Team for the Australia Awards Indonesia scholarships. Dr Michael Ewing was the principal local organiser of the 20th International Symposium on Malay/Indonesian Linguistics, held at the University of Melbourne from July, in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute, Germany, and the University of Delaware, USA. Forty-eight scholars from Indonesia, Australia, and across Asia, Europe and North America presented research on Indonesian and Malay, covering a range of topics in linguistics, anthropology and language education. Ewing was also co-organiser, with Dr Novi Djenar of the University of Sydney, of a panel discussion on The future of research in Indonesian language and culture education at The Australian Society of Indonesian Language Educators Conference, held in Adelaide from 30 September-2 October. Key concepts coming out of the panel included the need for educators at all levels to recognise and embrace linguistic and cultural diversity and the complexity of Indonesian society and to provide students of Indonesian language, as well as Indonesian studies more generally, with skills, strategies and, most crucially, the flexibility to deal with this diversity.

8 12 13 Asia Institute Indonesia Policy Roundtable Series Indonesia at Melbourne blog and Talking Indonesia podcast The Indonesian Policy Roundtable Series is an invitation-only series of Chatham House rule discussions convened by Dr Dave McRae and hosted at the Asia Institute. In what is a unique format for Melbourne, the roundtable series brings together policy makers from both The Australian and Indonesian governments, the media, the private sector and academics from all of Melbourne s major universities for frank exchanges on current Indonesian policy issues. The three roundtables held in 2016 each featured current or former senior Indonesian government officials. Dr Yanuar Nugroho, deputy chief of staff at the Executive Office of the President, spoke about bureaucratic reform challenges, Mr Suharso Monoarfa, a member of the Presidential Advisory Council, spoke on Indonesia s infrastructure challenges, and former Deputy Justice and Human Rights Minister Professor Denny Indrayana spoke about justice sector reform. Dr Yanuar Nugroho The Indonesia at Melbourne blog was launched on 1 July 2015 to present analysis, research and commentary on contemporary Indonesia from academics and postgraduate students affiliated with the University of Melbourne. In its second year of operation, the Indonesia at Melbourne blog has established itself as a distinct and valued voice in the public conversation on contemporary Indonesia. In their second year of operation, both the Indonesia at Melbourne blog and the Talking Indonesia podcast experienced rapid audience growth. The largest share of the blog s audience now comes from Indonesia (47.5 percent), followed by Australia (23.8 percent) and the United states (6.6 percent). Monthly page views doubled across the course of 2016, with the most popular articles focusing on the controversy surrounding the Jakarta gubernatorial election and Indonesia s future trajectory as an international actor. Academics or postgraduate students affiliated with the University of Melbourne contributed 60 percent of posts published on the site, affirming the University s emerging reputation as a leading institution for research on Indonesia. Several popular blog posts have made an impact on English-language media coverage of Indonesian events, with posts quoted directly and authors contacted for interviews in broadcast or print media. Public Lecture by Bambang Brodjonegoro On 15 August, His Excellency Professor Bambang Brodjonegoro, minister for national development planning and head of the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), delivered a public lecture on Indonesia s future economic prospects. In this lecture, which was co-hosted by the Asia Institute, the Melbourne School of Government, and the Centre for Asian Business and Economics, Minister Brodjonegoro surveyed Indonesia s recent economic performance in a changing global context, and outlined the policies of President Joko Widodo s administration designed to unlock Indonesia s future economic potential. Following the lecture, the Victorian government and the University of Melbourne hosted a roundtable luncheon with Professor Brodjonegoro, with the Victorian State Government Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade Hon Philip Dalidakis MP providing welcoming remarks. The podcast, co-hosted in 2016 by Dr Dave McRae and Dr Ken Setiawan, also more than doubled its monthly listens over the course of the year, with an episode featuring Dr Nadirsyah Hosen on race, religion and democracy in the context of the Jakarta gubernatorial election proving the most popular. Informal feedback indicates that the podcast has a broad audience in Australian government circles and among journalists, as well as the broader Indonesia-interested public. Indonesia at Melbourne is a joint initiative of the Asia Institute at the Faculty of Arts, the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the Melbourne Law School, and the University of Melbourne s Indonesia Forum, with support also provided by Pro Vice-Chancellor (International), Professor Simon Evans. Founded by Professor Tim Lindsey and Dr Dave McRae, who comprise the editorial board, the blog has been edited since its establishment by Tim Mann. Bambang Brodjonegoro Photo by Cabinet Secretariat of the Republic of Indonesia Brodjonegoro served as Minister of Finance when President Joko Widodo came to power in October 2014 and switched to his current portfolio in July He also served as Deputy Minister of Finance from , and chairman of the Fiscal Policy Office at the Ministry of Finance in He holds a bachelor s degree majoring in Economic Development and Regional Economy from Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia, and a master s degree and PhD from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He served as dean of the Faculty of Economics at the University of Indonesia from and director-general of the Islamic Research and Training Institute at the Islamic Development Bank until 2010.

9 14 15 Appointment of Professor Vedi Hadiz In 2016, Vedi Hadiz began his appointment as professor of Asian Studies at the Asia Institute. Before joining the Asia Institute, Hadiz was Professor of Asian Societies and Politics at Murdoch University s Asia Research Centre and Director of its Indonesia Research Program. He was an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Professor Hadiz received his PhD at Murdoch University in 1996 where he was Research Fellow until he went to the National University of Singapore in At NUS, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology until returning to Murdoch in His research interests revolve around political sociology and political economy issues, especially those related to the contradictions of development in Indonesia and Southeast Asia more broadly, and more recently, in the Middle East. Professor Hadiz s latest book is titled Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle East. Islamic Populism in Indonesia and the Middle Easi In a novel approach to the field of Islamic politics, this provocative new study compares the evolution of Islamic populism in Indonesia to the Middle East. Utilising approaches from historical sociology and political economy, Hadiz argues that competing strands of Islamic politics can be understood as the product of contemporary struggles over power, material resources and the result of conflict across a variety of social and historical contexts. Drawing from detailed case studies across the Middle East and Southeast Asia, the book engages with broader theoretical questions about political change in the context of socio-economic transformations and presents an innovative, comparative framework to shed new light on the diverse trajectories of Islamic politics in the modern world. Professor Vedi Hadiz on campus with XYZ?

10 16 17 School of Social and Political Sciences The School of Social and Political Sciences (SPSS) undertakes significant engagement in research, teaching, and executive education in Indonesia. It has partnerships with the Gadjah Mada University (UGM), the University of Indonesia (UI), and Udayana University, among others, for joint subjects and collaborative research. Along with other schools, it also hosts the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative Fellows each year, and has partnerships with various government agencies in Indonesia. The School works on a number of collaborative research projects with Indonesian partners in development, governance and political order, conflict management and peacebuilding, natural resource governance, corporate social responsibility, and state building, frontiers and borderlands. The School provides executive education courses in Indonesia, particularly in policy analysis, research, evidence-based policy making, and advocacy, among others. Its staff also support many of the activities of The Australian Aid program in Indonesia, including the Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI), the Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU) and a number of others. Dr Rachael Diprose and Associate Professor Helen Dickinson from SSPS, and Catherine Smith from the Faculty of Education, delivered a highly regarded executive education course in Indonesia on Evidence-Based Advocacy for Policy supported by the Department of Foreign Affairs-funded Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU) development program in Indonesia. The program was delivered through the Melbourne School of Government, and representatives from 26 women s organisations across Indonesia, including from remote areas, participated in this highly interactive course. The program saw women engage in learning around policy cycles, evidence-based decision making, research methods and communications for advocacy and policy formulation. Various innovations were included in the program including graphic notetaking, where images of the teaching and learning were drawn alongside the training, and later converted into a take home summary booklet (in digital form) for participants to revisit and share their learning with their organisations. Teaching Indonesia Rising (transferred to the Asia Institute in 2017) Conflict, Security and Development (uses case work from Indonesia) Joint subjects with Indonesian institutions: Social Policy and Development, with UI Comparative Social Policy, with UGM ASEAN and Southeast Asian Regionalism, with UGM In 2016, three University of Melbourne Overseas Study (UMOS) intensive Masters subjects were jointly taught with UGM and UI in Indonesia. Eligible students in Melbourne Masters degrees submit an application, and are selected on the basis of their GPA, and a written statement of how studying in Indonesia draws on, and will advance their interests. Demand for these places has been very high, with only Melbourne students selected for each subject. Students have predominantly been enrolled in Masters degrees in Public Policy and Management, Social Policy, International Relations, and Development Studies. In Indonesia, the Melbourne students work alongside an equivalent group of Indonesian students, with a jointly developed and delivered curriculum, over a week to 10 days. The subjects include field visits, for example, to ministries and civil society and activist organisations, and always involve a lot of interchange and friendship between The Australian and Indonesian students. The three subjects taught in 2016 were Social Policy and Development (UI), Comparative Social Policy and ASEAN and Southeast Asian Regionalism (both at UGM). In 2016, Social Policy and Development was taught by Professor Paul Smyth (SSPS) and Dr Bagus Aryo (Department of Social Welfare, UI) who is also a Faculty of Arts Asian Scholar with a joint appointment with SSPS. ASEAN and Southeast Asian Regionalism was taught by Dr Avery Poole in collaboration with colleagues in the Department of International Relations at UGM, while Comparative Social Policy was taught by Dr Irma Mooi-Reci in collaboration with colleagues in UGM s Department of Social Development and Welfare. During late 2016, Professor Adrian Little and Dr Irma Mooi-Reci negotiated the substance of a joint Masters in Social Policy with the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at UGM. Selected students will study at UGM, including taking the joint intensive UMOS subjects in social policy. They will then enroll with advanced standing for a year of study in Melbourne in the Masters of Social Policy. The collaboration with UGM draws on a partnership with BPJS Ketenagakerjaan, the government body established to develop and administer occupational benefits in Indonesia s emerging social security system, including work accident insurance and retirement savings. The first intake in this program will be in mid In 2016, an agreement was also finalised with UGM for selected undergraduate students to study for a semester in the Bachelor of Arts at Melbourne. These students will be part of two international undergraduate programs (IUP) at UGM international relations and public policy which are taught in English and have a requirement that students study overseas as part of their program. The first group of UGM students will arrive in Melbourne in mid The executive education course on Evidence-Based Advocacy for Policy utilised a novel method to record program learnings graphic illustrations, which were then distributed to program participants The Evidence-Based Advocacy for Policy training program

11 18 19 School of Social and Political Sciences (continued) Randy Wirasta Nandyatama Research In 2016, researchers from The Australian Research Council-Linkage Project on Non- Judicial Redress Mechanisms (led by Dr Kate Macdonald in SSPS, and Dr Shelley Marshall at Monash University) published their series of reports on conflict management through nonjudicial redress mechanisms, following years of research in Indonesia, India and elsewhere. Researchers in the program at Melbourne included Professor Fiona Haines from SSPS and Sarah Rennie from the Faculty of Law. Other research partners include the Corporate Responsibility Coalition, UK, Action Aid, UK, Federation of Homeworkers Worldwide, Monash University, the University of Newcastle, the University of Essex and RMIT. The reports were launched in a well-attended event on 24 October at the Faculty of Arts new Arts West building at the Parkville campus, and published online ( events/). Research also commenced in Indonesia and Myanmar for the States, Fragility and Conflict project involving researchers from SSPS (Dr Rachael Diprose, Dr Bart Klem, Dr Kate Macdonald, Nathan Bond, Professor Adrian Little, and Professor John Langmore), SOAS, the University of Gadjah Mada (Dr Muhammad Najib Azca and Professor Purwo Santoso) and partners in Myanmar. Researchers from this group also convened a popular panel on Contested Development in the Asian Frontiers at the biannual Asian Borderlands conference in Nepal. Further, with a Faculty of Arts research grant and SSPS support, Dr Rachael Diprose and Dr Kate Macdonald undertook research in collaboration with UGM (Dr Poppy Winanti, Dr Nanang Kurniawan, Hasrul Hanif and others). Analysis for the project, Multi-level Governance and Adaptive strategies to Manage Natural Resource Conflicts is now underway. This has led to a successful competitive application for the team to build on this research with further work funded by an UGM Faculty of Social and Political Sciences Internationalisation Grant in Collaboration and Engagement In March, a Faculty of Arts/SSPS delegation, including the Dean of Arts Professor Mark Considine, Professor John Murphy, Dr Rachael Diprose and Faculty of Arts External Relations Manager Fiona Abud, met with senior government officials in key ministries in Jakarta: Dr Anwar Sanusi, secretary-general of the Ministry of Villages, Disadvantaged Areas and Transmigration Dr Mu man Nuryana, head of the Board of Education and Research at the Ministry of Social Affairs Professor Pratikno, minister for the State Secretariat, and Setya Utama, secretary of the ministry These discussions largely focused on staff development needs in these ministries, particularly for PhD study, Masters coursework and short-course customised executive education. In Jakarta, the delegation also hosted a welcome home event with the alumni chapter in Indonesia, and participated in a workshop on Building the Capacity of Policy Analysts with the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN) and the DFAT-supported Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI). Participating in the workshop was the deputy head of People s Representative Council (DPR) Commission VI, officials from the Ministry of Law and Human Rights, and the University of Indonesia. During this visit, Considine also delivered a public lecture on Democratic Public Policy: How Do We Deepen the Sustainable Development Trajectory?. KSI published an in-depth interview with Considine about Evidence, Policy Analysis and the Knowledge Sector in Indonesia. Rachael Diprose was appointed to the Joint Selection Committee for Australia Awards Indonesia for Richard Chauvel from the Asia Institute, and Dr Craig Thorburn from Monash University also sit on the committee. In December, the Faculty of Arts hosted a visit from the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at Airlannga University in Surabaya, with discussions about developing staff exchanges, curriculum review and research collaboration. New and strengthened partnerships and collaborations include: National Institute of Public Administration, or LAN (custom education and technical support/research), National Development Planning Agency, or Bappenas (custom education), Ministry of Villages (custom education and support); the State Secretariat (a memorandum of understanding is being developed); and the Ministry of Social Affairs (an MoU has been signed). Randy Wirasta Nandyatama is a lecturer at the Department of International Relations, Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Yogyakarta. From 2013 to 2015, he was the director of the ASEAN Studies Centre at UGM s Faculty of Social and Political Science. Randy s research interests include diplomacy, Sino- Southeast Asian relations, and ASEAN regionalism. Randy is pursuing his PhD in Political Science (International Relations) at the University of Melbourne with the support of a Melbourne International Research Scholarship. His research focuses on understanding the role of Indonesian civil society organisations in the institutionalisation of human rights in ASEAN. Primatia Romana Wulandari Primatia Romana Wulandari Primatia Romana Wulandari is a PhD Candidate at the School of Social and Political Science at The University of Melbourne. Before pursuing her doctorate, Primatia worked on various development programs funded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT). Her research interests focus on the dynamics of bureaucratic reform, particularly on how policy actors, institutions and contexts interact, and how lessons are learned over time. Her PhD also focuses on bureaucratic reform and seeks to reveal the challenges of reform during the period of democratisation in Indonesia. Primatia also holds a Master of Arts in Management and Development from Van Hall Larenstein- Wageningen University, the Netherlands.

12 20 21 School of Historical and Philosophical Studies Fifty Years On: Reflections on the Anniversary and Recent Efforts to Address the 1965 Violence in Indonesia The School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) teaches the history of Indonesia in a range of subjects. Staff from SHAPS have longstanding partnerships with Indonesian institutions and researchers. SHAPS also hosts Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative Fellows each year, along with other schools in the Faculty. Teaching History, Memory and Violence in Asia Modern Southeast Asia Cold War Cultures in Asia Collaboration and Engagement Historian of Indonesia Dr Abdul Wahid, from UGM, spent three weeks in the history program in August on a visit funded by the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative. He met other historians, co-taught classes and gave two public presentations on his research on the 1965 violence in Indonesia and on the history of Indonesian universities. Associate Professor Katharine McGregor gave a keynote at the first ever humanities undergraduate conference (INUSHARTS) hosted by the Faculty of Letters at the University of Indonesia in August-September. History honours students Johnathon Peters (2015) and Paul O Shea (2016) presented their honours theses at this conference. McGregor continued to oversee the Faculty of Arts Indonesia Initiative, which allows staff members to host Indonesian academics for short visits to the University of Melbourne. The Indonesia Initiative is described in detail earlier in the report. McGregor continued work on her Australian Research Council Future Fellow ( ) Confronting Historical Injustice in Indonesia: Memory and Transnational Human Rights Activism. Dr Simon Creak received a Faculty of Arts Research Grant for the project: Sport, Politics and Community in a Tumultuous Region: The Southeast Asian Games, , which includes research on Indonesia. Dr Jess Melvin, recent PhD graduate in history, commenced a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale Univeristy and was awarded the Asian Studies Association of Australia prize for the best thesis on Asia in Australia. The Asian History Hub co-sponsored with the Indonesia Forum and the Herb Feith Foundation the conference Fifty Years On: Reflections on the Anniversary and Recent Efforts to Address the 1965 Violence in Indonesia, held at the University of Melbourne on 6-7 October. Opening the conference, Dodi Yanuar, program manager for Indonesian human rights organisation Asia Justice and Rights (AJAR), delivered the Herb Feith Memorial Lecture, Unlearning impunity: Indonesian civil society efforts aimed at truth seeking, in which he described how AJAR has centred its activism on overcoming impunity in Indonesia. Associate Professor Katharine McGregor, Dr Ken Setiawan, Dr Ana Dragojlovic, Professor Vedi Hadiz and PhD student Hellena Yoranita Souisa, from the University of Melbourne, delivered papers and chaired panels, alongside academics and activists from Indonesia and Australia. The conference was attended by more than 50 people, including staff and students from the Arts Faculty with interests in both Indonesia and historical justice, as well as members of the community. The conference also launched The Act of Living: A Photo Exhibition of Women Survivors of Indonesia s Violence in 1965, hosted in the Asia Institute. This AJAR curated exhibition was to be part of the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival in 2015, but was cancelled following pressure from police. The exhibition featured photographs of 16 Indonesian women who survived the 1965 violence and who participated in a joint research project with AJAR staff to consider how they have lived with their histories and found resilience in doing so. The exhibition was on display for two weeks and viewed by many students and passers by. At the launch, one of the participants in the project, Ibu Kadmiyati from Yogyakarta, sang about her experiences and AJAR Project Manager Dodi Yuniar explained the project.

13 22 23 Associate Professor Katharine McGregor Dr Jess Melvin Associate Professor Katharine McGregor was a co-convenor of the conference, Fifty Years On: Reflections on the Anniversary and Recent Efforts to Address the 1965 Violence in Indonesia, along with Dr Jemma Purdey, from Monash University, and University of Melbourne PhD student Hellena Souisa. McGregor has a particular interest in memory studies and human rights activism and is completing a four-year Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on the project: Confronting Historical Injustice in Indonesia: Memory and Transnational Human Rights Activism. The project examines Indonesian activism from the late Soeharto period (1990s) to It analyses memories of: the Japanese occupation ( ) including forced labour and forced sexual slavery; the independence struggle ( ), focusing on Dutch atrocities against Indonesians; and the anti-communist violence, including mass killings and detention without trial. The project examines how memories are used within activism and how activism has developed for these cases across Indonesia, Japan and the Netherlands. The research hopes to offer new insights into Indonesian human rights activism by moving beyond a national focus. It also aims to provide a historically grounded analysis of the effects of using memory to advance human rights claims. In January 2016, Dr Jess Melvin was awarded the 2016 Asian Studies Association of Australia Presidents prize for the best thesis on Asia conferred in 2015 for her dissertation Mechanics of Mass Murder: How the Indonesian Military Initiated and Implemented the Indonesian Genocide, which was supervised by Associate Professor Kate McGregor. Melvin has now begun a postdoctoral fellowship at Yale University. During 2016 at Yale, Melvin worked on revising her book for publication. In early 2017, she began a faculty fellowship and teaching two courses: a seminar course on Indonesian history for freshmen and a lecture course on Southeast Asian history for senior students. Hani Yulindrasari Hani Yulindrasari is a PhD candidate in Gender Studies at the School of Social and Political Science. She has a background in psychology and works as a lecturer in the early childhood education program at the Indonesia University of Education (UPI). She is also a certified assessor and instructor for the Indonesian government s early childhood teacher professional development program. Her research interests are in the area of early childhood and gender studies, especially investigating how certain idealisations of gender are transfered to and internalised by individuals in childhood. She is committed to improving children s education and gender equality and equity. Her PhD research focuses on the masculinities of men who work in early childhood education, a non-traditional occupation. It illuminates how male teachers navigate gendered societal expectations and negotiate their masculinities in early childhood education, a context where gender conformity is highly expected. Associate Professor Katharine McGregor Hani Yulindrasari

14 24 25 Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation MEDICINE, DENTISTRY AND HEALTH SCIENCES Through students, graduates and colleagues, the Grimwade Centre has continued to grow its relationships and collaborations to preserve the rich culture of Indonesia. The Nossal Institute for Global Health Teaching Conservation Assessment and Treatment 2 Minor Thesis - Conservation Masters students enrolled in these subjects have carried out treatments and studies on traditional Indonesian musical instruments from the collection of Music Archive of Monash University in collaboration with Professor Margaret Kartomi from Monash University s School of Music. This offers students an opportunity to gain insight into the conservation of complex and functional items with a rich cultural context. Kowangan Collaboration and Engagement The Grimwade Centre for Cultural Materials Conservation has developed a very productive collaborative relationship with Music Archive of Monash University around its collection of Indonesian instruments. Foyer displays in the new Arts West building have showcased this work on the Jeune Scott Kemball collection of Wayang Kulit. This collaboration has led to several conservation treatment projects for Grimwade Centre masters students, as well as three minor thesis projects (Bridget Hale, Rosie Cook and Susan Logan Morris). The Grimwade Centre student group Student Conservators for Timor-Leste has collaborated with the Clearing House for Archival Records on Timor Inc. (CHART) to carry out conservation assessment and digitise newspapers from its highly significant historical collection. The University Digitisation Centre generously assisted with this. Rosie Cook Grimwade Centre masters student Rosie Cook s research on the fragile bamboo kowangan from Wonosobo district in Central Java was a particular highlight in Kowangan are rigid hooded capes made of woven bamboo, typically worn by duck herders as protection from the rain. When they are converted into musical instruments, using strings and bamboo plucks, they are known as bundengan. Rosie visited Wonosobo district and met with Bapak Mahrumi, who may be the last masterartisan who knows how to make high quality kowangan, specifically for bundenganplaying. Rosie captured videos of the making of the kowangan and met with local musicians to better understand its use in bundengan-playing. Rosie also stablised the fragile bamboo materials of a kowangan first collected by Professor Margaret Kartomi from Wonosobo in Rosie s research was awarded the Alexander Copland Award for the best minor thesis. The Nossal Institute has a long-term engagement with the Indonesian health sector, ranging from high level policy analysis and advice, to research in collaboration with Indonesian research partners, capacity building programs for Indonesian health service managers and providers, and supervision of masters and PhD research projects. The Nossal has also a role in facilitating the engagement of staff from other Faculties and Departments within the University of Melbourne on projects and activities which require disciplinary expertise outside those related directly to health. Teaching A highlight of 2016 was the development and delivery of the first round of teaching on malaria for an inter-disciplinary group of 50 health service managers and malaria program staff from the eastern Indonesian provinces of Papua and East Nusa Tenggara. The course was funded by the Australia-Indonesia Awards program under the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Collaboration and Engagement Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) The Knowledge Sector Initiative (KSI) is a program funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) that aims to improve the production and use of knowledge and evidence in the development of public policy in Indonesia. The program is now in its fourth year. DFAT recently agreed to extend the KSI program for five years, and the Nossal will continue to engage and facilitate broader engagement across the University in phase 2. Key activities during 2016 included: Peer review and assessment of the quality of key knowledge products from Indonesian research partner institutes, covering topics in political science, law, religion and health Providing mentors to participate with Indonesian experts in delivering a series of four manuscript clinics in Indonesia, under the auspices of the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. These clinics aimed to improve the ability of mid-level Indonesian researchers to gain publication for their papers in international standard journals Hosting a visit by a delegation from the Ministry and the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) to the University of Melbourne, during which a letter of intent for further collaboration was signed (see below). Australia-Indonesia Partnership in Maternal and Neonatal Health (AIPMNH) The DFAT-funded AIPMNH program provided technical support and resources to 14 districts in East Nusa Tenggara from 2009 to 2015 for services to reduce maternal and neonatal mortality. While this project concluded in December 2015, Dr Krishna Hort from Nossal undertook a follow-up visit in March 2016 to compile and analyse reports of maternal and neonatal health services and deaths for the full year of The analysis found a slight rise in maternal deaths following a decline of about 40 percent since the project commenced in This may have been caused by the transition to the National Health Insurance program, which commenced in 2014, and the administrative changes associated with that change. Review of report on estimates of maternal mortality Hort also undertook a consultancy for the DFAT-funded Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction Program (MAMPU) in which he provided peer review of a report commissioned by MAMPU that developed estimates of maternal mortality at the national and provincial level from 2010 Census data. These estimates were considerably lower than the estimates from the 2012 Indonesia Demographic and Health Survey (IDHS), which had caused considerable controversy in Indonesia.

15 26 27 Dr Krishna Hort Delegation from Indonesian Ministry of Research and Higher Education visits Melbourne Dr Krishna Hort is senior technical advisor for Health Systems Governance and Finance, at the Nossal Institute for Global Health. Hort has a background as a medical doctor, with post graduate training in obstetrics, paediatrics and public health. He has worked alternately in The Australian health system, and in health assistance programs in countries of Southeast Asia, with a particular interest in Indonesia. His engagement in Indonesia includes technical leadership and support for development assistance programs, as well as research on health systems, and spans a period of more than 20 years. Technical engagement has focused on maternal and neonatal health in East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and West Nusa Tenggara (NTB) provinces, and health system reconstruction in Aceh. Following the Indian Ocean Tsunami, the Nossal developed a research partnership with the Centre for Health Policy and Management at Gadjah Madah University, which has covered research on hospitals, particularly hospital governance and regulation of quality of care, dual practice of health workers in the Indonesian system, and the impacts of the national health insurance scheme. Hort has also led Nossal engagement in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade-funded Knowledge Sector Initiative, including by conducting studies mapping the policy making process and the types and use of evidence in policy making in the health sector. Hort was co-editor of the recently released Indonesian Health System Assessment for the Asia Pacific Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. The University of Melbourne hosted a joint delegation from the Indonesian Academy of Sciences (AIPI) and the Indonesian Ministry of Research and Higher Education on June, as part of the Nossal Institute s role in the Knowledge Section Initiative (KSI) program. The delegation included AIPI President Professor Sangkot Marzuki, Director General of the Ministry of Research and Higher Education Dimyati, Executive Director of the Indonesian Science Fund Pak Saputro, and Indonesian Academy of Young Scientists (ALMI) President Professor Jamaluddin Jompa. The delegation met with Professor Mark Considine, dean of the Faculty of Arts, Professor Terry Nolan, head of the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, Siôn Lutley, executive director of advancement, and representatives from the Asia Institute and LH Martin Institute, to discuss potential opportunities for collaboration. The meeting concluded with the signature of a letter of intent between the University and the Indonesian Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. The Letter of Intent recorded the intention of the University and the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education to promote further co-operation in the fields of research and education, with a particular focus on online education, research training and joint publication in mutual priority areas; and the sharing of experiences and lessons learnt in building research quality and research funding in academic institutions. Australian Awards Indonesia (AAI) Short Course: Malaria Prevention and Treatment for Infants, Children and Pregnant Women in Eastern Indonesia Two groups of government, health service and community organisation staff braved the chill of a Melbourne autumn to join with the Nossal Institute and collaborators for an intensive three-week program of training in malaria prevention, treatment and control in April and May The visit of the 24 participants from East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) and 22 from Papua and West Papua provinces was part of a longer-term program, developed and delivered by the Nossal Institute, in collaboration with the Burnet Institute, Menzies University and the Faculty of Tropical Medicine at Mahidol University in Thailand. The consortium was selected by The Australian Awards Indonesia (AAI) program to deliver this program with funding from DFAT. Dr Krishna Hort The program aimed to develop the skills and understanding of the participants to strengthen the malaria programs and activities undertaken by their organisations and institutions in areas of Indonesia where malaria is still a major cause of disease and death. Following the course, participants were supported to implement a series of 13 evidencebased projects designed to strengthen the delivery of malarial treatment and prevention programs in their respective areas. The program was warmly received by the participants and The Australian Awards Indonesia (AAI) program, and may lead to further programs in the future, as AAI offers more short-term awards and programs.

16 28 29 Department of Paediatrics Rotovirus Vaccine Trial The Department of Paediatrics works with Gadjah Mada University (UGM) on research and training, and establishing links between Yogyakarta and the Melbourne Children s Campus. Several of these connections have resulted in PhDs through University of Melbourne. Strong research collaboration is ongoing in the fields of rotavirus vaccine, diarrhoea, tuberculosis and pneumonia. Teaching The University of Melbourne MD course in Child and Adolescent Health contains a lecture on Child Health in a Global Context, which outlines the child health situation in Indonesia, and other countries in the Asia-Pacific. Collaboration and Engagement The Department of Paediatrics is continuing to collaborate with its counterpart at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) on a major field trial of RV3 rotavirus vaccine in Yogyakarta. Professor Julie Bines is the principle investigator. This project builds on decades of collaboration between Department of Paediatrics and UGM, and is discussed in further detail below. In November-December 2016, the Department of Paediatrics conducted a three-week child health epidemiology and research methods and leadership course, which included several mid-career academic staff from the Department of Paediatrics at UGM. Rotavirus gastroenteritis is a major cause of illness in children worldwide, and leads to the deaths of about 215,000 children under five every year. In Indonesia alone, an estimated 5,450 deaths, 117,110 hospitalisations and more than 300,000 outpatient clinic visits occur each year because of rotavirus gastroenteritis in children under five. A vaccine to prevent severe rotavirus disease therefore has the potential to have a huge impact on child mortality and suffering. For the past 40 years, researchers from Melbourne (University of Melbourne, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), and Royal Children s Hospital) and Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta have been working together to develop a vaccine to prevent rotavirus disease in Indonesian children. In , the team conducted a clinical trial to assess the ability of this vaccine to protect against severe rotavirus disease in the first 18 months of life, using a novel human neonatal rotavirus vaccine developed in Melbourne (RV3-BB vaccine). The study was conducted in primary care centres and hospitals in Yogyakarta and Central Java provinces and involved over 500 midwives, in addition to doctors, pharmacists and research assistants across these regions. The goal is to develop an effective, affordable rotavirus vaccine aimed at prevention of rotavirus disease from birth for children in Indonesia and worldwide. Dr Trisasi Lestari, a PhD candidate from Charles Darwin University co-supervised by Steve Graham, conducted a study of household screening of tuberculosis cases in a high incidence setting in Indonesia.

17 30 31 Department of Medical Education Training Programs Since 2003, the Department of Medical Education has collaborated with the University of Indonesia to run the one-year Bachelor of Medical Science program. More than 350 Indonesian students have participated in the program, which continues to build strong linkages in the academic and medical fields between Australia and Indonesia. Collaboration and Engagement In 2016, the Department of Medical Education welcomed 13 medical students from the University of Indonesia into the Bachelor of Medical Science program at the University of Melbourne. This one-year program offers medical students an opportunity to gain research training and experience and to undertake a clinical placement, giving them insight into what it is like to combine research with medical practice. This is an important step towards developing them as future clinician scientists. All 13 students presented their research projects at The Australian Society for Medical Research Student Symposium in Melbourne. The symposium is an opportunity for health and medical research students to present their work to an audience of their peers, and network with and listen to some of Victoria s top medical researchers in a cooperative scientific environment. Two Indonesian students, Bhanu A and Brenda, were accepted to deliver 3-Minute thesis presentations at this meeting. One student, Rhema Susilo, went on to present her research on chronic neuropathic pain in New York and Auckland. The top student for this year and the recipient of the Deans Prize was Vivianne Chandrakesuma. Her project was titled: Functional and Radiological Outcomes of Dorsal Versus Volar Plate Fixation for Distal Radius Fracture. Chandrakesuma undertook her clinical placement alongside one of the Asia Pacific region s leading orthopaedic surgeons, Professor Peter Choong, at St Vincent s Hospital, and her systematic review was supervised by Associate Professor Michelle Dowesy. In 2016, Dr Anita Horvath and Dr Justin Bilszta from the Department of Medical Education continued their research collaboration with Dr Ardi Findyartini, MD, PhD, and Dr Diantha Soemantri, MD, PhD, both from the Faculty of Medicine at the University of Indonesia, to evaluate the experiences of students who undertake the Bachelor of Medical Science program. This project is exploring the experiences of students who undertake a clinical placement in Australia and comparing this to a similar group of students who undertake clinical placements in Indonesia. A focus of the study will be their in-placement experiences, especially in relation to language and cultural acclimatisation, as well as the integration of the Australia-exposed students back into the clinical environment on return to Indonesia. Dr Justin Bilszta and Ms Jayne Lysk collaborated with Dr Ardi Findyartini and Dr Diantha Soemantri from the Department of Medical Education at the Faculty of Medicine, UI, to develop a clinical teacher training program funded through a grant from the Australia Indonesia Institute (AII). The project represents the initiative of two medical education faculties working together create a program for a better education for future doctors. The program was designed to train clinical teachers for their roles in teaching and education to improve the quality of education of future generations and patient-centred care. In November 2016, the first Advanced Clinical Teacher Training and Training of Trainers was held over three days at the UI Faculty of Medicine. It was attended by 27 clinical teachers from UI partner hospitals. This training of trainers program represented the beginning of efforts to develop internationally benchmarked advanced training of clinical teachers at UI and is a sign of the strengthened collaboration in medical education and research with the Melbourne Medical School. The cohort

18 32 33 FACULTY OF ARCHITECTURE, BUILDING AND PLANNING Professor Abidin Kusno The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning continues to nurture relationships with key staff and institutions throughout Indonesia and continues to develop links with the University of Indonesia in Jakarta, Gadjah Mada University (UGM) in Yogyakarta, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB) and 10 November Institute of Technology (ITS) in Surabaya. Teaching The study of Southeast Asian (including Indonesian) architecture, planning and urbanism is included in a number of subjects taught at undergraduate and graduate level, including as part of the Bachelor of Environments and Bachelor of Design degrees. Foundations of Architecture Formative Ideas in Architecture Managing Global City Regions Multicultural/Postcolonial Cities Strategic Planning in Asia-Pacific Cities Theorising the Asian Metropolis Urban Environments Asia Pacific Modernities Spatial and Political Architectures of Asia Principles of Heritage and Conservation Design Thesis (Jakarta Studio) International Travelling Studio (Bandung Studio) Collaboration and Engagement Amanda Achmadi and Sidh Sintusingha cocoordinated a joint exhibition based on the works that resulted from the 2015 Bandung Traveling Studio in Melbourne. The Studio was a joint program that brought together 15 students from the University of Melbourne and 20 students from ITB to explore the complex interstices of informal and formal urbanism in Bandung. The exhibition, The Informal City, was held in the MSD building in February Gideon Aschwanden coordinated the 2016 travelling studio to Bandung, delivered in Semester 2, The studio is built on an interdisciplinary teaching and learning approach, bringing together the staff and students from the University of Melbourne, Institute Technology in Bandung and the Future Cities Laboratory in Singapore. The Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning hosted Professor Abidin Kusno from York University in Toronto, Canada, in July Professor Kusno, a leading historian of architecture and urbanism of Indonesia, was a keynote speaker at the 33rd International Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), hosted by the University of Melbourne, 6-9 July On 4-5 July, the University of Melbourne hosted the workshop Spaces in transition: globalisation, transnationalism and urban change in the Asia-Pacific. The workshop aimed to offer insights on architecture and urbanism in the Asia-Pacific region. It engaged with issues of decolonisation, indigenisation, urbanisation and globalisation and encouraged critical reflection on the histories, pedagogies and practices of architecture in the Asia-Pacific. Participants include academics and students from national and international universities with research focused on Southeast Asia and East Asia, and a panel from the Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture (CAMEA) at The University of Adelaide. The event was organised with funding from the Strategic Initiative Fund at the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne and led by Anoma Pieris, Duanfang Lu (University of Sydney), and Cecilia Chu (Hong Kong University). The event also aimed to increase regional participation in the SAHANZ conference that followed. Abidin Kusno from York University, Toronto, Canada, gave the keynote address at the workshop. The workshop was followed by a postgraduate student plenary: Rethinking Modern Asia- Pacific Architectures, on 6 July 2016, held in collaboration with the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the National University of Singapore (NUS) and funded through an International Research and Research Training Fund workshop grant from the University of Melbourne. Collaborating academics included Cecilia Chu and Eunice Seng from HKU and Jiat-Hwee Chang and Lilian Chee from NUS. In 2016, the Indonesia Forum contributed funding in support of a visit to the University of Melbourne by Professor Abidin Kusno, whose research is widely recognised in Indonesian architecture and urban studies. His research interests, with a focus on Jakarta and Indonesia, include urban/suburbanism, politics and culture, history and theory of architecture. While in Melbourne, Professor Kusno delivered one of the keynotes in GOLD: the 33rd Annual Conference of the Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand. His keynote speech, Gold, Power and Architectural Stories in Indonesia looked at how different meanings of gold from the past and present have informed stories of architecture and urbanism in Indonesia. He was also a panellist at an Indonesia Forum Panel Discussion, Reading Indonesian Cities: Dreams, Nightmares and Memories of a Nation, with the University of Melbourne s Professor Vedi Hadiz and Professor Kim Dovey and Professor Widjaja Martokusumo (ITB). Kusno held a Canada Research Chair in Asian Urbanism and Culture (with University of British Columbia) and currently serves as President of Canadian Council for Southeast Asian Studies. His books include Appearances of Memory: Mnemonic Practices of Architecture and Urbanism in Indonesia (Duke University Press, 2010), After the New Order: Space, Politics and Jakarta (Hawaii University Press, 2013), and Behind the Postcolonial: Architecture, Urban Space and Political Cultures in Indonesia (Routledge, 2000). Professor Abidin Kusno Professor Widjaja Martokusumo In July 2016, Amanda Achmadi, from the Melbourne School of Design (MSD), hosted Professor Widjaja Martokusumo, Dean of Bandung Institute of Technology s (ITB) School of Architecture, Planning and Policy Development. Professor Martokusumo was a recipient of the 2015/2016 Melbourne Asia Visiting Fellowship. During his visit, he presented a research seminar and contributed to studio teaching while working alongside staff at MSD to explore future research collaborations between the two departments. Professor Martokusumo graduated from ITB s Department of Architecture in 1991 and in 1999 was awarded a Doktor-Ingenieur degree in urban planning and design from the Fachbereich Stadt- & Landschaftsplanung, Universität Gesamthochschule Kassel, Germany. He is also the chairman of the Architectural Design Research Group. Since 2014, he has been a professor in architecture and urban heritage conservation. His writings have been published in Jahrbuch Stadterneuerung TU Berlin (2000 and 2002), the Journal of Southeast Asian Architecture NUS (2008), ASEAN Journal on Tourism and Hospitality (2011), and the International Journal of Built Environmental and Sustainability, University of Teknologi Malaysia (2015). He has also contributed pieces to The Indonesian Town Revisited, edited by PJM Nas, (2002), and Managing Change at Universities: A Selection of case studies from Africa and Southeast Asia, edited by Peter Mayer and Marc Wilde (2013).

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20 36 37 FACULTY OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS Book Launch: Doing Business in ASEAN Markets Teaching The Faculty of Business and Economics is a leading centre of teaching and research in accounting, actuarial studies, economics, finance and management and marketing. The Faculty maintains strong and enduring teaching and learning and research relationships with Indonesia and undertakes a range of engagement activities with leading higher education institutions, government bodies, and corporations. The James Riady Chair in Asian Business and Economics supports these teaching, research and engagement endeavours, to drive a deeper understanding of the Asian region. The James Riady Chair is endowed by James Riady, a Bachelor of Commerce alumnus, and sits at the heart of the Faculty s dedicated Centre for Asian Business and Economics. Business, Governance & Ethics in Asia Business in Asia (Indonesia focus) Business in the Global Economy Doing Business in the Asia-Pacific Asian Business and Management Managing Entrepreneurship and Innovation Strategy, Ethics and Governance (with Asia focus) Collaboration and Engagement In 2016, Associate Professor Irwan Adi Ekaputra (University of Indonesia) was appointed a Centre for Asian Business and Economics Visiting Research Fellow in the Faculty of Business and Economics and spent three months visiting Melbourne, in the Department of Finance. His research interests include market microstructure, behavioural finance, and asset pricing. In 2013, Irwan and several Indonesian finance scholars founded the Indonesian Finance Association (IFA). Since then, he has been appointed IFA president. Since June 2013, he has served as one of the board members of the Asian Finance Association (AsFA). He is also the Director of the Graduate School of Management in the Faculty of Economics and Business at UI. In October 2016, the Department of Accounting delivered a three-week short course in Strengthening the Implementation and Application of Accrual Accounting to 30 middle and senior managers from the Indonesian Ministry of Finance under the Australia Awards Indonesia (AAI) program. The Australia Awards short courses are designed to develop senior-level participants technical and leadership competencies and to provide linkages between Indonesians and Australians at the individual and organisational level. The Department of Accounting brought together faculty and key industry partners experienced in transitioning public sector reporting to accrual based international standards and in the development and use of those standards. More than 50 University of Melbourne academic and administrative staff and 11 presenters delivered the program. Professor Prakash Singh and Dr Krzysztof Dembek, from the Department of Management and Marketing, and Dr Brad Potter and Dr Jodi York, from the Department of Accounting, continued to work on a two-year grant on Analysing the Business Models of Organisations Involved in Creating Social and Economic Value in the Philippines, Indonesia and Australia. On 19 October, Melbourne Business School professors Ian Williamson and Peter Verhezen hosted an event to launch the book Doing Business in ASEAN Markets, with co-editor Natalia Soebagjo, executive director of University of Indonesia s Centre for the Study of Governance, and contributors, including former Minister of Energy and Mineral Resources Sudirman Said, President Commissioner of PT Pertamina Tanri Abeng, Senior lecturer at the University of Indonesia s Faculty of Economics Faisal Basri, Independent Commissioner of Axiata XL Peter Chambers, and CEO of Pasifik Satelit Nusantara Adi Rahman Adiwoso. The book analyses the pitfalls and risks of doing business in ASEAN countries that are mostly absent in Western markets, covering various strategic, external, operational, and legal-cultural challenges for international companies. Doing Business in ASEAN Emerging Book Launch for Doing Business in ASEAN Markets Markets addresses how to resolve those barriers. Encompassing issues of governance and leadership standards, the authors present case studies and practical solutions underpinned by academic research. Helping executives learn how to implement high international standards and maintain sensitivity to socio-cultural and political Asian contexts, the book highlights the need to create an international diverse and unified leadership team that will take better decisions and effectively deal with risks, and apply best corporate governance practices within an Asian context. According to Professor Verhezen, challenges include weak legal institutions and bureaucratic red tape that often result in institutional voids that can make legal and judicial certainty a far-fetched dream for many global firms. Ethical leadership is sometimes also challenged by outright coercive corruption that can arise when attempting to obtain legal licenses or to finalise deals in these growth markets. Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati provided a foreword in the book, explaining that good corporate governance was critical to improving the ability of boards, managers and owners to steer their companies through rapidly changing and volatile market conditions. 20th David Finch Lecture by Professor Chatib Basri Reform in a second best world : the case of Indonesia Professor Ross Garnaut, Consul-General to Indonesia Ms Dewi Savitri Wahab, Professor Chatib Basri, Professor Jeff Borland and Dean of Faculty of Business and Economics and Melbourne Business School Professor Paul Kofman The practice of policy reform was the subject of the 20th David Finch lecture, delivered on 14 September by Chatib Basri, Professor of Economics at the University of Indonesia and former Indonesian minister of finance. In a fascinating and insightful talk on how policy is made, Basri suggested that a policy maker must choose between two paths. One involves conducting reform only when government institutions allow perfect policies to be chosen and implemented. This might sound attractive, he said, but reforms would be a long time coming because establishing government institutions that facilitate perfect policies is a major undertaking. The alternative path, he said, was to commence policy reform today, accepting that it would have to be done in a second-best world, where institutions were not perfect. Basri was able to draw on his experience as finance minister to reflect on conducting policy reform in a secondbest world. He described changes to processes for attracting foreign investment to Indonesia, dealing with the sharp drop in the value of the Indonesian currency in mid-2013, reforms to Indonesian customs to reduce costs of shipping, and introducing a major scholarship scheme for Indonesian students to study at leading international universities. Basri proposed many lessons for policy makers. His main advice was that policy makers should concentrate on reforms with the highest likelihood of success and the greatest gains to society. All this needed to be done while recognising the constraints of the existing political and institutional environment. (Text by Professor Jeff Borland)

21 38 39 MELBOURNE GRADUATE SCHOOL OF EDUCATION The Melbourne Graduate School of Education (MGSE) is engaged with Indonesia primarily through the LH Martin Institute, which provides a range of organisational governance, leadership and management programs tertiary sector institutions in Indonesia. MELBOURNE SCHOOL OF ENGINEERING The Melbourne School of Engineering maintains strong research links with the University of Indonesia, Bandung Institute of Technology (ITB), 10 November Institute of Technology (ITS), Gadjah Mada University, and Bogor Agricultural Institute (IPB). It also partners with Monash University and University of Sydney in its engagement with Indonesia. Collaboration and Engagement Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Network (GRIN) The LH Martin Institute was also involved in the Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Network (GRIN), which is an initiative of the partner institutions of the Australia-Indonesia Centre. A pilot program was delivered over nine days in Australia in November 2016 to coincide with the joint meeting of The Australian Academy of Science and the Indonesian Academy of Science (AIPI). The GRIN Program brought together 21 The LH Martin Institute and Faculty of Medicine at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) work collaboratively to develop contextualised leadership and management capabilities for the next generation of medical research leaders. In 2016, on November and December, the Melbourne Graduate School of Education piloted a Doctoral Supervision Training program that aimed to build the capacity of UGM faculty members to effectively supervise doctoral students to achieve timely completion rates. This is an important strategic step for the university as they are expanding their local PhD programs. graduate researchers and 5 academics from 11 universities in Australia and Indonesia to enhance research excellence through interdisciplinary training and collaborative skills development. The program was delivered on campus at Monash University, the University of Melbourne and The Australian National University. Leading academics from across the participating partner institutions contributed to program design and delivery. LH Martin Institute s Åsa Olsson facilitated a session, in conjunction with the University of Melbourne s Dr Sebastian Thomas, that explored trends in the global research and Pilot Doctoral Training with the University of Gadjah Mada innovation ecosystems. Participants explored their own roles in the sector by engaging with digital tools and in discussions, and were supported to develop high-impact research proposals. Collaboration and Engagement Dr Robert Gordon was awarded a $60,000 grant from the Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC) Energy Cluster s Tactical Research Projects scheme to research Enhanced Technology Cost Assessment Models. The funding was confirmed in 2016, and the project is underway. Dr Sebastian Thomas delivered a project progress report on his Energy Cluster Tactical Research Project grant to research Building coalitions and processes to support community empowerment through renewable energy and livelihood solutions. Professor Saman Halgamuge and Associate Professor Lu Aye delivered project progress reports on their Energy Cluster Tactical Research Project grant to research Control the Grid or be Controlled: Near Off-Grid Solutions using Renewable Energy Technologies and Demand Side Prediction. Professor Nicholas Hutchins presented the results of his Energy Cluster Small Projects Grant at an invited plenary titled Turbulent Boundary Layers Developing Over Rough Surfaces: From the Laboratory to Full-Scale Systems at the 20th Australasian Fluid Mechanics Conference at the University of Western Australia, Perth, 5-8 December. The Faculty of Engineering participated in the 3rd annual Indonesia-Australia Research Summit, which took the theme of: Innovating Together: Starting Local, Reaching Global and was held in Surabaya from August. The summit was supported by the AIC and the Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education. A wide range of University of Melbourne academics participated in the summit, including Pro Vice-Chancellor (International) Professor Simon Evans. The University of Melbourne hosted the final days of the Graduate Research Interdisciplinary Network inaugural program in early December. The GRIN is a network of promising research students from the AIC s 11 participating universities. The Department of Mechanical Engineering was also involved in the visit to Melbourne by Dr William Sabandar, chair of Indonesia s Renewable Energy Task Force, which was also supported by the AIC. Professor Colin Duffield continued to serve as co-lead of the Infrastructure cluster at the Australia-Indonesia Centre. During 2015, the Infrastructure Cluster was successful in obtaining $2.1 million in research funding through an active investment plan. The projects associated with this funding were completed in Projects related to: improving rail infrastructure (interfacing to a port intermodal terminal); efficient facilitation of major infrastructure projects; effective structuring and packaging of funding and financing arrangements for the delivery of infrastructure; seismic performance of critical infrastructures in port development; and the internet of things, big-data analytics and smart cities. LH Martin Institute worked collaboratively with Victoria University in the delivery of the program. A key element of the program involved unpacking the various dimensions of doctoral supervision. Training focused, in particular, on institutional culture, dynamics in styles of supervision, managing self and others, balancing academic work and personal issues, mentoring publications and professional development, academic integrity, fabrication, falsification and plagiarism. The program was facilitated by LH Martin Institute Program Director Åsa Olsson and Professor Ron Adams, from Victoria University.

22 40 41 LIBRARY MELBOURNE LAW SCHOOL The Library strongly supports Indonesian studies teaching and research at the University of Melbourne through the provision of specialist library support to staff and postgraduate students from the Asia Institute and Indonesia Forum, including research consultations and research skills development, and targeted collection development of electronic and print materials in both Indonesian and English. In 2016, the Library continued to develop its collections of Indonesia-related monographs and other materials in the subject areas of Indonesian politics and government, religion, history, anthropology, language, literature, law, education, mass media, architecture and performance. Some 306 Indonesian-language monographs were purchased, of which 277 were funded by the Pitt Bequest (which supports the work of the School of Historical Studies). Most of these were supplied by Indonesian vendor Patamga Dhanam Jaya (formerly PT Bhratara Niaga). A further 27 books in English, six books in other languages, four electronic books and two DVDs on Indonesian subjects were also purchased. There are now well over 15,000 Indonesia-related items in the University s collection, including more than 7,000 Indonesian-language items. There are more than 2000 Indonesia-related electronic resources on the Library catalogue, mainly English-language. These include e-books, reports, facsimiles of early works and journals. The Melbourne Law School has been one of the leaders of engagement with Indonesia, through the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS, launched in 2013) and the Asian Law Centre. The Law School enjoys close cooperative links with government, professional, academic and non-governmental institutions throughout Indonesia and has significant numbers of Indonesian students studying law-related aspects of Indonesian society in the university s graduate and research higher degree programs. In fact, Indonesian students are now among the top three foreign alumni groups in the Law School. Teaching JD Program Deals in the Asia-Pacific Law and Legal Practice in Asia Masters Programs Commercial Law in Asia (formerly, Commercial Deals in Asia Islamic Law and Politics in Asia Criminal Justice: Drugs in Asia Collaboration and Engagement CILIS Seminar Series In 2016, CILIS continued to host its regular Seminar Series at the Melbourne Law School. In this series, postgraduates and academics who are researching and writing on Asian legal topics present a 45-minute paper, followed by questions and discussion. Professor Michelle Foster, Professor Susan Kneebone, David Manne, and Dr Antje Missbach presented on Asylum Seekers and the Australia- Indonesia Relationship, 15 March. Although irregular departures of asylum seeker boats from Indonesia to Australia have slowed down, numbers of new arrivals in Indonesia remain steady. Indonesia s capacity to host these people for the long term and provide them with proper protection is reaching its limits. In this seminar, prominent scholars of refugee law and asylum seeker issues discussed current developments and considered their implications for a range of issues, including foreign policy, regional politics and Indonesia s relations with Australia. Professor Denny Indrayana, Maxine McKew, and Alison Byrne presented on Political Corruption - Elections and Beyond: Perspectives from Indonesia and Australia, 23 August. Money in politics poses challenges to democracies across the world. The seminar looked at the complex ways money politics works to subvert democracy in two very different systems in two very different societies, and asked what could be done to prevent it. Mohammad Mahfud MD, the former chief justice of the Indonesian Constitutional Court, chaired a roundtable discussion on Current Issues in Indonesian Law and Politics, 21 October. This is discussed in further detai below. CILIS Senior Associates Associate Professor Greg Fealy, Dr Stewart Fenwick, and Dr Nadirsyah Hosen, presented at a seminar and launched the book Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia, edited by Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker, 15 November. This seminar examined the political and legal implications of resurgent Islamism in Indonesia and analyse particular cases of intolerance and violence against minorities, as well as discussed the responses by a weak state that seems too often unwilling to intervene to protect vulnerable minorities against rising religious intolerance. Daniel Pascoe, an Assistant Professor at the School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, presented a seminar titled: Dodging Death Row? Victim-Perpetrator Reconciliation Agreements in Death Penalty Cases, on 21 November. Pascoe compared the 14 death penalty retentionist nations that have most strictly incorporated shari a criminal law principles into their positive law, along with the People s Republic of China, to analyse the functions underpinning victimperpetrator reconciliation agreements in death penalty cases. At the same seminar, Michael O Connell SC, a lawyer to the leaders of the so-called Bali Nine, launched the book Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia by Tim Lindsey and Pip Nicholson. Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference On November, CILIS hosted its 12th Annual Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference. Twenty students presented and CILIS Senior Associates Professor Greg Fealy (ANU), Professor Virginia Hooker (ANU), Professor Merle Ricklefs, and CILIS Associates Dr Nadirsyah Hosen (University of Wollongong), Professor Denny Indrayana (University of Melbourne) and Professor Jamhari Makruf (Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University Jakarta) served as mentors. Professor Tim Lindsey acted as host. Bibliographic Websites Asian Law Online continued in It can be accessed at: bibliography. Asian Law Online is a collection of English language materials on Asian laws available throughout the world. It is offered to the public as a free service to assist students, scholars and practitioners of Asian legal systems. It includes books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses on Indonesian law, and provides access to a large number of Indonesian law websites. In 2016, CILIS continued to develop its new bibliographic database, Islamic Law Online, which can be accessed at: unimelb.edu.au/ilo. Islamic Law Online is a collection of publications on Islamic law available throughout the world. CILIS 12th Annual Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference

23 42 43 Melbourne Law School (continued) Visit by Mahfud MD Australian Journal of Asian Law With Professor M B Hooker, Professor Veronica Taylor of ANU, Professor Richard Cullen of the University of Hong Kong and, Amanda Whiting of the Asian Law Centre, Tim Lindsey and Helen Pausacker of CILIS edited the international refereed journal, The Australian Journal of Asian Law, which covers Southeast Asia, including Indonesia. CILIS Policy Papers in 2016 No. 11. The Hidden Driver of Deforestation: Why Effecting Reform of Indonesia s Legal Framework is Critical to the Long-term Success of REDD+, Arjuna Dibly and Josi Khatarina No. 12. Sentencing People-Smuggling Offenders in Indonesia, Antje Missbach No. 13. Combating Corruption in Yudhoyono s Indonesia: An Insider s Perspective, Denny Indrayana Advice to Government In 2016, Tim Lindsey acted as Senior Adviser (Courts), to the aid program s Australia Indonesia Partnership for Justice program, based in Jakarta. Visitors Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia Professor Denny Indrayana Gadjah Mada University, Indonesia 4 April December 2016 Academic Host: Professor Tim Lindsey Former Constitutional Court Chief Justice Mohammad Mahfud MD visited the Melbourne Law School on 21 October Mahfud MD also served as a member of the House of Representatives (DPR) for the National Awakening Party (PKB) and as Ministers of Defence and Justice and Human Rights under President Abdurrahman Wahid (Gus Dur). The former top judge spoke at a lunch time roundtable with more than 30 students and academics. In a frank and generous discussion, Mahfud MD described the challenges faced during his five-year tenure as chief justice ( ), when the court made a number of controversial decisions, such as the 2010 decision to uphold the Blasphemy Law and the 2012 decision to disband the upstream oil and gas regulator, BP Migas. In his typically candid and forthright manner, Mahfud also discussed contemporary challenges related to bureaucratic and political corruption. According to Mahfud, the primary obstacle impeding ongoing legal reform was the politicisation of and corruption in the bureaucracy. Drugs Law and Legal Practice in Southeast Asia, co-authored by Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) Director Professor Tim Lindsey and Asian Law Centre Director Professor Pip Nicholson, investigates criminal law and practice relevant to drugs regulation in three Southeast Asian jurisdictions: Indonesia, Singapore and Vietnam. These jurisdictions represent a spectrum of approaches to drug regulation in Southeast Asia, highlighting differences in practice between civil and common law countries, and between liberal and authoritarian states. This book offers the first major English language empirical investigation and comparative analysis of regulation, jurisprudence, court procedure, and practices relating to drugs law enforcement in these three states. Appointment of Professor Denny Indrayana This book by Professor Tim Lindsey and Professor Pip Nicholson is a product of a major collaborative four-year project funded by The Australian Research Council to investigate criminal law and practice in the region. Religion, Law and Intolerance in Indonesia Despite its overwhelmingly Muslim majority, Indonesia has always been seen as exceptional for its diversity and pluralism. In recent years, however, there has been a rise in majoritarianism, with resurgent Islamist groups pushing hard to impose conservative values on public life in many cases with considerable success. This has sparked growing fears for the future of basic human rights, and, in particular, the rights of women and sexual ethnic minority groups. There have, in fact, been more prosecutions of unorthodox religious groups since the fall of Soeharto in 1998 than there were under the three decades of his authoritarian rule. Some Indonesians even feel that the pluralism they thought was constitutionally guaranteed by the national ideology, the Pancasila, is now under threat. This book, edited by CILIS Director Professor Tim Lindsey and CILIS Deputy Director Dr Helen Pausacker contains essays exploring these issues by prominent scholars, lawyers and activists from within Indonesia and beyond, offering detailed accounts of the political and legal implications of rising resurgent Islamism in Indonesia. Examining particular cases of intolerance and violence against minorities, it also provides an account of the responses offered by a weak state that now seems too often unwilling to intervene to protect vulnerable minorities against rising religious intolerance. Professor Denny Indrayana In 2016, Denny Indrayana was appointed as visiting professor at Melbourne Law School. Indrayana is an internationally recognised anticorruption campaigner who has played a leading role in law reform efforts in Indonesia. He is a Professor of Constitutional Law at Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and served as Deputy Minister of Law and Human Rights from 2011 to 2014 under Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Before taking up the deputy minister position, Denny held roles including Special Advisor for Legal Affairs, Human Rights and Anticorruption to Yudhoyono, Chair of the Centre for the Study of Anti-Corruption at UGM, and Director of the Indonesian Court Monitoring NGO. Denny has a PhD from the Melbourne Law School and won the prestigious Australian Alumni Award in 2009.

24 44 45 FACULTY OF SCIENCE Skye Turner-Walker Office of Environmental Programs Collaboration and Engagement Dr Sebastian Thomas of the Office for Environmental Programs and School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences is leading a research partnership with Bandung Institute of Technology, Monash University, Paramadina University, and an Indonesian civil society organisation, the People Centred Economic and Business Institute (IBEKA). The project is funded by the Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC), and is titled Building Coalitions and Processes to Support Community Livelihood Needs and Aspirations Through Renewable Energy. The project is part of the AIC s larger work on energy in Indonesia, and runs from 2016 until late Skye Turner-Walker is a PhD researcher at the University of Melbourne s School of Geography and at The Australian-German Climate College. Her research is on processes of local engagement in climate change adaptation in Indonesia, and how these influence outcomes in local resource management. Her research draws on three cases in Central Java, West Kalimantan and Central Maluku. Skye has a background of research and programming on environment and development issues across the Asia-Pacific region, with a focus on responding to environmental and climate change risks and uncertainty. She works on the development of climate change adaptation and environment projects in the Asia-Pacific region for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and previously as a researcher and research coordinator for the Asia centre of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Asia Centre, including Indonesia, amongst other things. Field work was conducted in November 2016 and February 2017, the second trip involving use of a drone to engage communities in discussions about their local areas, and capture high-impact visual media. The drone footage is also being used in an evaluation of renewable energy options to support economic development activities. In 2016, Thomas represented the University of Melbourne in the third annual Australia-Indonesia Centre s Leaders Program. The theme of the program was Economic Diplomacy, Energy and Innovation. It was held over 10 days in May in Canberra, Sydney and Melbourne. Thomas was a speaker during the 3rd annual Indonesia-Australia Research Summit, which took the theme of: Innovating Together: Starting Local, Reaching Global and was held in Surabaya from August. Skye Turner-Walker Anna Sanders Geography Research Wolfram Dressler was awarded an ARC Future Fellowship ( ) to examine local social responses to the convergence of transnational governance, major resource extraction/ investment and climate change in the Philippines and Indonesia. As part of his Fellowship, Dressler has been working with the nongovernmental organisation Operation Wallacea Tropical (OWT), based in Bogor, West Java, on a study of the history of forest conservation programs in East Kalimantan. Dr Dressler and his team have examined the ways in which conservation NGOs have provided incentives to draw farmers toward forest conservation for orangutan protection and how these incentives and associated forest stewardship have proven difficult. Farmers aspirations for wealth tend to align more closely with oil palm production, and other cash cropping initiatives. Dr Dressler is in the process of writing one of the papers associated with this project. Anna Sanders is a PhD candidate in the School of Ecosystem and Forest Sciences. Sanders research examines multi-level governance and decision-making in Indonesia. The focus of the research is on sub-national policy arrangements and implementation of Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation REDD+ and land-use policy. Its main goal is to understand how global governance instruments interact with local politics, how land use decisions are made in practice, and the consequences of these decisions. Her fieldwork was based in Central Kalimantan province in the southern peatland region, and comprised several sites in two districts. It was undertaken in collaboration with the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), which is headquartered in Bogor, Indonesia. In 2016, she completed a working paper from the study, Analysing multilevel governance in Indonesia, which is available on the CIFOR website: WP202Myers.pdf Anna Sanders

25 46 47 FACULTY OF VETERINARY AND AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES Melbourne Veterinary School The Melbourne Veterinary School is engaged with Indonesian institutions primarily in the area of research. Projects encompass animal production, nutrition and infectious diseases. Collaboration and Engagement Through the Australia-Indonesia Centre, researchers at the Melbourne Veterinary School have been involved in work investigating the effect of soy straw on nutrition in Brahman-cross beef cattle, which resulted in a joint publication between the University of Melbourne and Airlangga University, Surabaya. Over an extended period, a strong collaboration has been developed between the Melbourne Veterinary School, the Indonesian Research Centre for Veterinary Science, Gajah Mada University (UGM), and University Malaysia Sabah (UMS), in relation to avian influenza. The work is centred on vaccination and diagnostic testing, particularly tests that differentiate vaccinated from infected animals. The project is also aimed at training in advanced molecular techniques against this devastating zoonotic disease. Joint publications between researchers from these institutions were also produced in VICTORIAN COLLEGE OF THE ARTS (VCA) AND MELBOURNE CONSERVATORIUM OF MUSIC (MCM) Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) The VCA has been involved in establishing higher-order dialogue centred on developing practice-led innovation in the visual and performing arts between Australia and Indonesia, particularly with the Graduate School at the Indonesian Institute of the Arts (ISI) in Yogyakarta. Professor Barbara Bolt has been working closely with Professor Djohan, director of the Graduate School at ISI, since 2014 in building links. In 2016, progress was made on a memorandum of understanding between ISI and the University of Melbourne, which is expected to be signed in A group of seven student animation films were selected to be screened at a film festival at ISI in Melbourne Conservatorium of Music The Melbourne Conservatorium of Music maintains three sets of gamelan (Javanese, Sundanese and Cirebonese musical instruments/ orchestras), representing many of the gamelan traditions of Indonesia, as well as a set of wayang kulit puppets and a kecapi-suling ensemble. There is active study and performance of gamelan music and associated performing arts such as puppetry and dance. The gamelan collection is housed in the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music s Parkville annex in Berkeley Street. Melbourne Community Gamelan performing on 10 September. Front row (left to right): Marianne Lessels, Ilona Wright, Joko Susilo, Michael Ewing. Middle row: Joe Browning, Ze Lin Teo, Yuniar Ponco Pranoto; Back row: Robert McMullen, Elisabeth Riharti. (Photo by Gianna Rizzo.)

26 48 49 Teaching Gamelan in Modern Indonesia Music Cultures of Asia In 2016, 29 students enrolled in gamelan in first semester and 39 students in second semester. Many of these students took gamelan as a breadth subject. The students all participated in a combined concert with Melbourne Community Gamelan at the end of both semesters. Ilona Wright taught Gamelan in Modern Indonesia and directed the gamelan ensemble. Jenny McCallum taught the breadth subject Music Cultures of Asia which included lectures on Indonesian traditional and popular music. Research Throughout 2016, David Irving and Jenny McCallum continued work on an ARC Discovery Project, Malay Music and Dance from the Cocos (Keeling) Islands and Christmas Island ( , Principal Investigator David Irving). The project is investigating the history and current practice of Malay arts in this small community predominantly descended from Indonesian migrants. Performances and Engagement Melbourne Community Gamelan Inc (MCG) performs musical pieces from Solo (Central Java). The group rehearses at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and is taught by Ki Poedijono, who was the musical director for all of MCG s performances in Narelle Villella is president of the group. The group can be contacted by melgamelan@hotmail. com, through its website: com.au and Facebook: melgamelan. In 2016, MCG performed six times: 12 February: MCG Gadhon (small ensemble) played Professor John Legge s funeral, Monash University 6 June: The Final Gong end of semester performance featured two University of Melbourne student gamelan ensembles; Finnish music; and MCG, which accompanied Javanese dancer, Dora Melati. 21 August: MCG Gadhon played at the University of Melbourne s Open Day. 10 September: MCG (full gamelan) played at the 40th wedding anniversary of Waluya Dimas and Sue McKemmish (from Monash University) in Prahran. MCG was joined by Dr Joko Susilo from the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. 12 September: The Taste of Gamelan at the Uniting Church Hall, Northcote. Event organised in conjunction with Indonesian restaurant Yuni s Kitchen. MCG was joined by Joko Susilo (music) and dancer Ade Suharto, who also works with the Asian Law Centre and the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) at the Melbourne Law School. This performance, University of Melbourne (dancing), with a grant from the Australia Indonesia Institute. 31 October: The Final Gong end of semester performance featured two University of Melbourne student gamelan ensembles; Lenggok Geni, a traditional Indonesian dance group based at Monash University; and MCG. Putra Panji Asmara Inc (PPA) rehearses at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and performs musical pieces from Cirebon, a region on the north coast of West Java, with a focus on music to accompany topeng (masked dance). The group is led by Michael Ewing from the University of Melbourne s Asia Institute, who can be contacted by on: mce@unimelb. edu.au. PPA took part in the following performances in 2016: 22 July: Asyik Melbourne (a night celebrating Indonesian local arts, dance, music and food), held at the Church of All Nations, Carlton. 29 October: PPA performed and provided musical accompaniment for five topeng (masked) dances for an event organised by the Museum of Indonesian Arts at the Fo Guang Yuan Art Gallery, Melbourne. Dancer Ade Suharto performing at The Taste of Gamelan on 12 September 2016 Melbourne Community Gamelan performing at The Taste of Gamelan Nek Rahma shows Jenny Mccallum his kompang (frame drum) on the front porch. (Photo by David Irving.)

27 50 51 ASIALINK Asialink Business Asialink is Australia s leading centre for building Asia capability, public understanding of Asia, and appreciation of Australia s role in the Asian region. It is based at the University of Melbourne s Sidney Myer Asia Centre and is an initiative of the Myer Foundation. Asialink works with business, government, philanthropic and cultural partners to initiate and strengthen Australia-Asia engagement on all levels and across all sectors. Asialink works to build an Asia-capable, deeply Asia-engaged Australia through thought leadership and innovative programs that build knowledge, skills and partnerships. Asialink delivers high-level forums, international collaborations, leadership training, education and cultural exchange programs in Australia and Asia. Asialink regularly works in partnership with a variety of organisations including the Asia Institute, the Asian Law Centre, Asian Economics Centre, The Australian Centre for International Business, the Indonesia Forum, the Indonesian Muslim Youth Exchange Program and the Australia-Indonesia Business Council. Asialink Arts Asialink Arts develops opportunities for cultural exchange between Australia and Asia to improve the Asia capability of the cultural sector, based on the principles of partnership, collaboration and reciprocity. Asialink Arts has been engaging with Indonesia since 1992 through residencies, touring exhibitions and special projects Collaboration and Engagement Kerjasama During 2016, Asialink Arts supported Kerjasama, a residency exchange between Indonesian artist Timoteus Anggawan Kusno and Australian Indigenous contemporary artist Tony Albert. The project comprised of a six-week joint residency in Australia s Northern Territory at ArtbackNT, followed by a six-week joint residency at Cemeti Art House in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. During their time in Alice Springs, the artists conducted a workshop with Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre and presented a pop-up exhibition at Watch this Space. While based in Indonesia, the artists presented talks at Cemeti Art House, the Gadjah Mada University, and held an exhibition at Cemeti Art House from 15 October -1 November. Building on their achievements during the exchange, a further exhibition of Tony Albert and Timoteus Anggawan Kusno s work was presented at Sullivan+Strumpf gallery, Singapore, between 25 February 26 March Residency at Saritaksu Editions, Bali In 2016, Asialink Arts supported Northern Territory-based writer Natalie Sprite for a threemonth residency at Saritaksu Editions, Bali. During her residency, the writer completed 12 short stories and ran seven workshops. She received mentoring in best arts practice and expanded her networks at organisations such as the Ubud Writers and Readers Festival. Four of the stories written in Indonesia were published while on residency, while outlets such ABC International and Island Magazine are considering several others for publication. Postresidency, the writer has facilitated workshops in Darwin, sharing the skills and networks gained during her residency. As Australia s National Centre for Asia Capability, Asialink Business provides practical support to help organisations realise the potential of Asian markets. Asialink Business equips organisations to be Asia-ready by developing critical skills, knowledge and networks needed to engage with the complexities of the region. Grounded in market feedback, its training programs, research, and events enable businesses to forge ahead with confidence to enter and grow in Asia. Collaboration and Engagement Asialink Business designed and delivered an Indonesian Cultural Intelligence and Effectiveness program to key partners and senior staff of a leading national law firm to support its engagement with projects involving Indonesian counterparts. The program sought to build participants skills, awareness and confidence in working within the Indonesian business culture. Indonesia Country Starter Pack. First published in September 2015, the Indonesia Country Starter Pack offers a comprehensive resource for navigating the Indonesian business environment. The content was updated in 2016 to reflect the changing business landscape in Indonesia, and a shareable app was launched to enable easy access to the content via mobile devices. Asialink Business was engaged by Austrade to explore how Australian legal and management consulting services can increase their penetration of four key Asian markets, including Indonesia. The resulting report, Growing Knowledge Economies, focused on key competitive drivers of these sectors and markets, and identified potential commercial opportunities where Australian firms capabilities are positioned for developing Asia s knowledge economies. In July, Asialink Business hosted two forums focused on Indonesia: A public event in Melbourne, with keynote address by the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, HE Paul Grigson, who provided an update on the opportunities for Australian businesses in the country. A boardroom briefing with Mr Noke Kiroyan, Chief Consultant at Kiroyan Partners, who reflected on governance under President Joko Widodo and how this has impacted business. Noke provided an insight into the investment climate and cultural landscape of Southeast Asia s largest economy, including the opportunities and challenges for ethical business, and the future prospects of Indonesia s economic reform agenda. Asialink Business also supported the Australia Indonesia Business Council National Conference in Perth. In particular, Director of Marketing and External Relations Raj Wilson moderated a panel discussion that included, Austrade CEO Bruce Gosper, Senior Trade Commissioner for Jakarta Kym Hewett, and Indonesian Consul General in Perth Ade Padmo Sarwono. Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, HE Paul Grigson, presenting at the Asialink Business forum on Indonesia