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The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute Latest News Facebook Fans In the Classroom KGI in Indonesia Radio Joeys Quick Fix KGI 20th Anniversary Bulletin/Magazine Travel Idioms Inggris Connection Clubs Australia Indonesia Partnership (AIP) Podcast/Video Interviews Different Pond Different Fish Home › Australia Indonesia Partnership ›The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII) The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program 2009 During the past seven years Kang Guru has featured many stories about the Muslim Exchange Program. These have appeared in Kang Read the Indonesia AusAID - Guru magazines and on this website and also Kang GURU broadcast in many of the hundreds of radio AIP Archives for many more reports broadcasts that have gone out across Indonesia. about the work, links and ties of the The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Australia-Indonesia Partnership (AIP), Program is an initiative of the Australia-Indonesia including AusAID, covering the period Institute (AII) with support from the Cultural 2000 to now! Section and AusAID at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta, the Islamic Council of Victoria, the Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne and Paramadina University. Australian Muslim leaders - Iman Dandan, Shameema Kolia, Mohammad El-Leissy, Hyder Gulam and Hussam Elmaghraby - visited Indonesia between May 18th and May 31st, 2009. Jakarta Embassy Press Release (May 29) The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program 2009 http://kangguru.org/ausaidprojects/2009_muslim_exchange_program.html[04-Aug-14 12:37:52 PM] The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute Appreciation for the 2009 Muslim Exchange Program between Australia and Indonesia was highlighted at a function at the home of the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia, Mr. Bill Farmer, in late May. Together with his wife Elaine, Mr Farmer congratulated the five Australian participants on their visit to Indonesia which was drawing to an end. They welcomed alumni of the program from past years including KGI friend Tubagus Erif Faturrahman who went to Australia in October 2004 with the Muslim Exchange Program. Read about some of the questions that 8 participants in the Muslim Exchange Program gave to Kang Guru before they went overseas AND then check if those questions were from left: Hussam Elmaghraby, Iman Dandan (front), answered during their visits. Shameema Kolia, Sanchi Davis (Cultural Attache), Mr. Bill Farmer (Australian Ambassador), Mohammed El- Australian Participants Indonesian Participants 2009 Leissy and Hyder Gulam 2009 (interviewed by KGI) (interviewed by KGI) Lalu Ahmad Zaenuri Check in early 2010 for application details for the 2010 Iman Dandan Samsul Ma'arif Mujiharto Muslim Exchange Program from the Australia indonesia Shameema Kolia Laili Nur Faridatus Sholihah Institute (2009) Mohammad El-Leissy Please note that these Hyder Gulam Indonesian participants are Hussam Elmaghraby only three of the seven who participated in the 2009 Muslim Exchange Program. Translations of what they had to say are available in Bahasa Indonesia - check them out! These Indonesian participants returned from Australia in mid-April, 2009 - Herawati - teaching staff at the Al-Aziziyah Islamic Boarding School, Lombok in Mataram Mujahidah - Committee of the Fatayat Nahdlatul Ulama (NU branch Samarinda, East Kalimantan Siti Sarah Muwahidah - Ma'arif Institute, and activist of the Islamic Students Association in Yogyakarta Laili Nur Faridatus Sholihah - Responsible for Community Based Disaster Risk, Management, Nahdlatul Ulama, Jakarta The final group of 2009 participants will travel to Australia between the 7th and 21st of June. They are - Cucu Surahman (UIN Jakarta) M Hasan Basri (CFSS Yogyakarta) M Subhan Setowara (Muhammadiyah Uni. Kupang) Read about other Muslim Exchange Alumni from KGI Tubagus Erif Faturrahman - alumni 2004 Deni Wahyudi Kurniawan - alumni 2007 Nazeem Hussain - alumni 2007 Australian Muslim Exchange Participants 2009 Kang Guru interviewed these participants in mid May at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta as they arrived in Indonesia. http://kangguru.org/ausaidprojects/2009_muslim_exchange_program.html[04-Aug-14 12:37:52 PM] The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute Read about their plans for their visit and then read to see whether they found out the answers they had come to Indonesia to find out. Shameema Kolia is from Perth. She is the President of the Muslim Youth Organization in Perth and is involved in a Muslim Womens’ Support center in Perth. It is her first time to Indonesia and Shameema is keen to meet the people of Indonesia. She feels that this is the way to really get to know a country, the heart of the nation, and how it operates. Working with students from different backgrounds and with different interests and comparing them to students in Australia is a real interest of hers. (Shameema's Bio) One of the things she really wants to do is to meet young people and find out what motivates them and interests them. It is important for Shameema to look at the issues faced by young people here in Indonesia and in Australia and compare them to see if they are young people’s issues or young Muslims’ issues. To do this it is important to meet people form all walks of life and by joining the Muslim Exchange Program, she feels this is going to be possible. Did Shameema find out the answers to her questions while she traveled around Indonesia May 18 - 28? On May 28th, Shameema spoke once again to KGI in Jakarta - Shamema visited many classrooms and pesantrens and spoke with many young people. Shameema found out that young people in Indonesia are motivated and excited by the same sorts of things that young Australians are whether they are Muslim or not – sport, asking questions, learning new things, etc. One of the most frequently asked questions was about wearing the hijab – is it worn in Australia, isn’t it banned, why are you wearing one, etc? Quite a few were surprised when they learnt the visiting Australians were actually born Muslim. Shameema feels that these issues indicate that perhaps Indonesian Muslim young people have a narrow perception of what an Australian Muslim is. When her Australian female students in Perth ask Shameema about their counterparts in Indonesia, she is going to tell them that their Indonesian counterparts are much better behaved and more respectful. Shameema also says that young Indonesians, and in particular young Muslim girls are definitely not shy and passive as so many people (in Australia and here in Indonesia) think they are. For Shameema, coming to Indonesia with the Muslim Exchange Program has been a revelation – fantastic! dalam Bahasa Indonesia Hyder Gulam is from Melbourne and although he has been to Indonesia before, this is his first time to Java. Has worked in the Middle East and actually grew up in Singapore. He is very keen to see how Islam is practised in Indonesia, the country with the largest Muslim population in the world and with the two largest Muslim organizations in the world – Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama. Indonesia is often termed as the smiling face of Islam and Hyder wants to see how Islam has managed to maintain cultural values for the Indonesian people and still grow and flourish in the archipelago. (Hyder's Bio) Hyder has many Indonesian friends in Australia and has met and chatted with previous Muslim Exchange participants both Australian http://kangguru.org/ausaidprojects/2009_muslim_exchange_program.html[04-Aug-14 12:37:52 PM] The Australia-Indonesia Muslim Exchange Program for 2009 from the Australia-Indonesia Institute and Indonesian. These friends and colleagues have all been fascinated by the way Islam is practiced in Australia. It is open and inclusive. Hyder has a real interest in finding out how the two Muslim organizations, Muhammadiyah and Nahdlatul Ulama, maintain grass roots membership and support and provide value added services at the same time. From the view of the Islamic Council of Victoria, it is important to share this expertise and knowledge. Did Hyder find out the answers to his questions while he traveled around Indonesia May 18 - 28? On May 28th, Hyder spoke once again to KGI in Jakarta - Hyder was very impressed by the way that these two Muslim organizations work in their communities – social work, civil society and human rights included. In the case of NU, the work extends to disaster services and in particular Hyder mentioned a young woman called Laili. KGI actually interviewed Laili, also a 2009 Muslim Exchange participant, a few weeks ago at her NU office and she explained in detail the work that she does with her team across Java. Educating communities that natural disasters maybe cannot be stopped bu the effects of them can be tackled and in many cases avoided – for example, landslides do not always have to occur in nature or for that matter dams bursting as well. In general Hyder found both of these Muslim organizations to be very open-minded social organizations. He found them not be dogmatic and quite open to discussion and change. As for the way that Islam is practiced here, Hyder feels that it is at the forefront in many ways in terms of intellectual pursuits. Schools do teach Arabic and Indonesian and English but they also teach the sciences too including biology. Mechanics is taught too and this is an example of how Islam in Indonesia is working together for the future of Indonesia and the religion itself. Hyder told KGI that he believes that language is the one thing holding which can truly expose Indonesian ideas on Islamic thoughts on subjects such as human rights, tolerance and democracy to the rest of the world. Along with Muhammad and Shameema, Hyder sees Indonesia at the forefront of Islamic though and discussion and with English translations for example, these thoughts can (and should) be shared with the rest of the world.
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