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Indonesia Forum Annual Report 2009 Indonesia Forum Annual Report 2009 CONTENTS INDONESIA FORUM: AN OVERVIEW 2 CONVENOR’S REPORT 2009 3 HIGHLIGHTS OF 2009 6 INDONESIA FORUM MEMBERS PUBLICATIONS 2009 10 INDONESIA-RELATED ACTIVITIES OF FACULTIES, DEPARTMENTS AND CENTRES 13 APPENDICES APPENDIX 1: 45 INDONESIA FORUM TERMS OF REFERENCE APPENDIX 2: 46 TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR COUNRTY FORUMS APPENDIX 3: 48 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE STAFF WITH INDONESIA-RELATED INTERESTS / INDONESIA FORUM MEMBERS LIST, 2009 APPENDIX 4: 54 UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS WITH INDONESIA-RELATED THESIS TOPICS IN 2009 APPENDIX 5: 57 INDONESIAN STUDENT ENROLMENTS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE APPENDIX 6: 58 INDONESIA-RELATED THESES COMPLETED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE IN 2009 Front cover illustration by Michael Ewing and Lance Lessels for Furious Elephants and Small White Mice performance by Melbourne Community Gamelan (p.41). Back cover image, audience of the 21st Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable (p.3). www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au 1 INDONESIA FORUM: AN OVERVIEW The University of Melbourne pioneered The Indonesia Forum maintains an email Indonesian studies in the mid-1950s. bulletin, moderated by Charles A Coppel, Over the decades Indonesian studies at the to keep members up to date with university have seen a growth in student Indonesia-related events on campus numbers, staffing and the diversity of and elsewhere, including in Indonesia. Indonesia-related subjects offered to students. Its website <www.indonesiaforum.unimelb. Research and teaching relating to Indonesia is edu.au> provides Indonesia-related information conducted across several Departments, for staff, students, prospective students and Faculties and Centres, including Architecture, colleagues from other institutions. Arts, Building and Planning, Economics and Commerce, Law and Medicine. Formed in 1991, the Indonesia Forum, originally known as the Indonesia Interest Group, is an informal and open network of academics and administrative staff at the University who share a common interest and professional involvement in Indonesia. Members keep in touch by email and hold regular meetings, seminars and discussions. For the past eighteen years the Indonesia Forum has 21st Indonesia Forum Postgraduate Roundtable, speakers hosted major functions that have brought panel number one. 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 Forum Postgraduate main event, 2009. studying in Indonesia-related areas. Since 1999 the Indonesia Forum has convened six-monthly postgraduate roundtables for students studying in Indonesia-related fields. Indonesia Forum: An Overview 2 www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au CONVENOR’S REPORT 2009 During the year 2009, the Indonesia Forum In addition, on 20 May the Indonesia Forum and its members across different Faculties co-sponsored a seminar with the Nossal continued to hold a range of events that Institute for Global Health. Professor Laksono attracted good numbers. Its members also Trisnantoro, the Director of the Centre for produced a range of publications and were Health Service Management at the School successful in attracting new research grants. of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, spoke on ‘Decentralisation of the Health Sector in The Forum’s main event in 2009 was a public Indonesia: Experience from 2000-2007’. On 21 lecture on 18 August, which was co-sponsored October, Forum members joined a roundtable by the Asian Law Centre. Arskal Salim, discussion organised by Asialink, during which a graduate of the Asian Law Centre and members had the opportunity to exchange Postdoctoral Fellow at the Max Planck Institute views with the recently-appointed Indonesian for Social Anthropology, Germany, provided an Ambassador to Australia, His Excellency Mr update on politics and Islamisation in Aceh. Primo Alui Joelianto. The lecture and Indonesian dinner that followed it were attended by about 120 people and were There were many other events on campus part of the Asia Institute’s Asia Week program. which had Indonesian speakers or an Indonesia Asia Week also profiled a number of other focus. The Asian Law Centre (ALC) and Centre Indonesia-related events, including music for Islamic Law and Society (CILS) sponsored at the opening ceremony by Fine Blue Thread, a number of speakers from Indonesia. These a group which fuses Indian and Indonesian included Professor Jimly Asshiddiqie, Chief musical styles. The Asia Institute also worked Justice of Indonesia’s Constitutional Court, in with the Indonesian Film Festival, holding the March, Mr Usman Hamid, Director of KontraS short film competition awards and a talk by (Committee for Missing Persons and Victims a young Indonesian film director as part of of Violence) in May, and Ms ‘Ciciek’ Farha Asia Week. The Forum held two Postgraduate Abdul Kadir Assegaf, activist, researcher and Roundtables in 2009, which continued to prove consultant on issues concerning gender and very popular. The 20th Roundtable was held on Islam. In August, the Indonesia Program of 9 May and attended by 30 people, with 14 the Asia Institute sponsored a talk by Ms Vivi students presenting. Meanwhile, the 21st Widyawati, from Jaringan Nasional Perempuan Roundtable on 17 October was attended by 36, Mardhika (National Network for Women’s with 12 students presenting. Liberation) and member of the PRD (People’s Democratic Party). Dr Hari Wibisono from Gadjah Mada University, Yogyakarta, also delivered a research seminar in September, during his time as a Visiting Scholar to the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning. Convenor’s Report 2009 Convenor’s www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au 3 A number of departments and faculties were Forum members obtained Australian Research also involved in organising conferences over Council grants in the 2009 round. Tim Lindsey 2009. The Faculty of Architecture, Building and and Pip Nicholson (Law School) were awarded Planning organised a public symposium, a Discovery grant for their project ‘Drugs, Law ‘Southeast Asian Urbanism’ in June. Also in and Criminal Procedure in Southeast Asia: A June, Kate McGregor and Vannessa Hearman Comparative Analysis’, and Thomas Reuter from the School of Historical Studies, together (Asia Institute) was awarded a Future with staff from the National University of Fellowship for his project ‘Religion and Singapore, convened an international Spirituality in the Contemporary World: An conference in Singapore on the 1965-1966 Indonesian Case Study’. Across the university killings in Indonesia. The Centre for Islamic a number of Indonesianists still hold ARC Law and Society and the National Centre for Grants won in earlier rounds. Excellence in Islamic Studies organised their annual postgraduate conference in November. Forum members wish to congratulate Charles Coppel, principal fellow in the School of In addition, the Faculty of Architecture, Building Historical Studies who, together with Dr Mely and Planning hosted a group of 32 architecture, Tan and Ms Myra Sidharta, was awarded the landscape and planning academics from 2009 NABIL award for his contribution to Bandung Institute of Technology in July, and Indonesian Nation Building. the Asia Institute coordinated a short course for twenty academics from a range of different Indonesian language enrolments showed Islamic tertiary institutions across Indonesia another small increase from 2008 to 2009, to build their capacity in research and with enrolment in the University’s Indonesian administration. For a full list of events language program standing at 89 students in please see the Highlights section of this report. 2009. The Indonesian language program, together with all other languages taught in As in previous years, Indonesia Forum the Faculty of Arts, has begun an extensive members managed to maintain a healthy process of curriculum reform. Based on publication rate. Publications included a recommendations from Georgetown University co-authored book by Howard Dick, a book by curriculum expert Professor Heidi Byrnes, Peter Verhezen (both from the Department of a reinvigorated integrated curriculum that Management and Marketing), a co-edited book promotes the simultaneous acquisition of by Sander Adelaar (Asia Institute), as language and literary-cultural content will be well as various journal articles, book chapters developed over the next three to four years. and newspaper articles by these and other members. In 2009 the Indonesia Program gained one full-time staff member, boosting numbers to 2.5, although only 1.5 are continuing positions. Convenor’s Report 2009 Convenor’s 4 www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au As mentioned in last year’s Annual Report, we Lindsey, Kathryn Taylor, Kelly McDermott, Tom were sad to farewell Howard Dick and Sander Bray and Tessa Shaw at the Asian Law Centre. Adelaar in 2008. However, we are delighted Thank you to Cheryl Carter of the Asia Institute that they, together with Arief Budiman, who for maintaining the accounts of the Forum. retired in 2007, are continuing at the university Finally, my thanks to Jessica Melvin for all her as Honorary Fellows, and we look forward to work in compiling this
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