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School of Social and Political Sciences School of Social and Political Sciences ARTS.UNIMELB.EDU.AU/SSPS The main components of the Indonesia strategy of the School of Social and Political Science (SSPS) are to establish research and teaching partnerships with the two best universities in Indonesia, University of Indonesia (UI) and Gadjah Mada University (UGM), and to build research and executive education collaborations with Indonesian government agencies and key civil society groups. In 2015, the SSPS Head’s Strategic Initiative Fund (HSIF) provided funding support for research collaboration, staff visits, masters coursework teaching developments and administrative support. STAFF WITH INDONESIA INTERESTS Professor Fiona Haines Professor John Murphy Professor Mark Considine Dr Sara Bice Dr Rachael Diprose Dr Paul Green Dr Bart Klem Dr Kate Macdonald Dr Maree Pardy Dr Bagus Aryo TEACHING Engaging the World in Theory and Practice Social Policy and Development (Joint masters coursework subject taught with UI staff) Anthropology of Gender and Sexuality Comparative Social Policy (New in 2015, joint masters coursework subject taught with UGM staff) Kinship and Family: A Global Perspective ASEAN and Southeast Asian Regionalism (New in 2015, joint masters coursework subject taught with UGM staff) Melbourne Global Mobility stipends (up to a total $20,000) were made available to support students of Comparative Social Policy. The HSIF matched this support for ASEAN and Southeast Asian Regionalism RESEARCH TOPICS Indonesian development and aid agencies, NGOs and Development processes, aid, politics, de facto sovereignty women’s empowerment (Diprose) and public authority in (violently) contested environments and transitional contexts. Sri Lanka and Indonesia (Klem) Comparative work on conflict, inequalities, development, International lifestyle and retirement migration in historical memory, and processes of (violent) mobilisation Southeast Asia, including Indonesia (Green) in transitional contexts. Indonesia, Nigeria and other countries in Asia (Diprose) Resource governance, climate change, and contenstation Resource governance (Bice) (Diprose) SUPERVISION In 2015, the School of Social and Political Sciences supervised four research higher degree students with Indonesia-related topics (see Appendix 1). CONFERENCE PAPERS/PRESENTATIONS Rachael Diprose ‘Understanding Conflict, Development and Statebuilding: Frontier Dynamics in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia’, 2015 Australasian Aid Conference, hosted by the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU and The Asia Foundation, 12 February. ‘Narratives of Communal Violence: Inequalities and “Discourses of Difference” in Indonesia and Nigeria’, invited keynote speaker at ANU Indonesia Project, 10 June. ‘Narratives of Violence: Conflict Escalation in Indonesia and Nigeria’, State of Peace in Asia Conference, Myanmar, 29 June (through the International Illiberal Peacebuilding Network). 29 ‘Challenges Facing Policy Makers in Jokowi’s Indonesia’, invited speaker for the development and economics panel at an international workshop, University of Sydney, 15 October. ‘Narratives of Violence: Mobilising Historical Dialogue for Conflict Transformation in Contemporary Politics’, paper co- written with Sarah Maddison, presented at Politics and Protest Workshop, University of Columbia, New York, 1 December. ‘Narratives of Violence: Mobilising Historical Dialogue for Conflict Transformation in Contemporary Politics’, paper co- written with Sarah Maddison, presented at Politics of Memory International Conference, New York, 3-5 December. Mark Considine ‘Making Good Policy’, public lecture, Jakarta, 30 January John Murphy ‘The Challenges of Evidence and Analysis in Policy Reform’, public lecture in association with the DFAT-funded Knowledge Sector Initiative, Jakarta, 30 January. ‘Indonesia and Australia’, invited keynote speaker, Convention on Australian Studies, UGM, Yogyakarta, 20 May. PROJECTS/ ACHIEVEMENTS Indonesia visits/engagement A number of visits to and from Indonesia occurred in 2015, aiming to strengthen research and executive education collaborations: In February, Mark Considine, John Murphy and Rachael Diprose visited Jakarta to meet with several ministries, including the Ministry of Social Affairs (Kemensos) and the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN), as well as the Australian aid and Australia Awards programs. They also visited Yogyakarta to meet with the Australian Consortium of In-Country Indonesian Studies (ACISIS), and the Faculty of Social and Political Science at UGM for discussions on the joint masters subjects and research collaboration. Mark Considine and Rachael Diprose participated in a workshop organised by the National Institute of Public Administration (LAN). The ‘Policy Analysis Curriculum Development Executive Program’ is designed to assist LAN to design and implement a training program for civil servants. The program has been resourced by the DFAT-funded Knowledge Sector Initiative. In addition, in Jakarta, Mark Considine and Rachael Diprose met with the DFAT-funded Empowering Indonesian Women for Poverty Reduction (MAMPU) program to discuss another executive education initiative. SPSS, the dean and Melbourne School of Government hosted a dinner in April for Indonesian visitors for the ‘Policy Analysis Curriculum Development Executive Program’. The Indonesian delegation included leaders from LAN, the National Development Planning Agency (Bappenas), the Ministry of Administrative and Bureaucratic Reform, senior staff from UI and UGM, and the Knowledge Sector Initiative. Erwan Purwanto, the dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at UGM, and Eko Prasojo, professor at the University of Indonesia and former deputy minister for bureacratic reform, met Deputy Vice Chancellor (Research) Jim McCluskey at a dinner during the same visit. John Murphy participated in a workshop on ‘Australian Studies’ at UGM and gave a keynote lecture. The workshop, organised by UGM, was funded by an Australia Award Alumni grant, with additional funding support from the SSPS HSIF. The workshop aimed to establish a network of Indonesian university staff teaching Australian Studies (primarily politics and foreign policy). In September, two senior academics from UGM (the vice dean of the Faculty of Political and Social Science and the head of the Borderlands Governance Group) visited Melbourne for a three-day workshop on ‘Borderlands, Frontiers and Conflict’ to develop collaborative research projects with SSPS staff. Paul Green is developing an undergraduate subject in the anthropology major, ‘Tourism in Southeast Asia,’ to be delivered on site at Udayana University in Denpasar, Bali in July 2017, in in collaboration with scholars from the university. John Murphy and Rachael Diprose attended a meeting with State Secretariat Minister Pratikno, facilitated by the dean of the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences at UGM, to discuss the ministry’s training needs, from short executive education courses to Masters and PhD study. John Murphy held discussions with staff in the UGM departments of international relations, and public policy, which conduct their undergraduate programs in English and require their students to study abroad. The intention is to have UGM students study for a semester in the Bachelor of Arts. John Murphy participated in a workshop on social policy, partly funded from the SSPS HSIF. This followed up on a workshop in Melbourne in November 2014 on ‘Indonesian Social Policy in Comparative Perspective’. 30 Rachael Diprose and Kate Macdonald held collaborative research meetings with UGM staff in November and December on two emerging research projects: ‘Multi-Level Governance and Resource Conflicts’ and ‘Borderlands, Frontiers and Conflict’. The latter project also involves other SSPS staff – Adrian Little, Jonathan Goodhand, John Langmore, and Bart Klem. Rachael Diprose was appointed to the Joint Selection Committee for Australia Awards Indonesia for 2016-19. Research projects A number of research initiatives are being explored, and collaborations developed, including: Fiona Haines and Kate Macdonald hold a joint ARC Linkage Grant with other scholars, ‘Evaluating Redress Mechanisms Governing the Human Rights Practices of Transnational Business: Lessons for Institutional Design and Operation’. This project includes Indonesian case studies. Jonathan Goodhand, Rachael Diprose, Bart Klem, Kate Macdonald, Adrian Little, John Langmore and others hold a Melbourne School of Government Cluster Grant that: • Provides seed funding to examine conflict and borderlands, with research cases on the Indonesia/Malaysia border, Afghanistan and the Myanmar/China border • Involves collaboration with the borderlands and governance group at UGM with two Indonesian colleagues (Najib Azca and Purwo Santoso) • Supports a PhD scholarship to research borderlands in Borneo (supervised by Bart Klem and Rachael Diprose) John Murphy is conducting a joint research project on social policy with Bagus Aryo at the University of Indonesia. The research aims to conduct a pilot project investigating Indonesian normative attitudes to welfare, and to government, community and family responsibility. A faculty grant was provided to Sarah Maddison and Rachael Diprose for work on conflict transformation in five countries, including Indonesia and Australia. This led to an ARC Discovery Grant (submitted Feb 2016) on ‘Dialogue and Conflict Transformation in Australia and the Region’, which will involve significant research and collaboration in Indonesia.
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