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Indonesia Forum Annual Report 2013 IF_Annual Report_2013_v20150114.indd 1 20/01/2015 1:44:55 PM IF_Annual Report_2013_v20150114.indd 2 20/01/2015 1:44:55 PM Indonesia Forum Annual Report 2013 CONTENTS Indonesia Forum: An Overview 4 Convenor’s Report 2013 5 Highlights of 2013 8 Indonesia Forum Member Publications 2013 11 Indonesia-related Activities of Faculties, Departments and Centres 17 Appendix 1 47 Appendix 2 48 Appendix 3 52 Appendix 4 54 Appendix 5 54 Appendix 6 55 Darbotz painting photo. Original artwork painted March 2013. Photo courtesy of MIFA Intercultural Fine Art gallery in Melbourne. www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au 3 IF_Annual Report_2013_v20150114.indd 3 20/01/2015 1:44:55 PM INDONESIA FORUM: AN OVERVIEW The University of Melbourne pioneered Indonesian studies in the more broadly oriented towards Asia as a whole. The Forum also mid-1950s. Over the decades Indonesian studies at the university maintains close links with the Indonesian Postgraduate Students Association, international students from Indonesia and domestic of Indonesia-related subjects offered to students. Research students studying in Indonesia-related areas. Since 1999 the and teaching relating to Indonesia is conducted across several Indonesia Forum has convened six-monthly postgraduate Departments, Faculties and Centres, including Architecture, Arts, Building and Planning, Economics and Commerce, Law and The Indonesia Forum maintains an email bulletin, moderated by Medicine. Associate Professor Charles A Coppel, to keep members up to The Indonesia Forum was formed in 1991 as the Indonesia Interest date with Indonesia-related events on campus and elsewhere, Group. It changed its name in 1996, to standardise with other including in Indonesia. Its website <www.indonesiaforum.org. country forums throughout the university. The Indonesia Forum is au> provides Indonesia-related information for staff, students, an informal and open network of academics and administrative staff prospective students and colleagues from other institutions. From of the University who share a common interest and professional 2014 the Forum began a Twitter account <@indoforummelb> involvement in Indonesia. Members keep in touch by email and and a Facebook page <https://www.facebook.com/ hold regular meetings, seminars and discussions. For the past indonesiaforummelbourne>. twenty 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 Indonesia Forum: An Overview Indonesia Forum: 4 www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au IF_Annual Report_2013_v20150114.indd 4 20/01/2015 1:44:56 PM CONVENOR’S REPORT 2013 2013 saw continued growth in research and engagement with Indonesia and Indonesian Studies across the University. Some highlights were the launch of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS) headed by Professor Tim Lindsey in the Asian Law Centre: the launch of the Asian History Hub in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies (SHAPS) and the commencement of Associate Professor Harry Minas and Dr Ritsuko’s project to improve the treatment of mentally ill persons in Indonesia in the Centre for International Mental Health funded by an AUSAID Public Sector Linkages Program. In recognition of the strength of our Indonesia expertise The University of Melbourne was one of four universities included in the federally funded Australia Indonesia Centre, announced in November 2013. The centre aims to assist in providing solutions to Australia and Indonesia’s joint challenges through extensive research collaborations. The University of Melbourne further supported Indonesian studies by announcing a new Melbourne Asia Visting Fellows Scheme that will allow staff to sponsor leading Indonesian researchers to visit the university in coming years. Consistent with the university’s Asia strategy the Faculty of Arts also approved an Indonesia Initiative developed by Dr Katharine McGregor (SHAPS), Dr Edwin Jurriëns (Asia Institute) and Professor Thomas Reuter (Asia Institute) with input from Professor John Murphy (School of Social and Political Sciences). The initiative will allow three nominated Indonesian scholars from Arts Faculties of Indonesian universities to visit the Faculty each year for the next three years in order to build lasting research and teaching collaborations. Film Festival entitled ‘Caught in the Act: Indonesia and The Act of Killing’. The discussion centred around the Oscar nominated documentary The Act of Killing’ which focuses on the re-enactments of the 1965 killings by executioners from Medan, Indonesia. The panel discussion The second event, on 30 August, ‘After The Act of Killing: Historical Justice and the 1965-66 Mass Killings in Indonesia’, was a multisite conference sponsored by the Indonesia Forum, SHAPS and the Herb Feith Foundation. The conference included papers from University of Melbourne staff Dr Katharine McGregor and PhD candidate Jess Melvin in addition to other Australian based experts on the 1965-66 killings in Indonesia including University of Melbourne PhD graduate, Dr Vannessa Hearman (Sydney University) and former staff member Associate Professor Ariel Heryanto (ANU). The conference was hosted at the University of Melbourne and STF Driyarkara, Jakarta. Sixty people attended the Melbourne conference. The third event, on 3 October, was a panel discussion entitled ‘Reimagining Urban Culture and Space in Indonesia’, with the Melbourne School of Design, Faculty of Architecture, University of Melbourne. Panellists included Mr Revianto Budi Santosa (Lecturer at Universitas Islam Indonesia), Dr Seno Gumira Ajidarma, (Author and Lecturer in Faculty of Film and Television, Jakarta Institute of Art [IKJ], 2013 Mangold Fellow), Mr Yori Antar (Principal Architect, Han Awal & Partners, Honorary member of the Indonesian Institute of Architects) and Dr Amanda Achmadi (Lecturer in Asian Architecture and Urbanism, The University of Melbourne). Seventy people attended the event. The Forum held two Postgraduate Roundtables in 2013 allowing students across Melbourne and beyond working on Indonesia related topics to present their research. The Roundtables are proving increasingly popular. The 28th Roundtable was held on 6 May, with eight students presenting. The 29th Roundtable was held on 14 September, with 15 students presenting. About thirty people attended each roundtable. There were presentations on a wide variety in topics across different disciplines including medicine, science, engineering, technology, history, gender studies and development. Issues discussed at the 2013 seminars ranged from rubbish collectors in Surabaya, transgender and development in Indonesia, psychology curriculums for doctors and Indonesian teacher education. Thanks to the staff and students who gave up their Saturdays to attend these roundtables. Over 2013 the number of postgraduate students researching topics related to Indonesia continued at a consistent level with seven PhD completions. (See list of current thesis topics in Appendix 3 of this report.) There were many other events on campus, which had Indonesian speakers or an Indonesia focus. The Faculty of Arts hosted celebrated Convenor’s Report 2013 www.indonesiaforum.unimelb.edu.au 5 IF_Annual Report_2013_v20150114.indd 5 20/01/2015 1:44:56 PM author Dr Seno Gumira Ajidarma as the Walter Mangold Fellow. Meidytama Suryodiningrat the Editor-in-Chief of The Jakarta Post delivered a Indonesian Politics 2013 through Media Eyes the 9th Islamic Studies Postgraduate Conference. Publications by Indonesia Forum staff members have appeared in a wide variety of outlets in 2013, ranging from international journals to local newspapers and have covered topics as varied as reproductive rights, human rights and labour, new media, law reform, history and memory, the 1965 violence, people smuggling, religious diversity and Australian-Indonesian identity negotiations. Two forum members, Professor In 2013, Dr Antje Missbach a McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Asian Law Centre received an ARC DECRA Fellowship for the project Katharine McGregor received an ARC Future Fellowship and Transnational Human Rights Activism’. Professor Abdullah Saeed (Asia Institute) received an ARC Discovery Grant for a project entitled the university a large number of Indonesianists hold ARC Grants won in earlier rounds. ARC Future Fellow Linda Rae Bennett (Nossal Institute) won a further competitive ESHIRE Insight Grant Family, and Migration in the Global Era’, in which she will focus on Indonesian migrant women who have settled in Australia. Dr Edwin Jurriëns and Associate Professor Robyn Slogget (SHAPS) were successful in 2013 round of The Australia Awards Fellowships which will enable up and Cultural Recovery’ in 2014. The University’s Indonesian language enrolments have remained stable in 2013 with a student population that combines both Arts students - many continuing their language study from school - with those from faculties outside of Arts who choose to study Indonesian as part of their breadth requirements under the Melbourne Model. The Language Curriculum Reform process that the Indonesian language program has been conducting together with all other modern languages taught in the Faculty of Arts continues. The second round of new advanced level