2005 Indonesia Study Group

9 November. Dave McRae (Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU, and International Crisis Group, Jakarta). An Overview of Violence in Poso in 2005

2 November. Dr Patrick Ziegenhain (Arnold-Bergstraesser-Institute, Freiburg). The Indonesian Parliament during Democratisation, 1998 to 2004

26 October. Maria Amigo (University of Sydney). Children and Work: Chasing Money in Rural Lombok

11 October. Rendra (one of Indonesia’s leading poets and dramatists). Artists, Literature and Political Reform in the Post-Soeharto Era

21 September. David Reeve (Department of Chinese and Indonesian, School of Modern Language Studies, University of NSW). Becoming Indonesian; the Long and Painful Journey of Onghokham

14 September. Benedictus Raksaka Mahi (Faculty of Economics, University of Indonesia). Oil, Price Fluctuations and Regional Finances Indonesia

31 August. Paul Tickell (School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of New South Wales, ADFA). A Thoroughly Modern Prison Camp: Boven Digul, the Press and Modernity in the Late Colonial Indies

24 August. Julia Suryakusuma (prominent writer on women’s issues). Sex, Power and Nation Revisited

10 August. Kate Duggan (Griffin, NRM). Community Based NRM in the Eastern Islands of Indonesia

27 July. Chris Manning (Indonesia Project, Economics Division, RSPAS, ANU). Indonesia’s Employment (Unemployment?) Problem: Some Recent Developments

5 July. Luca Tacconi (APSEG, ANU). Deforestation and Forest Degradation in Indonesia

29 June. Ross McLeod (Indonesia Project, Economics, RSPAS, ANU). Survey of Recent Economic Developments

1 June 2005. Alisdair Bowie (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars and George Washington University, Washington DC). Decentralization and Democracy in Indonesia and Vietnam

Joint seminar with Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU.

25 May. Paul Zeccola (Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU). The Work of Peace Brigades International in Aceh, 2000–2003

18 May. Greg Fealy (Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU). In Fear of ‘Rising Islamic Radicalism’ in Indonesia: A Critical Look at the Evidence

11 May. Velix Wanggai (Flinders University). Papuan Special Autonomy: Origins, Developments and Problems

27 April. Simone Alesich (Dept of Anthropology, RSPAS, ANU). Projects and the Village Context: An AusAID Health Project in Rural Southeast Sulawesi

20 April. Ben Arps (Leiden University and Centre for Asian Societies and Histories, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU). Audio Scandals and Their Actors: Crimes, Gaffes and Sensations Involving Sound Media in Recent Indonesian History

13 April. Associate Professor Lesley Potter (Human Geography, RSPAS, ANU). Producing Tree-based Commodities in Indonesia: Historical Perspectives, Modern Issues

23 March. Kelly Bird (USAID, Jakarta). Economic Policy Making in Indonesia: Changes Post Crisis

16 March. Dr Zahari Zen (Universitas Sumatera Utara, Medan), Dr Colin Barlow (Department of Political and Social Change, RSPAS, ANU) and Dr Ria Gondowarsito (International Oil Palm Study Group). Oil Palm in Indonesia’s Socio-Economic Improvement: A Review of Options

9 March. Dr Daniel Fitzpatrick (Faculty of Law, ANU). Land Administration in Post-Tsunami Aceh: Issues, Responses and the Potential for Conflict

16 February. Adrian Hayes (Program Visitor, Demography and Sociology, RSSS, ANU). The Indonesian Family Planning Program: Current Woes and Future Prospects

11 February. Dr Edward Aspinall (School of European, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Studies, University of Sydney). The Tsunami in Aceh: A Firsthand Account of the Relief Effort

9 February. Erwiza Erman (Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI)). Deregulation of Tin and the Emergence of a Local Shadow State: Case Study of Bangka

13 January. Bridget Welsh (Southeast Asian Fellow, RSPAS, ANU, and Assistant Professor, Southeast Asia Studies, Johns Hopkins University−SAIS, Washington DC). Murder or Mob Justice? Keroyokan in Indonesia?