The Australian National University

Indonesia Update Conference 2002: Local Power and Politics

Organised by the Indonesia Project, Division of Economics,
		and Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian
		National University

Friday 27 September

8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:15 Opening Address
9:15-10:45 Political Update Speaker: Harold Crouch
Discussant: Dewi Fortuna Anwar
10:45-11:15 Morning tea
11:15-12:45 Economic Update Speaker: Moh. Ikhsan
Discussant: Chris Manning
12:45-14:00 Lunch
14:00-15:30 Panel 1: From the national to the local in Indonesian politics Ryaas Rasyid: An evaluation of decentralisation: the background, and the score sheet so far

Hans Antlov: Not enough politics? Regional autonomy and the democratic polity
15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea
16:00-17:30 Panel 2: Regional autonomy successes and challenges Cornelis Lay:The politics of regional autonomy under the Megawati presidency

Mike Malley: Historical patterns of centralisation and decentralisation
19:00 Update dinner

Saturday 28 September

9:00-10:00 Panel 3: Local case studies Arrellano A Colongon Jnr: What's Happening on the Ground? Findings from the Indonesia Rapid Decentralization Appraisal (IRDA)

Michele Ford: Who are the 'orang Riau'? Negotiating identity across geographic and ethnic fault-lines in the era of regional autonomy
10:00-11:00 Panel 4: Local case studies Vedi Hadiz: Local politics and the reconstitution of the New Order Elite: Medan and Yogyakarta

Amrih Widodo:Local politics? National politics?: Rethinking the local (and the national) in Post-1999 Election Politics
11:00-11:30 Morning tea
11:30-12:30 Panel 5: Local case studies Rodd McGibbon: Addressing Indonesia's separatist challenge?: The politics of special autonomy in Papua

Minako Sakai: Privatisation of the state-owned Padang Cement Company: Regional identity and economic hegemony
12:30-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Panel 6: Gender and environment Hana Satriyo: One step back, two steps forward? Decentralisation and women in Indonesia

Ida Aju Resosudarmo: Shifting power to the periphery: preliminary impacts of Indonesia's decentralization on forests and forest people
14:30-15:30 Panel 7: Military and society Marcus Mietzner: Business as usual? TNI, the territorial command system and regional autonomy

Sunday 29 September

Indonesian Students Association Conference on
Regional Autonomy and Education

Sunday 29 September 2002
Coombs Lecture Theatre
ANU

The seminar is hosted by the Australia Indonesia Business Education Network (AIBEN) Inc.
and Indonesian Student Association in Australia (ISAA), supported by the Australia Indonesia
Institute (AII) and the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia.

The Conference is free of charge. Please click for details of the Regional Autonomy and Education program.

You may also see the Program by clicking on AUTONOMY IN EDUCATION CONFERENCE on AIBEN web site: http://connect.to/aiben

Contact details: Deny Hamdani, PPIA Canberra
email:ppiaoto@hotmail.com
Phone: 61 2 6125 9455

Contacts

Conference convenors

Dr Edward Aspinall
Department of Political and Social Change
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA

phone: 61 2 6125 2411
fax: 61 2 6125 5523
email: E.Aspinall@anu.edu.au
Dr Greg Fealy
Department of Political and Social Change
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA

phone: 61 2 6125 2302
fax: 61 2 6125 5523
email: greg.fealy@anu.edu.au
Administrator

Jill Wolf
Indonesia Project
Division of Economics
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
AUSTRALIA

phone: 61 2 6125 3794
fax: 61 2 6125 3700
email: indonesia.project@anu.edu.au

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