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Indonesia Update Conference 2002: Local Power and Politics

| 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 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
Conference convenors
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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 |
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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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