Program
Organised by the Indonesia Project, Division of Economics & Department of Political & Social Change, Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies, Australian National University with financial assistance from AusAID.
Friday and Saturday, 26 and 27 September 2003
Venue:
Coombs Lecture Theatre, HC Coombs Building (Building No 9)
Cnr Fellows Rd & Garran Rd
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
(
see ANU Map [D2, no. 8])
Current program as at 19 September 2003
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-9:05 Welcome
9:05-9:15 Opening Address
9:15-10:45 Session 1: Political Update
- Terrorism, nationalism, and disillusionment with reform
Speaker: Sidney Jones
Discussant: Greg Fealy
Chair: Harold Crouch
10:45-11:15 Morning tea
11:15-12:45 Session 2: Economic Update
-
After five years of Reformasi Ekonomi: What next?
Speaker: M. Chatib Basri
Discussant: Thomas Lindblad
Chair: Ross Garnaut
12:45-14:15 Lunch
14:15-15:30 Session 3: Challenges to business
- Business prospects: A view from the private sector
Speaker: James Castle
- A new political economy? Politics, ethnicity and business
Speaker: Sadanand Dhume
Chair: Philip Flood
15:30-16:00 Afternoon tea
16:00-17 15 Session 4: Old problems in business
- IBRA, credit crunch and company restructuring
Speaker: Felia Salim
- Private sector response to public sector corruption
Speaker: Merly M. Khouw
Chair: Keith Houghton
19:00 Update dinner
Superior Peking Restaurant
(Escort to venue leaves University House foyer at 18:45)
09:00-10:30 Session 5: New regulations impacting on business
- Upholding bankruptcy legislation
Speakers: Marie-Christine Schröeder and Kevin Sidharta
- Corporate governance reform
Speaker: Ahmad D. Habir
- Business climate in the decentralisation era
Speaker: Bambang P.S. Brodjonegoro
Chair: Stephen Bottomley
10:30-11:00 Morning Tea
11:00-12:00 Session 6: Economic change and business
- Foreign direct investment: Is it necessary?
Speaker: Kelly Bird
- Export-led development of SMEs
Speakers: Henry Sandee and Peter van Diermen
Chair: Thee Kian Wie
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Session 7: Private and state-owned firms
- Corporate ownership-management: Does it change?
Speaker: Yuri Sato
- Privatisation and state-owned enterprise reform
Speaker: Tony Prasetiantono
Chair: Terry Hull
14:00-14:30 Afternoon Tea
14:30-15:30 Session 8: Workers, employees and firms
- A challenge for business? Indonesian trade unionism
Speaker: Michele Ford
- Human resource management in Indonesian firms
Speaker: Wahyu Sutiyono
Chair: Virginia Hooker
15:30-15:45 Overview, closing comment