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INDONESIA UPDATE 2006

The 24th annual Indonesia Update conference

DEMOCRACY AND THE PROMISE OF GOOD GOVERNANCE

Coombs Lecture Theatre, Fellows Road
The Australian National University
22–23 September 2006

Conference Program (subject to alteration)

FRIDAY 22 SEPTEMBER
8.30 am Registration
9.00 am Welcoming address Allan Hawke (Chancellor of The ANU)
9.10 am Economics update Chair: Chris Manning (ANU)
M. Chatib Basri & Arianto Patunru
Discussant: Della Temenggung
10.35 am Coffee break
11.00 am Politics update Chair: Harold Crouch (ANU)
Rodd McGibbon
Discussant: Anies Baswedan
12.30 pm Lunch
1.30 pm Reforming the institutions of democracy Chair: Mark Turner (University of Canberra)
National political institutions Andrew Ellis
The civil service: towards efficiency, effectiveness and honesty Staffan Synnerstrom
3.00 pm Coffee break
3.30 pm Roles of Government Chair: Jenny Corbett (ANU)
The state and the market in democratic Indonesia Ron Duncan & Ross McLeod
Government and private business: rents, representation and collective action Natasha Hamilton-Hart
5.00 pm Close
Conference dinner (La Pasa restaurant, cnr. Alinga St & Northbourne Ave, Civic)
SATURDAY 23 SEPTEMBER
9.00 am Democracy at sub-national levels of government Chair: Lucky Sondakh (Sam Ratulangi University)
Political decentralisation through direct election of local heads of government: has it delivered the promise of good governance? Smita Notosusanto
Fruits of decentralisation: process tracing of local political economic dynamics I Ketut Erawan
10.30 am Coffee break
11.00 am Political parties, religion, natural resources & environment Chair: George Quinn (ANU)
Banishing judicial accountability? The Constitutional Court's decision in the dispute between the Supreme Court and the Judicial Commission Simon Butt
Muslim politics in Indonesia's democratisation: religious majority and the rights of the minority in the post new order era Arskal Salim
Governance, natural resources and the environment Luca Tacconi
12.45 pm Closing remarks
1.00 pm Lunch (Coombs tea room)
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