News and Events
AIFIS works to provide news, events, and information to a larger community interested in Indonesia. Please follow for regular updates.
AIFIS is pleased to support the Bank Indonesia is announcing their new program providing research funding for scholars interested in studying economics in Indonesia. More information can be found on the Bank of Indonesia website.
The AIFIS 2018 annual report is now complete. It is available for immediate download by clicking here.
The ICRS (Indonesian Consortium for Religious Studies) is offering a short course on Indonesian Islam and Religious Pluralism. With visits in Bali, Yogyakarta, and Manado, the course will include visits to religious sites in all destinations, and is lead by an internationally recognized faculty. ICRS is providing different packages for different budgets and interests. Course fees are all inclusive, and include airfare, transportation, study materials, and lodging. Contact ICRS directly if interested:
Program Assistant: Ida Fitri +62-857-4322-8661, or idafitriastuti2013@gmail.com
Program Coordinator: Dicky Sofjan +62-812-1095-55, or dickysofjan@ugm.ac.id
AIFIS is pleased to announce the recipients of our 2018-2019 Henry Luce Foundation Fellows:
U.S. Fellows:
Darin Self, Cornell University, Government/Competing for Power: Identifying Institutional Influence in Authoritarian Regime
Andrew Weintraub, University of Pittsburgh, Music/Critical dimensions of music to collective memory of 1965-66
Francesca Pase, University of Georgia, Education/Navigating the Emotional Landscape of the Indonesian Early Childhood Classroom
Galen Stolee, Harvard University, Anthropology/The Mediators: Truth and Regulation in the Indonesian News Industry
Maho Ishiguro, Wesleyan University, Music/Srimpi Moncar: Analysis of the Chinese-ness through the lens of Javanese Aesthetics
Wendy Erb, Columbia University, Calls for Conservation: Bioacoustic Monitoring of Endangered Apes to Support Protection of a Threatened Bornean Landscape
Brent Luvaas, Drexel University, Project: Insta-nesia: Street Photography, Social Media, and the Indonesian Urban Imagination
Indonesian Fellows:
Ika Nurhayani, Brawijaya University, Dayak Desa: A Dialect of Sanggau or a Separate Language?
Desi Adhariani, University of Indonesia, Eco Innovation of Indonesian Palm Oil Companies: Cost and Benefit Analysis
Silvester Pramadi Tjiptopradonggo, Indonesian Art Institute of Surakarta, The Dynamics of Surakarta Style Javanese Dance Outside the Keraton during the Decades from the 1940s to 2000s
Theresia Indira Shanti, Atma Jaya University, The Implementation of Mental Health Service among University and College Campuses
Benny Baskara, Halu Oleo University in Sulawesi, Religious Ecological View of the Bajo people in Southeast Sulawesi, Indonesia
George Tawakkal, Brawijaya University, Malang, Meaning of Democracy and Vote Buying
Achmad Munjid, Gadjah Mada University, Interfaith Relations among Indonesian Diaspora in the U.S.
Desiree Simandjuntak, Small-scale tuna fishery governance and market access in Toli-Toli, Sulawesi
AIFIS is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Peter Cole and the Department of Linguistics at the University of Delaware. The collaboration enlists students and universities from both the United States and Indonesia. Below are a few abstracts from their proposal, and the complete document can be downloaded here.
One of the major problems facing Indonesia, and much of the developing world, is the rapid loss of cultural and linguistic diversity. The problem is especially acute in East Indonesia, a region known for its diversity of languages, both Austronesian and Papuan, where the inroads of contemporary Indonesia on local cultures are well known.
The program involves training in language documentation in Kupang (one week), three weeks gathering stories, personal narratives, conversations, songs and other examples of the language spoken in a village in East Indonesia, and an additional week in Kupang preparing the data for archiving. The first year of the program is now complete, and the data from the first year have been submitted for archiving to Paradisec (http://www.paradisec.org.au/), an archive located in Australia that specializes in the languages and cultures of the Pacific. The American/Indonesian teams are now reviewing the results of the first year of the program and are preparing to recruit participants for the second year.
Students working with local participants in Kupang
Students working with local participants in Kupang
The Indonesian Film Forum in New York City is now selling tickets for their 2018 festival. The films will be screened at the School for Visual Arts Theater in Chelsea. For tickets and more information on the films included in this years festival, click here.
As part of a joint project titled "Education, Conflict Histories, and Social Cohension-Builing in Indonesia," the Centre for Research on Pace and Development (CRPD) at KU Leuven (Prof. Arnim Langer), the Institute of Political Studies at Heidelberg (Prof. Aurel Croissant), and the Department of Politics and Government at Gadjah Mada University (Dr. Mada Sukmajati), welcome abstracts from junior and senior Indonesian researchers concerning the way in which Indonesia has been dealing with the legacies and histories of conflict, and how a more peaceful and socially cohesive future can be achieved. The current call aims to particularly bring together scholarship on the role of formal and informal education in fostering conflict and division as well as reconciliation, ethnic and religious tolerance and inter-group understanding in Indonesia.
For the complete abstract and contact information, click here.
On 1-3 October 2018, the Indonesian Constitutional Court will hold its 2nd International Symposium. Reflecting on its first successful event in Surakarta on 2017, the Court aims to provide an annual academic forum to discuss various constitutional issues. Selected articles from the Symposium (based on peer review decision) will be on the special issue of the Court's academic publication, Constitutional Review (CONSREV) Journal, published by the Center for Research and Case Analysis, the Indonesian Constitutional Court.
For more information, click here.
Position announced at Mae Fah Luang University in the Asian Research Center for International Development (ARCID), School of Social Innovation.
Academic Qualification: A Master’s degree or higher in social sciences
Job Description: The candidate will on work on the relations between Southeast Asia and China. He/she must be good in English and speak one of the Southeast Asian languages. Preference will be given to a candidate who has some experiences working on the Mekong region and/ or China
Interested candidates should send the following:
To ARCID by post (School of Social Innovation ,Mae Fah Luang University, 4th floor, Building E1, Thasud, Muang District, Chiang Rai 57100, Thailand) or by email (yarinda.bec@mfu.ac.th or arcid.social-innovation.school@mfu.ac.th) The candidate will be offered a competitive salary package. Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. For more information please visit our Facebook page:
For more information, click here.
BASAbali is an interesting and innovative project working to sustain traditional Balinese language and culture. Please see their website for more information about how this project is developing.
They are currently developing a new fundraising campaign to help support their work. More information about this campaign can be found here. Please donate if you can!
The Association for Asian Studies is now accepting proposals for the 2019 conference in Denver, CO at the Sheraton Hotel. Please follow the link for more information!
Deadline, July 5, 2018
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year 2018 Fulbright-Hays Group Projects Abroad (GPA) Program.
The GPA Program provides grants to institutions and private, nonprofit educational entities that organize programs for K–12 teachers, college students, and faculty to engage in short-term or long-term overseas projects focused on training, research, and curriculum development in modern foreign languages and area studies. GPA short-term projects include seminars, curriculum development, and group research or study. GPA long-term projects support advanced intensive overseas programs that focus on languages, the humanities, or social sciences.
IFLE expects to make 25 new awards totaling $2.7 million under the FY 2018 GPA competition. The application is now available at www.grants.gov. The deadline to submit an application is July 5, 2018.
Competition now open! Deadline to apply: July 2, 2018
The Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad (DDRA) Fellowship Program provides opportunities to doctoral candidates to engage in full-time dissertation research abroad in modern foreign languages and area studies. The program is designed to deepen research knowledge and increase the study of modern foreign languages, cultural engagement, and area studies not generally included in U.S. curricula.
Program Features:
The institutional project period is 18 months. Students may request funding for a period of no less than six months and no more than 12 months. Funds support travel expenses to and from the residence of the fellow and the country or countries of research; maintenance and dependent allowances based on the location of research for the fellow and his or her dependent(s); an allowance for research related expenses overseas; and health and accident insurance premiums. Projects may focus on one or more of the following geographic areas: Africa, East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific Islands, South Asia, the Near East, Central and Eastern Europe and Eurasia, and the Western Hemisphere (excluding the United States and its territories).
Eligible Applicants:
Institutions of higher education (IHEs) in the United States are eligible to apply for grants under this program. As part of the application process, students submit individual applications to the IHE. The IHE then submits all eligible individual student applications with its grant application to the U.S. Department of Education. A student is eligible to receive a DDRA fellowship from their IHE if he or she:
- is a citizen, national, or permanent resident of the United States;
- is a graduate student in good standing at an IHE;
- is admitted to candidacy in a doctoral degree program in modern foreign languages and area studies at that institution when the fellowship period begins;
- is planning a teaching career in the United States upon completion of his or her doctoral program; or
- possesses sufficient foreign language skills to carry out the dissertation research project.
The International and Foreign Language Education (IFLE) office at the U.S. Department of Education is pleased to announce the opening of the competition for the fiscal year (FY) 2018 Title VI Language Resource Centers (LRC) Program.
The LRC Program provides grants to institutions of higher education (IHEs) or consortia of IHEs for establishing, strengthening, and operating centers that serve as resources for improving the nation's capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages. Funded centers provide teacher training and conduct research, materials development, assessment, and dissemination projects.
The FY 2018 LRC application package is now available at www.grants.gov. The deadline for submitting applications is June 25, 2018.
IFLE expects to make 16 new awards totaling $2,746,768 under the FY 2018 LRC competition.
For more information, click here.
A pre-application virtual technical assistance webinar was held on Sept. 19, 2017. The webinar covered a variety of topics, including LRC program requirements, selection criteria, and performance measures, followed by technical assistance questions and answers. A recording of the webinar is available to stream on YouTube at the link below.
The webinar is now on YouTube!
The LRC program provides funding to institutions of higher education in the United States for establishing, strengthening, and operating centers that serve as resources for improving the nation’s capacity for teaching and learning foreign languages. LRC activities include effective dissemination efforts, whenever appropriate, and may include
Questions about the LRC Program? Contact Carolyn Collins at carolyn.collins@ed.gov.
Kyoto University
Since 1975, CSEAS has had an established and highly appraised visiting scholarship program to promote research activities in and on the region by distinguished scholars. To date, over 350 – many of them leading researchers in their respective fields- have availed themselves of the Center’s considerable scholarly resources to engage in path breaking, multidisciplinary research and develop comparative, historical, and global perspectives on Southeast Asia. CSEAS hosts scholars and researchers who work on comparative and regional issues from a multi-area perspective, and are interested in spending time in Kyoto, Japan to conduct research, write, or pursue other scholarly interests in connection with their field of study. With considerable scholarly resources, CSEAS also offers the invigorating atmosphere of scenic Kyoto, the ancient capital of Japan and the main repository of the country’s cultural treasures, to enable researchers to pursue their interests in Southeast Asian area studies. The Center’s multi-disciplinary character and the diverse research interests of our faculty offer visiting research scholars an ideal opportunity for the exchange of ideas, collaboration, and the cultivation of comparative perspectives. Fourteen fellowships are awarded annually on a competitive basis. Fellowships are normally between a period of three to six-months, although in exceptional cases they can be extended for an additional six months. Applicants are not limited to scholars: CSEAS has hosted government officials, journalists, public intellectuals, librarians, NGO workers, IT specialists, writers, artists, and other professionals on short-term visits.
For more information and application procedures, click here.
June 15, 2018 - 12:00pm
Proposals should be submitted to coordinator@nysean.org by June 15, 2018.
The mission of the New York Southeast Asia Network (NYSEAN) is to promote research on, and awareness of, Southeast Asia. Toward that end, NYSEAN has established the Partners Fund to foster collaboration among academics, artists, policymakers and other professionals working on contemporary Southeast Asia. To promote such cooperation, the NYSEAN Partners Fund is issuing a call for proposals aimed at funding conferences, small workshops, panel discussions, exhibitions, art installations or performances that address historical or contemporary issues in Southeast Asia and/or U.S.-Southeast Asia relations.
Where possible, proposals should relate to specific outcomes including academic or journalistic publications, media commentaries, podcasts, videos or appropriate artistic outputs. Applicants must be members of NYSEAN, and should be affiliated with a formal partner of NYSEAN listed on the NYSEAN website. Proposals should be in the $3,000 to $12,000 range. Events should be held during the fall semester of 2018, and all expenses should be incurred by December 31, 2018.
Recipients of must submit a narrative report on the outcome of their program within 30 days of the event. The narrative report should include the following: a description of the event; a record of the number of participants/attendees; a plan for the dissemination of the knowledge produced by the event; a budget reconciliation; and an assessment of how the event helped advance NYSEAN’s mission.
For more information, visit the NYSEAN website.
The International Conference on Business & Human Rights: Holding Governments Accountable in Asia will focus on the role of governments in protecting human rights from the impacts of business operations in Asia, under Pillar 1 of the UN Guiding Principles on Business & Human Rights. Participants will include academics, researchers, practitioners and members of civil society, from Southeast Asia and around the world. Full details on themes and objectives can be found at the event website and Facebook event page, and I have attached the conference poster to this email as a PDF. After the conference, selected good-quality papers will feature in a book to be published by a reputable international publisher.
We are accepting abstracts up until the final deadline of 28 May 2018. In addition, we are accepting expressions of interest for partnership with the conference. More information on this is available at the partnership site.
All abstracts and queries can be sent to contact@asiacentre.co.th.
April 23, 2018 - 4:00pm
NYU Global Center of Academic and Spiritual Life (GCASL), Room 375.
Please join NYU ISA and Permias NYC in welcoming Dr. Halim Alamsyah, Chairman of the Indonesia Deposit Insurance Corporation (ICDC), former Deputy Governor of The Central Bank of Indonesia and former Commissioner of Indonesia’s Financial Services Authority (FSA).
He will be speaking about how the Indonesian economic infrastructures maintained resilience amidst the Asian financial crisis, as well as how it has continued to improve since. In addition to that, Dr. Alamsyah will provide an outlook of the current developments, challenges, and opportunities within the Indonesian economy.
This discussion will be moderated by Professor Ismail Fajrie Alatas of New York University. Please join this event by registering below (non-NYU guests may enter the Kimmel Center or the Global Center by registering at the registration desk):
The SSRC has received a three-year, $660,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation for Asian studies development. The grant funds two initiatives: the SSRC Global Scholars Initiative and the AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop Series. On the latter, the SSRC is partnering with the Association for Asian Studies.
The Global Scholars Initiative will develop the capacity of Asian scholars to produce English-medium articles, making their research accessible to broader academic audiences while supporting these scholars in their careers; the AAS-SSRC Dissertation Workshop Series, a renewal by the Luce Foundation, offers intensive feedback and networking to PhD candidates at strategic points in their careers, thereby supporting the next generation of scholars of Asia.
The Global Scholars Initiative will be managed from the SSRC’s Tokyo office, while the AAS-SSRC Dissertation workshops will be managed from the SSRC’s Brooklyn headquarters.
More information on both initiatives is forthcoming. For those interested in learning more, please email Nicole Levit at levit@ssrc.org.
The Indonesian mission to the United Nations is sponsoring a performance and workshop on angklung, a traditional music of Indonesia.
Experience the Anklung Bamboo Orchestra at the United Nations ECOSOC Chamber. Be a part of the performance and play and take home your very own anklung.
For more information, or to RSVP, email rsvpindonesia@indonesiamission-ny.org
