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History of Inside Indonesia
Inside Indonesia was set up in Melbourne by the Indonesian Resources and Information Program (IRIP) in 1983. This was a time when the mainstream media in Australia included very little information about Indonesia. The diverse group of academics and activists involved in the establishment of Inside Indonesia wanted to provide an antidote to that situation. In particular, they wanted to provide information about the growing numbers of people and organisations in Indonesia who were involved in attempts to bring about social and political change amidst the very repressive conditions at that time under the Suharto regime. (Click on the following links for articles about the history of Inside Indonesia...'Twenty candles for Inside Indonesia ', and 'Looking back ...' both by Gerry van Klinken.)
In its print form, Inside Indonesia was published quarterly until March 2007. Throughout those years, Inside Indonesia provided a unique source of high quality and original reportage and analysis about issues in Indonesia which were rarely covered by other media sources. All of our past editions since we first went online (in 1996) are archived on this website. In 2007, Inside Indonesia made the transition to an internet-only format.
Purpose of Inside Indonesia
Inside Indonesia aims to provide a deeper image of Indonesia than that painted by mainstream media. It focuses on human rights, environmental, social and political issues, but is not limited to those issues. It is not an academic journal, but a publication which produces high standard, interesting, jargon free material about Indonesia by Indonesians or by others who have travelled, lived and/or done research in the country.Inside Indonesia is a non-profit endeavour, and apart from a small amount of technical support, is run on an entirely voluntary basis. None of our editors, writers or photographers are paid.
Inside Indonesia online
Becoming a completely online magazine has been an exciting, albeit challenging, process for Inside Indonesia. The decision was made to accommodate the increasingly global spread of editors and contributors, to marshall our scarce resources, to make the publishing process more efficient and to broaden Inside Indonesia’s readership.The online format is similar to the print version. Every three months we mark the publication of a new edition by publishing a new collection of articles on a major theme. In addition you will be able to find a new article on our site weekly. These articles may or may not be related to the quarterly theme.If you register here with our free subscription service you will receive an email notification when new material is available on our site. These notifications will be sent at a maximum rate of one per week and Inside Indonesia will not provide your email address to any third party.The online medium opens up some exciting possibilities for Inside Indonesia. We would love to know what you think about the magazine in its new form and to hear any suggestions you have for themes and/or article topics. Click here to give us your feedback .
Who runs and edits Inside Indonesia?
Inside Indonesia is managed by the Indonesian Resources and Information Program (IRIP). Read about the current IRIP Board Read the IRIP vision and mission statement
Inside Indonesia is edited by a team of volunteer editors who collectively have many years of accumulated experience writing about Indonesia. Read more about our editing team
Disclaimer
Inside Indonesia strives to keep information stored on this website up to date, but provides no express or implied warranty as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied. Readers should not rely on the information provided on this website, but make independent investigations. The views of individual authors are their own and not necessarily those of the publisher.
Publication and Contact details
Inside Indonesia is published quarterly online. Additional off-theme articles are published weekly.
admin@insideindonesia.orgISSN number: 0814-1185
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IRIP Board
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Chair
Jemma Purdey joined the IRIP Board in September 2007. She is author of From Vienna to Yogyakarta: The life of Herb Feith. Until his sudden death in 2001, Herb Feith was one of Inside Indonesia’s earliest and long-time supporters. Jemma’s interest in Indonesia came via her passion for human rights causes beginning in the early 1990s and an interest in knowing more about our near neighbours. Jemma has spent extended periods of time travelling, studying and researching in Indonesia. She wrote a PhD on anti-Chinese violence in Indonesia during the last years of the New Order and after reformasi. She now works as a researcher in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University .
Treasurer
Anton Lucas is Treasurer of the IRIP Board. He arrived in Yogyakarta from the University of Hawaii 's East West Center in late 1969 on an Indonesian language semester study programme and it changed his life forever. He wrote a PhD on the independence struggle of 1945 on Java's north coast, and has since taught in Indonesia , in Makassar (1984-85), and in Yogya (1990-92). After Inside Indonesia started in the mid-1980s, he signed up his wife Kadar's extended Yogya family and a Catholic nunnery in Central Java as subscribers. Kadar's family were interrogated by intelligence officers, and the nuns were accused of spreading banned Marxist teachings. Indonesia has changed a lot since then, but the magazine maintains its commitment to social justice, and what is happening at the grass roots level in the largest Muslim country in the world which is Australia 's closest neighbour. Anton teaches Asian Studies and Indonesian at Flinders University, and does research on agrarian and environmental issues.
Secretary
Julian Millie teaches in the anthropology section of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University. His current project concerns Islamic preaching in West Java. Prior to undertaking this project, Julian completed two other studies on the Islamic culture of Indonesia. He has taught in a number of departments in the Faculty of Arts at Monash University, and is a member of the executive committee of the Monash Centre of Southeast Asian Studies.
Other Members:
Edward Aspinall is one of Inside Indonesia’s hard-working editors, and was formerly chair of the IRIP board. Edward became involved in things Indonesian when he spent a year in Malang, East Java, as a teenager in 1983 (his father was working on an Australian government aid project). Later he studied Indonesian at high school and university. He finished his PhD in 2000 on the topic of the democratic movement that overthrew the Suharto regime. Now he researches Indonesian politics at the Australian National University, currently with a focus on the conflict in Aceh.
Thushara Dibley spent 10 years of her childhood in Indonesia, growing up in Jakarta and Yogyakarta. She discovered Inside Indonesia as a student in the Indonesian Studies Department at the University of Sydney. Thushara used Indonesian to do field work research for her Honours thesis in Timor Leste and after completing her studies she worked for a year with various local organizations in Timor Leste. Thushara is currently enrolled in a PhD at the University of Sydney. Her research looks at the relationship between local and international organisations implementing peacebuilding projects in Aceh and Timor Leste.
Michele Ford is editor of Inside Indonesia's Weekly Articles. Michele became interested in Indonesia when she was studying Engineering and Industrial Relations at the University of New South Wales. In 1990, she took an Indonesian language summer course on a whim, and it changed her life. She now has an Indonesian husband, a PhD in Indonesian labour relations (published as Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement) and a house in Tanjung Pinang, the capital of the Riau Islands. When she is not working on Inside Indonesia, she teaches about social activism and human rights in Southeast Asia at the University of Sydney or does research on Indonesian labour. Since 2002, Michele has held a number of posts in the IRIP executive, culminating with a four year stint as Chair.
Gerry van Klinken and his partner Helene became avid readers of Inside Indonesia when they were living in Salatiga, Central Java in the late 1980s. After both submitting pieces and being thrilled when they were published, Gerry found himself editing the magazine in 1996. After moving to a guest editor system in 2002 he continued to be actively involved in the magazine, first as coordinating editor, and later as a member of the editing committee. He is now a researcher in the Netherlands. Gerry is continually struck by the infectious energy that Indonesia inspires in those who return from their travels. He sees that energy as a sustaining force for the magazine. Helene and Gerry's own memories of Indonesia include high adventure, back-packing around the archipelago and being shipwrecked at night on a coral reef in a traditional sailing boat! They both want the magazine to be a 'bridge between people, to challenge stereotypes, to highlight movements and individuals who we think symbolise a better tomorrow.'
Alexandra Crosby first went to Indonesia in 2000, when she began studying independent art and media initiatives. Since then she has been reading and contributing to Inside Indonesia. She lived in Yogyakarta as a Visual Arts Officer for the Australian Youth Ambassador for Development program and in Jakarta as part of the project Beyond the Factory Walls. In 2008 she received the Kirk Robson Memorial Award for Leadership in Community Cultural Development for her work connecting artist communities in Java and Australia. She recently submitted her PhD on the visual culture of activist communities in Java. She currently works for EngageMedia on video activist projects in SouthEast Asia, and teaches in the School of Design and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences at the University of Technology, Sydney.
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Editorial Committee
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Coordinating Editors
Edward Aspinall
Edward became involved in things Indonesian when he spent a year in Malang, East Java, as a teenager in 1983 (his father was working on an Australian government aid project). Later he studied Indonesian at high school and university. He wrote his PhD on the democratic movement which overthrew the Suharto regime (this was published as a book - Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia - in 2005). Now he researches Indonesian politics at the Australian National University, currently with a focus on the conflict and the peace process in Aceh.
Michele Ford
Michele became interested in Indonesia when she was studying Engineering and Industrial Relations at the UNSW. In 1990, she took an Indonesian language summer course on a whim, and it changed her life. She now has an Indonesian husband, a PhD in Indonesian labour relations (published as Workers and Intellectuals: NGOs, Trade Unions and the Indonesian Labour Movement) and a house in Tanjung Pinang, the capital city of the Riau Islands. When she is not working on Inside Indonesia, she teaches about Indonesia, social activism and human rights at the University of Sydney or continues her research on labour.
Other Members of the Editing Team
Emma Baulch
Emma Baulch has been reading Inside Indonesia since the late-1980s, when she majored in Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. From the early-1990s, she occasionally contributed (her own) and reviewed (others’) articles for the magazine and in 2003 edited a print edition on the aftermath of the first Bali bomb. She is a writer and researcher with an interest in Indonesian media, particularly the music and advertising industries. Presently she is a post doctoral fellow at the ANU, where she is researching the Indonesian pop music industry. She lives in Bali.
Siobhan Campbell
Siobhan Campbell began learning Indonesian as a high school student in 1990. After a first visit to Bali & Sulawesi in 1992 she caught the bug and continued studying Indonesian at UNSW in Sydney. Her involvement with Inside Indonesia began in 1997 as an undergraduate student, when she would take clippings of the political cartoons from the major Indonesian dailies, photocopy them and send them by post to the then editors in Brisbane for inclusion in the magazine. This illustrious start launched Siobhan into a career working as an “Indonesianist” including a stint as a translator/interpreter with the United Nations Transitional Administration in East Timor and as a liaison officer with the Indonesian Consulate General in Sydney. Siobhan is now doing her PhD at the University of Sydney.
Thushara Dibley
Thushara Dibley grew up in Yogyakarta and has maintained her links with Indonesia ever since. A major in Indonesian Studies led to an interest in Timor Leste, where she volunteered for a year with a small NGO. She has since started a PhD in Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, where she is researching the relationship between local and international NGOs doing peacebuilding work in Timor Leste and Aceh. She has been involved in various capacities with Inside Indonesia since 2007, and now serves on the IRIP board as well as on the editorial committee.
Nikki Edwards
Nikki Edwards is an honours graduate in Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney. Although she studied Indonesian by distance education in high school she did not become passionate about Indonesia until first travelling alone there in 2005. At university, weekly readings from Inside Indonesia proved to be some of the most exciting and easily accessible texts assigned within the undergraduate study program. In 2009 Nikki wrote an honours thesis about Indonesia’s movement towards sustainable agriculture, and took part in the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program.
Keith Foulcher
Keith Foulcher retired in 2006 after more than 30 years teaching Indonesian language and literature studies at Monash, Flinders and Sydney universities. During that time he found himself (at times) a reluctant participant in Indonesian literary politics because of his interest in oppositional writers and their work during the New Order years. He is now an Honorary Associate of the Department of Indonesian Studies at Sydney University, with time for extra curricula interests like helping out with the editing of Inside Indonesia.
Virginia Hooker
Virginia Hooker first visited Indonesia in 1969 for research into traditional Malay manuscripts from the 19th century Riau-Lingga sultanate. Since then she has moved ever closer to the present day and currently researches social change, values and Islam in contemporary Indonesia, particularly West Sumatra. Her most recent publication, co-edited with Greg Fealy, is Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (Singapore 2006). She retired as Professor of Indonesian and Malay, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU in January 2007 and is now a Visiting Fellow in the Dept of Political and Social Change. She has been a subscriber to Inside Indonesia since it began.
Dave McRae
Dave McRae became interested in Indonesia when he studied Indonesian as a high school student in Sydney in the early 90s. He previously guest-edited two editions of Inside Indonesia: edition 79 – "Islamic Law: What would it mean for Indonesia?" - and edition 72 - "Give press freedom a chance". David wrote his PhD at the Australian National University on the Poso conflict in Central Sulawesi, and has worked for the International Crisis Group and the World Bank in Jakarta and Makassar.
Laura Noszlopy
Laura first visited Indonesia as a teenager, travelling from Jakarta to Flores and back. Since then, she has studied various aspects of Indonesian culture and society, concentrating on the ethnography of Bali, Indonesian performance, and youth and popular cultures. In addition to her research, she has worked in Indonesia as an editor for the Lontar Foundation, Equinox Publishing and Latitudes magazine. She is currently based at Royal Holloway, University of London and is working on a biography of John Coast.
Nick Long
Nick's interest in Indonesia was sparked by the texts on his undergraduate anthropology course, and cemented by a visit to the Riau Islands in 2004. He continued to work in Riau for his MPhil and PhD, where he investigated the links between regional autonomy and Malay identity through such prisms as neighbourhood interactions, history-telling, entrepreneurship, notions of 'achievement' and relations with the 'spirit world'. He is now starting a major new research project on democratisation. He is based at the University of Cambridge where he is a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow and Affiliated Lecturer in Social Anthropology, and a Research Fellow of St Catharine's College.
Blair Palmer
Blair grew up in New Zealand and Canada, and first went to Indonesia as a volunteer, spending a year in Papua in 1994 as a mathematics instructor. He has kept coming back ever since, doing street outreach on AIDS prevention as an NGO volunteer in Yogyakarta, writing a masters degree on Indonesian languages, and working on a documentary film on Orang Rimba in the jungle in Jambi. These experiences led to a switch to anthropology, and Blair wrote a PhD at the ANU on migration and social change in Buton. Since 2006 he has been based in Jakarta, researching conflict and democratisation in Indonesia. Blair first became involved with Inside Indonesia in 2004, guest-editing a special edition entitled 'From Mataram to Merauke'.
Jen Robinson
Jen Robinson is an Australian lawyer and Rhodes Scholar at the University of Oxford. Jen was first exposed to Indonesian at her South Coast NSW high school and after her first trip to Indonesia in 1996 she was hooked. But it was not until her year in Indonesia on the ACICIS program in 2002, and a meeting with Gerry van Klinken with his copy of Inside Indonesia that Jen decided to go to West Papua to work with Elsham on human rights cases and a major political prisoner trial. Seven years later, Jen edited a special edition about West Papua. She hopes to ensure that Papua receives more coverage in the future.
Yatun Sastramidjaja
Yatun was born and raised in the Netherlands but spent three childhood years in Bandung, after which she has visited Indonesia almost every year to catch up with family and friends and since 1997 for research. She has published on urban youth cultures, student activism and heritage movements in Indonesia, and has taught Indonesian history at the Erasmus University Rotterdam. Yatun first came into contact with Inside Indonesia when Gerry van Klinken invited her to write an article in 1999 - and she has been a huge II fan ever since.
Mila Shwaiko
Mila grew up in Ubud, Bali. After graduating from university in Sydney, she moved back to Bali. She was an assistant editor for Latitudes magazine before moving to Makassar in 2006 to work for the Eastern Indonesia Knowledge Exchange (BaKTI), a multi-donor program and now independent foundation focused on knowledge-based development in the 12 provinces of eastern Indonesia. At BaKTI she works in the Communications unit. She joined the Inside Indonesia team in 2009.
Dirk Tomsa
Dirk was born and raised in Germany. After visiting Indonesia as a backpacker, he decided to move to Australia and pursue a postgraduate degree in Indonesian Studies. A political scientist by background, he wrote his PhD about the Golkar Party at the University of Melbourne and now works as a lecturer in the Politics and International Relations Program at La Trobe University in Melbourne. He visits Indonesia regularly to conduct research on parties, elections and local politics, and, whenever he finds a bit of spare time, to explore what’s left of the country’s magnificent natural heritage.
Gerry van Klinken
Gerry van Klinken and his partner Helene became avid readers of the magazine when they were living in Salatiga, Central Java in the late 1980s. After both submitting pieces and being thrilled when they were published, Gerry found himself editing the magazine in 1996. After moving to a guest editor system in 2002 he continued to be actively involved in the magazine, first as coordinating editor, and later as a member of the editing committee. Helene and Gerry's own memories of Indonesia include high adventure, back-packing around the archipelago and being shipwrecked at night on a coral reef in a traditional sailing boat! They both want the magazine to be a 'bridge between people, to challenge stereotypes, to highlight movements and individuals who we think symbolise a better tomorrow.'
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Vision and Mission Statement
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Our Vision
IRIP understands that:
(a) All human beings have the right to live free from poverty, violence and political oppression, gender, racial and other forms of discrimination, and in conditions of environmental sustainability;
(b) Many citizens of Indonesia have long struggled to achieve peace, economic justice, human rights, equality, democracy and environmental sustainability, often in the face of great domestic obstacles and international isolation;
(c) Citizens of wealthy countries like Australia have global social responsibilities to understand and assist the struggles of those in poorer countries;
(d) Due to our geographic proximity, citizens of Australia have a particular responsibility to understand and assist our Indonesian neighbours in their struggles;
(e) That a primary obstacle to mutual understanding and support between the peoples of Australia and Indonesia is lack of information and mutual understanding;
(f) That better understanding between the two peoples is possible, and that such understanding can assist communities and citizens to act together to transform and improve their societies.
Mission
IRIP’s primary mission is to encourage greater international understanding of Indonesia and Indonesians, in particular amongst Australians. We aim to raise awareness about the diversity of Indonesian society, and about the struggles of those Indonesians who aim to achieve greater democracy, human rights, gender and racial equality, tolerance and environmental sustainability.
A primary means by which we pursue the aim education and awareness-raising is by publication of the magazine Inside Indonesia. We do not view education and awareness-raising as ends in themselves. IRIP’s greater aim is to encourage Australians, Indonesians and others to reflect on the issues confronting Indonesia, and on the Australian-Indonesian relationship, and take action to:
promote mutual cooperation and understanding between the peoples of Indonesia and Australia.
support the struggles of those Indonesians who are aiming to improve their society.
promote international awareness of the issues facing the Indonesian people today
Inside Indonesia 70: Apr - Jun 2002
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