Editorial Committee:

Ed Aspinall

Edward Aspinall is the Chair of the IRIP Board. He is also the Coordinator of Inside Indonesia's editing committee. Ed 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 peace process in Aceh.

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. 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.'

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 society and culture, concentrating on the ethnography of Bali, Indonesian performance, and youth and popular cultures. Her recent post-doctoral project was on the curious history of ogoh-ogoh – the ‘new tradition’ of giant papier-mâché effigies paraded in urban streets for Balinese New Year. While living in Denpasar she got the job of editing Latitudes magazine, a much missed periodical dealing with contemporary Indonesian life and culture. In the past year or so, Laura has returned to London, become a mother, and started working on new research into Indonesian performing arts and transnationalism.

Lis Jackson

Lis Jackson is a member of Inside Indonesia's editorial team and the proofreading coordinator for the magazine. Lis studied Indonesian at the University of New South Wales after a holiday to Bali in 1994 inspired her to learn the language. In early June 2005 she submitted a PhD on the politics of student identity under Suharto's New Order. The following day, she left Sydney for Jakarta where she managed The Asia Foundation's programs in the Islamic education sector. Lis has taught Indonesian language at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. She is also a nationally accredited Indonesian translator and interpreter. Her husband, Edward, is a mining engineer who is currently working in Jakarta.  Their first daughter, Isabelle, was born in April 2007.

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.

Blair Palmer

After growing up in New Zealand and Canada, Blair finished his University studies in mathematics and went to Papua to do volunteer work in 1994. He has been living and working on and off in Indonesia ever since. He is in the final stages of writing his PhD dissertation in Anthropology, based on research in Sulawesi on migrant Butonese who fled the Ambon conflicts of 1999. Blair guest-edited edition 82 of Inside Indonesia entitled "From Mataram to Merauke: Mobility and Eastern Indonesia". Blair is currently living in Jakarta, doing research in Aceh for the World Bank’s Conflict and Development Team, and waiting for his first child to be born.

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, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, ANU. She has been a subscriber to Inside Indonesia since it began.

Emma Baulch

Emma Baulch has been reading Inside Indonesia since the late-1980s, when she majored in Indonesian Studies at Sydney University. From the early-1990s, she has occasionally contributed (her own) and reviewed (others’) articles for the magazine. In 2003, she 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 works for Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries Faculty and lives in Denpasar.

John Roosa

Since 1994 John Roosa has lived off-and-on in Indonesia for a total of about five years, largely in Java. John’s initial engagement was as an U.S. activist supporting the struggle for democracy in Indonesia and self-determination for East Timor. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the independence of East Timor in 1999, John decided to focus on researching modern Indonesian history and building up a research library and oral history archive in Jakarta (the Indonesian Institute of Social History). His research has focused on the events of 1965-66 and their aftermath and has resulted in two books so far, a co-edited book, Tahun Yang Tak Pernah Berakhir (2004) and Pretext for Mass Murder (2006). John is now studying political identities from the Revolution to the overthrow of Sukarno's Guided Democracy (1945-65). Inside Indonesia has always been an invaluable resource for John, its pages being a kind of constantly updated precis of the work of many activists and scholars.

Michele Ford

Michele Ford is the TBA of the IRIP Board, and a member of Inside Indonesia's editing committee. 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 in on a whim, and it changed her life. Indonesia beat Engineering 45-love, and she ended up with an Indonesian husband, and Indonesian house (in Tanjung Pinang in the Riau Islands) and a PhD in Indonesian labour relations. When she is not working on Inside Indonesia, she teaches Indonesian language and Southeast Asian Studies (with a focus on social activism and human rights) at the University of Sydney or continuing her research on Indonesian labour and Kepulauan Riau.

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 the University of NSW in Sydney. Her involvement with Inside Indonesia began in 1997 as an undergraduate student. In those pre-internet days, her role was to visit the library on campus and 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.

Geoff Mulherin

Jo Pickles

Jo Pickles is a member of Inside Indonesia’s editorial team. Growing up in regional Australia, her high school’s subscription to Inside Indonesia kept Jo in touch with Indonesia in between family holidays and study tours. Articles from the magazine inspired her Year 12 art major work which was exhibited through Australia and in New York as part of the ArtExpress program. After finishing a degree in Indonesian studies and working in HIV/AIDS prevention in Jakarta for a year, Jo is now the program coordinator for the Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership.

Bart Barendregt

Bart Barendregt is an anthropologist who is lecturing at the Institute of Social and Cultural Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands, where he is teaching Indonesian culture and society, popular culture, performance studies and anthropological fieldwork. Since 1992 Bart has conducted a total of 4 years of fieldwork in Java and Sumatra. He has written a PhD thesis on Landscape, memory and notions of home in the Southern Sumatran. Some of the topics of this study were further extended in a post doc project, in which he looked at the ways ecological awareness, media and contemporary art come together in present day Indonesia.

Bart has published on Southeast Asian performing arts, new and mobile media and (Islamic) pop music. His present research is concerned with Indonesian youth, media and technology, and importantly visions of the future.

Ron Hatley

Leslie Dwyer

Co-founder of Latitudes magazine

Degung Santikarma

Co-founder of Latitudes magazine

'Office' Staff

Cecilia Agni Hadiyanto

Cecilia Agni Hadiyanto is the Financial Accountant and Subscription Officer. She was born in Indonesia and grew up in a number of different cities in Indonesia before moving to Melbourne. She came to Melbourne as an international student in 1999 to study Accountancy and Psychology at Monash University. She graduated in March 2004 as an Accountant. Cecilia was active in both the Victorian and Monash University Indonesian student associations during her years at university. Cecilia has also been working in Melbourne as an Indonesian cultural event organiser for the past few years. These have included Alun-alun, The Art of Sarong and the Kiai Kanjeng concert, weddings and corporate functions, as well as helping with Inside Indonesia event, Sounds from the Neighborhood. Her current project is Festival Indonesia 2005. When Cecilia has spare time, she enjoys writing, watching movies, jazz and soul music together with good books and food.

Thushara Dibley

Thushara Dibley is managing Inside Indonesia’s transition to becoming an exclusively online publication. Thushara spent 10 years of her childhood 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 has used Indonesian to do field work research for her Honours thesis in Timor Leste. After completing her studies she worked for a year with various local organizations in Timor Leste. Currently Thushara is in Australia doing research work for the University of New South Wales and the University of Wollongong.

Lis Jackson

As well as being on the Editorial Team...Lis is the Proofreading Coordinator for Inside Indonesia.

Dave Matthews

As well as being an IRIP Board member...Dave is the Webmaster for Inside Indonesia