Perthalia Rosul is an Indonesian diplomat who has been serving at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs for almost 11 years. She concluded her first posting at the Indonesian Consulate General in Melbourne in July 2021, where she dedicated much of her time to a better bilateral relationship between our two countries. Previously she was a foreign policy analyst on ASEAN political-security issues and an intern at the Indonesian Embassy in Brussels, Belgium.<\/p>
Perthalia has always been passionate about promoting cultural understanding between countries and strengthening people-to-people contact. She joined the AFS foreign exchange program early on in her teenage years where she spent a year living in Illinois, USA (2006). Perthalia is also passionate on issues about women and empowerment. She is actively involved in WEWAW (Women Empower Women At Work) Indonesia, a non-profit mentorship-based community focusing to support young women in career and in doing business.<\/p>
She completed her Master\u2019s Degree at Duke University in the USA, majoring in Environmental Economics and Policy (2015) as a Fulbright scholar. Perthalia spent her early childhood growing up in Australia, while her father was doing his PhD in ANU. Since then, Australia has been very much a second home to her, and has a very special place in her heart.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:43"},{"id":"2","name":"Liam Prince","year":"2021","description":"
Liam Prince is the Director of the Australian Consortium for \u2018In-Country\u2019 Indonesian Studies (ACICIS) based at the University of Western Australia. He is an energetic advocate for ACICIS and its mission to increase the number of Australian university students undertaking study at Indonesian institutions of higher learning. Prior to commencing at ACICIS in 2012, Liam assisted Professor David Hill AM in the formulation of a national plan for the future of Indonesian language studies in Australian universities. Liam completed his undergraduate studies in Economics and Indonesian at the University of Western Australia in 2006. In 2012 he obtained First Class Honours in Indonesian from UWA\u2019s School of Social and Cultural Studies. His dissertation, entitled \u201cAll the Way with OVJ: Javanese theatre on Indonesian television \u2013 A case study of Trans7\u2019s Opera Van Java\u201d, examined the reinvention of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Javanese theatrical traditions for early twenty-first-century Indonesian television audiences. Liam spent a semester as a student in Yogyakarta with ACICIS in 2000 and has ever after been scheming at ways various and novel to get himself back to Indonesia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:44"},{"id":"3","name":"Kestity Pringgoharjono","year":"2021","description":"
Kestity Pringgoharjono has been active in international cultural diplomacy since 2003. She established Preserve Indonesia, which is involved in producing Indonesian arts, cultural and culinary programs overseas in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Korea and Australia. Kestity was appointed Chief Program Officer for the Culinary, Youth and Education programs as part of Indonesia\u2019s role as the Guest of Honour country at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015. In the field of literature Kestity is the co-author of the book The Centhini Story, The Javanese Journey of Life and was Executive Director of the Lontar Foundation from 2011 to 2014.<\/p>
Living between Australia and Indonesia since 2018, Kestity has founded Indo Lit Club in Sydney, holds the office of Head of the BBBI-NSW (Indonesian Cultural and Language Centre of New South Wales, Australia), and is also the Program Coordinator of Indonesia Sustainable Design House, a joint program between University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Indonesian Trade Promotion Centre (ITPC) Sydney and the Indonesian Ministry of Trade. Kestity received the Australian Alumni Award from the Australia Government in the field of Arts & Culture in 2011.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:45"},{"id":"4","name":"Greg Fealy","year":"2021","description":"
Greg Fealy is associate professor of Indonesian politics at ANU and is also chair of the Australia-Indonesia Institute within the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. His gained his PhD from Monash University with a study of the political history of Nahdlatul Ulama in the 1950s and 1960s. He has published extensively on Indonesian politics, political Islam, terrorism and Australia-Indonesia relations. He has also worked as an Indonesia analyst for the Australian Government\u2019s Office of National Assessments. He received the Medal of the Order of Australia in 2021 for services to Australia-Indonesia relations. His fascination with Indonesia is undimmed after many years of research and he is passionate about promoting Indonesian studies to young Australians.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:46"},{"id":"5","name":"Elena Williams","year":"2020","description":"
Elena Williams is the Director of Australia-Indonesia Consulting and a PhD candidate at ANU, where she researches the impact of student mobility and DFAT-funded higher education programs on the Australia-Indonesia relationship. Between 2013 \u2013 2017 she served as Resident Director for ACICIS, based in Indonesia. Fluent in Indonesian, Elena holds an Honours degree in Indonesian Studies from the University of Sydney and a Masters of Gender & Development Studies from ANU. Elena currently serves on the boards of DFAT\u2019s Australia-Indonesia Institute and Balai Bahasa NSW, and is a panel member for the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program and Australia Awards Indonesia\u2019s selection committees. Her favourite Indonesian word is semangat!<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:47"},{"id":"6","name":"Alistair Welsh","year":"2020","description":"
Dr Alistair Welsh is a senior lecturer in Indonesian and Convenor of Languages at Deakin University. His experience in education includes programs for Australian students in Indonesia. Alistair\u2019s research relates to Indonesian\/Malay contexts, with a focus on language that reflects and shapes identity positions. His academic publications range from intercultural education to analysis of Indonesian political discourse. As a \u2018life-long learner\u2019 of Indonesian language, he is thrilled to see younger generations of Australians engaging an exciting future of Indonesia-Australia relations.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:48"},{"id":"7","name":"Billy Mambrasar","year":"2020","description":"
Billy Mambrasar serves as one of the eleven Special Staff of the President of the Republic of Indonesia Joko Widodo during his second term (2019-2024). Billy is an Ambassador for the Sustainable Development Goals or SDGs of Indonesia for 2019-2021, appointed by the Minister of the National Development Planning Agency (BAPPENAS), and has been invited to speak at various forums both nationally and internationally.<\/p>
Billy completed his bachelor\u2019s degree in engineering at the Bandung Institute of Technology\u2019s School of Mining and Petroleum Engineering. He then obtained a Master of Business Administration from ANU and pursued further education at Said Business School, University of Oxford. Billy is the first Papuan admitted into Harvard University, where will be undertake a PhD in the fields of education and human development.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:49"},{"id":"8","name":"Ines I Atmosukarto","year":"2020","description":"
Ines I Atmosukarto earned BSc. Hon. and PhD degrees from the University of Adelaide. In the early 2000s she returned to Indonesia and pioneered the establishment of a natural product screening facility at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI). She was the first Indonesian to secure a UNESCO-L\u2019Oreal Fellowship in 2004 which drove the establishment of a national program to improve the participation of women in science. For her contribution in promoting STEM, Ines was awarded the Anugerah IPTEK 2012 from the President of Indonesia. Ines has driven collaborative research in commercial and academic settings and has supervised postgraduate students in Indonesia and Australia. Ines has over 15 years of experience in commercial R&D. She is the Chief Scientific Officer and Managing Director of Lipotek Pty Ltd, a niche biotech company which has its roots at ANU. At Lipotek, Ines works with a small team of scientists who are passionate about developing better vaccines and improved cancer treatments.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:50"},{"id":"9","name":"Jessica Liemantara","year":"2019","description":"
Jessica Liemantara was Australia Masterchef\u2019s youngest contestant in Season 10. She was born in Perth and her parents are from Surabaya. Her culinary success came from her love of Asian flavours and spices, but she is most known from her incredible desert creations!<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:51"},{"id":"10","name":"Tati Carlin","year":"2019","description":"
Tati Carlin was born in Indonesia and was one of the top 24 contestants in Season 11 of Masterchef Australia in 2019. She is extremely skillful at cooking Indonesian curries, however one of her dishes while on Masterchef, Rempeyek peanut cracker, went viral in both Indonesia and Australia!<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:52"},{"id":"11","name":"Andrew Parker","year":"2019","description":"
Andrew Parker is currently a Partner at PwC (Pricewaterhouse Coopers) in the Asia Practice team and previously worked in Indonesia for around 10 years. He is very involved in increasing the relationship between Australia and Indonesia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:53"},{"id":"12","name":"Colin Brown","year":"2019","description":"
Colin Brown is a well-known Adjunct Professor in the Griffith Asia Institute at Griffith University. His research expertise is in Indonesian history and modern Indonesian Politics.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:54"},{"id":"13","name":"Svida Alisjahbana","year":"2018","description":"
Svida has led Femina Group, and has brought the media group into a multi-media platform. With the Femina Group team, Svida has started two important events: the Femina\u2019s Women Entrepreneurship Program and Jakarta Fashion Week. In 2014, she was honoured as a one of the Business of Fashion 500, the Top 500 People Shaping the Global Fashion Industry.<\/p>
Svida recently undertook the role of Deputy Chair for the Australia-Indonesia Centre (AIC). She is also a Founding Board Member of Endeavor Indonesia, and a member of its Executive Committee.<\/p>
Former President of the Young Presidents\u2019 Organisation (YPO), Svida served the Regional (South East Asia) Education Chair (2013). She was a Fellow at the Women\u2019s Leadership Program (2010), an Eisenhower Fellow and was recently awarded an MIT-IDEAS Fellowship.<\/p>
Svida obtained her bachelor\u2019s degree in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor in 1988 and continued her MBA degree at Columbia University, New York.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:55"},{"id":"14","name":"Yacinta Kurniasih","year":"2018","description":"
Yacinta is a poet, writer, performer and an academic staff member in the Indonesian Studies section of the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Monash University, Melbourne. She was educated in both Indonesia and Australia and has been promoting Indonesian language and culture in Australia since first arriving in Tasmania as an Indonesian Guest Teacher in 1994. Yacinta is the coordinator for The Indonesian Language Immersion Program for teachers in Victoria, 2018 and is the lead researcher for Report on the teaching of Indonesian in Victorian government schools, 2018.<\/p>
Yacinta performs her poetry regularly in Australia and Indonesia, and she has published an Indonesian textbook (\u2018Basic Indonesian: An Introductory Coursebook\u2019 Tuttle:2010 \u2013 jointly with Stuart Robson), four books of poetry in Javanese, Indonesian and English, and is currently developing an Indonesian (and Javanese) language YouTube channel for Monash University students and the public. She is a regular presenter and contributor at VILTA (Victorian Indonesian Language Teachers Association) conferences, SBS and Ethnic Radio Community, Indonesian Program.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:56"},{"id":"15","name":"John H. McGlynn","year":"2018","description":"
John H. McGlynn, a graduate of the University of Michigan Ann Arbor (1981), lives in Jakarta where, in 1987, he and four Indonesian authors established the Lontar Foundation, the only organisation in the world devoted to the publication of Indonesian literature in translation. As the translator of several dozen publications, he has garnered much international praise for his work.<\/p>
Through Lontar, McGlynn has ushered into print close to 200 books on Indonesian literature and culture. Also through Lontar, he initiated the \u201cOn the Record\u201d film documentation program which thus far includes 24 films on Indonesian writers and more than 30 films on Indonesian performance traditions.<\/p>
McGlynn is the Indonesian country editor for Manoa, a literary journal published by the University of Hawaii; and a contributing editor to Words Without Borders, Warscapes (two U.S. based literary journals) and Cordite Review, an Australian literary journal. He is a founding member of the Asia Pacific Writers and Translators Association and a member of the International Commission of the Indonesian Publishers Association (IKAPI), PEN International-New York, and the Association of Asian Studies. McGlynn is a member of the emeritus board of AMINEF, the American Indonesian Exchange Foundation, which oversees the (U.S. government-sponsored) Fulbright and Humphrey scholarship programs in Indonesia. He is also the supervisor of Indonesia\u2019s Translation Funding Program and Writers\u2019 Residency Program which were established two years ago under the auspices of the Ministry of Education and Culture.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:57"},{"id":"16","name":"Jane Ahlstrand","year":"2018","description":"
Jane Ahlstrand is a Lecturer in Indonesian at the University of New England. She completed her Ph.D. focusing on language, power, and gender in the contemporary Indonesian online news media at the University of Queensland this year. She was the winner of the 2015 NAILA Wild Card Award, and the 2017 NAILA Tertiary Award. Jane has a passion for arts and culture, and recognises the importance of this area for forging strong interpersonal relationships based on the pursuit of creativity, ideas, and performance. Moreover, Jane believes that by mastering a language, people can engage with one another at a much deeper level, openly sharing, contesting, and negotiating ideas that lead to exciting projects and dynamic partnerships.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:58"},{"id":"17","name":"Angie Bexley","year":"2017","description":"
Dr Angie Bexley is anthropologist whose work spans disciplinary boundaries of art, anthropology, and international development. Studying at the University of Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta 17 years ago, Angie spent her ACICIS year largely performing visual art happenings on Jalan Malioboro and has been intrigued by art and social change ever since. She later founded the cultural collective, The Culture Kitchen with artists from Indonesia, Australia and Timor-Leste and their film and print-making work has been exhibited at human rights exhibitions in Melbourne, New York and London. Later, she founded the Culture Kitchen FoodLAB as an action research project with chefs and artists to explore Indonesian culinary cultures. Dr Bexley has published widely on social inclusion, generational change, Timorese politics and regularly contributes to forums such as DevPolicy and DLP. She is the co-author of the book, Fieldwork in Timor-Leste: Understanding Social Change Through Practice, published by NIAS Press.<\/p>
Dr Bexley is currently the Deputy Director of the Australian-Indonesian Partnership for Justice.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:16:59"},{"id":"18","name":"Kevin Evans","year":"2017","description":"
Kevin Evans is the Indonesia Director of the Australia Indonesia Centre. He has lived in Indonesia for over 25 years working variously with the Australian Embassy, ANZ Investment Bank, UNDP, the Indonesian Government agency for post-tsunami reconstruction, the Presidential Unit for Development Supervision and Control (UKP4), the REDD+ Management Agency as well as the Indonesian civil society organisation the Partnership for Governance Reform. He began studying Indonesian at high school and continued language studies through university. He has written several books in Indonesian on political developments including the History of Political Parties and General Elections in Indonesia and has written on corruption prevention in disaster management. He has also helped draft several Indonesian laws and regulations on elections, parties, regional autonomy and environmental governance. He manages a personal website dedicated to presenting the full electoral history of Indonesia, www.pemilu.asia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:00"},{"id":"19","name":"Sekar Sari","year":"2017","description":"
Sekar Sari received a Master of Art in Choreomundus-International Master on Dance Knowledge, Practice, and Heritage \u2013 an Erasmus Mundus Program. She completed her Bachelor degree from Universitas Gadjah Mada in Indonesia, majoring in International Relations.<\/p>
She likes working in art, culture, and tourism, as well as contributing to research in those fields. She won an award for Best Performance at The Singapore International Film Festival 2014 for her leading role in a feature movie entitled \u2018SITI\u2019 directed by Eddie Cahyono. In addition to her activities on the stage and screen as a dancer, presenter, and actress, she is actively involved in a number of various art and cultural events.<\/p>
Sekar also participated in a project called \u2018Recording the Future\u2019 \u2013 an audiovisual archive project of everyday life in Indonesia. This project was initiated by The Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies in collaboration with The Indonesian Institute of Sciences.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:01"},{"id":"20","name":"Lily Yulianti Farid","year":"2017","description":"
Dr. Lily Yulianti Farid is the founder\/director of Makassar International Writers Festival, the first and only international literary event in Eastern Indonesia organized by Rumata\u2019 Artspace. She studied gender and development studies for MA (2003) and PhD (2015) at the University of Melbourne. She is currently running a writing and translation project funded by Australian Alumni Grant Scheme in Indonesia. Her published short story collections are: Makkunrai (2008), Maiasaura (2008), Family Room (2010), Ayahmu Bulan Engkau Matahari (2012). She is the translator of The Body Shop\u2019s founder, Anita Roddick\u2019s biography, Business as Unusual (Gramedia Pustaka Utama, 2013) and Linking People: Connections and Encounters Between Australians and Indonesians (Kepustakaan Populer Gramedia, 2017).<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:02"},{"id":"21","name":"John Cheong-Holdaway","year":"2017","description":"
John is an economist and policy adviser who has had a long association with Indonesia. After living in Jakarta as a child, John moved back to Jakarta twice as an adult, and has spent over a decade of his life there (plus another two years in Timor-Leste).<\/p>
John is an expert in the economics of infrastructure, and his most recent role in Indonesia was as the leader of a team that produced research to identify the infrastructure-related constraints to sustainable, and equitable growth in Indonesia\u2019s economy, and advised on policy interventions to overcome them. Over his career, John has worked for the World Bank, AusAID, a Jakarta-based investment bank, in private advisory, and as a senior policy adviser to the Indonesian government. John still periodically writes on these issues, mainly on his blog Nusantara Economics.<\/p>
John speaks fluent Indonesian, and was the executive awardee in NAILA\u2019s first year. You can watch the video of his speech here.<\/p>
John is now back home in Melbourne, acting as an independent economics consultant working on a range of Australian and international work.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:03"},{"id":"22","name":"Gary Hogan","year":"2016","description":"
Gary Hogan is Senior Adviser, Defence and National Security, at KPMG Australia. He is Adjunct Professor of International Relations at the University of New South Wales\u2019 School of Humanities and Social Sciences and serves on the Council of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology. He served three years as Defence Head at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta. He is a commentator on Australia-Asia relations with the The Lowy Institute for International Policy, the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, The Australian newspaper, ABC News 24 and ABC Radio. He is a member of the Order of Australia and was awarded the Conspicuous Service Cross while on active service in the Middle East. His foreign decorations include the US Legion of Merit and the Grand Meritorious Military Order of Indonesia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:04"},{"id":"23","name":"Butet Manurung","year":"2016","description":"
Butet Manurung is an award-winning Indonesian anthropologist, educator, author and acclaimed environmental activist, who has dedicated her life to educating Indonesia\u2019s Indigenous people. After leading the education program for a conservation NGO in the jungles of Sumatra, her work evolved into co-founding SOKOLA, a non-profit organisation providing educational opportunities for marginalized people in remote areas of Indonesia. As an educator and activist, Butet has received international recognition \u2013 including UNESCO\u2019s \u201cMan and Biosphere Award\u201d in 2001, TIME Magazine\u2019s \u201cHero of Asia\u201d in 2004, \u201cYoung Global Leader\u201d in 2009, and most recently the Asia \u201cNobel Prize\u201d Ramon Magsaysay Award 2014. Butet\u2019s first book, the Jungle School, has been adapted into a feature film by award winning Indonesian film makers. As Director of SOKOLA, Butet lives between Jakarta, Indonesia and Canberra, Australia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:05"},{"id":"24","name":"Enda Ginting","year":"2016","description":"
Enda Ginting works for the Executive Office of the President of Indonesia as the Assistant Deputy. His role includes oversight of government priority programs including education, tourism, foreign affairs, youth and sports. Prior to this, Enda worked for the World Bank as a Public Financial Management Resident Advisor to the Government of Indonesia, helping the Indonesian government implement public financial management reform. Enda has also worked for the Ministry of Finance, office of the Treasury and the budget office, where he was involved in reforming the Indonesian treasury system. Enda holds a masters degree in Economics, Finance, and Management from the University of Bristol, UK, and spent his childhood living in Sydney, Australia. He has lived in Jakarta, Aceh, Papua, Medan, Nias, Pekanbaru and eastern Indonesia.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:06"},{"id":"25","name":"Yuli Ismartono","year":"2016","description":"
Yuli Ismartono is the publisher of Tempo English, Indonesia\u2019s largest news weekly magazine which was selected as the laureate of the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights for its reporting of injustice and corruption in Indonesia. She is also the founder and managing editor of AsiaViews, a monthly regional magazine distributed as a news supplement in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand and the Philippines. Beyond Tempo, Ismartono sits on the board of a number of non-governmental organisations: the New York-based Natural Resource Governance Institute, the Bali-based Coral Triangle Center, launched in 2000 to assist in the capacity-building of tropical marine conservation managers and practitioners in seven Asia-Pacific countries, ALTSEAN-Burma, which provides training to NGOs in Myanmar and Prestasi Junior Indonesia (PJI), a foundation that provides young Indonesians with extra-curricular training to value free enterprise, business and economics through school-to-work initiatives. She is an Eisenhower Fellow.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:07"},{"id":"26","name":"Prof. Tim Lindsey","year":"2015","description":"
Professor Tim Lindsey is Malcolm Smith Professor of Asian Law and founding Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at The University of Melbourne\u2019s Law School. He is also chair of the Australia-Indonesia Institute, an advisory board within the DFAT and was a member of the Reference Group.<\/p>
For the National Asian Languages and Studies in School Program. Tim completed his PhD thesis in Indonesian studies and continues to use the language to research Indonesian law, shari\u2019a (Islamic law), comparative law and law reform in developing countries. He is a founding editor of The Australian Journal of Asian Law.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:08"},{"id":"27","name":"Dewi Anggraeni","year":"2015","description":"
Dewi Anggraeni is an acclaimed author whose works have been published in Australia, the United States, Indonesia, Malaysia and Hong Kong. Born in Jakarta, Indonesia Dewi has called Australia home for some time now. Through her works, published in both English and Indonesian, Dewi understands the vital importance that language plays in communication and storytelling within society.<\/p>
Australia correspondent to TEMPO news magazine, the Adjunct Research Associate of the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University and has regularly contributed to Australian and Indonesian newspapers including the Jakarta Post, The Age and The Australian Financial Review.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:09"},{"id":"28","name":"Andre Omar Siregar","year":"2015","description":"
Andre Omer Siregar is the Indonesian Consul in Darwin. From 2011 to 2014, he was the interpreter for former President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono. Prior to this, he held a number of policy and interpreting roles in Indonesia\u2019s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including as Head of International Financial Institutions in Timor Leste, the United Nations, and the United States. He is a graduate of Victoria University in Wellington, and holds a Masters of Diplomacy and Trade from Monash University in Melbourne. As an ambassador for language studies and cultural emersion, Andre has dedicated much of his time as Consul to building better people-to-people links as well as supporting youth to grow the bilateral relationship.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:10"},{"id":"29","name":"Marlisa Wahyuningsih Soepeno","year":"2015","description":"
Marlisa Wahyuningsih Soepeno is the interpreter to the President of Indonesia and the First Lady. She holds this role as a Foreign Service Officer with the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Previously Marlisa worked as a foreign policy analyst on Indonesia\u2019s emerging markets, covering Latin American countries and as an Intern at the Indonesian Embassy in Paris, France. As an Australian Awards Alumni, CAUSINDY delegate and graduate of the ANU, Marlisa is passionate about the bilateral relationship and the role that language call play in strengthening ties between our two countries. Marlisa calls Canberra and Australia her home away from home.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:11"},{"id":"30","name":"Novi Djenar","year":"2015","description":"
Novi Djenar is Senior Lecturer and Chair of the Department of Indonesian Studies, The University of Sydney. She is an alumnus of Gajah Mada University (majoring in English literature) and holds a PhD in linguistics from the University of Melbourne. Prior to moving to Sydney in 2009, Novi was the co-ordinator of Indonesian at La Trobe University and the vice-convenor of the Indonesian community radio (Radio Kita) in Melbourne. She has published in the area of Indonesian grammar, the semantics of prepositions, person reference, and the stylistics of youth fiction. Novi\u2019s current research interests are in topics related to linguistic style and youth identities, youth languages and representations of adolescence in literature. Passionate about language and youth engagement, Novi has dedicated the last decade to helping Australians to improve their Indonesian language skills and cultural understanding.<\/p>","created_at":"2022-08-08 15:17:12"},{"id":"31","name":"Tito Ambyo","year":"2022","description":"
Tito Ambyo is an award-winning Indonesian journalist, writer and digital ethnographer based at RMIT University in Melbourne, Australia with expertise on media diversity, online cultures and digital storytelling. He is also a board member of Inside Indonesia magazine, the Melbourne Press Club and a committee member of the Victorian branch of Media Diversity Australia.<\/span><\/p>","created_at":"2023-01-18 21:16:14"},{"id":"32","name":"Diletta Legowo","year":"2022","description":" Diletta Legowo is a young social innovator and designer with a creative practice focused on making change within systems by bringing people who will be impacted the most front and centre. Her goal is to help build the enabling conditions for a world where everyone is free to find their sense of home — whether it is within themselves, their communities, their environment, or on a planetary scale.<\/span><\/p>\r\n In her current practice as Senior Social Designer at The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI), she is exploring innovations in volunteerism and working with teams across 26 countries building their innovation capability to achieve their development goals. This work sits within TACSI’s longterm partnership with the The Australian Volunteers Program’s Innovation Hub, an initiative backed and funded by The Australian Department of Foreign Affairs.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n Diletta also currently serves as a member of the UNCTAD Creative Economy Section Advisory Board, helping influence<\/span> <\/span><\/em>and<\/span> <\/span><\/em>shape the international research agenda and policy analysis of UNCTAD in the promotion of creative economies around the world: an international agenda that seeks to diversify and promote economic transformation<\/span> <\/span><\/em>based on innovative, creative and knowledge based economic models that respond to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n In 2017, she was named a Global Shaper by the World Economic Forum. Through the Global Shaper community, she joins a network of young people driving dialogue, action and change.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n As an Indonesian cultural leader, she has facilitated insightful conversations with artisans and creative entrepreneurs in the 2019 Creative Economy Forum in Melbourne, Australia, attended by prolific leaders including Yogyakarta’s Sri Sultan Hamengkubuwono X among other leaders from Indonesia and Australia. Today, she continues to advise and speak on creative entrepreneurship through her podcast, sana-sini, and on other learning forums such as Melbourne Knowledge Week and The University of Melbourne.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Robbie Gaspar was the first Australian footballer to play professionally in Indonesia. He played in Indonesia for almost eight years, including playing for Indonesia’s most prestigious football club, Persib Bandung. He is fluent in Indonesian and is new President at the Indonesia Institute, the peak body for independent insight and engagement into Indonesian - Australian bilateral relations. <\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n During his time in Indonesia, Robbie became an executive committee member of the Players Association in 2011, where he remained in the role until 2014. In late 2014, Robbie was awarded Life Membership of the Professional Footballers Australia for his outstanding contribution to supporting professional football players across Southeast Asia, especially throughout Indonesia. <\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>\r\n In 2017 Robbie was the recipient of the Australia Indonesia Award for the Sports Category. Over the last 3-4 years, Robbie has been attending schools, talking about his experiences in Indonesia and the benefits of learning Indonesian. He is excited to see younger Australians engaging in an exciting future of Indonesia-Australia relations.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/p>","created_at":"2023-01-18 21:19:19"},{"id":"34","name":"Lydia Santoso","year":"2022","description":" Lydia Santoso, specialises in the niche area of Australian - Indonesian law. Lydia is an Australian qualified lawyer and Public Notary, having obtained a combined Arts\/Law degree from the University of New South Wales. Lydia speaks fluent Indonesian and English and has worked in law firms both in Sydney and Jakarta. Lydia is well known in the Indonesian community in New South Wales and has amassed a large number of clients both in Australia and Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/span><\/p>\r\n Lydia has a strong relationship with the Consulate General of the Republic of Indonesia and the firm has acted for the Consulate in legal matters. Lydia has also acted for many Indonesian business owners located in the greater Sydney area, Indonesian property developers, Australian businesses with interests in Indonesia and many Indonesians living in Australia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/span><\/p>\r\n Being half Indonesian and half Australian, Lydia understands Indonesian culture and provides valuable assistance to Indonesians who do not understand the Australian legal system fully or who do not speak the English language. Lydia also represents Australians who are unfamiliar with the Indonesian culture, language and the Indonesian Legal System. Lydia can provide advice in relation to Australian law in Bahasa Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n Having worked in Indonesia, Lydia has gained the knowledge and skill in how to operate within the unique Indonesian legal system. Lydia has close relationships with Indonesian law firms and notaries in Indonesia.<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/span><\/p>\r\n Lydia has worked tirelessly in promoting Australia and Indonesian relations and her work has been recognized by the Australian Government. She has been appointed to the Board of the prestigious Australia Indonesia Institute by our Foreign Affairs Minister The Hon. Julie Bishop MP. She was the former State Chair of the NSW branch of the Australian-Indonesian Business Council (AIBC) and is currently advisor to the National Board. She was part of the first BPG group in negotiating the IA-CEPA in 2012. Lydia has also been a panel member for the New Colombo Plan Scholarships for the past three years. She is the current Vice President of the Australia Indonesia Association<\/span><\/p>\r\n <\/span><\/p>\r\n Lydia has spoken at seminars to the Indonesian community at the invitation of non-profit community organisations. Lydia and Nicholas George Lawyers can assist you in the following areas of Australian law: Family law, business law & leases, wills and probate matters (including obtaining letters of administration where no Will is left by the deceased), intellectual property (trademarks & copyright), buying & selling property, commercial litigation & Court matters and Criminal Law.<\/span><\/p>","created_at":"2023-01-18 21:19:55"},{"id":"35","name":"Alfira O'Sullivan","year":"2023","description":"
Diletta has an educational background in fine arts and international development, and her portfolio of work currently spans across the arts, design, entrepreneurial, and international development spaces, with experience working in Australian higher-education, state government, several non-government organisations, and her own design studio. She is also a yoga teacher, guiding others in their journey of coming home.<\/span> <\/span><\/p>","created_at":"2023-01-18 21:17:50"},{"id":"33","name":"Robbie Gaspar","year":"2022","description":"