Documentary Film Screening: "Equal Citizens? Chinese Indonesians In Yogyakarta" (July 11, 2023 US / July 12, 2023 WIB)

Join us at the 2023 AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies for a screening of the latest installation in the Indonesian Pluralities* film series,

“Equal Citizens? Chinese Indonesians in Yogyakarta”

Tuesday July 11, 9:40-11:10pm ET / Wednesday July 12, 8:40-10:10am WIB.

“Equal Citizens?” presents a moving account of the daily lives and citizenship struggles of Indonesians of Chinese descent in Yogyakarta. The Chinese Indonesians highlighted in this film aspire to be recognized as full and equal Indonesian citizens.  They speak an Indonesian heavily laced with Javanese idioms.  Their artistic traditions are a prominent and esteemed part of Yogyakarta’s cultural landscape.  In most settings, Chinese Indonesians are welcomed and respected by their fellow citizens.  However, in local state offices, Chinese Indonesians sometimes encounter difficulties and have to negotiate their civic and political rights in a differentiated and unequal manner.  This film explores the reality of social citizenship for Chinese Indonesians, and examines how and why at times Chinese Indonesians come to be treated as less-than-equal citizens.

Film "Simalakama di Tanah Istimewa" memaparkan pergulatan kewargaan individu dan komunitas Tionghoa di Daerah Istimewa Yogyakarta. Bagi warga Tionghoa, menjadi Indonesia adalah pilihan satu-satunya. Secara sosio-kultural, warga Tionghoa mendapatkan ruang ekspresi yang terbuka. Aktifitas sosio-kultural dan ekonomi mereka semarak, dan mendapatkan sambutan dari warga (suku) lain, dan bahkan dari pejabat publik. Akan tetapi secara politis, mereka diperhadapkan pada perlakuan secara diskriminatif. Karena diidentifikasi sebagai keturunan Tionghoa, hak kepemilikan tanah mereka tidak diakui. Mengapa “pengistimewaan” ini terjadi di Tanah Istimewa Yogyakarta? Dan bagaimana mereka mengembangkan strategi kewargaan mereka?

This screening will be followed by a conversation with filmmakers Dandhy Laksono and Muhamad Sridipo (WatchDoc), film researcher Samsul Maarif (Universitas Gadjah Mada), executive producers Zainal Abidin Bagir (Universitas Gadjah Mada) and Robert Hefner (Boston University), all moderated with a response by Ariel Heryanto (Monash University).

Dr. Lorraine Paterson to speak on Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures at a Pivotal Time

Join us on Friday, 7 July at 9AM WIB at Perpustakaan Universitas Negeri Malang for a discussion on "Southeast Asian Languages and Literatures: Revitalizing Connections".

Speaker: Dr. Lorraine Paterson (Professor, Modern Southeast Asia and Southeast Asia- SAIS, Johns Hopkins University) and Dr. Tom Hoogervorst (Researcher at KITLV/Royal Netherland Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies).

Register here: https://bit.ly/LectureSEA

Abstract: How can the study of Southeast Asian languages and literary traditions better integrate the countries of ASEAN? Southeast Asian countries have largely focused on their own narrowly defined literary traditions and languages—or colonial antecedents—rather than thinking more regionally. This talk will explore some of the ways that Indonesian centers of literary and linguistic research can embrace their role as regional beacons as Indonesia seeks to become an educational leader within ASEAN.

This event is co-organized by AIFIS in collaboration with Perpustakaan Universitas Negeri Malang and Universitas Brawijaya. (Sebagian kuliah akan menggunakan bahasa Indonesia).

Todung Mulya Lubis to discuss Law Reform and Global Positionality of Indonesia at AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies

Introducing our third distinguished keynote speaker for this year's conference, Prof. Todung Mulya Lubis from University of Melbourne! As a former ambassador, scholar, and legal practitioner, get ready to be inspired, motivated, and captivated as he takes the platform to share his reflections on the subject of "Law Reform and Global Positionality of Indonesia."

Abstract: Law reform has been a topic of discussion in Indonesia since the country gained independence. Efforts to replace colonial laws with national laws have not been easy to implement due to competing political and economic interests, yet the idea of reform is central to civil society and resistance throughout many periods of contemporary Indonesian history. While legal reform has remained on the national agenda for over 70 years, economic programs have often taken priority due to the country's history of colonization and domination by foreign corporations. A discourse paused for nearly 32 years during the period of repression under President Soeharto, the idea of legal reform resurfaced after his resignation in 1998, with Habibie's presidency launching a series of wide-ranging reforms, such as reinstating freedom of association, holding free and fair elections, and establishing new agencies like the Corruption Eradication Commission. Under Habibie's presidency, people began to see changes and a revived sense of hope that Indonesia was in the process of opening up a new chapter. Today with the enactment of a new penal code, Indonesia is in the midst of reviving a long standing debate on legal reform and officially marking a new chapter in the nation's legal frameworks. My work takes a historical look at law reform in Indonesia in order to highlight the challenges that the nation has faced in replacing colonial laws with new laws, and the implications this process has had within Indonesia’s new legal system and global positionality moving forward.

Wening Udasmoro to speak on Non-Violent Masculinity and Youth-led Peace Preservation in Ambon at AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies

Our second keynote speaker for this year's conference is Prof. Wening Udasmoro from Universitas Gadjah Mada, who will share empowering stories from research on the topic of "Redefining the Non-Violent Masculinity: A Study of Youth-led Peace Preservation in Ambon."

Abstract: The conflict that took place in Ambon in 1999, subsequent to the fall of the New Order government, was resolved in 2002 with the signing of the Malino Agreement. Despite this, there are concerns about the potential for conflict arising from religious and ethnic tensions among members of the Ambonese community. In an effort to maintain a peaceful environment, various segments of society have initiated measures to promote peace. One such segment comprises the Ambonese youth who employ literature and the arts as tools for promoting peace-building activities in their daily lives. This presentation aims to investigate the dynamics of peace-building mechanisms in literature and the arts practiced by Ambonese youth in the post-conflict period. The study focuses on hegemonic masculinity as a concept that has been redefined in practice in certain communities. The presentation will highlight the shift from hegemonic masculinity associated with violent practices to non-violent hegemonic masculinity. Additionally, the presentation will provide examples of the dynamics of peace preservation efforts by Ambonese youth from the early post-conflict period to the present day, 20 years later. 

With a wealth of experience and a passion for making a difference, she will leave you inspired and ready to conquer new frontiers in your own scholarly engagements. Be prepared to be captivated by this and over 300+ presentations on a diverse array of topics in Indonesian Studies.

Lorraine Aragon to discuss Intellectual Property Law for Regional Arts in Indonesia at AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies

©️ Background design provided for use by UPT. Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat

We are pleased to announce one of our esteemed keynote speakers for the 2023 AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies, Prof. Lorraine V. Aragon (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) who will share insights from her remarkable journey over two decades of collaborative and multidisciplinary scholarship in Indonesia. She will speak on the topic of "Researching the Promises and Dilemmas of Intellectual Property Law for Regional Arts" to discuss how the multiplicity of regional arts as they are practiced across Indonesia inform more nuanced understandings of intellectual property than are typically framed in international debates and national regulations. Read the full abstract below, and don't miss this extraordinary opportunity to learn from a visionary scholar reflecting on the dynamics of regional artistic and national legal authority in Indonesia!

Lorraine V. Aragon, “Researching the Promises and Dilemmas of Intellectual Property Law for Regional Arts”

Abstract: Indonesia’s development of intellectual property (IP) brings promises and dilemmas to the nation’s regions, with their varied ecologies, ethnicities, religions, and cultural practices. I have observed two decades of debates on Indonesia’s copyright laws, UNESCO heritage programs, and cultural property claims over “traditional cultural expressions” or “communal intellectual resources.” Working with a multi-disciplinary, multinational team, I examined how IP laws and discourses naturalize the idea that regional arts are owned exclusively by individual makers, businesses, the state, or by ethnic communities whose boundaries and custodians are not easily defined. The debates illuminate international pressures and promises for Indonesia’s “creative economy” as it expands beyond urban commercial and fine arts into the heart of regional cultural activities. In creative economy models, cultural difference is a branding and marketing strategy, not a facet of place- or people-oriented identities. The use-value of skilled arts where people do meaningful things together on significant occasions becomes less relevant. Producers working with creative economy initiatives hope their arts will gain increased appreciation and profits. But, legal measures to privatize, inventory, safeguard, and “improve” traditional arts can disrupt shared activities that are vital to community reciprocity and sustainable livelihoods. Regional arts, many tied to family and community gatherings, have evolved and spread by informal copying practices, and centuries of cross-cultural contacts. Traditional performances and graphic works are relational and religious in the original sense of enacting shared ties to past, present, and future others. By contrast, IP laws tend to abrogate local networks of authority and obligation in favor of individual, corporate, or governmental management. I unpack two black boxes that generally are overlooked by research on globalizing IP laws. The first is how and why many Indonesian regional arts endure, change, and flourish without formal law or exclusive claims of individual or group ownership. The second is how and why “intellectual property consciousness” and “cultural theft” rivalries now arise in places where they were absent. Like intellectual property, heritage is a modernist concern that promotes national and regional rivalries. Indeed, heritage is considered more valuable as lived traditions decline. Indonesia is following some familiar pathways to structure and supervise national culture and regional diversity, but also entering uncharted territory with formidable new laws and state inventories of hundreds of regional expressions. How can Indonesia rework IP laws and heritage programs for widespread benefit and protection from foreign “cultural theft,” while balancing layers of regional affinity, creative autonomy, and political scale? How can Indonesian and foreign scholars collaborate further across disciplinary and institutional divisions to help each other recognize their interconnected histories, laws, arts, and scholarship?

Conservation and global health: at the human-environment interface

Pusat Studi Satwa Primata, Lembaga Penelitian dan Pengabdian kepada Masyarakat Institut Pertanian Bogor (PSSP LPPM IPB) bekerjasama dengan Central Oregon Community College akan menyelenggarakan pelatihan “Konservasi dan Kesehatan Global” di Cagar Alam Pangandaran pada tanggal 23 Juli-9 Agustus 2023.

Pelatihan ini merupakan kelanjutan dari pelatihan yang telah diselenggarakan di Pulau Tinjil selama 30 tahun, kerjasama antara Pusat Studi Satwa Primata LPPM IPB dan Washington National Primate Research Center Washington, University of Washington. Pelatihan di Cagar Alam Pangandaran ini akan dilakukan secara intensif selama dua minggu menitikberatkan pada topik “conservation and global health: at the human-environment interface”.

Pelatihan menggabungkan antara pemberian materi di dalam kelas dan praktik langsung di lapangan dengan mengambil objek dua spesies primata yang hidup di Pangandaran maupun habitatnya. Materi yang akan diberikan dalam perkuliahan antara lain threat to biological diversity, Global Health, field study techniques & field awareness, demography, classification of primates, human-wild interaction and conflict, health concerns of the local people, and biomedical research & research ethics. Peserta pelatihan terdiri dari mahasiswa asing, mahasiswa dari dalam negeri maupun staf instansi yang memiliki ketertarikan dalam bidang primata.

Peserta dibatasi hanya 16 orang mengingat keterbatasan fasilitas. Program pelatihan di Cagar Alam Pangandaran didedikasikan untuk membina generasi muda sebagai generasi potensial untuk menjadi pemimpin dalam bidang konservasi lingkungan dan kesehatan global. Program pelatihan seperti ini merupakan pelatihan dengan skala internasional yang mengusung tema pendidikan lingkungan dan kesehatan global. Selain itu, terjadinya pertukaran budaya antara sesama peserta pelatihan sehingga akan memperkaya dan membuka wawasan setiap peserta. Pada bagian akhir pelatihan, akan dilakukan “outreach education program” kepada anak-anak sekolah dasar di sekitar Cagar Alam Pangandaran. Penyadartahuan ini diharapkan dapat menanamkan keperdulian sejak dini tentang pentingnya menjaga lingkungan, hutan dan satwa yang hidup di dalamnya untuk kehidupan di masa yang akan datang. Seluruh peserta pelatihan dilibatkan secara aktif dalam program penyadartahuan ini.

Lokasi dan Waktu Pelaksanaan
Tempat : Cagar Alam Pangandaran

Waktu : 23 Juli – 9 Agustus 2023

Instruktur:
1. Drh. Huda S Darusman, PhD (IPB)
2. Dr. Ir. Entang Iskandar, MSi (IPB)
3. Prof. Mattew Novak (Central Oregon Community College)
4. Prof. Randall Keys (University of Washington)
5. Dr. Pensri Kyes (Center for Global Field Study, University of Washington)

Untuk pendaftaran hubungi: 0251-8313637/0251-8320417 atau email ke: pssp-ipb@apps.ipb.ac.id (Limited seats available)

The 3rd Summer Course on Current Issues in Primatology: Education and Ecotourism of Primates in Natural Habitat Facilities

Background

Indonesia has more than 60 primate species distributed all across Indonesia. More than 30% of them are endemic primates in certain areas and are still unknown until now. The development of science allows us to discover new species and to learn detailed information about specific species.
Primate Research Center (PRC) IPB University was established in 1990. It was the first primate research center in Indonesia established as a response to the need for an institution that can be the center of science, technology, and management of primates which contributes nationally and internationally. In its activities, PRC IPB University has three main pillars of knowledge: biomedical, biology, and conservation.
PRC IPB University has tried many ways to disseminate knowledge, the latest research, and methods or techniques regarding primates that can be used to identify or solve questions related to primates and their role related to humans. One of the ways to disseminate knowledge is through holding a summer course. This year’s summer course will be held on June 2023 with the theme: The 3rd Summer Course on Current Issues in Primatology: Education and Ecotourism of Primates in Natural Habitat Facilities. The summer course will cover topics regarding ecotourism, the basics of primate sciences, and methods that can be used to process primate-related samples to identify the primates' status and condition further. Participants will learn about primate taxonomy, ethics of sample collection from primates, practicing the proper way of sample collection in the field, sample testing and its validation, and ecotourism. This summer course aims to give the basic and latest knowledge regarding ecotourism, the ethics of sample collection and how it’s done, and primate sample tests.

Participants
The participants of this summer course are students or practitioners from India, the Philippines, Nepal, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, and many more. In addition, students from universities in Indonesia and practitioners from Indonesia are also welcome to join this summer course.

Click the button below to register.

Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 3: Argumentation & Navigating the Peer Review Process, Faculty Perspectivess

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here.

The third and final week of the short-course explores faculty perspectives in argumentation and navigating the peer review process. In it we will learn to understand what reviewers are instructed to look for in articles that they are sent for review and develop strategies for responding to referee reports to maximize the probability of acceptance in a journal.

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek3

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 2: Language & the Writing Process

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here.

The second live Q&A session will take place on Saturday, May 20, 2023 at 9-11 am WIB, where we will be in conversation with Paul Nerney (designed, taught and coordinated courses in English as a Second Language and English as a First-School Language for the Centre for English Language at NUS), and Susan Lopez Nerney (designed, coordinated and taught language, writing and professional communication courses for undergraduates and graduates in the Centre for English Language Communication at the National University of Singapore from 1992 until 2013).

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek2

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Academic Writing Workshop & Short Course, Week 1: Getting Published in International Academic Journals

Please join us for the 2023 AIFIS Academic Writing Workshop! This year we are presenting the event in the form of a short course and workshop that spans over three weeks from May 8-27. Public participants are invited to follow along with the coursework provided here. The first live Q&A session will take place on Saturday, May 13, 2023 at 9-11 am WIB, where we will be in conversation with Dr. Paul Kratoska, formerly the Managing Director of NUS Press at the National University of Singapore, past editor of the Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, and current editor of The Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society.

Youtube Livestream Link: https://tinyurl.com/joinacadwritingweek1

Don’t miss out on the opportunity to listen to and engage with experts and scholars and learn from their experiences and insights in getting published in international academic journals!

Dragon For Sale: Environmental Justice and the Illusion of "10 New Balis" Development in Indonesia

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS), in collaboration with the Graduate Education & Training in Southeast Asian Studies (GETSEA) consortium and Justice in Southeast Asia Lab (JSEALab), is proud to present a screening of Dragon for Sale followed by a discussion with the film’s Director, Producers, and Research Team.  

Dragon for Sale documents the Indonesian government’s “10 New Balis” development project in Eastern Indonesia and attempts to turn Flores and the Komodo Islands into an international tourist destination. The documentary film highlights the darker side of the project’s history, including catastrophic environmental degradation and multiple human rights violations as local populations are forced out of their ancestral homes to make way for resorts and restaurants. The film showcases the resistance movements of local communities striving to create alternative tourism development and conservation plans through an indigenous framework of human-animal kinship and coexistence.  

This hybrid event, simulcast in-person at six leading universities across the United States and on Zoom across the globe, is the first international screening of this groundbreaking documentary since its mid-April release in Indonesia. Join us on May 1, 2023 at 12:00p (Hawaii) / 3:00p (PDT) / 5:00p (CDT) / 6:00p (EDT) via Zoom at https://bit.ly/41Uqw0X. 

Click here to download JSEALab Article / Translation to supplement the discussion: https://bit.ly/41YPrkb

𝐕𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐖𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐂𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬: 𝐀𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐫𝐨𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

Analisis Percakapan ‘Conversation Analysi’s (CA) merupakan sebuah teori dan metode yang digunakan untuk meneliti bahasa dan pola interaksi antar penutur. Pada mulanya, CA merupakan sebuah pendekatan kajian hubungan sosial di bidang sosiologi yang dikenalkan pada tahun 1960an oleh Harvey Sacks. Pendekatan ini kemudian berkembang dan dikneal di bidang linguistic, antropologi dan ilmu komunikasi. Objek utama dalam penelitian CA bukan bahasa, melainkan pola interaksi sosial. Namun demikian, bahasa merupakan unsur terpenting dalam komunikasi, penelitian CA biasanya melibatkan analisis percakapan.

Penelitian dengan metode CA sangat menarik sebagai sebuah sarana penelitian interdisipliner yang paling tidak melibatkan unsur bahasa dan interaksi sosial. Namun sayangnya, penelitian ini belum banyak dikenal oleh peneliti di Indonesia. Padahal, dalam konteks Indonesia, penelitian yang menggunakan pendekatan CA tentulah penting, terutama untuk mengkaji bagaimana penutur dalam sebuah komunitas bahasa tertentu berinteraksi dalam percakapan dan bagaimana bahasa dan budaya dari etnis tertentu berpengaruh pada atau mempengaruhi pola interaksi sosial di antara mereka.

Registrasi online: https://tinyurl.com/Conversational-Workshop

𝐖𝐚𝐤𝐭𝐮 𝐝𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐭:

Selasa-Rabu, 2-3 Mei 2023, jam 13:00-16:00 WIB

Ruang ZOOM

𝐍𝐚𝐫𝐚𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫:

Dwi Noverini Djenar, Ph.D. (the University of Sydney)

Nicholas Williams, Ph.D. (Potsdam University, CAORCH-NEH Research Fellow of 2018-2019)

Fakry Hamdani, Ph.D. (UIN Sunan Gunung Djati)

LuceSEA Webinar Series: Migrations, Labor & Smallholder Livelihoods

Date & Time: March 08, 2023, 3:00-4:30pm HST

Speakers: Dr. Amanda Flaim, Assistant Professor, Michigan State University, Sociology & James Madison College; Dr. Christina Griffin, Fellow, University of Melbourne Nasrullah, PhD Scholar, University of Mulawarman.

Co-sponsors: UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan State University, Chiang Mai University, Henry Luce Foundation. 

Description: Engaging across disciplines and case studies from Southeast Asia, this webinar panel discussion centers migration as an entry point into understanding dynamic landscapes and livelihoods. Complex and varied, seasonal and long term, rural to urban, or distant and across borders, migration not only reshapes places of origin but also remake destinations in distinct ways. Refocusing on migration trends also presents insights into the often overlooked interconnectedness of a complex and rapidly changing region.

LuceSEA Webinar Series: Smallholder Definitions, Presents, and Futures - Agriculture & Aquaculture

Date & Time: February 08, 2023, 3:00-4:30pm HST

Speakers: Nurhady Sirimorok, PhD Candidate, Hasanuddin University; Sumvilary Chanthalounnavong, National University of Laos.

Co-sponsors: UHM Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Michigan State University, Chiang Mai University, Henry Luce Foundation. 

Description: With rapid and diverse transformations taking place across Southeast Asia, the conditions of smallholder farming and fishing are increasingly coming into question. From different disciplinary vantage points, this webinar brings together a diverse group of panelists to discuss emerging challenges to smallholder livelihoods. From Cambodia to Indonesia, Vietnam to the Philippines, and more, we examine the ways smallholders are preparing to navigate the future of farming.

Agreement in Amarasi: Topics in synchronic & diachronic morphosyntax

Background: This research project aims to document and investigate the morphology of Amarasi (ISO: aaz), an Austronesian language spoken in the Kupang Regency of South-West Timor in the East Nusa Tenggara Province of Indonesia. Spoken by approximately 80,000 individuals, Amarasi is the westernmost end of a complex language/dialect continuum falling under the umbrella of Uab Meto (also known as Timorese, Dawan(ese), or Atoni).
In collaboration with native speakers and community members, primary data collection took place from October -- December 2022 in the Amarasi Barat district. Data collection focused on naturalistic data including narratives, oral histories, and songs/poetry. This data is currently being processed into linguistically-annotated trilingual audio recordings suitable for adaptation into community-facing literary, pedagogical, and/or reference material for the Amarasi-speaking community, with a broader goal of helping to preserve linguistic diversity in the region.

From a theoretical perspective, the collected data is also being used to analyse the morphology of Amarasi and trace its development over time, so as to further our understanding of linguistic universals, grammatical structure, and the ways in which languages change. Amarasi has innovated many novel constructions and characteristics in comparison to its ancestor language Proto-Malayo-Polynesian. As such, this project investigates the origin of several of these innovations, including prefixal subject agreement, verbal inflection classes, and a ternary class distinction, and explores what these systems tell us about languages throughout Nusa Tenggara Timur.

Speaker: Tamisha L Tan is a final year PhD Candidate in the Department of Linguistics at Harvard University and an affiliate of Nanyang Technological University. Before pursuing her doctoral studies, she received a BA (Hons) in Linguistics at the University of Cambridge. Her research focuses on historical linguistics and theoretical morphosyntax, with a specific emphasis on the Austronesian languages of South East Asia.

Museums for the 21st Century: Curation

Museums for the 21st Century (M21) is a program, which brings together curators and scholars from the US and Indonesia , who specialize in  the future direction of museums in three critical areas: 1. Collection exhibition and research; 2. Engagement with the family and youth; 3. Art conservation. This program consists of in-person workshops in 3 Indonesian institutions in December 2022, including Museum Tekstil Jakarta, Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat in Pontianak, and Museum Balanga in Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah. The in-person course modules will be followed by a  series of Online Webinars that will disseminate results from the workshops and discuss further/future implementations of course outcomes and solutions to challenges faced by Indonesian museums. The M21 program is funded by the US Embassy Jakarta.

This session will discuss non-Western museum paradigms, curatorial approaches, and concepts of cultural heritage preservation, which are inherent characteristics of Indigenous curation (Kreps 2002).  In addition, it will show various museological behavior promoting Indigenous curation and the vital involvement of cultural custodians in museums' activities aimed at preserving and transmitting cultural heritage.

Date/Time: Monday, February 20, 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time

Museums for the 21st Century: Conservation

Museums for the 21st Century (M21) is a program, which brings together curators and scholars from the US and Indonesia , who specialize in  the future direction of museums in three critical areas: 1. Collection exhibition and research; 2. Engagement with the family and youth; 3. Art conservation. This program consists of in-person workshops in 3 Indonesian institutions in December 2022, including Museum Tekstil Jakarta, Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat in Pontianak, and Museum Balanga in Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah. The in-person course modules will be followed by a  series of Online Webinars that will disseminate results from the workshops and discuss further/future implementations of course outcomes and solutions to challenges faced by Indonesian museums. The M21 program is funded by the US Embassy Jakarta.

The second session of the "Museums for the 21st Century (M21)" webinar series will discuss growing trends in conservation practice (collaborative conservation / conservation and community). It will also explore pertinent challenges in conserving organic materials in hot and humid environments (tropical climate).

Date/Time: Monday, February 14, 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time

Museums for the 21st Century: Education

Museums for the 21st Century (M21) is a program, which brings together curators and scholars from the US and Indonesia , who specialize in  the future direction of museums in three critical areas: 1. Collection exhibition and research; 2. Engagement with the family and youth; 3. Art conservation. This program consists of in-person workshops in 3 Indonesian institutions in December 2022, including Museum Tekstil Jakarta, Museum Provinsi Kalimantan Barat in Pontianak, and Museum Balanga in Provinsi Kalimantan Tengah. The in-person course modules will be followed by a  series of Online Webinars that will disseminate results from the workshops and discuss further/future implementations of course outcomes and solutions to challenges faced by Indonesian museums. The M21 program is funded by the US Embassy Jakarta.

The first session will discuss how museums in the 21st century engage with their audience in creating relevant and participatory public programs. Relevance is a keyword in the 21st century. As today the world changes very fast, it is imperative for a museum to always be relevant for the audience they serve.

Date/Time: Monday, February 6 2023 / 10am WIB Jakarta Time


Museums 21st Century: Presenting, Caring, and Curating Cultural Heritage

Join us in this exciting three-part online lecture series on Education, Conservation, and Curation of Cultural Heritage!
The M21 webinar series brings together educators, conservators, and curators from the US and Indonesia to address some relevant issues faced by Indonesian museums. In the first lecture of series, Savita Monie of the Metropolitan Museum of Art will share her expertise in Teen Education Programs for museums. In the second lecture, Ellen Pearlstein of the UCLA/ Getty Program in Conservation of Cultural Heritage will discuss Conservation for the Tropical Climate. The last event of the series present Christina Kreps and Ana Labrador, who will address the topic of Indigenous Curation.

The M21 webinar series is a follow-up to the in-person workshops conducted in Indonesia in December 2022, funded by the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta.

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Smallholder definitions, presents & futures: Agriculture & Aquaculture

Description

With rapid and diverse transformations taking place across Southeast Asia, the conditions of smallholder farming and fishing are increasingly coming into question. From different disciplinary vantage points, this webinar brings together a diverse group of panelists to discuss emerging challenges to smallholder livelihoods. From Cambodia to Indonesia, Vietnam to the Philippines, and more, we examine the ways smallholders are preparing to navigate the future of farming.

Speakers:
Nurhady Sirimorok, Phd candidate, Hasanuddin University
Somvilay Chanthalounnavong, Professor, National University of Laos
SANGO Mahanty, Professor, Australian National University

Moderator:
Wolfram Dressler, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY of Melbourne

Time

Feb 8, 2023 03:00 PM in Hawaii
Feb 9, 2023 08:00 AM in Jakarta

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