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Talking Indonesia
In the Talking Indonesia podcast, Dr Jemma Purdey, Dr Jacqui Baker, Tito Ambyo and Dr Elisabeth Kramer present an extended interview each fortnight with experts on Indonesian politics, foreign policy, culture, language and more. Find all the Talking Indonesia podcasts and more at the Indonesia at Melbourne blog.
Episodes
Talking IndonesiaBivitri Susanti - Dirty Vote
Bivitri Susanti - Dirty Vote The frenzied final weeks of campaigning leading up to the presidential election on 14 February 2024 were packed with promises…
Talking IndonesiaJohn Cheong-Holdaway, Eka Poedijono and Jocelyn Tribe - Gamelan Music
In November 2023, a unique event occured. Eight gamelan groups - Gamelan DanAnda, Kacapi Suling Melbourne, Mahindra Bali Gamelan, Melbourne Community Gamelan…
Talking IndonesiaAnto Mohsin - Electrifying Indonesia
The talk on the street is all about electric cars and scooters as Indonesia strives to become a regional centre for manufacturing electric vehicles. At the…
Talking IndonesiaKathryn Robinson - Marriage Migration and Intercultural Families
There are many things that drive migration to other countries, and one of them is romantic relationships and marriages. But Asian women who are developing…
Talking IndonesiaMarina Welker - Kretek Capitalism
Indonesia has one of the highest smoking rates in the world - approximately two thirds of Indonesian men are classified as smokers. This is in spite of…
Talking IndonesiaJamie Davidson - Food Security
Indonesians have a saying that you’re not properly satisfied until you’ve eaten rice (belum kenyang kalau belum makan nasi). But in recent weeks the price of…
Talking IndonesiaAl Khanif - Jural Traditions and Minority Rights
How do religious minorities fare under the constitution and blasphemy laws in Indonesia? The Indonesia Constitution seems to guarantee religious freedom so…
Talking IndonesiaBronwyn Beech Jones - Women Writers in the Colonial Era
In the early 20th century in Sumatra, a movement of young women writers were finding new ways to express their identities, build communities and achieve their…
Talking IndonesiaWicaksono Gitawan - Energy Transition
Energy transition In the recent national elections, the candidates paid surprisingly little attention to one of the greatest challenges Indonesia and the world…
Talking IndonesiaTalking Indonesia Election Special
Prabowo has exceeded expectations to claim victory in 2024 Indonesian presidential election. What do our Talking Indonesia's co-hosts think about the result?…
Talking IndonesiaFaris Al Fadhat - Big Business
Faris Al Fadhat - Big Business Conglomerates are the main players in the Indonesian economy, controlling core industries like agribusiness, banking and…
Talking IndonesiaMarcus Mietzner - The Presidential Election
With the election just weeks away the campaign for the presidency is in full flight. The three candidates – Prabowo Subianto, Ganjar Pranowo and Anies Baswedan…
Talking IndonesiaMirjam Lücking - Indonesian Encounters in Israel and Palestine
Since the most recent conflict erupted between Israel and Gaza following the October 7 Hamas’ attacks and Israel’s subsequent mass bombings of the Gaza strip…
Talking IndonesiaJonathan Tehusijarana - Indonesian Student Armies
The Indonesian word ‘pemuda’, or young person, has a complex meaning and history. Like in other languages and cultures, the term conjures up images of change…
Talking IndonesiaLailatul Fitriyah - Religion, Gender and Migrant Worker Identity
The choice by Indonesians to become a foreign overseas worker, known as Tenaga Kerja Indonesia (TKI), is viewed primarily as an economic one. Working in…
Talking IndonesiaKate McGregor - Activism, Memory and Sexual Violence
Kate McGregor - Activism, Memory and Sexual Violence During its Occupation of East Asian and Southeast Asian countries in World War II, including the…
Talking IndonesiaYouTube In Indonesia - Indonesia Council Open Conference Presentation
As of July 2023, Indonesia had 139 million YouTube viewers giving it one of the biggest YouTube audiences in the world. But beyond the numbers, YouTube has…
Talking IndonesiaAisyah Llewellyn -Justice for Mass Atrocities
Indonesia has sadly been the site of many crimes and mass atrocities, but uncovering all the details is fraught with challenges. How many people were killed or…
Talking IndonesiaDr Julie Chernov-Hwang - Pathways To Extremism
Indonesia is the largest Muslim majority country in the world, but it is not an Islamic state. The place of Islam within the state has been contested over the…
Talking IndonesiaChristophe Dorigné-Thomson - Jokowi Goes to Africa
Joko Widodo’s recent trip to four African countries marked the first ever by an Indonesian head of state. The President’s five-day visit took him to Kenya…
Talking IndonesiaTamara Soukotta - Decoloniality and Independence
Indonesians around the world will celebrate Independence Day in a range of ways on 17 August. Some will hold festivals in big cosmopolitan cities, serving…
Talking IndonesiaProf. Jimly Asshiddiqie - Democracy Under Threat
Twenty-five years since embarking on its reform era following the fall of the New Order, observers, scholars and global democracy indexes agree that Indonesian…
Talking IndonesiaDr Kanti Pertiwi - Bureaucratic Reform
The project of bureaucratic reform has now been ongoing for over 20 years. But what issues remain and what is the government doing to try and curb corruption…
Talking IndonesiaDr Anne Meike Fechter - Expatriates
In January 2021, a case that became known as ‘digital-nomad-gate’ gripped both Indonesia’s social and conventional media channels and was also reported around…
Talking IndonesiaFebriana Firdaus and Krisna Pradipta - Sand Mining
Many of the big challenges humanity faces today – especially when we talk about environmental problems – can only be understood from a global perspective. This…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jarrah Sastrawan - Natural Disasters and Ancient Beliefs
Jarrah Sastrawan - Natural Disasters and Ancient Beliefs Indonesia is no stranger to natural disasters and it is not surprising that societies throughout the…
Talking IndonesiaSofyan Ansori - Forest Fires
In 2015 and 2019 massive forest fires in Indonesia shrouded its neighbours in smoke. The haze caused respiratory and other heath problems for residents of…
Talking IndonesiaAbigail Limuria and Dharmadji Suradika - Gen Z Voters
Indonesia's general election in 2024 will be a big one. Young voters have helped decide the last two general elections. It was millennials behind online…
Talking IndonesiaDr Lian Sinclair - Undermining Resistance
Indonesia is an important global hub for minerals and resource extraction. The value of its metallic minerals and coal industry in 2020 was the ninth-largest…
Talking IndonesiaKevin O'Rourke - Reformasi Ongoing?
Talking Indonesia’s guest this week, Kevin O’Rourke, has been watching Indonesia closely for many years. He dodged tanks in his Toyota Kijang during the May…
Talking IndonesiaTiffany Tsao - Literature in Translation
Indonesian literature in translation In recent years the international profile of Indonesian literature has been given a substantial boost. Indonesian authors…
Talking IndonesiaAssociate Professor Eka Permanasari - Building the New Capital
Associate Professor Eka Permanasari - Building the New Capital In late February, Joko Widodo’s official social media feed showed him conducting the affairs of…
Talking IndonesiaAssociate Professor Agung Wardana - Environmental Defenders
ronmental Program has identified Indonesia as one of 17 "megadiverse" countries, making it highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. Yet the country…
Talking IndonesiaRob Raffael Kardinal - Cryptocurrency
The cryptocurrency market in Indonesia is booming. In 2022, the country recorded 14 million cryptocurrency investors, much higher than the number of…
Talking IndonesiaDr Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem - Acknowledging Past Rights Violations
On 11 January, President Joko Widodo gave a national address in which he acknowledged gross violations of human rights had occurred in Indonesia and expressed…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ahmad Rizky M Umar - Indonesia & AUKUS
Indonesia has expressed persistent reservations about AUKUS, the security pact reached in secret between Australia, the US and the UK and announced in…
Talking IndonesiaBivitri Susanti - The New Criminal Code
On 6 December, Indonesia’s House of Representatives (DPR) passed a long-awaited new Criminal Code (KUHP), in an act the government described as one of…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ian Wilson - Acting Regional Heads
This year, the Indonesian government has replaced more than 110 local elected leaders for appointed caretaker leaders. By 2024, almost all district and…
Talking IndonesiaProdita Sabarini - Communicating Research
There are many Indonesian researchers conducting important and path-breaking research, both within Indonesia and around the world. But many of these Indonesian…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jacqui Baker - Police Reform
Preliminary investigations into the events at Kanjuruhan Stadium on 1 October, which claimed the lives of 135 people, have found that the use of tear gas by…
Talking IndonesiaTalking Indonesia 200th Episode
It is often said that it is easy to start a podcast. But not many make it to 200 episodes. Many factors have played a part in making Talking Indonesia special…
Talking IndonesiaUsman Hamid & Yogi Setya Permana: The Kanjuruhan Football Disaster
Indonesian football experienced its darkest day on 1 October, when more than 130 spectators were killed – including 35 children – after police fired tear gas…
Talking IndonesiaDwi Rubiyanti Kholifah - Muslim Women Scholars
In April 2017, Indonesian Muslim women did something quite revolutionary: they successfully held the first Congress of Indonesian Women Muslim Scholars…
Talking IndonesiaAndy Yentriyani - The Law on Sexual Violence
The #MeToo movement has led to a global reckoning on sexual violence, including in Indonesia. After a series of high profile sexual assault scandals, activists…
Talking IndonesiaEwa Wojkowska and Gede Robi - Plastics Pollution
Environment and climate ministers from G20 nations gathered in Bali last week. Indonesian Minister for Forestry and the Environment Siti Nurbaya Bakar told the…
Talking IndonesiaRatih Kabinawa - The Taiwan Crisis
US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi's visit to Taiwan in early August inflamed tensions with China and put Taiwan, and its implications for…
Talking IndonesiaDr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Elly Kent - Art and Offence
Dr Wulan Dirgantoro and Dr Elly Kent - art and offence Indonesian art collective Taring Padi made headlines around the world last month. The collective's 8x10…
Talking IndonesiaDr Tim Mann - Activist Lawyers
Indonesia's longest-standing and most prominent "cause lawyering" organisation, the Legal Aid Institute or LBH, was founded in the early days of Soeharto's…
Talking IndonesiaArdyan M Erlangga - Digital Journalism
Rapid growth in internet penetration in Indonesia over the past decade has altered the local media landscape and the ways in which news is produced and…
Talking IndonesiaDr Chris Chaplin - The Salafi Movement
Indonesian Islam has long been lauded as tolerant and "moderate". It is this moderate character that has enabled Indonesia – the world's largest…
Talking IndonesiaDr Elisabeth Kramer - Political Candidates and 'Anti-Corruptionism'
Dr Elisabeth Kramer - Political candidates and anti-corruptionism Indonesia has announced it will conduct its next general elections on 14 February 2024, to…
Talking IndonesiaAssociate Professor Dirk Tomsa - Democratic Regression and the Environment
Taking care of the environment in Indonesia, which has one of the highest levels of biodiversity in the world, is a massive challenge. Covid-19 has intensified…
Talking IndonesiaDr I Gede Wahyu Wicaksana: Indonesia's G20 Presidency
In 2022, Indonesia holds the rotating presidency of the Group of 20 (G20) a forum of 19 of the world’s major economies along with the EU. Indonesia has assumed…
Talking IndonesiaDr Alexander Arifianto - Nahdlatul Ulama's leadership
Indonesia’s largest Muslim organisation, Nahdlatul Ulama (NU), claims membership of 40 to 45 million people, and has long occupied a highly significant…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jess Melvin & Dr Annie Pohlman - Aceh's Truth and Reconciliation Commission
In 2005, in the wake of Aceh’s devastating tsunami, the Indonesian government signed the Helsinki Peace Agreement, drawing to a close a thirty-year conflict…
Talking IndonesiaIka Idris - Digital Literacy And Misinformation
One of the challenges that many countries around the world face when tackling the Covid-19 pandemic is widespread misinformation and disinformation polluting…
Talking IndonesiaRadityo Dharmaputra - Russia's Invasion of Ukraine
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has been front of mind across much of the world for the past month – with Indonesia no exception. The Indonesian government has…
Talking IndonesiaDr Dicky Budiman - Managing the Omicron Wave
Dr Dicky Budiman - Omicron wave Indonesia has recorded more than 5.5 million cases of Covid-19 and more than 148,000 deaths since the beginning of the…
Talking IndonesiaProfessor Michiko Iizuka - Private Sector Innovation - Policy in Focus
Major social and technological innovation is expected to be required if countries are to meet development challenges into the future. But government…
Talking IndonesiaWillliam Yanko - Hip-Hop
In the 80s and 90s, the influence of hip-hop in the music industry and urban cultures of Indonesia was unmistakable. One of the first nationally successful…