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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 IndonesiaDr Taomo Zhou - China, Indonesia and the Cold War
So much is still unknown about China-Indonesia relations during the Cold War, and in particular China’s role in the pivotal events of 30 September 1965. In a…
Talking IndonesiaHellena Souisa - The Media and Elections
The Indonesian media is heavily politicised. Many TV stations are owned by political power brokers or party leaders. During elections, these ownership…
Talking IndonesiaDr Laode Muhammad Syarif - Indonesia's Fight Against Corruption
Since its formation in 2003, Indonesia’s Corruption Eradication Commission (KPK) has established itself as one of Indonesia’s most trusted and popular…
Talking IndonesiaDr Dede Oetomo - Persecuted Minorities
Indonesia has recently seen widespread protests against proposed changes to the Criminal Code (KUHP), which threatened to tighten restrictions on human rights…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ken Setiawan - Freedom of Expression
Freedom of expression is under attack in Indonesia. Under President Jokowi, protests against the government have been routinely met with repression and…
Talking IndonesiaPutri Alam - Digital Economy - Policy in Focus
President Jokowi increasing highlights the digital economy and technology as central to Indonesia’s future, quipping during one of the presidential election…
Talking IndonesiaDr Martin Siyaranamual & Dr Rita Padawangi - Moving the Capital
Not long after winning a second term, President Joko “Jokowi” Widodo announced that the nation’s capital will be moved from Jakarta to a new site in East…
Talking IndonesiaEmanuel Bria - Energy
Indonesia is one of the world’s leading emitters of carbon dioxide and the fifth largest producer of coal, both for export and its own domestic use. Recently…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ariane Utomo - Social Mobility
Talking Indonesia: Social Mobility Moving up the social ladder is a clear aspiration for many Indonesians – public opinion surveys show a large proportion of…
Talking IndonesiaNava Nuraniyah - Women and Islamist Extremism
Like elsewhere in the world, violent religious extremists in Indonesia are mostly male, but in recent years more and more female extremists have made headlines…
Talking IndonesiaProfessor Simon Butt: The Constitutional Court and Elections
The Constitutional Court has been firmly in the headlines in Indonesia over the past month, because of its role in adjudicating – and dismissing – Prabowo…
Talking IndonesiaDr Sophie Chao - Palm Oil and Indigenous Peoples
Over recent years, concerns about Indonesia's food security have seen a sharp increase in industrial-scale agriculture across the country, including into the…
Talking IndonesiaDr Saskia Schäfer – The Indonesian Council of Ulama (MUI)
The Indonesian Council of Ulama(MUI) is one of the most influential religious actors in Indonesia. In 2016 and 2017, for example, the organisation was…
Talking IndonesiaNorman Erikson Pasaribu - On Literature and Diversity
This year Indonesia was a featured country at the London Book Fair, which followed a similar showcasing of its literature at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2015…
Talking IndonesiaDian Rositawati - Politicised Law Enforcement
The past few years have seen repeated questioning of the independent workings of police, the prosecutors and the courts in Indonesia, ranging from accusations…
Talking IndonesiaDr Thomas Barker - Transnational Indonesian Cinema
With a huge local market and growing production power, the Indonesian film industry has enormous potential. In recent times, Indonesian films, directors…
Talking IndonesiaDyah Ayu Kartika - Anti-feminism
An important part of recent Islamic activism in Indonesia has been the rise of conservative women’s groups such as the Family Love Alliance (Aliansi Cinta…
Talking IndonesiaElection 2019 Review
In today's episode, the final in the Election 2019 series, we gather the Talking Indonesia team to look back over the presidential and legislative polls and…
Talking IndonesiaLegislative Elections - Ben Bland, Liam Gammon, Rian Ernest & Faldo Maldini
With less than one week until Indonesia’s simultaneous presidential and legislative elections on the 17th of April, candidates are going all out in a final…
Talking IndonesiaTiti Anggraini & Dr Fritz Edward Siregar - Will Election 2019 Be Fair?
Recent months have seen a series of claims by political figures in Indonesia that the 2019 polls may be marked by significant irregularities. Senior political…
Talking Indonesia100th Episode Special: Election Preview
To celebrate the 100th episode of Talking Indonesia, co-hosts Dave McRae, Jemma Purdey, Charlotte Setijadi and Dirk Tomsa come together to revisit some of the…
Talking IndonesiaDr Djayadi Hanan: Election 2019 - Opinion Polling
As Indonesia’s 2019 elections are drawing closer, public opinion surveys about the electability of Jokowi and his challenger Prabowo Subianto are released with…
Talking IndonesiaDr Lana Soelistianingsih: Election 2019 - The Economy
With the 2019 elections now just weeks away, the economy has become a key issue in the campaign. In comparative terms, Indonesia's current GDP growth of over 5…
Talking IndonesiaProfessor Michele Ford: Election 2019 - Labour and Politics
Indonesia’s five-yearly elections are now just over a month away, and Talking Indonesia is switching to a weekly format until after polling day on April 17, to…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jafar Suryomenggolo - Foreign Domestic Workers and Creative Pursuits
While it is true that Indonesian maids abroad often face terrible conditions, they have more agency than the public often give them credit for, and many also…
Talking IndonesiaWahyudi Djafar - Policy in Focus: Big Data, Privacy and Elections
In contrast to various neighbouring countries and various Western democracies, the collection and use of citizen’s data remains largely unregulated in…
Talking IndonesiaDr Edwin Jurriens - Environmental activism and art
Some of the most pressing environmental problems in Indonesia today are plastic pollution and the consequences of large-scale land reclamation projects. In…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ward Berenschot - Democracy For Sale
With Indonesia's general elections less than three months away political campaigning and the push to win over voters is reaching high gear. Our guest this week…
Talking IndonesiaA/Prof Jamie Davidson - Rice Politics
Rice is Indonesia’s most important staple food, with consumption estimated at more than 100 kilograms per person per year, in a country of 270 million people…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jenny Munro - Roads, Development and Violence in Papua
In early December, at least 16 civilians and 1 soldier were killed, with 5 others missing, in attacks on workers constructing the Trans-Papua Highway in Nduga…
Talking IndonesiaElla Prihatini - Women Legislators
When Indonesians go to the polls in April 2019, they will see an unprecedented number of female candidates competing for seats in the House of Representatives…
Talking IndonesiaProf Bambang Brodjonegoro - Policy in Focus: Disparities Between Regions
Disparities in development between different regions in Indonesia can be stark. Urban centres on Java like Jakarta and Yogyakarta have human development index…
Talking IndonesiaDr Quinton Temby - Islamic Youth Movements
Bandung-based Pemuda Hijrah has amassed a huge following among young Muslims but has largely escaped the attention of the mainstream media. Led by charismatic…
Talking IndonesiaRian Ernest - Young Politicians
Young politicians Indonesia is undoubtedly a young nation. The median age of the population is just 28 years. In the 2019 elections, 45% of eligible voters…
Talking IndonesiaManaging Natural Disasters - Prof Kuntoro Mangkusubroto & Dr Rahmawati Husein
2018 has been a year marked by large-scale natural disasters in Indonesia. A series of earthquakes from July-August in Lombok lefts hundreds dead, and…
Talking IndonesiaDr Dina Afrianty - Disability and Education
It is more than two years since Indonesia passed the landmark Law 8 of 2016 of People with Disability, but implementation has been slow and prejudices and…
Talking IndonesiaDr Sandra Hamid - Confronting Religious Intolerance
Religious intolerance is on the rise in Indonesia, and the state has reacted strongly from a security point of view, with initiatives such as a law passed last…
Talking IndonesiaDr Sharyn Graham Davies - Sex and Sexuality
In January 2016 the Minister for Technology, Research and Higher Education Minister Muhammad Nasir stated that universities must uphold standards of ‘values…
Talking IndonesiaA/Prof Marcus Mietzner - The Road To 2019
In early August, Joko Widodo and Prabowo Subianto registered as the only candidates for Indonesia's April 2019 presidential election, repeating their…
Talking IndonesiaDr Siwage Dharma Negara - Chinese Investments in Indonesia
The issue of Chinese investment is a controversial topic in Indonesia. Viewed with suspicion and even animosity, Chinese investments are often associated with…
Talking IndonesiaDr Bima Arya - Local Leadership
Local elections held in June 2018 brought victories for a number of candidates who in the last few years have made a name for themselves as innovative and…
Talking IndonesiaAnis Hidayah - Protecting Migrant Workers
In October 2017, the Indonesian legislature passed a new law strengthening protection for the millions of Indonesians working overseas - more than half of whom…
Talking IndonesiaIndonesia's 2018 Regional Elections
On 27 June 2018, Indonesia held elections for mayors and governors in 154 districts and 17 provinces - referred to as pilkada - the third and final such round…
Talking IndonesiaDr Zulfan Tadjoeddin - Employment and Manufacturing
Indonesia has seen steady economic growth over the last two decades, but the manufacturing sector has continuously underperformed. The decline of the sector is…
Talking IndonesiaDr Jess Melvin - 20 Years of Military Reform
Twenty years after the beginning of military reforms, Talking Indonesia speaks to Dr Jess Melvin about the state and position of the military in contemporary…
Talking IndonesiaGaluh Wandita - Resisting Impunity
More than 50 years on from the 1965-66 mass killings and 20 years after the fall of the New Order authoritarian government, how is Indonesia facing up to this…
Talking IndonesiaUsman Hamid - 20 Years After Soeharto
Two decades after the fall of Suharto, the nature of Indonesian democracy and the trajectory of political reform remain a matter of animated debate in…
Talking IndonesiaDr Melissa Crouch - Blasphemy
Indonesia’s blasphemy legislation gained global attention during the trial of former Jakarta governor Basuki Tjahaja Purnama (Ahok) in 2017. But apart from…
Talking IndonesiaDr Ahmad Najib Burhani - Religious Authority in Contemporary Islam
The mass demonstrations against former Jakarta Governor Basuki "Ahok" Tjahaja Purnama in 2016 and 2017, and rising intolerance against religious and sexual…
Talking IndonesiaSuraya Affif - Environmental Politics
Indonesia's environmental challenges are vast and the impacts of forest degradation, in particular, have implications globally as well as locally. For many…
Talking IndonesiaAnugerah Rizki Akbari - A New Criminal Code
Indonesia's current criminal code dates to colonial rule, with efforts to complete and enact a new draft of the code consistently foundering. Under the…
Talking IndonesiaAssoc Prof Julie Chernov Hwang - Disengagement from Terrorism
Violent Islamist extremism has been a serious security threat in Indonesia for nearly two decades now. But while terrorist networks continue to recruit new…
Talking IndonesiaDr Meghan Downes - Urban Youth
Young Indonesians are often misunderstood. The older generations perceive them as entitled, unmotivated, apathetic, and narcissistic, a far cry from the image…
Talking IndonesiaDr Hew Wai Weng - Being Chinese and Muslim
Ethnic Chinese make up an estimated 1-2 percent of Indonesia's population. Of this group, a tiny minority are Muslim. As such, ethnic Chinese Muslims occupy a…
Talking IndonesiaDr Helen Pausacker - Pornography
The prohibition of pornography has been a hotly debated and controversial area of law in Indonesia, attracting the attention both of Islamic conservatives and…
Talking IndonesiaSana Jaffrey - Vigilantism
Vigilantism made headlines in Indonesia in 2017 owing to a spate of so-called "persecution" incidents, entailing physical intimidation or violence against…
Talking IndonesiaRicky Gunawan - War on drugs
In the shadow of Rodrigo Duterte’s bloody crackdown on drugs, Indonesia has been fighting its own war on drugs. Under President Joko Widodo, executions for…
Talking IndonesiaDr Djayadi Hanan - Jokowi at Three Years
October 2017 marked three years since President Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo came to power. Elected in 2014 as a symbol of hope for Indonesia’s progressives, Jokowi…
Talking IndonesiaDr Diego Fossati - Political Islam and Political Attitudes
How does support for political Islam correlate with other political attitudes in Indonesia, such as support for decentralisation, choice of a political party…
Talking IndonesiaProf Todung Mulya Lubis - Democracy In Peril?
Last month protesters disrupted a meeting at the offices of the Jakarta Legal Aid Foundation (LBH Jakarta)and its national umbrella body, the Indonesian Legal…