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Arief Budiman Lecture given by Dandhy Dwi Laksono
Special Event
Session Description
Note this event is not located at Melbourne Connect.
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.
Speaker: leading film maker Dandhy Dwi Laksono
Challenges to Indonesian Democracy: Autocracy Strengthens, Journalism and Film Influence Fades?
Dandhy Laksono will talk about his experiences as a film director and co-founder of the documentary production house Watchdoc. Laksono will speak about how two Watchdoc films (Dirty Vote and Sexy Killers) are examples how it is increasingly difficult as a filmmaker to engage in long-term reporting and investigative journalism in the public interest.
About Dandhy Laksono:
Dandhy Laksono is an award-winning Indonesian activist, investigative journalist, and filmmaker. He previously worked with Indonesian and foreign news channels: Acehkita.com, Liputan 6 of SCTV, RCTI, and ABC Radio. In 2009, he co-founded the documentary production studio WatchDoc which promotes social change in Indonesia through videos and digital media. Watchdoc has produced more than 400 documentary episodes, 1000 television features, and at least 100 commercial videos & works on topics such as corruption, democratic transition, environmental issues, and human rights. In 2021, Watchdoc received the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the Emergent Leadership for its activism. Upon receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Watchdoc was praised for its “highly principled crusade for an independent media organization, its energetic use of investigative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and digital technology in its effort to transform Indonesia’s media landscape, and its commitment to a vision of the people themselves as makers of media and shapers of their own world.”
About the Arief Budiman Lecture:
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.
Speaker: leading film maker Dandhy Dwi Laksono
Challenges to Indonesian Democracy: Autocracy Strengthens, Journalism and Film Influence Fades?
Dandhy Laksono will talk about his experiences as a film director and co-founder of the documentary production house Watchdoc. Laksono will speak about how two Watchdoc films (Dirty Vote and Sexy Killers) are examples how it is increasingly difficult as a filmmaker to engage in long-term reporting and investigative journalism in the public interest.
About Dandhy Laksono:
Dandhy Laksono is an award-winning Indonesian activist, investigative journalist, and filmmaker. He previously worked with Indonesian and foreign news channels: Acehkita.com, Liputan 6 of SCTV, RCTI, and ABC Radio. In 2009, he co-founded the documentary production studio WatchDoc which promotes social change in Indonesia through videos and digital media. Watchdoc has produced more than 400 documentary episodes, 1000 television features, and at least 100 commercial videos & works on topics such as corruption, democratic transition, environmental issues, and human rights. In 2021, Watchdoc received the Gwangju Prize for Human Rights Award and the Ramon Magsaysay Award for the Emergent Leadership for its activism. Upon receiving the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Watchdoc was praised for its “highly principled crusade for an independent media organization, its energetic use of investigative journalism, documentary filmmaking, and digital technology in its effort to transform Indonesia’s media landscape, and its commitment to a vision of the people themselves as makers of media and shapers of their own world.”
About the Arief Budiman Lecture:
The Arief Budiman Public Lecture is held in honour of scholar, activist and public intellectual Arief Budiman (1941-2020), who was Foundation Professor of Indonesian at the University of Melbourne from 1997 to 2008. The Arief Budiman Lecture is supported by the Asian Studies Trust Fund, The University of Melbourne. Inaugurated in 2021, the annual Arief Budiman Lecture is held by the Indonesian Studies Program at the Asia Institute.