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Program
8:30 am - 9:00 am - 07 July 2025
Registration - Postgraduate Students Day
The information here applies to all session related to the Postgraduate Students Day (7 July).
Beyond the Thesis: A Day for Postgraduate Scholars of Indonesia
Join us for the Postgraduate Students Day as part of the Indonesia Council Open Conference. This special event is hosted by the University of Melbourne's Indonesia Forum, and it brings together postgraduate students researching Indonesia from both Indonesian and Australian institutions. Through a series of engaging panels, participants will explore strategies for success in academic life, including tips on conferencing and networking, navigating the world of academic publishing, and preparing for the job market after postgraduate studies. This is a valuable opportunity to connect with peers, share experiences, and build supportive networks across borders. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a vibrant community of emerging Indonesia scholars.
Beyond the Thesis: A Day for Postgraduate Scholars of Indonesia
Join us for the Postgraduate Students Day as part of the Indonesia Council Open Conference. This special event is hosted by the University of Melbourne's Indonesia Forum, and it brings together postgraduate students researching Indonesia from both Indonesian and Australian institutions. Through a series of engaging panels, participants will explore strategies for success in academic life, including tips on conferencing and networking, navigating the world of academic publishing, and preparing for the job market after postgraduate studies. This is a valuable opportunity to connect with peers, share experiences, and build supportive networks across borders. Don’t miss this chance to be part of a vibrant community of emerging Indonesia scholars.
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Open to PhD, Masters', Graduate diploma/certificate and Honours Students
Open to PhD, Masters', Graduate diploma/certificate and Honours Students
9:00 am - 9:15 am - 07 July 2025
Welcome - Postgraduate Students Day
9:15 am - 10:45 am - 07 July 2025
Publishing and Communicating Your Work - Postgraduate Students Day
Panelists:
- Cathy Harper - Cathy Harper a senior editor and journalist with 25 years’ experience in public interest journalism. She’s currently the Managing Editor of Melbourne Asia Review, the journal-magazine of the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne. Previously, she was a senior journalist and producer in news and current affairs at the ABC (Melbourne and Darwin) and SBS (Melbourne); and also worked for seven years as an Australian correspondent for the Washington DC-based National Public Radio. She is also a trained lawyer.
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Tiara Marthias - Dr Tiara Marthias is a Lecturer in Global Health at the Nossal Institute for Global Health, University of Melbourne. As a health systems researcher, her work focuses on advancing equitable access to quality health services in Southeast Asia, particularly in Indonesia. She has published on universal health coverage, maternal and child health, and primary health care. She currently leads an implementation research on social behaviour change interventions to improve child immunisation, handwashing with soap, and child
nutrition in Indonesia. Tiara is also actively engaged in policy-relevant research and regional collaboration. Together with Charlotte Setijadi, Tiara is one of the co-convenors of the Indonesia Forum for 2025. - Andrew Rosser - Professor Andrew Rosser is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on the political economy of development, with a longstanding interest in Indonesia. He has worked at the University of Sydney, AusAID, IDS Sussex, and Adelaide, and was an ARC Future Fellow (2012–2015) researching law, politics, and social rights in Indonesia. He has consulted for international organisations including the World Bank, DFID, OECD, and UNDP. His early work examined economic liberalisation during and after Indonesia’s New Order, as well as the political impacts of the 1997–98 Asian financial crisis.
10:45 am - 11:00 am - 07 July 2025
Morning Break - Postgraduate Students Day
11:00 am - 12:30 pm - 07 July 2025
Conferencing and Networking - Postgraduate Students Day
Panelists:
- Lis Kramer - Dr Elisabeth Kramer is a Senior Lecturer, Scientia Fellow, and ARC DECRA Fellow (2023) at UNSW. Her research focuses on the intersection of politics, policy, and advocacy in Indonesia, with current ARC-funded projects on opioid policy and tobacco regulation. Her book The Candidate’s Dilemma (2022) explores money politics and anticorruption in Indonesian elections. She has held fellowships at Harvard, Chiang Mai, and the University of Indonesia. Previously Deputy Director of the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, she has worked across public service, development, and NGOs. Elisabeth is of Indonesian heritage and fluent in the Indonesian language.
- Charlotte Setijadi - Dr Charlotte Setijadi is a Lecturer in Asian Studies at the Asia Institute, the University of Melbourne, where she is also the Head of Program for Asian Studies. She researches Chinese identity politics in Indonesia and Indonesian diaspora politics. Charlotte’s first book Memories of Unbelonging: Ethnic Chinese Identity Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia was published by University of Hawai’i Press in 2023. She is currently working on a new book project on highly-skilled Indonesian professional migrants. Together with Tiara Marthias, Charlotte is one of the co-convenors of the Indonesia Forum for 2025.
- Ariane Utomo - Dr Ariane Utomo is a social demographer and Senior Lecturer in Demography and Population Geography at the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, The University of Melbourne. Her research focuses on the intersecting themes of gender, education and the labour force; migration; and marriage and family change in Indonesia.
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm - 07 July 2025
Lunch Break - Postgraduate Students Day
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm - 07 July 2025
Life After Postgrad: Experiences from Australia & Indonesia - Postgraduate Students Day
Panelists:
- Farwiza Farhan - Renowned environmental activist and 2024 Ramon Magsaysay awardee Farwiza Farhan will discuss Indonesia’s environmental governance, reflecting on the progress and challenges that have unfolded in the eight decades since the country’s independence. Farhan, internationally celebrated for her work in environmental conservation and social justice, will chart the evolution of environmental policies and practices in Indonesia, examining how colonial legacies, post-independence developmentalism, and contemporary socio-political dynamics have shaped the country’s approach to natural resource management.
- Annisa Beta - Dr Annisa R. Beta is an Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award (DECRA) Fellow (2023-2025) and a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Studies at the School of Culture and Communication, the University of Melbourne, Australia. Before joining the University of Melbourne, she was a Postdoctoral Fellow at the National University of Singapore, where she also completed her PhD. She is the author of Pious Girls (Routledge, 2024) and a co-founder of Anotasi and Jaringan Etnografi Terbuka.
- Gietty Tambunan - Dr Shuri Mariasih Gietty Tambunan is a lecturer in the English Studies Program and currently serves as the Head of the Literature Postgraduate Program at the Faculty of Humanities, Universitas Indonesia. She earned her PhD in Cultural Studies from Lingnan University, Hong Kong, in 2013, after completing master's studies in Cultural Studies at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands in 2010 at Universitas Indonesia in 2007. In early 2024, she was a research fellow at the Centre for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS) in Germany. Most recently, she was a visiting scholar under the Indonesia Initiative Program at the University of Melbourne for three weeks in March and April 2025. Her doctoral research explored the transnational flow of East Asian television dramas in Indonesia within the context of cultural globalization. Her current research focuses on the dynamics of digital media and diaspora, particularly the experiences of Indonesian female migrant vloggers.
- Erick Hansnata - Dr Erick Hansnata is a Principal Economist at FWPA, one of the Research and Development Corporations under the Department of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries. He manages levy investments in research and initiatives to improve the timber industry’s productivity, competitiveness, and sustainability. Previously, he was a Senior Economist at KPMG Australia, advising on health economics and fiscal policy, and a Senior Regulatory Economist with the ACT Government, overseeing utility pricing and the territory’s full renewable energy scheme. Erick was also a Research Fellow at the National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling (NATSEM), focusing on economic modelling and social policy analysis
3:00 pm - 3:10 pm - 07 July 2025