Please come by the ICOC 2025 Registration and Information desk to collect your name badge.
Location: Superfloor, Mezzanine Level (Melbourne Connect, 700 Swanston Street, Carlton) - outside Forum 1
The cafe and coffee cart will also be available for teas and coffees (Note: only electronic or card payments accepted)
For wifi, join network name MelbConnectGuest (no password needed)
To keep ICOC free and open to all, this conference is not catered.  Participants are responsible for purchasing their own food and drinks.
Link for prayer room/mosque locations

Please join us for our 2025 Opening Event!
Featuring welcome speeches and a keynote address from Farwiza Farhan, conversation between Farwiza Farhan and Dr Charlotte Setijadi (Asia Institute) and more.

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. Looking forward, Farhan will also offer an analysis of emerging trends, including the increasing role of technology, climate resilience strategies, and the necessity for inclusive, community-led conservation initiatives.

Following this Opening Event, all attendees and presenters are invited to a hosted morning tea.

Note this event is not located at Melbourne Connect.
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room 106 located on level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.

To keep ICOC free and open to all, this conference is not catered.  Participants are responsible for purchasing their own food and drinks.

Note: Melbourne Connect does not permit outside food or drink except those purchased from their cafe, coffee cart or food stand on the superfloor (mezzanine level)

Some ICOC lunch specials can be pre-ordered from The Atlantic Group:
Pre-order via this link https://qr.meandu.app/afl3vnz or purchase at the counter (subject to availability)
- Nasi goreng with satay chicken skewers ($14)
- Spicy tofu stir-fried noodles with vegetables | VEGAN ($14)

Please ensure you are back in time 10 minutes before the start of the next session

Author: Aji Sofanudin, Research Center for Religion and Belief

Beragama maslahat merupakan cara beragama yang menghadirkan kebaikan bersama (common good, public interest). Lawan beragama maslahat adalah beragama mafsadat (causing damage, ruin). Beragama maslahat melihat agama sebagai sesuatu yang positif, problem solver, dan spirit untuk kemajuan bangsa. Beragama maslahat adalah beragama yang selaras dengan konsensus berbangsa: Pancasila, UUD 1945, NKRI, dan Bhinekka Tunggal Ika. Agama yang menjadi solusi atas berbagai persoalan bangsa, bukan sebaliknya. Beragama maslahat penting sebagai strategi untuk menyongsong Indonesia emas 2045.
 
 Buku Inovasi dan Beragama Maslahat: Menuju Indonesia Emas 2045 menghadirkan diskusi awal tentang dua hal, yakni inovasi beragama dan beragama maslahat. Inovasi beragama dimaknai sebagai kebaruan dalam pemikiran dan praktik beragama yang dilandasi semangat perubahan untuk kemaslahatan bersama. Berbagai bentuk inovasi (termasuk cara beragama) bertujuan untuk menjadi landasan kamajuan bangsa. Kebijakan ”beragama maslahat” ini potensial dapat menjadi program payung, menyempurnakan kebijakan ”moderasi beragama” dalam 10 tahun pemerintahan Jokowi.
 
Buku ini diharapkan dapat menjadi bacaan untuk para mahasiswa dan dosen agama, sarjana agama, tokoh agama, periset bidang sosial keagamaan, serta sivitas akademika di UIN, IAIN, dan perguruan tinggi keagamaan, serta stakeholders lainnya. Buku ini juga dapat menjadi rujukan penting bagi para pengambil kebijakan di Kementerian Agama RI terkait tata kelola agama di Indonesia.

Please join Dr Graeme MacRae and Professor Thomas Reuter to launch their book Small Farmers for Global Food Security: The Demise and Reinvention of Moral Ecologies in Indonesia (2024) available now from Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Food systems in Indonesia, as in most developing countries, have experienced major transformations in the course of agriculture modernisation. This has led to a loss of once healthy human diets and eco-systems, as well as a decline in social cohesion and long term food security. Our detailed ethnographic research over the past decade, mainly in Java and Bali but also in East Timor and India, informs this volume. It documents this decline but also the recent rise of bottom-up initiatives to revive small farming, sustainable production methods, and community-based distribution systems. A growing movement of farmers in Asia and beyond rejects the dominant paradigm of aggressive capitalist development, and supports the re-creation of food systems based on what we refer to as moral ecology — that is, the notion that food is a common good rather than for profit, and needs to be produced without harming the natural environment. Small farmers such as these already feed two thirds of humanity with one third of agricultural land. With proper support, we argue, they could feed the entire world, using fully sustainable and socially responsible approaches to reverse biodiversity loss and curb world hunger.

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About the editors:

This panel explores the dynamic role of art and social initiatives in fostering solidarity across diverse communities in Indonesia. Examining four unique practice-led studies, the discussion spans from refugee support networks to inclusive art spaces, long-term socially engaged art practice in an urban area, and hydro-social relationships. Each study provides insights into how art and grassroots efforts address pressing socio-political and environmental issues. The panel highlights Muslim volunteers' work in refugee solidarity networks, inclusive curatorial practices that engage visually impaired spectators, an art collective's sustained community engagement through socially-engaged practices, and hydro-socially engaged art that reimagines human-water interactions along the Cikapundung River. Together, these presentations reveal how cultural, social, and ecological practices intertwine, offering frameworks for sustained dialogue with complex social and environmental challenges while underscoring art's capacity to inspire meaningful social impact in Indonesia.

Note this event is not located at Melbourne Connect.
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room 106 located on level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.

What is the influence of global health initiatives on national attention to the health and well-being of Indonesia’s population? How do local actors navigate challenges in maintaining resources, managing bureaucratic systems, and meeting accountability and audit demands imposed by these initiatives? This panel addresses these questions through findings from two months of ethnographic research on stunting intervention programs in three locations: Padang (West Sumatra), Semarang (Central Java), and Manggarai (East Nusa Tenggara). It examines development planners’ political interests in using digital information systems for stunting reduction and explores local responses to these digital bureaucratic technologies as a lens to assess their empowerment effects in ensuring equitable health access for marginalized communities often excluded from health digitalization processes. By addressing themes of governance systems, health metrics, development actors, and the emotional dimensions of global health implementation, the panel provides insights into contemporary development in Indonesia.

This break is the conclusion of ICOC Day 2 for paper presentations.
Following this break the Indonesia Council will host their awards and networking event (paid members only, register separately).

Note this event is not located at Melbourne Connect.
For registered paid Indonesia Council members only (see: https://www.indonesiacouncil.org/membership)

You're invited to join the Indonesia Council for a social networking event.  More about the Indonesia Council
Indonesia Council will host a members-only networking event at ICOC 2025. More information on our website.
This event will also include a Public Award Ceremony for the two winners of the inaugural Indonesia Council Postgraduate Bursary Prize.

Registrations have now closed.  If you have any questions please contact Dr Monika Winarnita via email (monika.winarnita@unimelb.edu.au) 

Some light snacks available - sponsored by Indonesia Forum. 
Location: Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room 106 located on level 1 of the Sidney Myer Asia Centre.