Indigenous knowledge research is an emerging field with immense potential to address domestic and regional challenges across Indonesia. Indigenous knowledge research typically addresses issues of environmental sustainability and cultural diversity through localised knowledge traditions practiced across generations. Yet Indigenous knowledge research is also thoroughly interdisciplinary and builds global connections between diverse peoples and places. This is exemplified by collaborative research projects connecting academics and Indigenous communities in Australia and Indonesia. 

By profiling several research projects that sustain relationships between Australia and Indonesia, the roundtable will explore the significance of Indigenous knowledge research within various cultural, social and political settings. We ask how Indigenous knowledge research might inform local and regional challenges, and explore applied methodologies that can enhance research across a range of disciplines and contexts. 

Themes explored by the roundtable include: 

·       The significance of Indigenous knowledge for tourism and sustainable ecology.

·       Developing Indigenous data governance protocols for legacy and new Indigenous research data, focusing on the relationship between Yolŋu people of Arnhem Land and the Makassans.
·       Post-1907 Australia-Indonesia cultural encounters, focusing on Yolngu and Makassan artists.

·       Arts and art education approaches to research on maritime Indigenous knowledge in Sulawesi.

·       Indigenous knowledge and practices of reconciliation in Eastern Indonesia.

·       Intersections between religious studies, Indigenous narratives and law.