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ACICIS Mailing List

ACICIS operates an email mailing list to ex-ACICIS students and other interested individuals. If you would like to be included, please contact the ACICIS secretariat acicis@murdoch.edu.au

If you're on Friendster (the online networking service of choice for most Indonesians), there's also a Keluarga ACICIS group for staying in touch with past students and friends of ACICIS.

The Lestari Widyastuti Scholarship

Late in 2007, after the untimely death of our good friend Lestari Widyastuti there was some talk of setting up a scholarship in her name. ACICIS has been working on this idea and we are now in the process of setting up THE LESTARI WIDYASTUTI SCHOLARSHIP.

We hope to raise money to endow the scholarship with sufficient funds so that the interest each year is enough to pay the tuition fees of an Indonesian student studying at UGM. Using only the interest and not the principal will ensure that the scholarship continues in perpetuity.

Darmasiswa Scholarships

DARMASISWA is a scholarship program offered to all foreign students from countries with which Indonesia has friendly relations, to study Indonesian language, arts, music and crafts as well as other courses at any universities in Indonesia.

The main purpose of the Darmasiswa program is to arouse and foster interest in the language and culture of Indonesia among citizens of friendly countries. It has also been designed to reciprocate scholarship programs provided by other countries for Indonesian citizens and provide stronger cultural links with these nations.

Target of Darmasiswa Program will be increased each year as follows:

   1. Year of 2007       =        500    students
   2. Year of 2008       =        750    students
   3. Year of 2009       =      1,000    students
   4. Year of 2010       =      2,000    students
   5. Year of 2011       =      3,000    students
   6. Year of 2012       =      4,000    students
   7. Year of 2013       =      5,000    students
   8. Year of 2014       =      7,500    students
   9. Year of 2015       =    10,000    students

Ozmate - the Australian Alumni Network

Australian - Indonesia Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP)

AIYEP invites applications from young people aged between 21 and 25 years (at the time of application), willing to represent Australia for two months in Indonesia. The program aims to provide wider opportunities for young people from Indonesia and Australia to appreciate the culture, development and way of life of each other's country. A good level of Indonesian language is desirable.

Australian Volunteers International

Australian Volunteers International is always looking for competent Indonesian speakers to work on various projects in Indonesia. Pioneered more than 50 years ago by Australian Indonesianist Herb Feith, who travelled to Jakarta in 1951 to work alongside Indonesians as they dealt with the issues of independence, Australian Volunteers International is now the nation's largest and most experienced international volunteer-sending agency. Read a brochure from AVI about volunteering in-country in Indonesia.

Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development

The Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) Program is an Australian government, AusAid initiative which supports skilled young Australians who want to live, work and make a difference in the Asia Pacific region.

Peace Brigades International

Peace Brigades International (PBI) has field volunteers currently working in Aceh, Papua and Jakarta, working with Indonesian civil society organisations to help support their efforts toward creating a peaceful and just Indonesia. PBI is currently looking to expand its peace education activities in several regions and is constantly looking for Indonesian language competent volunteers willing to spend up to 18 months in Indonesia. Check out the PBI website for more details.

International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID)

The International NGO Forum on Indonesian Development (INFID) in Jakarta is always looking for people to help with their campaigns, for research, translating and basically furthering the cause to alleviate structural poverty and improve conditions of the poor and the disadvantaged in Indonesia. INFID is a network of NGOs from Indonesia and overseas with an interest in and commitment to Indonesia. Since 1985, INFID has given critical input and recommendations to concerning development issues in Indonesia.

Gamelan Orchestra at Murdoch University

The Pendopo Peace Pavilion at Murdoch University was opened in November 2002 to house an 80-piece Gamelan orchestra, presented to Western Australia by its sister state of East Java. Current Murdoch students and ex-ACICIS students are members of the group whose aim is to promote Indonesian culture by giving gamelan performances to the general public. Murdoch also offers workshops for local school children from Indonesian and music classes. This innovative and exciting project could not have happened without the support of the WA Lotteries Commission, Clough Engineering, Petrosea and individual donations

Prime Ministerial visit

The Prime Minister of Australia, Mr John Howard, and the Australian Ambassador to Indonesia visited Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, in 2002, meeting with ACICIS students and staff at a reception - read more...

Reminder

Applications to study with ACICIS in Indonesia close on 1 October and 1 May for the following semester. For more information and application packs - please contact the ACICIS Secretariat acicis@murdoch.edu.au or you can download them from the Forms/Brochures page of this website.