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During her in country experience with ACICIS in 2004, Ms Parsons spent 6 months completing her field study in an Islamic boarding school. She then spent time working in Jakarta for AusAID on their Learning Assistance Program for Islamic Schools (LAPIS) before completing her Asian Studies degree at ANU in 2006. She was recently appointed Associate Director of the Asian Law Group, a private legal consultancy focused on legal reform and development in Asia.
Jemma is currently completing a Masters of Public and International Law at the University of Melbourne where she also works in the Asian Law Centre as a Principal Research Assistant to Professor Tim Lindsey's ARC Federation Fellowship. Part of this role includes managing a DFAT-funded project that aims to support Indonesia's State Islamic universities develop aspects of their law curricula.
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Since completing ACICIS in 1996, Ms Lochore has been instrumental in facilitating better teaching and learning outcomes in the Indonesian Curriculum. She completed a Bachelor of Arts in Communications Studies with First Class Honours and a Bachelor of Asian Studies, majoring in Indonesian, at Murdoch University. After working as an Administrative Officer for ACICIS in 1998, Laura completed her Graduate Diploma in Education at Murdoch and then spent several years teaching Indonesian at two secondary schools. Laura worked as a TEE Examiner for seven years before undertaking a position as project officer with the Curriculum Council for the Indonesian Course in 2006. Currently she is employed as a Curriculum Writer at the Department of Education and Training Western Australia (DETWA) where she is responsible for developing online multimedia learning resources for Indonesian.
Laura is a member of the Indonesian Assessment Review and Moderation Panel, Secretary of Balai Bahasa Indonesia, Perth and a member of the Modern Language Teacher’s Association. She was awarded various LOTE Special Projects Grants for developing viewing materials for Indonesian (2006), for the integration of LOTE and Technology (2004) and for Listening Materials (2002). She has presented at numerous professional development conferences in Indonesia and Australia as well as attended key workshops on Intercultural Language Learning.
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Mr Luke Arnold was awarded his Bachelor of Arts -including a semester at Gadjah Mada with ACICIS in 2001- from the University of Melbourne in 2001. He received his Bachelor of Laws with first class honours from the University of Melbourne in 2005, followed by a Postgraduate Certificate in Legal Practice, Skills and Ethics from Monash University in 2007. During his studies, Luke worked as a part-time research assistant at the Asian Law Centre at the University of Melbourne, tutored Indonesian graduate students and worked as a consultant for the International Labour Organisation (ILO) in Jakarta.
After completing his Master of Laws in Law, Development and Governance with Distinction, from the University of London in 2008, Luke took up a position as Policy Officer in the Indonesia and East Timor Branch with AusAID, in Canberra. Luke has also held a number of voluntary positions including guest lecturer in numerous Indonesian Universities, translator for the Timor Leste Judicial System Monitoring Programme in Dili, and the Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program in 2001.
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Mr Pluckhahn is a Senior Exploration Geologist who completed his Bachelor of Science with Honours, majoring in Geology, at Adelaide University. He obtained a Bachelor of Arts, majoring in Asian Studies from The University of Western Australia in 2002 after spending 6 months studying in Yogyakarta in 2001 with ACICIS. Mr Pluckhahn's current 8 years of field work sees him experienced in the exploration of greenstone belt gold deposits, along with the resource development of iron ore within Western Australia. His career has also included previous international field experience exploring for island arc gold and copper deposits based in Indonesia and the Philippines.
For the past two years Dean has been working in Indonesia as a Senior Geologist for Oropa Ltd, developing a gold exploration target to mining in Sumatra. Before working for Oropa, Dean worked for Aurora Gold on a gold mine exploration project in Kalimantan. He also worked as an Exploration Geologist for Fortesque Metals Group in 2005 and for Atlas Iron as a Senior Geologist in 2006. Mr Pluckhahn is a current member of the Australian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM).
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Ms Kate O’Shaughnessy completed a Bachelor of Arts with Honours at the University of Western Australia in 1997. She conducted field research in Yogyakarta during 2004, for her PhD on women, marriage and divorce in central Java 1974 – 2004 (this was published as a monograph with Routledge in 2009). Kate’s research entailed interviews with women who had experienced divorce- NGO workers, Religious and State Court officials and judges, and archival research encompassing examination of around 150 unpublished records of divorce cases from the religious and state courts, as well as media reports and literature. After being awarded her PhD from the University of Western Australia in 2007, Kate entered the Graduate Trainee Program with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in 2007 where she is currently employed.
Kate will take up a three year posted position of Third Secretary, Australian High Commission in Accra, Ghana, from November 2009. Kate’s experiences in Indonesia have demonstrated her abilities to conduct research, to adapt to an unfamiliar cultural situation and develop professional networks in a challenging environment. This experience (including language abilities) was critical to obtaining an initial position at DFAT, and subsequently to proving her suitability for a posting at a small Australian embassy in West Africa.
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Ms Saarah Jappie completed her in country study with ACICIS in 2006. In 2007 she studied Indonesian Studies at The Australian National University (ANU) and achieved first-class Honours for her thesis on Indonesian Islamic Popular Culture.
Saarah spent time at the University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, carrying out research on the Jawi Manuscript Tradition of Cape Town, as part of the Tombouctou Mss Project. Currently she is studying her Masters at UCT, under the Harry Crossley Fellowship. Her research focuses on contemporary trans-Indian Ocean links between the Cape and the Malay-Indonesian world. |
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Mr David Richardson graduated from the University of the Sunshine Coast with a Bachelor of Arts in 2006 having spent a semester studying at the University of Gadjah Mada under ACICIS in 2005. He was awarded a Darmasiswa Plus Indonesian Government Scholarship to carry out part time Indonesian Language Study and part time English Language teaching in Yogyakarta in 2006-2007. David spent some time teaching English at REAL English before becoming the Managing Director of Surfindo, a management consultancy firm with management rights to Rantung Beach Hotel, West Sumbawa.
David is currently completing his Graduate Diploma of International Relations by distance with Deakin University in Melbourne- specialising in Human Rights and International Law. For the past two years, he has worked at the Northern Immigration Detention Centre (IDC) in Darwin, where client population is predominately illegal foreign fishers from Indonesia. David is responsible for maintaining facility security, monitoring client welfare and liaising between clients and external agencies like DIAC, Customs, State and Federal Police.
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Since completing her ACICIS semester, Ms Sophie Crouch has had a continued connection with Indonesia. Fascinated by the linguistic diversity of Indonesia, she completed a BA with joint honours in Indonesian and Linguistics at the University of Western Australia in 2006. Sophie obtained her Master of Linguistics from the same institution in 2009, during which time she was awarded an Australian Postgraduate Award to conduct a research project and write a dissertation about Minangkabau, an under-documented language spoken in West Sumatra. The project involved spending several months in the field in Sumatra where she collected language data in collaboration with the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology linguistic field station at Bung Hatta University in Padang. Through her research Sophie hopes to help preserve and document the many colloquial and non-standard varieties of Indonesian as well as the minority and endangered languages spoken in Indonesia.
Some of Sophie’s publications include ‘Voice and verb morphology in Minangkabau, a language of West Sumatra, Indonesia (MA Thesis, University of Western Australia 2008), ‘Active and Passive Voice in Minangkabau: Some Preliminary Findings’ UWA Linguistics Working Papers, 1: 25-49. 2007. She has also presented several papers such as ‘Wah, deh: The Pragmatic Particles of Colloquial Indonesian’ which was presented at the Third Conference on Austronesian Languages and Linguistics at SOAS in London and at Beyond Focus and Ergativity: Towards a More Comprehensive View of Austronesian Morphosyntax, 13th-15th September, ZAS, in Berlin.
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Mr David McRae studied in Yogyakarta and Malang under ACICIS in 1998. He was awarded a Bachelor of Asian Studies with Honours from the Australian National University and wrote his PhD there on the Poso conflict in Central Sulawesi. Between 2004-2006 David worked for the International Crisis Group in Jakarta as a consultant and analyst, where he conducted field research and designed and wrote policy focussed reports on violent conflict situations in five key sites of conflict in Indonesia. Some of his other Indonesian achievements include working on the editorial team for Inside Indonesia and being a long term observer for the 2004 presidential election for Carter Centre. He has also published widely on violent conflict, written feature articles and opinion pieces for the media on piracy in Indonesia and Malaysia, the death penalty, corruption and conflict, the student movement and press freedom, and he was the recipient of the ANU University medal for Asian Studies.
David currently lives in Makassar and works as a consultant for the Conflict and Development Team of the World Bank in Indonesia. He has lead the design, preparation, implementation and write-up of the research and evaluation studies financed through the ‘Supporting Post Conflict Development in Indonesia’ PCF grant.
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Mr Luke Russell completed a joint Bachelor of Arts (Asian Studies) and Bachelor of Commerce at Curtin University in 2000 after studying in country with ACICIS in 1998. He was awarded a Master of Applied Econometrics from Monash University in 2008 and is currently working for the OCBC Bank in Singapore in Market Risk Management.
Previously Luke was employed with the Department of Defence as a Procurement Manager, as an analyst for the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and as a statistical analyst for Worksafe Victoria.
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Ms Sally-Anne Henfry completed a Bachelor of Arts at Murdoch University in 1998. She was awarded her Master of International Studies from Griffith University in 2001. After working as an English Language teacher in London and Brisbane, Sally entered the AusAID graduate training program in Canberra in 2002. She worked as a program officer in the East Timor section of AusAID, coordinating Australia’s contribution to the multi-donor Trust Fund for East Timor and the Transition Program supporting post conflict reconstruction and rehabilitation. In 2005, Sally was posted to the Australian Embassy in Jakarta where she coordinated the design and implementation of the Australia Indonesia Basic Education Program- supporting the construction of 2000 junior secondary schools across Indonesia.
Currently Sally is based in Jakarta as the Operations Officer for the Community Conditional Cash Transfer Program at the World Bank. She coordinates support for the Government of Indonesia’s implementation of the National Program for Community Empowerment known as ‘PNPM Generasi’.
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Ms Siaan Ansori was awarded her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Sydney in 2001 and went on to complete a Master of Arts in Asian Studies from the University of New South Wales, in 2002. She was awarded the highest mark for her thesis entitled ‘Australia’s Bilateral Relationships with Asia-Case Studies of Indonesia, China and Singapore’. After obtaining a Post Graduate Language Certificate in Indonesian from the Univeristy of Gadjah Mada in Yogyakarta, Siaan was awarded a Master of Asia-Pacific Studies/ Master of Diplomacy from the Australian National University in 2006. She is currently working as an academic tutor in the Asian Studies Department of the ANU while completing her PhD in Asian Studies under a Faculty Scholarship.
In 2006 Siaan was awarded an Endeavour Malaysia Award to conduct fieldwork in Malaysia and since then has received several grants from the ANU to develop funding proposals. Just recently Siaan was selected to participate in the Japanese Future Business Counterparts from Australia Programme.
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Mr James Sheppard graduated with a Bachelor of Arts/Economics from the University of Western Australia in 2003. He was awarded his Master of Public Policy from the University of Singapore and a Master of Public Administration from the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2008. Currently James is based in France working as a policy analyst for the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) where he has liaised with senior government officials in collecting qualitative data to compile country reactions and comments.
Before working with OECD, James worked at the World Bank in Indonesia for several years, where he coordinated a project to support the modernisation of the Indonesian Ministry of Finance’s budget and treasury systems and managed the development and launch of a disaster reconstruction database for the National Development Planning Agency. He has also spent time working at the Word Bank in The United States of America, at the Revenue Watch Institute in the United Kingdom and Uganda, and as a researcher for the Centre for Budget Policies and Priorities in the USA. James has published several journal articles on budgeting and budget reform.
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Mr Graham Hills is currently based in Singapore working as the Yahoo! Travel Product Manager for Southeast Asia. Graham studied under ACICIS in 1999 and was awarded a Bachelor of Commerce (Tourism Management) in 2001 from Curtin University of Technology. He has a wealth of experience in the tourism industry and won several tourism awards- including the Premier’s Award for Excellence- Jobs and Economic Development in 2006 and the Noel Semmens Western Australia Chapter of PATA Scholarship in 2003.
Graham has worked as an online Production Manager and Marketing Officer as well as for the online Redevelopment Team for Tourism Western Australia. He also spent time working as the Web Content Manager for Octupus Travel.
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Mr Jeremy Stringer completed a Bachelor of Asian Studies at Murdoch University and was awarded his LLB & LLM from Queensland University of Technology. Jeremy taught Indonesian for several years before working as a translator and interpreter in East Timor in 2000-2003. He was then engaged as a program manager with AusAID. Currently he manages the Papua Unit in Jakarta .
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Mr Jarrad Merlo studied under ACICIS in 2005. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and a Graduate Diploma in Education from Deakin University in Melbourne. Jarred obtained his Master of Education in TESOL/LOTE from Southern Cross University and is currently employed as an English teacher at Seol Hwa high school in South Korea. Previously Jarrad taught English at tertiary level, at the age of just 21, where he worked as a support lecturer at Yogyakarta State University.
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Ms Brooke Nolan recently completed her studies with ACICIS in Malang in 2008. She graduated with a Bachelor of Asian Studies with Honours from the University of Western Australia. Since graduating Brooke has worked as an English teacher in China, Thailand, Jakarta and Palembang.
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Ms Katie Coughlan recently graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Indonesian and Russian) from the University of Queensland, where she was awarded the prize for the highest mark in third year advanced Indonesian from the Institute of Modern Languages in 2005. She is currently working as a volunteer with the Australian Volunteers International (AVI) program for LKiS and Islamic NGO with social and research programs. Katie builds capacity for local staff in their English communication skills and assists the expansion of the organisational network through translation of web, dvds and other written materials.
Katie was awarded a certificate of gratitude from Indonesia’s Disaster Relief Agency in 2006, for her assistance in initial emergency response following the Yogyakarta May Earthquake. She coordinated volunteers’ efforts and utilised her advanced language skills to provide vital communication and interpretational skills between victims and emergency medical teams from AusAID, Australia and Germany. Katie was an organisational team member for the Jesuit Refugee Service in Yogyakarta in 2006.
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Ms Sally McDonald studied with ACICIS in 1999. She was awarded her Bachelor of Arts, with Honours, majoring in Political Science and Indonesian in 2000, from the University of New South Wales (UNSW). Sally is currently undertaking a Masters in Journalism at Charles Sturt University while working as a project officer in Asian Relations for the Northern Territory Department of the Chief Minister. In her current role she focuses on Australian government initiatives in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
After her placement as an Australian Youth Ambassador for Development (AYAD) in Timor, where she trained staff in media for the Timorese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Sally went on to work as an Indonesian research officer for the Open Source Collection Branch in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
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Mr John Psilopatis studied in Yogyakarta and Malang with ACICIS in semester 13 in 2001 and semester 14 in 2002. He was awarded a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in International Relations and a Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) from the Australian National University. After working as a Visitor Services Host for the National Museum of Australia in Canberra, John took up a position as a policy officer with the International Group in the Australian Government Department of Education, Employment and Workplace Relations (DEEWR). He is currently on leave from this position, to participate in the Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET), in Osaka, Japan.
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Ms Shingleton participated in the ACICIS Journalist Professional Practicum (JPP) under the auspices of ACICIS with the Jakarta Post in 2009. Following the success of her placement, Julie is currently employed at the Post as a copy editor and contributor. Julie completed a Bachelor of Science Economics in International Relations at the London School of Economics in 1997 and was awarded her Master in War Studies from King’s College, London in 1999. Previously she worked as a freelance journalist for the Financial Times after spending six years in the Australian Financial Services industry.
Julie has published widely on Indonesian current events for the Jakarta Post as well as for Reuters & Agence France Presse in Jakarta. Her article “Indonesia: a democracy decides” was also published in the Guardian Weekly in April 2009.
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After studying at University Gadjah Mada (UGM) with ACICIS in 1998, Ms Smith completed her BA/BEd in LOTE Indonesian and Special Education in 1999, at the University of Queensland. Pamela then taught Indonesian at Tully High School for several years before spending time in the UK working as a Special Needs teacher.
Currently Pamela is completing her Masters of Special Education at Grifith University, while working as the Special Education Teacher and Year 10 Coordinator at Deception Bay High School. Whilst she no longer uses all the language skills she acquired during the ACICIS studies for employment purposes, Pamela believe the personal skills and the cultural knowledge she gained has and continues to be invaluable in both her personal and professional life.
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Ms Inez Mahony obtained her Bachelor of Arts majoring in Journalism and Indonesian Studies from the University of the Sunshine Coast in 2004. She was awarded Honours in 2006 for her noteworthy thesis: A Neighbour’s Perspective: Australia and Indonesia in each other’s media. Ms Mahony was the recipient of the Bachelor of Arts University Medal in 2005 for achieving the highest grade point average, and won the FH Van Naerssen Memorial Prize for Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney in 2007. Inez is currently completing her PhD in Journalism and Communication at the University of Queensland, and her thesis is entitled Constructing Indonesian Islam in the context of the “War on Terror”.
Previously Inez worked as a tutor at the University of the Sunshine Coast- tutoring in a range of media and Indonesian courses. In 2008 she participated in the ACICIS JPP program and worked as a copy editor and translator as Antara Newswire Agency in Jakarta. She has published several articles in Tempo and Inside Indonesia and has presented her thesis topics at conferences in Melbourne, Sydney and Jakarta.
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Ms Alexandra Owens is currently employed at the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) in Canberra. She studied under ACICIS in Malang in Semester 1, 1999 and obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Indonesian Studies, with Honours, from the University of Adelaide and Flinders University. After receiving First Class Honours, she was selected for the AIYEP program in 2000, which is funded by the Australia Indonesia Institute. Alexandra was awarded her LLB, with Honours from the Australian National University and spent time working at the law firm Freehillls.
Ms Owens has previously worked in the Federal Court of Australia and also received a placement to Sri Lanka under the Australian Youth Ambassador Program for Development (AYAD).
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Ms Rebecca Battaglini studied under ACICIS in 1999-2000 and obtained her Bachelor of Asian Studies in Indonesian from the Australian National University. She was awarded her Graduate Diploma in Education from the University of Canberra and is currently a secondary teacher of Indonesian at a senior high school there, where she provides professional learning for Canberra Indonesian Teachers as a network leader through the ACT Department of Education. Rebecca is also focused on building links and programs with the Indonesian Embassy and Canberra Indonesian community.
Prior to teaching Indonesian, Rebecca worked as an Assistant Coordinator for the Australia Indonesian Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP) and as a translator/interpreter for the United Nations Volunteers, East Timor.
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Ms Henderson is currently completing a Bachelor of Journalism at Monash University where she is focusing on Indonesian language, Language Study Abroad, Indonesian for Special Purposes and International Relations. In 2008, Jennifer carried out her internship at Reuters in Jakarta where she conducted interviews in English and Indonesian, researched material for stories and prepared stories for print. Prior to that, Jennifer gained experience reporting at Radio Australia’s Indonesian Service for the ABC as well as Satu Televisi.
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Mr Raymond Webber studied in Yogyakarta and Malang with ACICIS in 2006. He obtained his Bachelor of Science and then a Bachelor of Asian Studies in Indonesian from the Australian National University. He is currently employed as an Indonesia Analyst in the Open Source Branch of ONA in Canberra. In his role he uses the high level language skills he achieved through ACICIS to develop a greater awareness of social and political themes.
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After witnessing the success of the ACICIS program through her son, Ms Margaret Heather decided to follow her son’s footsteps and studied under ACICIS at UGM in 2005. Margaret obtained both a Bachelor of Asian Studies in Indonesian and a Graduate Diploma in Education from the Curtin University of Technology in Western Australia. Margaret is currently employed by the Western Australian Department of Education as a primary school teacher of Indonesian.
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After studying Indonesian at high school in Adelaide, Ms Clare Rawlinson went on to choose it as her sub-major in a Bachelor of Journalism at the University of South Australia, where she is currently enrolled. Clare recently completed a Summer Course of Indonesian at Atma Jaya University in Jakarta and she also participated in a Communications internship at the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR) in Bogor. Clare has experience working at Jonas Photographic Studies in Bandung, as a reporter for The Wire National Current Affairs in Adelaide and has worked with the Oaktree Foundation in India and Bangladesh. Currently she is working as a Communications Manager for the Oaktree Foundation in South Australia.
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Ms Maria Doyle is currently employed as a Curriculum Developer at Curtin University in Perth. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts (majoring in Indonesian and Italian) from the University of Western Australia and a Master of Education from the University of Wollongong. Since graduating, Maria has held various English teaching positions in Indonesia, Japan, Hong Kong, Dubai, the UK and Australia, at both language schools and universities. She is a qualified IELTS examiner and has worked as a teacher trainer with ‘Teach International’ Australasia.
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Mr Tom Reid obtained a Diploma of Modern Languages from the University of Melbourne after studying in Yogyakarta under ACICIS in 2001. He went on to obtain a Law Degree from the University of Melbourne and is currently employed at Kirkland & Ellis LLP, in San Francisco, USA. Tom formerly worked as a lawyer at Allens Arthur Robinson in Melbourne, where he occasionally had the opportunity to use his Indonesian language skills.
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Ms Belinda O’Toole was awarded a Bachelor of Arts/Asian Studies from the Australian National University and studied in Yogyakarta under ACICIS in 1996. After working for many years in the financial services industry, Belinda is transitioning back to Indonesian and is currently completing her Graduate Diploma in Education at the University of New England in order to become a secondary teacher of the language.
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Ms Carla Evans is currently completing a Bachelor of Arts/Science, with majors in Indonesian Studies, Environmental Science and Zoology at The University of Melbourne, where she is a recipient of the Melbourne Abroad Language Scholarship. Carla is currently employed as a graduate Environmental Scientist with GHD and previously worked as an Environmental Consultant with Alpha Environmental. She is a member of the Kulitang Envrionmental NGO , which is based in Yogyakarta.
Carla has also undertaken several volunteer positions including tutoring newly-arrived refuges with SAIL (Sudanese and Australian Integrated Learning) working as a translator for Plan Australia and teaching English in Yogyakarta while completing her study with ACICIS.
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Ms Claire Hadley is currently completing her PhD in Anatomy and Human Biology at the University of Western Australia (UWA) where she works part time as a tutor and demonstrator and has the potential to collaborate with Indonesian Scientists. Claire obtained a Bachelor of Science and a Diploma of Modern Languages (Indonesian) from UWA. Claire has served as a university mentor to international students from Malaysia and Indonesia and has also worked as a teaching assistant for the Facial Reconstruction Labs.
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Mr Michael Walton was awarded a Bachelor of Arts in Indonesian Studies/ Bachelor of Commerce from Curtin University. He is currently based in London working as a Senior Product Manager for a software company where he oversees the UK product acquisition strategy. Previously Michael worked for visitBritain where he helped deliver commercial projects for the UK’s National Tourist Board. His comments on ACICIS are below:
My flight to Yogyakarta in 2000 was my first time on a plane. The nervousness about being so far from home, in a country where I didn’t know anyone, with a language that I only knew the basics of was fairly daunting to say the least.
However the life experiences it taught me, the people I met, the things I learnt, and the fun I had meant I still look back on those 5/6 months as the best I have ever had.
I would recommend highly to any Student to try and complete a semester with ACICIS. I think you will always look back on your time in Indonesian without regrets, and your outcome on life will be far better for the experience.
Admittedly I have not used my Indonesian Language skills having left University in 2003, however I have been living in London for the last 6 years and my ability to adapt to life here, has stemmed from my time studying in Indonesia.
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Ms Jodie Goodman is currently completing her PhD in Asian Studies at Murdoch University. She completed a joint Bachelor of Asian Studies (Specialist) in Indonesian and Bachelor of Arts in Community Development at Murdoch University in 2007. Jodie was awarded the Vice Chancellor’s Commendation for Academic Excellent in 2006 and the Professor ST Leong Memorial Scholarship in 2007. Jodie was also awarded the Michael Booth Prize for Best Honours Thesis in Sustainable Development in 2009 after receiving joint honours in Arts and Asian Studies from Murdoch University in 2008.
After working as a research assistant for Stoneham and Associates- a public health and local government consultant- Jodie spent a year in Denpasar working as a Community Development and Evaluation training assistant for Wahana Kria Putri (WKP) under the VIDA skilled Australian volunteer program, funded by AusAID. Currently Jodie is employed part-time as a project officer for the Public Health Advocacy Institute of WA at the Curtin University of Technology.
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Mr Erin McMahon obtained a Bachelor of International Studies/ Diploma of Indonesian Language from the University of Adelaide before completing a Graduate Diploma in Journalism from Murdoch University. He currently works as a News Editor for the Jakarta Globe.
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Mr Wayne Palmer graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Hons) from the University of Sydney in 2008. He recently completed his PhD in the Department of Indonesian and Malay Studies at the University of Sydney, where he currently works as a research assistant. Wayne has experience in tutoring and teaching at the university. Recently he co-convened an Honours seminar for Indonesian and Malay Studies and he has lectured on a variety of society and culture components of Indonesian and Malay Studies. Wayne also prepared lectures for the Level 2 Indonesian language program and designed the Module 1 of the Level 3 Indonesian language program.
After studying under ACICIS in 2004, Wayne spent a year teaching English at a high school in Semarang, Indonesia. Some of his Indonesian achievements include the University of Sydney Medal for Indonesian Studies (Honours), the Ronald J. Worsley Memorial Prize for Indonesian Studies, an Indonesia Update 2008 Conference Travel Bursary, recipient of the
SEAMELS In-Country Study Scholarship (Indonesia) in 2004 and being selected for the Australia Indonesia Governance research Partnership (AIGRP) Young Scholar’s Workshop in 2008.
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Ms Lauren O’Neil graduated with a Bachelor of Economics and Arts in International Business Economics, Marketing and Indonesian from the University of Western Australia in 2006. She then spent a year working as an intern for the Australian Trade Commission under an Austrade Scholarship. She was responsible for analysing the department’s internal and external capabilities and directing the department towards a more targeted marketing effort. After working on several consultancies for Ernst & Young and PriceWaterhouseCoopers, Lauren entered the Graduate Trainee Program with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT).
Some of Lauren’s voluntary Indonesian achievements include organising the Indonesian Business, Trade and Investment Seminar in 2007, being master of ceremonies and interpreter at various Indonesian government events and contributing to an Indonesian community newspaper.
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Mr Nick Heaney completed a joint Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Asian Studies (Indonesian) at the Australian National University in 2007, during which he incorporated a year of full-time study in both Yogyakarta and Malang. After spending time working as an on-line captioner for the Australian Caption Centre and as a writer for the Canberra Times, Nick learnt how to mix advertising and journalism and found his Indonesian helpful when interviewing foreigners.
More recently Nick has worked on short projects at the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and the Department of Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts. Currently he is employed as a Policy Officer in the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, where he works on radio and television policy.
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