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Introducing the ACICIS teamACICIS Resident Director
Dr King is a former ACICIS student who completed one year of in-country study in 1998-1999, when he conducted fieldwork for his honours thesis on the role of political security organisations in the 1998 parliamentary elections. After studying Thai language at Prince of Songkhla University in Pattani, southern Thailand, he completed his PhD at the University of Wollongong examining the history of regional development initiatives in the northern Straits region, focusing on the Thailand-Malaysia borderlands in particular. Prior to taking up the appointment as ACICIS Resident Director in 2005, he balanced field research in Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand with teaching commitments in the University of Wollongong's Department of History and Politics and the Department of Asian Studies at Sydney University. Phil, a keen surfer, is thoroughly enjoying his return to Yogya as Resident Director, spending the weekends getting hopelessly lost along the beautiful southern Java coastline. He can be contacted by email at acicis.indonesia@gmail.com - for general information, please contact the ACICIS secretariat first. ACICIS Consortium Director
The Consortium Director and Founder of ACICIS is Professor David T Hill. Prof Hill heads the Asian Studies Program at Murdoch University in Perth, where he is a Fellow of the Asia Research Centre for Social, Political and Economic Change. His research interests are in Indonesian media, literature, biography, and cultural politics, and he is a NAATI-accredited professional English-Indonesian interpreter and translator. In 2009 Professor Hill was awarded a National Teaching Fellowship by the Australian Learning and Teaching Council.
ACICIS JPP Project Officer
Louise Williams is former foreign correspondent, columnist, and foreign editor for the Sydney Morning Herald. She now lectures in journalism at the University of Technology, Sydney, is a contributing Leader writer for the Sydney Morning Herald, and works as an international communications consultant, with a special interest in Asia and new media. She spent more than a decade as a foreign correspondent for Fairfax newspapers (the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, Melbourne) based in Manila, Bangkok and Jakarta, and continues to travel regularly in the region. Louise has written or contributed to a number of books on regional issues and was the recipient of an Australia Council Asia Pacific Writers' Fellowship. Louise won a Walkley Award for Excellence in Journalism and the Citibank Pan Asia Journalism Award (in conjunction with Columbia University) for her work as a foreign correspondent. Read a larger bio of Louise. ACICIS DSPP Project Coordinator
Dr Rosser is a political economist who works on development issues in Southeast Asia, especially Indonesia and Timor Leste. His main research interests are the resource curse, the dynamics of economic policy-making, development in ‘fragile states’, corporate governance, and aid effectiveness. He has worked for AusAID and acted as a consultant to the World Bank, the UK’s Department for International Development, the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, Oxfam, UNRISD, UNDP, and Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, among other organisations. ACICIS ILTI Academic Coordinator
He has been visiting Indonesia for 38 years, as a diplomat, researcher, historian, visiting lecturer, beach comber and project manager. He has lived in Indonesia for eleven years, and worked at four Indonesian universities. He was a founding lecturer in the Australian Studies program at Universitas Indonesia in the 1980s. He had a three-year stretch at Universitas Gadjah Mada and Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang in the 1990s, as resident director for the ACICIS program. He has written on Indonesian politics, Indonesian language, and Australian-Indonesian relations. David retired from his position at UNSW in July 2006. Prof Reeve has great experience in the development of Indonesian language tertiary teaching materials and curriculum design, and LOTE teacher education requirements. His experience includes head of the materials development section of the Teaching Indonesian as a Foreign Language TIFL project 1992-1994, the’ CAUT Independent Listening materials project for Indonesian, 1994-1995; the DEET ILOTES dissemination of TIFL project materials project in 1995, the Nalsas Indonesian videos project 1996-1998, teacher training for the NSW LOTE teachers at UTS in the 1990s, and training for NSW community schools teachers in the mid-1990s. ACICIS International Relations Project Officer Colin has worked at a number of Australian and Indonesian universities, most recently Curtin University of Technology in Perth, where he was Dean of the Faculty of Media, Society and Culture. His research and teaching interests are focused on modern Indonesian history and politics. His most recent publications have examined the growing relationship between Indonesia and Russia in the defence field, and the role of sport in Indonesian social history. He is a NAATI accredited Professional level translator and interpreter between the Indonesian and English languages. Currently based in the Department of International Relations at Parahyangan, Colin may be contacted at acicis.bandung@gmail.com for specific inquiries about the International Relations Program. General inquiries about ACICIS should be directed to the Secretariat in Perth.
ACICIS Secretariat Manager
The Secretariat's Administrative Officer is currently David Armstrong. David completed a year with ACICIS at UGM in 2002 and another year at Universitas Muhammadiyah Malang in 2006. While in Malang David did his second semester field research on tourist visitor levels at archaelogical sites in East Java. He takes photos of Indonesian signs and symbols. If you are interested in applying for any of the ACICIS programs, please contact David at acicis@murdoch.edu.au and he will be happy to help.
ACICIS Secretariat Development Officer
Claire still misses walking through the streets of Yogya to the sounds of 'Halo Mister!!!' and being able to find tasty food at various warung which are openall hours of the night. Feel free to read more about her 'Indo experience' here and here! See some of Claire's photos from Indonesia. ACICIS Secretariat Officer
ACICIS Media Officer
ACICIS Yogyakarta ILTI Project Officer
ACICIS Yogyakarta Administrative Officer
ACICIS Yogyakarta Program Assistant
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A vital part of the support that ACICIS provides to students in-country is the full-time ACICIS Resident Director. The RD oversees the provision of academic and pastoral advice to students, liaises with Indonesian authorities and universities, and generally makes sure that ACICIS programs run smoothly. The current Resident Director is Dr Phil King, who lives in Yogyakarta in the staff housing compound of Gadjah Mada University.
The Consortium Director is responsible for the overall management of ACICIS, chairing the Reference Group which determines ACICIS policy.
The JPP Project Officer is Ms Louise Williams.
Dr Andrew Rosser, of the University of Adelaide, is the Project Coordinator for the exciting new study option being developed by ACICIS called the Development Studies Professional Practicum.
Associate Professor David Reeve is the ACICIS
ILTI Academic Coordinator. 
Colin Brown is the Project Officer for the International Relations Program to be introduced in 2010. This semester-long program, taught in English, will be offered in collaboration with Parahyangan University in Bandung, the capital of West Java province.
The ACICIS Secretariat is located at
The Secretariat's Development Officer is Claire Harding. Claire completed a year with ACICIS at UGM in 2003 and then went back in 2004/05 to study at UNY. Claire holds a first class Honours degree (2006) from The University of Western Australia. She was very fortunate to have A/Prof. Lyn Parker as her supervisor. Her thesis, ‘Adolescent Sexual and Reproductive Health in Indonesia: Investing in the Future?,' explores the change in attitude, ideas and behaviours towards sex and sexuality that has been occurring among a significant proportion of the Indonesian youth population, in the face of globalisation and modernisation. She recently had an article on this topic published in Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific. You can read it at: 
Rachelle Cole is the Secretariat Officer at the ACICIS Secretariat in Perth. Rachelle studied for two semesters in Yogyakarta and Malang with ACICIS in 2007/2008. She completed the East Java field study option in her second semester and spent most of her time in a small village on the slopes of Gunung Arjuna. Rachelle recently completed her Arts (International Relations) / Asian Studies (Indonesian Specialist) degree at the Australian National University in Canberra and has now moved to Perth to work with ACICIS, and to be closer to Indonesia. She looks after all full semester programs for ACICIS. Rachelle has worked at the Australian Council for International Development and completed a three-month internship with Oxfam Australia working on their International Youth Partnerships Program. She can’t wait to get back to Yogya for some sup buah and a ride on her old motor. 
Megan McPherson is the Media Officer in the ACICIS Secretariat. Megan spent a semester in Yogyakarta with ACICIS in 2008. Meg is responsible for creating the videos that are up on the ACICIS website. She is in her fourth and final year of a Double Degree in Asian Studies and Media and Information, majoring in Indonesian and Film and Television, at Curtin University in Perth. After growing up on a farm in country South Australia, Meg moved to the big city of Perth to follow her two passions at university. Living in Yogya opened up many opportunities for Meg and she hopes to return in the near future. She can't wait to indulge in the food in Indonesia once more, especially tempe and nasi bakar.
Elena Williams is ACICIS’ Yogyakarta
ILTI Project Officer, and was an ‘anak ACICIS’ in 2005. She holds a BA Communications
(Writing) and International Studies (Indonesian) degree from The University of
Technology, Sydney, and recently graduated with First Class Honours from The
University of Sydney. Her thesis, ‘Transnational feminism and labour organising:
the case of Gabungan Serikat Buruh Independen’, examines the
collaboration between international NGOs and Indonesian trade unions, and the
impact of their gender programs on women union members. She has worked as a
translator and interpreter for Oxfam Australia, as a Research Assistant to Dr
Michele Ford in the Indonesian Studies Department at The University of Sydney,
and in the summer of 2007/ 2008, participated in the 26th Australia-Indonesia
Youth Exchange Program (AIYEP) in Lombok, NTB. When she’s not helping to organise the new ILTI program, she’s most likely eating a bowl of
soto ayam, drinking an es jeruk and listening to the sound of the suara azan at dusk
Sinta Sulistianingsih Padmi (everybody
calls her Sinta) is the ACICIS Program Assistant in Yogyakarta. She lives on the north side of Yogya in Kaliurang,
a beautiful small town on the lower slopes of Mount Merapi. She has lived in Kaliurang
for her whole life with her parents and two sisters. Previous to working with
ACICIS she studied in the English Department, Faculty of Cultural Sciences, Gadjah
Mada University. She completed her undergraduate degree in August 2007 with a
major in literature, helping out ACICIS students along the way as a tutor at the
Inculs language centre. She likes reading books, especially comic books and novels,
as well as travelling and listening to the music. 
Muhammad Fikri is ACICIS Yogyakarta's Program Assistant. He completed his undergraduate degree in May 2009, majoring in Communications Studies in the Faculty of Social and Political Siences at Gadjah Mada University. In 2006, during his involvement with the Peace Generation Community, which has been working in cooperation with US NGO, The American Friend Service Committee (AFSC), Fikri became a guest speaker at the International Peace Issues Training Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand. In 2008 he was also awarded a place on The International Development Program's Peace Scholarship Program in Australia which allowed him to study at The University of Canberra for one semester. He describes himself as a "simple social butterfly" as he frequently engages in social media such as blogs and micro-blogging. Originally from Palembang, South Sumatra, Fikri has been living in Yogyakarta for more than five years and loves pempek (fish cake), Palembang's famous dish.