4th International Indonesia Forum: Enriching Future Generations, Education Promoting Indonesian Self-Development

The International Indonesia Forum is a platform based on mutual cooperation and interaction of scholars from various disciplines, universities and nations coming together to share their work around a central theme related to Indonesia. The third Forum held in Yogyakarta State University, 27-28 June 2011. More than 85 students, academician/ lecturer/ researcher attendant this two days forum seminar.

This Forum sponsored by Yale University and Yogyakarta State University (Uiversitas Negeri Yogyakarta), focus on education in Indonesia. The topic approached by scholars of various disciplines from diverse angles. The papers are exploring all aspects of the unique mix that shapes Indonesia today as education serves as a tool that can be applied to make people into better citizens, parents, businessmen, artists, and politicians in the Indonesian nation-state framework.

Conference Organizers are Yale University, Yogyakarta State University, University of Brunei Darusallam, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. Yogyakarta State University as a host and venue. Cooperating Institutions are Social and Political Sciences Faculty of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University, Indonesian History Studies Centre of Sanata Dharma University, and Social and Political Sciences Faculty of Diponegoro University

As academic forum, this moment is best chance for CCFD and Institut Dayakology to sharing our experience on peace building through education.

CCFD and Institut Dayakology represented by Nicolas Césard and Edi Petebang to share peace building project through education  on this conference. Nicolas is evaluator for CCFD’s peace building project in West Kalimantan. Nicolas is a PhD (2009) from EHESS-Paris (France). He is a cultural anthropologist specializing in ecological and environmental anthropology. Currently affiliated with the EHESS-IRIS and with the National Museum of Natural History. Edi Petebang is members of peace building team in Institut Dayakologi; former project director of the peace building project in Institut Dayakologi.

The Conference devided into 10 panel Seminars, as follow:

1. Enriched Through Culture
2. Critical Approaches To Educatoin
3. Education and Politics
4. Identities and Reconstruction
5. Religion, Media and Education
6. Roots and Identities
7. Values and Islam
8. Women and Education
9. Economics, Politics and Ethics
10. Self-Development and Social Justice

Four resource persons presenting their paper in each panel seminar. One resources in 15 minutes.  Nicolas and Edi having their presentation on 27 Juni 2011 at 01.00-03.00 PM.

Presenter/ resources persons coming from various subject and university, such as Nahiyah Jaidi Faraz, Yogyakarta State University, “"Women Empowerment through Entrepreneurship education: a science-based batik home industry in Yogyakarta Indonesia", Andrew Carruthers, Yale University, "On the Accreditation of 'Local content': notes toward an ethnography of local language pedagogy in Makassar, Indonesia"; I Nyoman Sedana, Indonesia Institute of the Arts, Denpasar, "Village and School Dalang Training Education and Management"; Jennifer Goodlander, University of Kentucky, "Local Traditions and National Identity: Studying Balinese Performing Arts in the 21st Century".

Others coming from University of Brunei Darussalam, Universiti Utara Malaysia, University of Sydney, Singapore National University, University of Delhi, Leiden University, Gadjah Mada University, University of Michigan, Maryland University, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Western Sydney, VU Amsterdam University, TU Dortmund University, McGill University, Jenderal Soedirman University.*

(Note: for my documentation)