'THE AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA RELATIONSHIP: JAKARTA'S PERSPECTIVE', Dr Rizal Sukma

Hosted by: AIIA QLD

The event will start on: Tuesday, 31 August 2010 6:00 PM

And will end on: Tuesday, 31 August 2010 7:00 PM

At Harris Terrace, Brisbane

46 George Street , Brisbane Queensland

    qld.branch@aiia.asn.au

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THE AUSTRALIA-INDONESIA RELATIONSHIP: JAKARTA'S PERSPECTIVE

Dr Rizal Sukma

Dr Rizal Sukma is one of Indonesia’s foremost foreign policy scholars and in 2009 Foreign Policy magazine announced Rizal as one of the top 100 global thinkers ‘for pushing a radical new view of Indonesia’s role in the world’. Rizal is the Executive Director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS Jakarta), one of Jakarta’s pre-eminent strategic think-tanks and a key actor in Indonesia’s security and foreign policy formulation. Rizal will share his insights with the AIIIA on how the Australia-Indonesia bilateral relationship is viewed in Jakarta, the impact of democratisation on Indonesia’s relationship with Australia, and what lies ahead for the future of the relationship in the context of broader developments in East Asia.

In addition to his capacity as Executive Director CSIS, Rizal is also the Chairman of International Relations Division, Central Executive Board of Muhammadiyah (second largest Islamic organisation in Indonesia with approximately 25 million members); member of the board at Syafii Maarif Institute for Culture and Humanity; a visiting lecturer at Department of International Relations at Muhammadiyah University - Malang; and a member of the National Committee for the Strategic Defence Review, Indonesia's Ministry of Defence. He received his PhD degree in international relations from the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), United Kingdom in 1997. Rizal is the author of numerous papers and reports, and has published in several journals and other internationally circulated publications.