Perspectives: Asia Seminar: ‘lslam and Democracy in Indonesia's Foreign Policy', Dr Rizal Sukma

Hosted by: AIIA QLD, Griffith Asia Institute and the Australian Centre of Asia-Pacific Art

The event will start on: Thursday, 02 September 2010 6:00 PM

And will end on: Thursday, 02 September 2010 8:00 PM

At Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art

Stanley Place, South Bank , Brisbane QLD

07 3735 3730     n.vary@griffith.edu.au

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The Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University and the Australian Centre of Asia Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery and The Australian Institute of International Affairs (AIIA), Queensland branch would like to invite you to

Perspectives: Asia seminar:

‘lslam and Democracy in Indonesia's Foreign Policy: Political Transformation and the Limits of Change’.

By Rizal Sukma, Executive Director, Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)

The move towards democracy and the revival of Islam as a social and political force constitutes two significant developments in Indonesia's domestic politics since the collapse of Suharto's New Order in May 1998. As Indonesia's foreign policy has always been the function of its domestic politics, the effects of these two significant political changes in domestic politics are bound to be felt in foreign policy as well. This talk examines progresses and challenges facing Indonesia in the process of democratisation, the role and the place of Islam in that process, and the extent to which these two domestic factors have influenced Indonesia's foreign policy

Dr Rizal Sukma is one of Indonesia’s foremost foreign policy scholars and in 2009 Foreign Policy magazine recognised him 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. In addition to his role as Executive Director of 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. 
 

* Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank 
* Thursday 2 September 2010
* The doors open at 6.00pm, Seminar from 6:30pm

Guests are welcome to join us for refreshments prior to the seminar.  Places are limited, please book early to avoid disappointment.  

Please RSVP, to Natasha Vary by Monday 30 August on telephone 07 3735 3730 or email n.vary@griffith.edu.au