Indonesia-Australia Dialogue

Hotel Intercontinental, Sydney, 117 Macquarie St, Sydney

Sunday 3 March and Monday 4 March 2013

Biographical Information

Senator The Hon Bob Carr

Minister for Foreign Affairs

Minister for Foreign Affairs from March 2012

Senator for New South Wales

Former Premier of New South Wales (1995-2005)

Has served in a number of ministerial appointments

in New South Wales, including Minister for

Citizenship and Minister for Ethnic Affairs\\

The Hon Julie Bishop MP

Deputy Leader of the Opposition

Deputy Leader of the Liberal Party of Australia

Shadow Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade

Elected to the House of Representatives for Curtin,

Western Australia

Former Minister for Education, Science and Training

(2006-2007)

Dr Hassan Wirajuda

Dewan Pertimbangan Presiden

(The President Advisory

Council)

Former Foreign Minister (2001 – 2009)

Former Director-General of Political Affairs

(2000-01) and former Director of International

Organizations (1993–97) at the Ministry of

Foreign Affairs

Former Ambassador and Permanent

Representative to the United Nations (1998-2000)

Former Ambassador to Egypt (1997-98)

PhD in Juridical Science in International Law

from the University of Virginia (1987)

Ambassador Nadjib Riphat

Kesoema

Indonesian Ambassador to

Australia

Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and the

Republic of Vanuatu.

Former Ambassador to Belgium, Luxembourg and

the European Union

Deputy for Foreign Affairs, Coordinating Ministry

for Political, Legal and Security Affairs of the

Republic of Indonesia (2011-12)

Head of Centre for Education and Training, MFA

(2002-06)

Minister Counsellor (Political) - Indonesian Embassy

Canberra (1999-2002)

Australian Dialogue Participants

John McCarthy AO

National President, Australian

Institute of International Affairs

Former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam, Mexico,

Thailand, the United States of America, Indonesia

and Japan as well as High Commissioner to India

National President of the Australian Institute of

International Affairs

Chairman of the Australia-India Council

Barrister of Law

Qualifications: Bachelor of Laws, MA at Cambridge

University

Waleed Aly

Lecturer, Monash University

Lecturer in Politics, Political and Social Enquiry at

Monash University

Former Head of Public Affairs of the Executive

Committee of the Islamic Council of Victoria

Former solicitor for Maddocks Lawyers until 2007

Explored the mistaken thinking behind ideas of

difference in his 2007 book People Like Us

Host of the Big Ideas show for the ABC and the

Drive program on ABC Radio National

Chris Barnes

Managing Director, Braehead

Advisory

National Vice President, Immediate Past President,

Australia Indonesia Business Council

Advisor, Indonesian Growth Strategy, Commonwealth

Bank of Australia Ltd

Former Director, International Chamber of Commerce

(Australia)

Member of the Business Partnership Group advising

the Australian and Indonesian Governments on the

Indonesia Australia Comprehensive Partnership

Agreement (IA- CEPA)

Rodney Bloom

Executive Director Development,

CSIRO

Appointed to the CSIRO Executive in November

2012

Responsible for growth, international and

development activities at CSIRO

Former Managing Director of Deloitte Innovation

Academy

Larissa Brown

Founder, Centre for

Sustainability Leadership

Currently researching climate change

communications as part of a double Masters at the

London School of Economics and Cambridge

University

Has lectured in sustainability leadership at a number

of Australian universities.

Recipient of a number of awards, including the

Young Environmentalist of the Year in 2008 and

Young Australian of the Year in 2010 (VIC)

Melissa Conley Tyler

National Executive Director,

Australian Institute of

International Affairs

Lawyer

Specialist in conflict resolution, including mediation

negotiation, and peace education

Former Program Manager of the International

Conflict Resolution Centre at the University of

Melbourne, Senior Fellow at Melbourne Law School

Allaster Cox

Assistant Secretary, Indonesia

and Timor Leste, Department of

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Former Australian Ambassador to Vietnam

Former Australian High Commissioner in Brunei

Darussalam (2001-2004)

Former Australian Counselor in Jakarta (1992-1996)

Former Assistant Secretary, Global Issues Branch in

the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Stephen Creese

EGM Corporate Affairs,

Newcrest Mining Limited

Appointed Newcrest General Counsel and Company

Secretary in November 2009

Former General Counsel of Rio Tinto Limited (1995-

2008) and former Managing Director of Rio Tinto

Australia

Independent Chair of the National Employment

Services Association (NESA) and a part time

member of the Australian Takeovers Panel

Dr John Edwards

Reserve Bank of Australia

Member of the Board of the Reserve Bank of

Australia

Adjunct Professor, John Curtin Institute of Public

Policy, Curtin Business School, Curtin University

Adjunct Professor, University of Sydney School of

Business

Visiting Fellow, Lowy Institute for International

Policy

Member, Australian Workforce and Productivity

Agency

Samah Hadid

Human Rights Activist

Australian Director of the Global Poverty Project

2010 Australian Youth Representative to the United

Nations

NSW State Finalist, Young Australian of the Year

2011

Fellow with the United Nations Office of the High

Commissioner for Human Rights

Ed Husic MP

Federal Member for Chifley

Elected to the House of Representatives for Chifley,

New South Wales, 2010

Former National President of the Communications,

Electrical and Plumbing Union

Worked for Integral Energy as Communications

Director

Dr Leonie Lethbridge

Chief Operating Officer, ANZ

Indonesia

Has held a number of roles within ANZ, in Australia

and across Asia Pacific over the last 10 years

Vice President of the Indonesia Australia Business

Council

Prior to joining ANZ, she was a management

consultant, advising clients in the Financial Services,

Manufacturing, and Telecommunications sectors

Her career also includes senior executive roles in the

manufacturing industry, based in both Australia and

Asia

Professor Tim Lindsey

Malcolm Smith Professor of

Asian Law, University of

Melbourne

Chair of the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII)

Director, Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and

Society, The University of Melbourne

Lawyer

Books include Islam, Law and the State in Southeast

Asia, Law and Society in Indonesia and The

Constitution of Indonesia

Professor Andrew MacIntyre Dean, ANU College of Asia and

the Pacific

Chair of the Board of the ANU Indonesia Project

Founder of the former Australia-Indonesia

Governance Research Partnership

An active member of the Australian American

Leadership Dialogue

A member of the Board of Directors of the Asia

Foundation - Australia, and a member of the Board

of the ANU Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies

Research projects include a multi-author study of

Asian regional institutions and an assessment of the

trajectory for democracy in Southeast Asia

Dr Dave McRae

Research Fellow, Lowy Institute

Research fellow covering Indonesia and Southeast

Asia at the Lowy Institute for International Policy

Lead Researcher for the World Bank’s Conflict and

Development Team in Indonesia between 2008 and

2010

Worked for the Jakarta office of the International

Crisis Group between 2004 and 2006

Wrote his Ph.D. on post-authoritarian inter-religious

violence in Indonesia

George Megalogenis

Former Senior Feature Writer for

The Australian

Former senior feature writer for The Australian

Spent over a decade in the Canberra Press Gallery

Has written a number of books, among them

Faultlines: race, work and the politics of changing

Australia; The Longest Decade; and The Australian

Moment

Bruce Munro

Managing Director, Thiess

Mining Ltd

36 years’ experience in construction and mining,

involving projects in Australia and Asia

Joined Thiess in 1986 and in 1999 was appointed

President Director of PT Thiess Contractors

Indonesia, a role he fulfilled for eight years during

which time it underwent major growth and won

major mining/construction contracts.

Qualifications: Faculty of Civil Engineering,

University of NSW, Sydney

Non-Executive Director of Sedgman, a leading

provider of minerals processing and associated

infrastructure to the global resources industry

Board member of the Minerals Council of Australia

and Australian Constructors Association and

Queensland Chair of the Australia Indonesia

Business Council

Paul Ramadge

Professorial Fellow, Monash

University

Vice-Chancellor’s Professorial Fellow, Monash

University

Former Chief Editor of The Age

Assoc. Prof. David Reeve

Deputy Director ACISIS,

University of New South Wales

ACICIS Study Tour Coordinator

Founding lecturer in the Australian Studies program

at Universitas Indonesia in the 1980s

He has a long association with Indonesia as a

diplomat, historian and project manager

Andrew Ross

Consultant, Ministry of Tourism

and Creative Economy, Indonesia

Consultant, Indonesian Performing Arts Market

Director of Brisbane Powerhouse 2004 – 2012 where

he was producer/presenter of numerous works by

Indonesian performing artists including Nan

Jombang Dance Company, Ubiet, Butet Kartaredjasa,

Kua Etnika and Teater Payung Hitam

Former Artistic Director of Black Swan Theatre,

Perth 1991-2003 where he was director of landmark

productions including Bran Nue Dae, The Merry Go

Round in the Sea, Tourmaline, Sistergirl, and

Corrugation Road

Australia-Indonesia Merdeka fellow

Mark Scott AO

Managing Director, ABC

Managing Director of the Australian Broadcasting

Corporation (ABC) since July 2006, transforming the

ABC from a broadcast model into a digital media

network

He has inaugurated ABC News 24 and ABC3

children's television channels, and expanded radio

and mobile services and ABC Online

He has pursued an international policy of acquiring

new audiences for Radio Australia and Australia

Network, flagged an ambitious new strategy vision

and expanded its international project work through

partnerships with agencies such as AusAid

Greg Sheridan

Foreign Editor, The Australian

In 1985 he was appointed Beijing Correspondent at

The Australian. From 1986 to 1987 he was

Washington Correspondent for that paper. In 1988 he

became foreign affairs writer in Canberra. He has

been Foreign Editor of The Australian since 1992

His work has appeared in newspapers around the

world, including The Sunday Times of London, The

Wall Street Journal, the Jakarta Post and the South

China Morning Post. He has written four books on

Asian politics as well as a book on Australia-U.S.

relations

Lenore Taylor

Incoming Political Editor, The

Guardian Australian

Has covered federal politics for 23 years with both

Fairfax and News Corp newspapers

Currently National Affairs Correspondent for the

Sydney Morning Herald

Former foreign correspondent for The Australian

Financial Review

Awards include the Paul Lyneham award for

excellence in press gallery journalism in 2007 and

the Walkley Award for ‘best scoop of the year’ in

2010

Professor Fiona Wood

Director, Burns Service of

Western Australia

Consultant Plastic Surgeon at Royal Perth Hospital

and Princess Margaret Hospital for Children

Winthrop Professor in the School of Surgery at The

University of Western Australia

Cofounder and Director of AVITA Medical

(formally Clinical Cell Culture {C3})

Co‐founder/Chair, Fiona Wood Foundation

Australian of the Year 2005

Ken Wyatt AM MP

Federal Member for Hasluck

Became the first Indigenous Australian to become a

member of the House of Representatives, winning

the seat of Hasluck for the Liberal Party at the 2010

federal election

A primary school teacher for 16 years before entering

the public sector

District Director of the Swan Education District and

Director of Aboriginal Health in Western Australia

and New South Wales

Indonesian Dialogue Participants

Dr Rizal Sukma

Co-Convenor, Second

Indonesia Australia Dialogue

2013

Executive Director CSIS

Ms Rahimah Abdulrahim

Executive Director, Habibie Center, Jakarta

Ms Lina A. Alexandra

Researcher, Department of Politics and

International Relations, CSIS

Dr Anies Baswedan

Rector, University of Paramadina, Jakarta

Founder, “Indonesia Mengajar”

Dr Bahtiar Effendy

Professor in Political Science, UIN Syarif

Hidayatullah

Ms Ratu Silvy Gayatri

Secretary, Directorate-General for Asia-Pacific

and Africa, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Dr Sandra Hamid

Country Representative, The Asia Foundation

Ms Zulfiani Lubis

Chief Editor, ANTV

Member of Indonesian Press Council

Dr Abdul Mu’ti

Secretary, PP Muhammadiyah

Mr John Riady

Director, Lippo Group

Prof. Djisman Simanjuntak

Chairman, Prasetiya Mulya Foundation

Mr Kemal Stamboel

DPR-RI, Commission XI (Finance, National

Development Planning, Banking and Non-Bank

Financial Institutions)

Independent Commissioner of PT Holcim

Indonesia, PT. Titan Kimia Nusantara Tbk and

PT Semen Cibinong Tbk.

Ms Eva Sundari

DPR-RI, Commission III (Law, Human Rights

and Defence)

Membership in the Steering Committee of Asean-

Inter Parliamentary Myanmar Caucus (AIMPC),

Human Right Parliamentary Caucus as well as

other local women organization in Indonesia

Mr Meidyatama

Suryadiningrat

Chief Editor, The Jakarta Post

Mr Abdillah Toha

Advisor to the Vice President

Former Member of Commission I, DPR-RI 2004-

2009

Former Chairman, Inter-parliamentary

Cooperation Body (Badan Kerjasama Antar

Parlemen/BKSAP)

Dr Zulkieflimansyah

Vice Chairman, Commission XI, DPR-RI

Chairman, DPP, Partai Keadilan Sejahtera

Dialogue Attendees

Bayu Dardias Kurniadi

PhD Candidate, Australian National

University

Lecturer Department of Politics and Government,

Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah

Mada University, Indonesia

Editor of “Practicing Qualitative Research

Methods: Lessons from UGM” in 2011

Umbu Reku Raya

PhD Candidate, Australian National

University

Phd Candidate, Ardnt-Corden Department of

Economics, Australian National University

Completed Economics PhD coursework at Research

School of Economics, Australian National

University

Founded Pupukape in 2001, a self-supported project

to put youth from poor backgrounds in university

Eko Saputro

Student Competition Winner

Deakin University

Head of ASEAN’s Partners Cooperation

Subdivision at Center for International Cooperation

Policy, Ministry of Finance (MoF), Indonesia,

(2008-2010)

Nicholas Mark

Student Competition Winner

University of Sydney

Australia-Indonesia Youth Association (AIYA)

NSW Chapter President (April 2012 – present)

Co-founder and editor of Heidelberg Media

Observers

Arya Widyatmoko, Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Bu Artauli Tobing, Assistant to Member of the Council of Presidential Advisors

Vivi Feriany, Assistant to Member of the Council of Presidential Advisors

Hanggiro Setiabudi, Minister Counsellor, Embassy of Indonesia

Eko Junor, Counsellor, Embassy of Indonesia

Iman Santosa, First Secretary, Embassy of Indonesia

Gary R.M. Jusuf, Consul-General of the Republic of Indonesia in Sydney

Nico Manoppo, Consul

Fahmi Jamaludin, Consul

Fajar Yusuf, Vice-Consul

Novaliana Tambunan, Vice-Consul

Richard Rodgers, Director, Indonesia Economic and Timor-Leste Section, Department of

Foreign Affairs and Trade

Dana Robertson, Media Liaison Officer, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Pierre Grobler, Indonesia Economic and Timor-Leste Section, Department of Foreign Affairs

and Trade

Silai Zaki, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Robert Law, Office of National Assessments

Graeme Wedderburn, Senior Advisor, Office of Senator Bob Carr

Anne Witheford, Advisor, Office of Senator Bob Carr

Sam Riordan, Senior Foreign Affairs Adviser, Office of the Hon Julie Bishop MP

Clement Paligaru, Acting Head – Asia, ABC International

Dian Islamiati, Manager of Distribution Indonesia, ABC International

Alexander Kawilarang, News Editor, VIVAnews.com and Winner, Elizabeth O’Neill Journalism

Award

Mellani Eka Mahayana, International Editor, Rakyat Merdeka

Nava Nuraniyah, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Rosalie Pitt, Australian Institute of International Affairs

Jack Buckley, Australian Institute of International Affairs