AIYA Links for 29 March, 2013

• AIYA member Courtney Saville shares her experiences with PABM, the Malay-language speaking competition
• SBS will increase its foreign language programming next month, including an extra Indonesian-language program
• ABC News reports on Jakarta’s young entrepreneurs
• An op-ed on the BBC News website asks whether Indonesia be the ‘I’ in BRICS? The New York Times also weighs in.
• The Diplomat looks at Australia under Tony Abbott
• In the Jakarta Globe, an op-ed by Andre Omer Siregar hails ‘a new altitude in Indonesian diplomacy‘
• Inside Indonesia reviews a new biography of human rights lawyer Yap Thiam Hien, ‘an improbable candidate for an Indonesian national hero’

Events and opportunities:

• • Inside Indonesia are holding a photography competition.

• The Jakarta Globe are looking for copy editors.