AIYA Links for 11 April, 2013

• Bloomberg reports on growth in Indonesia’s regions: smaller cities are expected to outpace Jakarta by 2030.
• The Australian reports on the government’s exclusion of consortiums from the  AsiaBound grants scheme: Monash and RMIT have both expressed their support for ACICIS.
• ‘Heavy metal, Islamist politics, and democracy’: Dan Murphy on Indonesia’s evolving political culture.
• Could black magic be the key to fighting corruption in Indonesia?
• Andrea Hirata, the author of Laskar Pelangi, interviewed on the ABC’s Big Ideas program.
• Alan Dupont argues that the Australia-Indonesia relationship has experienced a ‘remarkable turnaround‘ since 1999.
• An interesting blog post on RALLY, an exhibition which recently finished at NGV International.
• Asian language teachers are in strong demand.
• ABC News on a small group of organic farmers in West Java, who have pioneered a new method of rice production.
• The International Herald Tribune looks at Indonesia’s military court system.

Upcoming events:

• The Herb Feith Foundation will be screening John Darling’s 2003 film The Healing of Bali at Monash University this Wednesday.

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