AIYA Links: Happy Chinese New Year

AIYA would like to wish all those celebrating Chinese New Year a safe and happy Year of the Goat. 恭喜發財!

In the news

• The annual displays of Chinese culture have marked the celebration of the lunar new year across Indonesia.
• President Jokowi has announced his compromise solution to the conflict between the police force and anticorruption commission.
• Indonesia’s central bank unexpectedly lowered interest rates yesterday amid restrained inflation and economic growth.
• Bloomberg asks: if Indonesia is hungry for foreign investment, why is adding to red tape for expat workers?
• Waleed Aly says the prime minister’s linking of foreign aid and clemency have ‘taken [Australia] to a dark place‘.
• The ASEAN Economic Community: an EU-like common market in Southeast Asia?

On the AIYA Blog

• Letter from Borneo: Alex Murfett on the good friends and good work of the 2014-15 Australia-Indonesia Youth Exchange Program in South Kalimantan.

Events & opportunities

• On the AIYA Job Board: UNSW is looking for a Jakarta-based Relationship Manager for its international marketing activities.
• Get Colourful: join AIYA Victoria’s Colour Run team on 1 March! Details here.