{"id":12539,"date":"2017-12-21T23:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T12:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=12539"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T02:45:09","slug":"aiya-presidents-2017-wrap-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2017\/12\/21\/aiya-presidents-2017-wrap-up\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYA President\u2019s 2017 Wrap-Up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">On behalf of AIYA National, I would like to extend a warm thank you to all those who have followed and supported AIYA\u2019s activities throughout 2017. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2017 was the milestone fifth year of operations for AIYA, the peak non-government youth body that aims to connect, inform and inspire young Australians and Indonesians, and to create, facilitate and stimulate opportunities for increased bilateral youth engagement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We have now grown to a massive team of over 120 volunteers across both countries! It is a privilege to lead this passionate and talented group of young people who are fuelled by <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">semangat. <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re all dedicated to the growth and development of the organisation and we recognise and value the role that AIYA plays in the Australia-Indonesia space.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our admirable communications team has done a fantastic job of keeping you all up to date via our weekly AIYA Links newsletter and via regular social media updates. #ICYMI here are some of notable highlights from AIYA\u2019s big 2017:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we ran the third annual <a href=\"https:\/\/2017.naila.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">National Australia Indonesia Language Awards (NAILA)<\/a>,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0which received a record amount of entries and introduced new categories, including for teachers of Bahasa Indonesia;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we contributed to DFAT\u2019s Foreign Policy White Paper with a <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/about\/policy\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">submission<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which highlighted the importance of language skills, cross-cultural competency and understanding, and youth initiatives;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we launched the new chapter of AIYA Eastern Indonesia, with bases in both Makassar and Kupang;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we strengthened our chapters in Jakarta and Yogyakarta in particular, offering regular events catering to both students and the young professionals community;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we hosted an Australia-wide series of film screenings for the Indonesian biopic, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kartini<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we continued to build upon our partnerships with the Australia-Indonesia Institute, the Australia Indonesia Centre, the Australia Indonesia Business Council, CAUSINDY, ACICIS and Balai Bahasa, among many other like-minded organisations and universities; <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we assisted AIYEP&#8217;s Australian leg with AIYA NSW hosting numerous social and cultural events for the Indonesian delegates and AIYA National hosting an impressive intern to assist our communications team; and (last but not least)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">we welcomed in several new board members at AIYA National and experienced great succession in the chapter level executive committees.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We can\u2019t wait to drop out 2017 AIYA Annual publication in late January to celebrate the breadth of our 2017 activities, so please keep your eye out for that in the new year!<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12542 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/AIYA-Team-Photo-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIYA is extremely grateful for the ongoing support of our partners and our members, without which we would not be able to continue to do what we love. We look forward to continuing to work together in 2018 and to having you involved in our events and initiatives, and we wish you all a wonderful and relaxing festive period over the coming weeks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Salam semangat,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Nicholas Mark<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>President, AIYA National<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Like what we do? Learn more about what <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/what-does-an-aiya-membership-offer-you\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">AIYA membership can offer<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/membership\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">sign up as a member<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> today! Keen to find out more about how you can partner with AIYA or contribute to our initiatives? Please email <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:nicholas.mark@aiya.org.au\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nicholas.mark@aiya.org.au<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or <\/span><\/i><a href=\"mailto:communications@aiya.org.au\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">communications@aiya.org.au<\/span><\/i><\/a><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with any queries.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of AIYA National, I would like to extend a warm thank you to all those who have followed and supported AIYA\u2019s activities throughout 2017. 2017 was the milestone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2017\/12\/21\/aiya-presidents-2017-wrap-up\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[507],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"id","enabled_languages":["au","id"],"languages":{"au":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"id":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false}}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12539\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}