{"id":12562,"date":"2017-12-29T14:30:26","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T03:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=12562"},"modified":"2021-07-10T12:45:09","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T02:45:09","slug":"aiya-links-29-december","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2017\/12\/29\/aiya-links-29-december\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYA Links: 29 December"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-12565 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/Jakartas-sinking-NYTJosh-Haner-1024x683.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jakarta is sinking so fast, it only has a decade to halt the city from going underwater. A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2017\/12\/21\/world\/asia\/jakarta-sinking-climate.html\">New York Times interactive report<\/a> shows that human-made troubles and mounting threats from climate change are affecting the capital\u2019s survival. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(New York Times\/Josh Haner)<\/span><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2><b>In the news<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>H<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ow pervasive is <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/indonesiaatmelbourne.unimelb.edu.au\/talking-indonesia-vigilantism\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">vigilante violence<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in democratic Indonesia? In the last Talking Indonesia for 2017, Dr Dave McRae explores these questions and more with Sana Jaffrey. <\/span><\/li>\n<li>A\u00a0<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">bakery in the city of Makassar has <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.straitstimes.com\/asia\/se-asia\/indonesia-bakery-refuses-to-write-merry-christmas-on-cake-triggering-religious-row\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">attracted controversy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> after it refused a customer&#8217;s request to write a Christmas greeting on a cake citing &#8220;religious principles&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/australiaindonesiacentre.org\/addressing-macet-problem-jakarta\/\">Traffic in Jakarta has steadily deteriorated<\/a> in spite of successive attempted improvements. The solution is to create new travel corridors that do not add more pressure on the existing roads, writes Australia-Indonesia Centre\u2019s Kevin Evans.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After Mount Agung eruption, President Jokowi reassures that <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/world\/bali-is-safe-indonesian-president-urges-tourists-to-holiday-in-bali-20171223-h09n8f.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bali is now safe<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> over Twitter, and local businesses are also urging tourists to spend holidays on the island.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Australia and Indonesia have conceded they will fail to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smh.com.au\/business\/world-business\/australia-and-indonesia-fail-to-meet-freetrade-deal-deadline-20171221-h08qz0.html\">finalise the CEPA<\/a> deal this year despite repeated commitments, and both governments are committed to complete the agreement by March 2018.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2><b>Opportunities<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Check out the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/hamer-scholarships-2018\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/hamer-scholarships-2018\/\">applications for Hamer Scholarships<\/a>\u00a0next year! The scholarships offer the opportunity for language study and cultural engagement with dynamic markets such as Indonesia.<\/li>\n<li>Pulse Lab Jakarta is currently looking for a Data Engineer. Find out more <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/data-engineer-for-pulse-lab-jakarta\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/data-engineer-for-pulse-lab-jakarta\/\">how you can apply here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Learning a language? Get\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/indonesian-language-help\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/indonesian-language-help\">Indonesian<\/a> &amp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/english-language-help\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/english-language-help\"> English<\/a> language help with\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/videos\/\" data-cke-saved-href=\"http:\/\/www.universitybridgeproject.org\/videos\/\">UniBRIDGE Project<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div>\n<p><strong><em>Like what we do? Learn more about what <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/jobs\/what-does-an-aiya-membership-offer-you\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIYA membership can offer<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/membership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sign up as a\u00a0member<\/a> today.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jakarta is sinking so fast, it only has a decade to halt the city from going underwater. A New York Times interactive report shows that human-made troubles and mounting threats [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2017\/12\/29\/aiya-links-29-december\/\" 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":[524],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-links"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.0","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\/12562","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=12562"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12562\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12562"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12562"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12562"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}