{"id":2106,"date":"2013-09-06T11:30:09","date_gmt":"2013-09-06T00:30:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=2106"},"modified":"2021-07-10T19:22:49","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:22:49","slug":"aiya-links-6-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2013\/09\/06\/aiya-links-6-september\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYA Links: 6 September"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>In the news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Let&#8217;s get the bad economic news out of the way first: the\u00a0<em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>reports on how <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887324202304579052820252385060.html?KEYWORDS=INDONESIA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">inflation is starting to bite for Indonesia&#8217;s middle class<\/a>, Reuters surveys the Indonesian retail industry and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/2013\/09\/04\/us-indonesia-retail-idUSBRE98302P20130904\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">finds that its growth is slowing<\/a>, and the\u00a0<em>Financial Times\u00a0<\/em>looks at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/7858ad7c-13ad-11e3-9289-00144feabdc0.html#axzz2dgnr0tUt\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indonesia&#8217;s ballooning trade deficit<\/a>.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The Indonesian government will finally <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/business\/quotas-on-beef-chilli-and-shallots-scrapped-as-govt-seeks-to-ease-inflation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">scrap its quota policy for beef and other agricultural imports<\/a>, and pursue other price-targeting measures. This analysis in\u00a0<em>The Land\u00a0<\/em>suggests Australian beef producers <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theland.com.au\/news\/agriculture\/livestock\/cattle-beef\/indonesia-to-scrap-quotas\/2670349.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">would still like more policy certainty<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<em>FT&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em>correspondent Ben Bland (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/benjaminbland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@benjaminbland<\/a>) profiles one of Indonesia&#8217;s most exciting new politicians: the renowned architect, urbanist and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/2\/a69e276e-0a6d-11e3-9cec-00144feabdc0.html#slide0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">recently-elected mayor of Bandung, Ridwan Kamil<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/ridwankamil\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@ridwankamil<\/a>).<\/li>\n<li>Fairfax corro Michael Bachelard (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/mbachelard\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@mbachelard<\/a>) reports from Yogyakarta, where <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/world\/trial-draws-a-vigilante-crowd-20130904-2t5cy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the dramatic trial of Kopassus soldiers<\/a>\u00a0remains in the media spotlight.<\/li>\n<li>ANU Indonesian studies alumna and gender activist Kate Walton (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/waltonkate\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@waltonkate<\/a>) writes in\u00a0<em>Inside Indonesia\u00a0<\/em>about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideindonesia.org\/current-edition\/caught-between-two-happinesses\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the pressure brought to bear on Indonesian lesbians to marry men<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The ANU&#8217;s Ross Tapsell (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/rosstapsell\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@rosstapsell<\/a>) has a piece in\u00a0<em>The Conversation\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/theconversation.com\/same-old-stereotypes-of-indonesia-and-our-politicians-arent-helping-17159\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">analysing the findings of the DFAT Newspoll<\/a>\u00a0on Australia-Indonesia relations.<\/li>\n<li>The <em>Jakarta Globe <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/news\/no-sausage-sizzle-but-voting-at-embassy-easy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">chats to\u00a0Australians voting in the federal election<\/a> at the Australian Embassy in Jakarta.\u00a0[The absence of a sausage sizzle, as implied by the headline, is a most grievous oversight on the part of our diplomats \u2014 ed]<\/li>\n<li>Neil Thomas from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acya.org.au\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australia-China Youth Association<\/a>\u00a0has a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/opinion\/its-not-the-asian-dream-its-the-reality\/story-e6frgcko-1226706743870?utm_content=buffer9efa6&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">good op-ed in\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theaustralian.com.au\/higher-education\/opinion\/its-not-the-asian-dream-its-the-reality\/story-e6frgcko-1226706743870?utm_content=buffer9efa6&amp;utm_source=buffer&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_campaign=Buffer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Australian<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>arguing that young Australians are much more interested in studying in and about Asia than they&#8217;re often given credit for.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Vote!<\/strong> Australian citizens in Indonesia can cast their vote in the federal election at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indonesia.embassy.gov.au\/jakt\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Embassy in Jakarta<\/a> until 16:00 today and between 08:00 and 16:00 tomorrow, or at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bali.indonesia.embassy.gov.au\/blli\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Australian Consulate-General in Denpasar (Bali)<\/a> until 16:00 today and between 08:00 and 18:00 tomorrow.<\/span><\/li>\n<li>ABC News 24 will lift its geoblock for election day, so if you are in Indonesia you will still be able to stream the ABC&#8217;s live coverage online at\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/abcnews24\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">www.abc.net.au\/news\/abcnews24<\/a>\u00a0or watch from 15:00WIB on the Australia Network. (Polls begin to close in Australia at 18:00AEDT\/15:00WIB.)<\/li>\n<li>The ANU&#8217;s highly regarded annual Indonesia Update conference will be held on 20-21 September in Canberra. The theme for 2013 is &#8216;Regional Dynamics in a Decentralised Indonesia&#8217;. The <a href=\"https:\/\/crawford.anu.edu.au\/acde\/ip\/pdf\/update\/indonesia-update-2013.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">program<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/crawford.anu.edu.au\/acde\/ip\/update\/2013\/registration.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">registration<\/a> is available online.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the news Let&#8217;s get the bad economic news out of the way first: the\u00a0Wall Street Journal\u00a0reports on how inflation is starting to bite for Indonesia&#8217;s middle class, Reuters surveys [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2013\/09\/06\/aiya-links-6-september\/\" 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-2106","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\/2106","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=2106"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2106\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2106"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2106"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2106"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}