{"id":2495,"date":"2013-11-08T11:30:50","date_gmt":"2013-11-08T00:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=2495"},"modified":"2021-07-10T19:20:11","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:20:11","slug":"aiya-links-8-november","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2013\/11\/08\/aiya-links-8-november\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYA Links: 8 November"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>We&#8217;re excited to announced that AIYA Victoria will hold its official launch event at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre on 22 November, in partnership with\u00a0the Victorian Government.\u00a0\u00a0The event will include a keynote speech by Professor Tim Lindsey, Director of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.law.unimelb.edu.au\/cilis\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society<\/a> at the Melbourne Law School, as\u00a0well as performances by Australian and Indonesian artists. <\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/8685567767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>Registration is free through Eventbrite<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n<h2>In the news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Minister for Foreign Affairs Julie Bishop (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/juliebishopmp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@JulieBishopMP<\/a>) is in Indonesia today to attend the <a href=\"http:\/\/gallery.foreignminister.gov.au\/Bishop\/Bali-Democracy-Forum-November\/33278861_LRMMdh#!i=2888851033&amp;k=vdf3qn2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bali Democracy Forum<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\">Indonesia recorded its lowest GDP growth in years, and analysts are <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/searealtime\/2013\/11\/07\/is-the-worst-over-for-indonesia-not-everyone-thinks-so\/?mod=WSJBlog&amp;mod=WSJ_SEA_Blog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">divided over whether the economy will continue to lose speed<\/a>\u00a0(WSJ)<br \/>\n<\/span><\/li>\n<li>The softer economic climate and recent wage hikes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/news\/unemployment-rate-increases-on-slowing-economy-minimum-wage-hike\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">are being blamed for a slight increase in unemployment<\/a> (Jakarta Globe)<\/li>\n<li>But behind the headlines, major investors are still betting on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/intl\/cms\/s\/0\/a5f23c0e-46bf-11e3-9c1b-00144feabdc0.html?siteedition=intl#axzz2k0G0APzj\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">long term strength of the Indonesian market<\/a>. (<em>Financial Times\/<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/benjaminbland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@benjaminbland<\/a>)<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<em>FT\u00a0<\/em>also spoke to some of the <a href=\"http:\/\/video.ft.com\/2744129331001\/Jakartas-middle-class\/World\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young middle class in Jakarta who are transforming Indonesia&#8217;s economy<\/a>\u00a0(spoiler: they\u00a0<em>love\u00a0<\/em>shopping).<\/li>\n<li>&#8216;Feeding Indonesia&#8217;: <em>Inside Indonesia\u00a0<\/em>has an informative issue <a href=\"http:\/\/www.insideindonesia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">focusing on food security<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Stephen Grenville at the Lowy Interpreter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lowyinterpreter.org\/post\/2013\/11\/06\/Indonesia-2014-Jokowi-or-bust.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">takes a look at Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo, who&#8217;s leading the polls ahead of next year&#8217;s presidential election<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>We at AIYA are big fans of First Lady Ani Yudhoyono&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/instagram.com\/aniyudhoyono\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram account<\/a>.\u00a0It seems that lately the\u00a0<em>Ibu Negara\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartaglobe.com\/news\/first-lady-irked-by-web-commenters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">has been getting a bit stroppy with commenters<\/a>\u00a0(Jakarta Globe).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>For your entertainment<\/h2>\n<p>The 2011 martial arts thriller\u00a0<em>The Raid\u00a0<\/em>was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2012\/may\/05\/the-raid-gareth-huw-evans\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a huge hit for Indonesian cinema on the world stage<\/a>. This week a trailer for the eagerly-awaited sequel landed on YouTube, and it&#8217;s pretty spectacular (and also <span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>pretty violent<\/strong><\/span>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ObJKvZRlSSY\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h2>Events<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"line-height: 13px;\"><strong>Melbourne, 22 November:\u00a0<\/strong>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/8685567767\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">AIYA Victoria official launch<\/a>, of course!<\/span><\/li>\n<li><strong>Canberra, 14 November:\u00a0<\/strong>Indonesian Finance Minister Chatib Basri will speak at the ANU at a public lecture titled &#8216;The Indonesian economy: Anticipating the end of easy money&#8217;. Free admission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eventbrite.com\/event\/9218150737\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get your tickets here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re excited to announced that AIYA Victoria will hold its official launch event at the Sidney Myer Asia Centre on 22 November, in partnership with\u00a0the Victorian Government.\u00a0\u00a0The event will include [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2013\/11\/08\/aiya-links-8-november\/\" 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-2495","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\/2495","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=2495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}