{"id":3477,"date":"2014-03-21T11:00:17","date_gmt":"2014-03-21T00:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/?p=3477"},"modified":"2021-07-10T19:07:34","modified_gmt":"2021-07-10T09:07:34","slug":"aiya-links-21-march-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/03\/21\/aiya-links-21-march-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"AIYA Links, 21 March: The Elections Begin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Today is your last chance to be a part of AIYA&#8217;s Annual Members&#8217; Survey! We really appreciate your participation, so if you have a spare few minutes <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/survey\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here to see the questionnaire<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/indonesiaelectionse1603e.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3481\" src=\"http:\/\/34.101.188.30\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/indonesiaelectionse1603e.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"578\" height=\"328\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>In the news<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The official campaign period for Indonesia&#8217;s 2014 parliamentary elections kicked off on Sunday. To get up to speed on how the whole process works, <a href=\"http:\/\/carnegieendowment.org\/2014\/01\/24\/inside-indonesia-s-elections\/gz8a\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">check out this great explainer from the Carnegie Endowment<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Organisers of voting for Indonesians in Australia say that they&#8217;re being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2014\/03\/19\/insufficient-funds-haunt-elections-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">left underfunded, reports the\u00a0<\/a><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thejakartapost.com\/news\/2014\/03\/19\/insufficient-funds-haunt-elections-australia.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jakarta Post<\/a>.<\/em><\/li>\n<li>SBS also reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbs.com.au\/news\/article\/2014\/03\/19\/engaging-young-indonesian-voters-australia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">efforts to get out the vote amongst Indonesians living in Australia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>What&#8217;s attracted the most attention is the entry of Jakarta Governor Joko Widodo into the race. AIYA&#8217;s Tim Graham put together <a title=\"Jokowi is nominated, Indonesia responds\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/2014\/03\/jokowi-nominated-indonesia-responds\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">a rundown of the response to his announcement<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Why did financial markets react so positively to Jokowi&#8217;s announcement? The\u00a0<em>FT&#8217;s\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/benjaminbland\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@BenjaminBland<\/a> cites\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.ft.com\/beyond-brics\/2014\/03\/17\/five-reasons-why-foreign-investors-like-jokowi\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">5 reasons<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The World Bank released its latest Indonesia Economic Quarterly\u2014<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/content\/dam\/Worldbank\/document\/EAP\/Indonesia\/IEQ-March2014-presentation-english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">presentation here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/content\/dam\/Worldbank\/document\/EAP\/Indonesia\/IEQ-March2014-english.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">full report here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>ABC&#8217;s Helen Brown (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/hbrown10\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@HBrown10<\/a>) reports on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.abc.net.au\/news\/2014-03-17\/taper-proofing-indonesia\/5327056\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Indonesia&#8217;s efforts to &#8216;taper-proof&#8217; the national economy<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>The\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/searealtime\/2014\/03\/17\/indonesians-dialing-into-cheaper-smart-phones\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Wall Street Journal\u00a0<\/em>highlights that Indonesian consumers are looking for smartphone bargains<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>On the blog<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>Soon-to-be Mayor of Bogor (and alumnus of Monash and ANU) Bima Arya chatted with AIYA in Canberra about how <a title=\"Q&amp;A with Bima Arya, Mayor-elect of Bogor\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/2014\/03\/qa-bima-arya-mayor-elect-bogor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">young reformers are changing local politics in Indonesia<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>In the first of our posts shared with <strong>Our Indonesia Today<\/strong>, Ross Taylor looks at how <a title=\"Democracy is still a risky business\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/2014\/03\/democracy-is-still-a-risky-business\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">democracy, in Indonesia and elsewhere, can be a fragile thing<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Events and opportunities<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>At the AIYA Job Board: cosmetics company L&#8217;Oreal is <a title=\"Young Entrepreneurs Program at Loreal\" href=\"http:\/\/www.aiya.org.au\/2014\/03\/young-entrepreneurs-program-loreal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">looking\u00a0for young Indonesians to join its\u00a0Young Entrepreneurs Program<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Indonesians: in Australia: get in touch with your local PPLN (Panitia Pemilihan Luar Negeri) to make sure you are able to vote in April. Here are links to PPLN in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kbri-canberra.org.au\/ppln\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Canberra<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pemilusydney.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sydney<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pplnmelbourne.com.au\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Melbourne<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/pemilu2014perth.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Perth<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Photo above from AFP.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is your last chance to be a part of AIYA&#8217;s Annual Members&#8217; Survey! We really appreciate your participation, so if you have a spare few minutes click here to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/2014\/03\/21\/aiya-links-21-march-elections\/\" class=\"more-link style1-button\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":23816,"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-3477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","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\/3477","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=3477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3477\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aiya.org.au\/id\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}