Author: Ati Kisjanto

Rezha is the co-founder and CEO of Obviously Sustainable, a social enterprise and advisory firm focused on helping businesses and organisations achieve sustainability through research, policy advocacy, social impact programmes and impact measurement. He has a decade of experience in social impact and public policy work in an NGO, local startups and big tech companies such as…

Read More “February Meeting. Just Energy Transition in Indonesia: Balancing Sustainability and Social Impact by Rezha Bayu Oktavian Arief. Tuesday 11th February, at 6.30pm.  At the Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU and simultaneously via Zoom” »

Kirsten will discuss her newly-published book that examines Islamist, separatist, and communal violence across Indonesian history since 1945 through six case studies. It asks why conflict only emerged in some parts of Indonesia despite the shared history. Looking at where the violence is located not just in a geographic sense but above all in a conceptual…

Read More “March meeting. Book Talk: Contesting Indonesia: Islamist, Separatist, and Communal Violence in Indonesia since 1945 by Professor Kirsten E Schulze. Tuesday 11th March, at 6.30pm, at the Indonesian embassy” »

AIS 2024 AGMand a talk onYoung People’s Role in Strengthening UK-Indonesia Relations Tuesday 12th November 6pm for 6.15pm,  The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London and simultaneously via Zoom(Zoom joining details: This link or meeting ID: 951 1003 9870 and Passcode: 186993) Please note the earlier than usual start timeAll the documents for the meeting are below or attached via the…

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Young People’s Role in Strengthening UK-Indonesia Relations by Hilmi Kartasasmita. Tuesday 12th November 6.30pm for 6.45pm,  The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London and simultaneously via Zoom Hilmi KartasasmitaMaster’s Student & President of The Indonesian Student’s Association at OxfordJunior Advisor in The Executive Office of The President (2019 – 2024)Founding Member of The Global Indonesia Professionals’…

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This is not on the usual day/date for AIS meetings – the second Tuesday of the month – because it is being held in collaboration with the Indonesian Embassy to mark National Batik Day. This is 2nd October, the anniversary of when UNESCO, the UN cultural agency, recognised batik as a Masterpiece of Oral and Intangible Heritage…

Read More “October Meeting: Batik Day. Wednesday 2nd October, 5pm, Museum of the Home, East London” »

Next meeting is THIS THURSDAY, February 6, 1-2.30pm GMT. For more information, contact Ian Rowland rowland@myphone.coop.People who have not read the book are very welcome to attend the talk. The next meeting of the book club will discuss Laksmi Pamuntjak’s novel “Amba/The Question of Red”, a love story set in the context of the Communist purges of…

Read More “The AIS Book Club. Amba/ The Question of Red. Thursday 6 February. 1-2.30pm. On Zoom.” »

Tuesday 10th September at the Indonesian embassy By Marjolein van Pagee, Dutch Historian & Author In 1621 Dutch VOC-leader Jan Pieterszoon Coen went to the Banda islands in the Moluccas with the aim to kill all the inhabitants and to establish a plantation colony. Four hundred years after the genocide was committed, the Netherlands commemorated this historical…

Read More “There is no meeting in August. September meeting. 1621, Banda. The Genocide of Jan Pieterszoon Coen ” »

The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU.In person and via zoom. In a change to the advertised programme, the Anglo-Indonesian Society is delighted to welcome Oxford University’s Dr James Kempton. Last summer he led Expedition Cyclops, a four-week scientific research expedition to the Cyclops Mountains of Papua.The team rediscovered Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna, a species…

Read More “Lecture on the biodiversity of Papua’s Cyclops mountainsBy Dr James Kempton, University of Oxford. Tuesday 11 June 2024, 6.30pm for 6.45pm.” »

Bagus Muljadi is an assistant professor of chemical and environmental engineering at the University of Nottingham, UK. He is also the steering committee coordinator of the UK-Indonesia Consortium for Interdisciplinary Sciences (UKICIS), a group of research-intensive universities of which Nottingham is a founding member. Prior to joining Nottingham, he was a postdoctoral research associate in…

Read More “July meeting. Indonesian Science Diplomacy in the UKby Dr Bagus Muljadi. Tuesday 9 July at the Indonesian embassy, 6.30pm for 6.45pm” »