Perhimpunan Indonesia – Inggris
Tuesday, 14 February 2023 at 6.45 pm for 7 pmVenue: The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, Westminster London SW1P 2BU The Spice Islands of Indonesia, which include the Banda Islands and Ternate and Tidore in Maluku, are home to cloves, nutmeg and mace. These remote islands became the centre of a lucrative international trade in these spices. They formed a…
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Tuesday, 10 January 2023 at 6.45 pm for 7 pmVenue: The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, Westminster London SW1P 2BU Lying 150km off the coast of West Sumatra, the Mentawai Islands have long attracted surfers from all over the world. Siberut, the largest island in the chain, is also famous for its tattooed hunter-gatherer…
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12 pm – 3 pm. Wisma Nusantara, 2 Bishops Grove, London N2 0BP Saturday, 23 July 2022, 12 pm – 3 pmWisma Nusantara, 2 Bishops Grove, London N2 0B Our much awaited summer picnic for the Society was kindly hosted by The Indonesian Ambassador, H.E. Desra Percaya and Ibu Sari Percaya at their residence at Wisma Nusantara. Members brought their own food…
Last month, Dorothy Ferary gave a talk on women’s leadership in Indonesian higher education institutions. She discussed the various policy and regulations that support gender equality and also addressed the career gap issues which still persist. She also highlighted some of the progress of women leaders in the past 20 years. You can watch the recording…
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Tuesday, 10 May 2022, 6.45pm for 7pmEmbassy of the Republic of Indonesia in London,30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU Dr Farouk Yahya gave us a talk on Russel Jones’ works on paper and watermarks. In his presentation he mentioned the Indonesia and the Malay World’s Special Issue on Malay Manuscripts: a Guide to Paper and Watermarks….
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Tuesday, 8 March 2022, 6.45pm for 7pmEmbassy of the Republic of Indonesia in London,30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU (Subject to Covid restrictions) Dr. George Beccaloni who worked at London’s Natural History Museum gave a talk in March on the important 19th century scientist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) and the Wallace Correspondence Project (WCP). If…
SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies is organising a lecture on the politics of greater India and Indonesian collections in the museum of “asian arts”. Since the nineteenth century, today’s South and Southeast Asia have become part of scholarly and popular thinking that defines the region as a single, superior, Hindu-Buddhist civilisation with its…
Back in January, Daniel Quinn gave a talk on the mountains and volcanoes of Java, drawing on his large photographic archives from literally hundreds of weekend trips. The talk featured both the famous and the obscure on a tour from west to east. If you missed the event, click here to see the recording of the event. Dan…
ONLINE via Zoom.Sacha Schwarzkopf is an Urban Designer and has been head of PT AECOM Indonesia since 2015. In recent years he has worked on the Subang Smart City of Industry Master Plan in Malaysia and the Lombok Integrated Tourism Master Plan in Indonesia. AECOM have been involved as consultants in relation to the relocation…
Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in London,30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU Dr. Ioannis Chapsos gave a fascinating talk about illegal fishing and associated crimes. He explained how illegal fishing and fisheries crimes lead to some issues including environmental (depletion of resources), socio-economic (unbridled illegal activities at sea), cultural (favouritism) and political (weak marine governance)…
