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Maluku Province is one of the poorest, least developed and least educated provinces in Indonesia. Many Moluccan students can’t get access to good English training, and therefore scholarship opportunities, because of their remote locations or poor economic background. And yet there are many Moluccans living overseas (about 70,000 in Holland) who still have affinities to…

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Ahmad Almuttaqi, the Head of ASEAN Studies Program at the Habibie Centre, has recently written a book about President Jokowi’s foreign policy track record. Below is an abstract of the book. When Joko ‘Jokowi’ Widodo was sworn in as the seventh President of the Republic of Indonesia, taking over from Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, the change…

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READ, John F W – died peacefully on 16th June 2020, aged 87, having been diagnosed with motor neurone disease some months earlier. Much loved husband of Farida, father to Nicholas and Sophia, and grandfather to Howard, Grace, Zoe and Emma. Funeral service for family to take place at St Mary’s church, Saffron Walden. John…

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  This session was opened by remarks from H.E. Mahendra Siregar, Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia and former Head of Indonesia’s Investment Coordinating Board. We are also delighted to have representatives from Britcham, Amcham, EKONID, ICCC, Kocham, and Eurocham.

Ajesh Patalay wrote a piece in The Financial Times’ How to Spend It section about his experience cooking together (online) with Chef Sri Owen and Chef Lara Lee. “Originally the plan was to cook together. By which I mean in the same kitchen. Then we had to adapt. Haven’t we all? That was how I…

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The British Embassy in Jakarta has compiled flights options leaving from Jakarta. To see the latest updates (per 28 May) on flight options, click here. Note that the font of the list is very small, you need to zoom in to be legible. This list will be updated from time to time by the Embassy.

It is with great sadness that we announce that A-IS member, Oliver Bennett, passed away on Monday 26 March.  He had been undergoing treatment for colon cancer for more than a year.  Farida and Oliver regularly attended the Society’s events.  Oliver was one of three on the panel in March 2018 on the topic “Tourism in…

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   The Indonesian Embassy in London has set up the following numbers as hotline numbers for Covid-19 for Indonesian nationals living in the UK and Ireland: + 44 747 149 5095 + 44 788 122 1235 + 44 20 7499 7662 ext 9618 For COVID-19 related issues, please do not hesitate to reach out the…

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