Category: PAST EVENTS

The international profile of Indonesian literature continues to grow. Pramoedya Ananta Toer, Ayu Utami and Intan Paramaditha, for example, are now globally-recognised authors, and both Eka Kurniawan and Norman Erikson Pasaribu have been longlisted for the International Booker Prize in recent years. This increasing recognition is mainly thanks to the now wide availability of excellent translations…

Read More “Launch of the AIS book club – Wednesday 13 September 2023” »

Monday, 20 March 2023 at  10am-12pm Venue: The National Liberal Club, Whitehall Place, London SW1A 2HE This oversubscribed roundtable was a discussion of the the role of downstream industries in driving Indonesia’s economic transformation, particulary in the electronic vehicle and downstream mineral resources industries The session also dissected strategic sectors of downstream industries powered by sustainable finance initiatives as well…

Read More “The inaugural meeting of the AIS Corporate Briefing Series: Indonesia’s economic development through electric vehicles and downstream mineral resources industries” »

AIS vice-chair Petty Elliott launched her latest book, The Indonesian Table, at the Indonesian Embassy on April 25. In front of dozens of people she discussed her culinary journey from Manado in Sulawesi to Jakarta and then across the archipelago. The book, which contains more than 100 recipes from Sumatra to Papua, can be bought in…

Read More “A Taste of Indonesia. 26th April 6-8pm. The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, London SW1P 2BU.” »

Venue: The Indonesian Embassy, 30 Great Peter Street, Westminster London SW1P 2BU European explorers reached the Banda Islands, the eastern Indonesian archipelago that is home to nutmeg and mace, in 1519. Within 150 years there was not only a global trade in the spices but aficionados were commissioning and collecting objects related to nutmeg from…

Read More “Nutmeg on the Move: Objects of the International Nutmeg Consumer. Tuesday, 14 March 2023 at  6.30 pm for 6.45 pm” »

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…

Read More “Spice Connection: Indonesian Tales From Three Cooks” »

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…

Read More “Exploring Siberut: a trip into the heart of West Sumatra’s Mentawai Islands” »