Max Lane Indonesia Southeast Asia and International Affairs

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See below for January - April schedule so far.

2010

JANUARY

Jan 3, 9.00am, Marxist Education Conference, 72/65 Myrtle St, Chippendale 2008

The Australian Left and solidarity with Asia and East Timor struggles, 1980s-1990s

Jan 4, 4.00pm Marxist Education Conference, 72/65 Myrtle St, Chippendale 2008

Class struggle and nationalism in Indonesia

Register via Ph: (02) 9114 5883 nationaloffice@rsp.org.au

For full programme of Marxist Educational Conference click here

FEBRUARY

Indonesia in 2010: what kind of neighbourhood?

18 Feb, 6.30pm GLEEBOOKS, Glebe Point Rd., Glebe

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An “In Conversation” discussion flowing from Max Lane’s book: UNFINISHED NATION: Indonesia before and after Suharto, (Verso, 2008). Max Lane has just returned to Australia after being based in Singapore and Jakarta for three years.

Ten years after Suharto, the Indonesian government is still banning political films, such as Balibo. The police, prosecutor’s office and the courts are revealed as implicated in plots to frame rivals, including in the anti-corruption agencies, but nobody is arrested and tried. Books are still banned and even burned in public.Ministers claim that natural disasters are God’s response to moral decadence.Raising a flag in Papua still means gaol.

Are these anomalies in a new democratising Indonesia, ot the results of unfinished business in an unfinished nation.

What is going to happen politically in Australia’s largest Asian neighbour, Indonesia – the fourth most populous nation in the world.

The “In Panel” discussion will ne started off by an exchange between author, Max Lane, and the University of Sydney’s professor of Southeast Asian Studies, Dr Adrian Vickers

APRIL

The crisis to come: Indonesia and the politics of 21st century underdevelopment

ASIA INSTITUTE Public Lecture, University of Melbourne

15 April, Thursday 6.30pm

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UBUD WRITERS AND READERS FESTIVAL,
7-11 October, 2009

Thursday
4.45 – 5.45

"Translation as Suka Duka"

Pam Allen
Anton Kurnia
Max Lane

Chair Kadek Krishna

Saturday
2.15 – 3.45
The legacy of Rendra

Doel CP Allisah
Max Lane
Tjahjono Widijanto

Chair Wayan Juniartha

Joesoef was right

Joesoef Isak, journalist, publisher, political activist, fighter against injustice, passed away in his sleep at 1.30am 15 August, 2009 aged 81.

Family, colleagues and friends escorted him to Jeruk Purut cementery, Jakarta, after paying repect to him, each in their own way, at the family house in Duren Tiga, Jakarta. Goenawan Mohammed and Max Lane spoke briefly at the graveside. Family and friends scattered flowers an water on the grave. People prayed or meditated in his honour.

His wife, Asni, his sons and grandchildren living in Jakarta were all there, as were many other relatives, as well as activist and journalist comrades.

Farewell, Joesoef Isak, great friend, great Indonesian

ON JOESOEF ISAK
With Joesoef Isak, publisher and Indonesian intellectual
New book launched honouring Joesoef Isak

At Jeruk Perut Cemetery, Jakarta.

Salute!

The Indonesian left and Green Left Weekly

For 17 years, from 1990 through to 2007, I regularly contributed articles on Indonesian politics to Green Left Weekly, a newspaper published by the Democratic Socialist Party (Democratic Socialist Perspective since 2005). During this period, GLW played a key role in building solidarity with the anti-dictatorship movement in Indonesia, and in particular, with its radical vanguard, Students in Solidarity with Democracy (SMID) and later the Peoples’ Democratic Party (PRD).