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Update – Summary of CDU partnership activities in Indonesia as at 17August 2012

NEW RESEARCH APPLICATIONS

Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesMonitoring impacts and risk: case study of manganese mining in West Timor

CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn Myers, and Mr Rohan Fisher, RIEL.

Funded through AUSAID’S PSLP program.The objective of the Activity is to enable the provincial and district governments in West Timor to monitor manganese mining activities and create basic site risk assessments.

1 May 2012 – 31 July 2013

Lead: Provincial Environment Protection Authority (BLHD, Badan Lingkungan Hidup Daerah)

Others: Nusa Cendana University (UNDANA), Provincial Mining Department, NGOs: WALHI (Indonesian Forum for the Environment), CARE

1. Review of the extent and range of impacts of manganese mining in West Timor from workshop contributions by 14 Indonesian officers (representing government, university and NGOs) and Australian government and university partners.

2. 24 district, 4 provincial, 2 NGO (CARE) and 1 university staff member trained in rapid field data collection, mapping and monitoring methods.

3. Ten Indonesian staff (3 provincial government, 4 district and 3 university staff) trained in providing training in simple and appropriate mapping and monitoring methods.

4. Preliminary assessment report of extent of manganese mining in West Timor.

5. Preliminary assessment report of impacts of manganese mining (environmental and social) from mapping and field activities.

6. Report outlining a method for basic site risk assessment in a low resource context.

Mapping the Determinants of Maternal and Infant Mortality in Eastern Indonesia using Geospatial Information Systems: creating synergies

CDU Contacts: Menzies School of Health Research (MSHR); Dr Bronwyn Myers, Rohan Fisher, RIEL, and Dr Suzanne Belton, Senior Lecturer.

Funded as a Menzies seed grant.

This project will conduct the preliminary data analysis and negotiations with potential partners in order to prepare a submission for ARC linkage project funding.

January 2012 – December 2012

Hasanuddin University,Universitas Nusa Cendana, NTT provincial Health Dept, Health Dept Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS – West Timor)

The study will describe and analyse the main factors determining the efficacy of maternal and neonatal health services, linking data for infrastructure (health worker skills and facilities), MNHS indicators, and the distribution of fertile age women, within a spatial framework by using geographic information system (GIS) applications.

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesSMS tools for health monitoring and surveillance in eastern Indonesia.


Funded through AUSAID’S PSLP program.

This Activity aims to improve the effectiveness of health data reporting by adapting and implementing a computer-based system for requesting, receiving and managing data reported by SMS. This system will be efficient, simple, inexpensive, and designed for easy roll out in all districts and clinics.

June 2012 - 30 Dec 2013

Lead: Provincial Health Department (NTT). District health departments of Timor Tengah Selatan (TTS), Ngada and Sumba Timur, Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Bureau of Statistics (BPS)

1. Health staff (total 38), engaged in designing, implementing and evaluating a SMS health reporting system from clinics to district office in 3 districts, and from 19 midwives to 2 clinics. 2. Fourteen district staff, 12 clinic staff and 12 village midwives trained in the use of Frontline SMS.3. Broad scale assessment of the potential limitations of Frontline SMS due to the mobile phone signal coverage based on location of signal towers, topography and ground truthing.4. A bilingual, written review of the lessons learnt from the implementation and evaluation of the system at district and clinic levels, with the purpose of informing further rollout of the system throughout NTT and possibly to inform more effective and efficient implementation of other aspects of the health reporting system in NTT and in other provinces.

Integrated catchment management for improved rural livelihoods in West Timor and East Timor: valuing environmental services


Crawford fund support for a workshops in West Timor exploring Payment for Environmental services research.

December 2012 – May 2013

NTT Catchment management forum, Provincial government agencies (Environment, Forestry, Agriculture, Mining, Planning), District government agencies of TTS, TTU, Belu, Kupang Districts (Planning, Forestry, Agriculture)

Key government staff and advisors to governments in eastern Indonesia will gain skills in using simple tools to investigate the costs and benefits of a range of land use scenarios.

Evaluating policy options and their expected impacts on rural livelihoods and food security.

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesEcosystem services and livelihood opportunities for Indigenous ruralcommunities in savannalandscapes of northernAustralia, eastern Indonesia, Timor-Leste, and PNG.

CDU Contacts: Dr Jeremy Russell-Smith, Prof Andrew Campbell, Dr Bronwyn Myers, Mr Rohan Fisher, RIEL.

ACEAS and UNU supported workshop and on-going collaborations

May 2012 with on-going writing and collaboration

Inst Public Affairs, PNG; Portland State Uni USA; WWF PNG; UNU; ACIAR; APN Aurukun; Sustainable Dev Program PNG; NAILSMA; BushfiresNT; CSIRO

Workshop to investigate valuing environmental services in case study catchments in PNG, Timor-Leste, eastern Indonesia, northern Australia, and to explore opportunities for improving Indigenous livelihoods in rural communities. Workshop has been followed by collaborations in writing papers.

Quantification of blue carbon stocks on flows in Darwin Harbour

CDU Project Leader: Dr Natasha Stacey, Snr Research Fellow and Theme Leader Natural Resource Based Livelihoods, (RIEL).

Clint Cameron starts with CDU in July 2012 and will be leading the proposal development and discussions with Indonesian partners etc.

Seed funding obtained from the NT Government Innovation Board to support the Australian component of the AUD$3 million research Program on “Rehabilitating Blue Carbon Habitats to Facilitate Sustainable Socioeconomic Development and Enhance Environmental Values” (The RBCH Programme) with potential partners in Indonesia.

October 2011 – October 2012

Application for seed funding: CDU, Worley Parsons, Biodiversity Conservation NRETAS

RBCH - FFI, MAP Indonesia, Indonesian Government, UNEP

The RBCH Programme is a multi-disciplinary, inter-organisational, world-leading collaboration focused on the ecological rehabilitation and enhanced conservation of mangroves (and potentially seagrass beds) in Indonesia as a means of (a) generating tradable, verified Blue Carbon Credits1 under the remit of the recently agreed to REDD+ protocol2; (b) restoring biodiversity values; (c) improving the long-term sustainability of marine resources that communities within project locations are largely dependent on; and (d) demonstrating the feasibility of developing additional in-situ Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Credits3 covering a wider ambit of ecosystem services enhanced (i.e. those ancillary to carbon).

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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS

Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesIncreasing remote sensing capacity in West Timor

CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn Myers, and Mr Rohan Fisher, RIEL, Dr Karen Joyce, SELS.

Training in remote sensing for improved environmental management for undergraduate students and staff of UNDANA and government officers in West Timor

July – Dec 2011 UNDANA, Australia Indonesia Institute, LAPAN (Indonesian space agency), BAPPEDALDA (Provincial Environment Agency)

1. Staff and senior students from UNDANA and East Nusa Tenggara (NTT) government staff (total of 30 trainees) trained in the use of remote sensing software.2. Increased likelihood of UNDANA staff having sufficient skills to pursue postgraduate studies, and choosing to come to CDU for postgraduate studies.3. Greater capacity within UNDANA and the government of NTT to carry out, and provide training in, remote sensing methods. 4. Establishment of a support network of users of remote sensing software in West Timor.5. Strengthened links between CDU and UNDANA: responding to a request by UNDANA for capacity building using a locally appropriate and sustainable approach, affirming CDU as a trusted training and research collaborator of UNDANA.6. CDU will produce training materials that will be appropriate for other Indonesian and East Timorese universities, government departments and NGOs.

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesNatural resource management and enterprise development: can they improve indigenous livelihoods? (Indonesian component: West Timor).

CDU Contacts: Prof Own Stanley (SER) and Dr Natasha Stacey, Snr Research Fellow (RIEL) .

Exploring the constraints to, and opportunities for, enterprise development and NRM at the two study sites, with a focus on at least three case study products or initiatives at each site. Investigation into incentives and disincentives that encourage or discourage households to engage in natural resource activities that do not negatively influence biodiversity.

End December 2012 Australian Research Council (ARC)The Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)Norwegian University of Life Sciences (UMB)Threads of Life (ToL)Forestry of Research and Development Agency (FORDA)

Critical appraisal of the role of natural resources in significantly improving livelihoods of Indigenous people. The specific objectives are:(a) To identify and quantify the current patterns of natural resource use in livelihood strategies at two villages in West Timor.(b) To analyse the constraints to, and opportunities for, natural resource management (NRM) and natural product (NP) enterprise development in improving livelihoods.(c) To identify strategies based on natural resources that will lead to livelihood improvement.

Involves PhD study by Ms. Ermi Koeslulat (enrolled in PhD in Forestry at UGM with CDU staff supervisors) and villages based enterprise development with YPBB.

A writing workshop has been held with Indonesian partners from Threads of Life (YPBB Yayasan Pecinta Budaya Bebali (YPBB)) and CIFOR and FORDA (Indonesian Forestry Research Agency) during 25-27th Oct 2010 in Bali. One joint paper 'Opportunities and Constraints to Natural Resource enterprises: case studies from northern Australia and eastern Indonesia' is in Preparation.

CDU staff (Natasha Stacey, Owen Stanley, Julian Gorma, Michael Honer, Ram Vemuri, Tony Cunningham), PhD students (Ermi Keosulate - UGM, Michael Honer) and Indonesia partner agency (William Ingram, YPBB; Surjawo Sujatmoke (FORDA) and Dani Achidawan (CIFOR) as authors.

Other papers on case study work in West Timor on Lontar enterprises and livelihoods to be prepared. http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/pen/_ref/home/index.htm

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesImplementation of biosecurity policy and strategy across the whole Province of Maluku, Indonesia.

Contacts: Prof Ian Falk (CDU), Theo Litaay (CDU PhD Student), Mrs. Sinda Titaley (Maluku government), Prof Tonny Pariela (Pattimura University).

Maluku provincial government work with AusindoBiocom project to develop biosecurity policy and strategy of implementation.

2010-2015 CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Pattimura Ambon (UNPATTI), Satya Wacana University, UNDANA Kupang, and UNMAS Denpasar.

Two planning workshops had been conducted, produced the strategy of biosecurity policy implementation in Maluku province.

One research project by Pattimura University and CDU researchers is ongoing to produce school book materials regarding biosecurity issues and biodiversity. The ongoing project also supporting organic farming research by local farmers supported by district government budget.

One monitoring workshop to be conducted in April 2011.

One group of local biosecurity stakeholders had been established produced pilot project proposal in district level, supported by CDU and Maluku Province government.

All the Outcomes above are also driven through Northern Territory University’s alums in Ambon: Professor Hermien Soselisa (Ph.D from NTU, Anthropology) and Professor Tonny Pariela (MA from NTU, Anthropology).

Human and Dog Rabies infection in Bali.

CDU contact: Dr Rama Jayaraj, Lecturer-Allied Health, FEHSE, in conjunction with Professor Wayan Batan and Dr Abdul Azis from Udyana University, Denpasar, Bali

Around 130 people have died on Bali from rabid dog bites in the last two and a half years.Rabies data from health centres across Bali since the 2008 outbreak have been analysed. The virus appears to be re-occurring in areas where it was once controlled.

On-going CDU and Udayana University, Bali

Funding to support a vaccine program for dogs.

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesArafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum (ATSEF)/Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Program consultancy work: contribute to project outputs (reports; papers; literature reviews; seminars etc).

CDU Contact: Dr Natasha Stacey, Snr Research Fellow, RIEL as ATSEF International Consultant.

Other CDU staff in-kind support to ATSEF and participation on regional steering committee (Prof Bob Wasson CDU Adjunct and , Prof Karen Edyvane, ATRF/RIEL)

Consultancy to provide support to development of the Global Environment Facility (GEF)/United Nations Development Program (UNDP)/ Arafura and Timor Seas Experts Forum (ATSEF)/ Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Proposal project, and project Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA).

Refer Other CDU Initiatives for more information about the Arafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum (ATSEF)

2008-2012 Arafura and Timor Seas Experts Forum (ATSEF)Global Environment Facility (GEF)United Nations Development Program (UNDP)

The focus of the Framework Transboundary Diagnostic Analysis (TDA) report is to identify priority issues of a transboundary nature in the Arafura and Timor Seas (ATS) as a basis in which to complete the Arafura Timor Seas Ecosystem Action Program (ATSEA) Full Scale Program (FSP) Proposal.

ATSEA program website: http://atsea-program.org/

ATSEF Australia website: http://atsefaustralia.net/

Stacey, N., Nurhakim, S., Nugroho, D., Soselisa, H., Resosudarmo, B., Kalis, O., Monteiro, J., Prescott, J., Martin, J. and Karam, J. (2011). Socio-economic Profile of the Arafura and Timor Seas. Report prepared for the Arafura Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Program. Charles Darwin University, Darwin, 100 pps.

And citations to Biophysical Profile, socioeconomic profile and TDA report.

Journal papers from above outputs in preparation and conference presentations delivered by CDU researchersIn 2011-2012.

Enterprise and Entrepreneurship Development, Accessing Local Knowledge to Achieve Economic and Social Sustainability through Enterprise (site: Rote Island)

Contacts: Dr Marthen nDoen Lecturer in Economics, Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW); Ms Ruth Wallace SPiL, CDU; Prof Ian Falk, School of Education (SE), CDU; Ms Helti Mampouw, Lecturer, UKSW.

The research aims to identify the role and processes undertaken by enterprise and entrepreneurship that operate in the transmission of local knowledge on plant biosecurity and food security at a local community level and at a national or international policy level.

On-going CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW).

1. Report on research2. Chapter in Springer book on same

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesMapping health indicators and health infrastructure in East Nusa Tenggara, eastern Indonesia

CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn Myers, Rohan Fisher, RIEL, and Dr Suzanne Belton, Senior Lecturer, Menzies School of Health Research (MSHR)

Provincial and district health department officers will be trained in rapid field collection and visualisation of health data, using inexpensive equipment and simple, free software. Indonesian officers will be trained to give training in these methods. The impacts of the implementation of a clinic patient database will be assessed.

Sept 2009 - Sept 2010

June 2011 - Dr Bronwyn Myers (RIEL), Dr Suzanne Belton (MSHR) and Ms Frederika Rambu Ngana (UNDANA) undertook a pilot study of maternal health care in a subdistrict in West Timor supported by CDU special initiatives funding.

Provincial and District Health Departments in Nusa Tenggara Timur (NTT), Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), AusAID

There will be greater capacity at the district and provincial levels in eastern Indonesia for collecting reliable health data and mapping these data to inform resource allocation for more equitable health service provision.

Marine Habitat Mapping and Impact Assessment in Kupang Bay (West Timor)

CDU Contact: Professor Karen Edyvane, (ATRF and RIEL)

Pilot activity under the CDU-UNDANA MOU and developing CDU-UNDANA Marine Science Collaboration.

Joint project with Department of Fisheries and Marine Science, Nusa Cendana University (UNDANA).

Trialling a new model of measuring and evaluating regional development

CDU Contact: Prof Ian Falk, Chair in Rural and Remote Education and member of the AusIndo BIOCOM Steering Committee

CDU PhD student Ms Megha Raut (and Principal Economist, NT Government) is working with Professor Husri Muadz, UNRAM on the project.

2011 - 2014 CDU/AusIndo BIOCOM, NT Government and Universitas Mataram, Lombok (UNRAM)

Funded through the CDU/NT Government partnership with possible additional support through an NTRI grant or similar.

A trialled and evaluated new model of measuring and evaluating regional development

Examination of the role of ethics in development matters.

CDU Contact: Prof Ian Falk, Chair in Rural and Remote Education and member of the AusIndo BIOCOM Steering Committee.

An examination of development issues in particular the nature of ‘ethics’ across cultures and regions in Indonesia.

July 2011 – December 2012

CDU/Ausindo BIOCOM and Semarang National University, Central Java.

Keynote paper and refereed conference proceedings – International Seminar “Morality in Development”, Semarang, July 2011

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesGlossary for Biosecurity Management.Eastern Indonesia Knowledge Transfer through Bilingual Publications (site: Eastern Indonesia)

Contacts: Prof Kaler Surata,Universitas Mahasaraswati (UNMAS) and Prof Ian Falk, School of Education (SE), CDU.

The research aims to identify the issues surrounding the development of multi-disciplinary social science and science publications in the management of biosecurity in Northern Australian and Eastern Indonesia.

On-going CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Mahasaraswati (UNMAS).

1. Product developed in 2 languages2. Published in English version in Springer Book forthcoming

The life and poetry of dissident peoples’ poet Wiji Thukul.

Contact: Dr Richard Curtis, Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH, CDU.

The life and poetry of dissident peoples’ poet Wiji Thukul who disappeared during the New Order regime in 1998. He came from solo, Central Java.

On-going Professor Barbara Hatley, University of Tasmania and Y. Tri Subagya, Centre for History and Ethical Politics, Sanata Dharma University, Yogyakarta, Central Java.

CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS

Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: I Wayan Mudita, Lecturer, UNDANA, SPiL, CDU

Managing Citrus Biosecurity in the Highlands of West Timor, Indonesia (site: West Timor)

CDU Supervisors: Prof Ian Falk, Chair of Rural and Remote Education, School of Education (SoE), (Principal Supervisor); Dr Bronwyn Myers, RIEL and Ruth Wallace, SoE (Associate Supervisors)

A study on cross-border management in negotiating the social border for better managing pests and diseases as an important tool preventing the physical border being crossed by incurring pests and pathogens.

On-going CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA).

Level of government awareness of the issue of HLB citrus disease

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: Mr Theo Litaay, Lecturer in Law, UKSW, SPiL

Effective international, national, and local policy frameworks for a new development paradigm (site: Papua, West Papua and East Nusa Tenggara)

Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,Chair of Rural and Remote Education, School of Educatio

A study on the impact of international, national, and local policy and legal frameworks on effective management of biosecurity.

On-going CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW).

1. Draft integrated policy framework for a new development paradigm

PhD project: Eka Martiningsih, Lecturer UNMAS

Gender Issues in the Community Management of Biosecurity in Eastern Indonesia. (site: Eastern Indonesia)

CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,Chair of Rural and Remote Education, School of Education. But not an enrolled CDU student.

The research will identify and discuss the participation of women in collective community management of biosecurity activities.


1. Journal article2. Book Chapter in Springer Book forthcoming

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: Ms Sri Jayantini, Lecturer UNMAS

Knowledge Transfer on Biosecurity through Translation

CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,Chair of Rural and Remote Education, School of Education. But not an enrolled CDU student.

A study on the contribution of translation, particularly scientific translation to the enrichment of both source and target languages as well as the transfer of knowledge due to the language borders among people within a country or in different countries with their various cultures.


1. Co translated journal of 15 papers English/Indonesian2. Book Chapter in Springer Book forthcoming

PhD Project: Frederika Rambu Ngana

CDU Supervisors: Dr Bronwyn Myers RIEL, (Principal Supervisor). Panel to be determined

Project on definition and determinants of remoteness in rural villages in eastern Indonesia with respect to access to health services

DIKTI scholarship holder

September 2012 – Aug 2015

UNDANA Developing research proposal

PhD project: Ms Frances Every.

Supervisors: Dr Natasha Stacey, RIEL; Prof Owen Stanley, SER.

Livelihood pursuits of fishing communities in Maumere Bay, Flores, Indonesia.

2008 - 2013 Balai Besar Riset Sosial Ekonomi (BRKP); Departemen Kelautanan dan Perikan (DKP)

Thesis write-up under way.

PhD and MRes research projects. Pak Rury Eprilurahman – Mres candidate and Ibu Tuty Arisuryanti - PhD candidate - both from UGM.

Supervisor: Prof Chris Austin, HOS, SELS. Attached to the Arafura Timor Research Facility (ATRF).

Both are working in the SELS molecular genetics laboratory researching DNA barcoding of marine fish species.

Commenced 2009Pak Rury to complete MRes in 2012, Ibu Tuty in 2013.

Both DIKTI Scholars

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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD Project: Sarah Hobgen

CDU Supervisors: Dr Bronwyn Myers RIEL, (Principal Supervisor); Prof Bob Wasson, Adjunct Prof, Rohan Fisher, RIEL, and Dr Guy Boggs, Faculty of Engineering, Health, Science and Environment (FEHSE) (Associate Supervisors)

Thesis focuses on the Kambaniru River Catchment Area in Sumba which provides the domestic and agricultural water for the town of Waingapu and the surrounding rice fields.

Current recipient of Prime Asia Australia Award and AINSE scholarship.

March 2009 – March 2013

UNDANA, NGO - KOPPESDA

Presentation at conference at NUS “Quantifying sediment budgets in data poor environments of SE Asia and Northern Australia; a review of Remote Sensing, GIS and isotope based approaches.”

Seminars at ANTARES, CDU, UNDANA

PhD project: Ibu Muamaroh Maftuhin. Academic staff member from UMS.

Supervisor: Dr Paul Black, SoE, CDU

Her topic is entitled: Improving Indonesian students' oral proficiency in English using cooperative learning in Muhammadiyah University of Surakarta.

To be completed 2012

DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Dr Franciscus Thio. Staff member of the Ministry of Health, Indonesia.Graduate of Dentistry, UNHAS.

Supervisor: Dr Richard Price, MSHR

His topic is entitled: Assessing the cost of Malaria illness as the impact of Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DHP) implementation in Timika, Papua.

Complete 2013 PhD scholarship funded through the Australian Leadership Awards (ALA-AusAID) program.

PhD project: Ms Indrawati Asmara. Staff member of UP.

Supervisor: Prof Romy Greiner, RIEL, CDU.

Her topic is entitled: The importance of Pelung Chicken in rural areas of West Java.

2008 - 2012 DIKTI Scholar

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PhD project: Ms Deasyanti Adil. Staff member of UNJ.

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Greg Shaw, SoE, CDU.

Her topic is entitled: Personality characteristics of an effective teacher.

Funded by the Better Education through Reformed Management and Universal Teacher Upgrading (BERMUTU) DIKTI program.


Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: Mr Kussudyarsana. Staff member of UMS.

Supervisor:

His topic is entitled: Role of family in business start-up.

Commenced 2010 ( - 2014)

DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Ms Ratna Suryaratri. Staff member of UNJ.

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Greg Shaw, SoE, CDU.

Her topic is entitled: Comparison between the roles of family in help-seeking behaviour among high school students in Indonesia

Funded by the Better Education through Reformed Management and Universal Teacher Upgrading (BERMUTU) DIKTI program.

PhD project: Ms Sylvia Tonyes. Formerly staff member of UDAYANA. Now a PR and enrolled as a domestic student.

Supervisor: Prof Karen Edyvane, RIEL and ATRF

Her topic is entitled: Mitigating coastal hazards: from hard engineering to ecological engineering measures.

Commenced 2011 - 2014

DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Mr Abdul Razaq Chasani. Staff member of UGM

Supervisor: Prof Karen Edyvane, RIEL and ATRF

Commenced Sem 1 2012 ( - 2015)

DIKTI Scholar

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PhD project: Mr Philiphi de Rozari. Staff member of UNDANA.

Supervisor:

TBA DIKTI Scholar


Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: Mrs Koesoemo Ratih Staff member of UMS.

Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sue Shore, SoE, CDU.

Her topic is entitled: How can we best prepare kindergarten teachers to teach English more effectively?

Commenced Sem 1 2012 ( - 2015)

DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Ms Pratiwi Arum. Staff member of UMS.

Supervisor: Prof Rose McEldowney, SoH, CDU

To commence Sem 2 2012

DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Ms Meika Kurnia. Staff member of UMY.

Supervisor: Prof Don Fuller, SLB, CDU

Her topic is entitled: The presence of strategic vision on the relationship between openness to changes and job involvement.


DIKTI Scholar

PhD project: Ms Evi Warintan Saragih. Staff member of Papua State University. Jayapura.

Supervisor: Dr Sean Bellairs, SELS, CDU

Her topic is entitled: Role of large herbivores on seed dispersal in the nature conservation are.


DIKTI Scholar

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MTEM student working on project in West Timor: Ms Pia Harkness

CDU Supervisors: Dr Bronwyn Myers, Dr Penny Wurm, Rohan Fisher, SELS/RIEL

Her topic is entitled: Food security and land tenure in an irrigated rice growing area, West Timor

Due for submission June 2012

Pia’s thesis grew out of her experience with the EIFI program.

Her findings will support a journal article.

In addition, Pia was a successful Volunteer for International Development Asia (VIDA) candidate and is completing her thesis while working for an environmental NGO in Sumba, Indonesia. Her experience with EIFI and her subsequent Master project contributed to her desire to do this.


Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesPhD project: Ms Ria Fitriana - graduate of ITB

Case study: Pantar Island, Alor District, NTT, Indonesia

Supervisors: Dr Natasha Stacey RIEL and Prof Owen Stanley, SER, and Prof Anthony Cunningham

Assessing the impact of marine protected area to the livelihoods of coastal communities.

End 2012 PhD scholarship funded through the Australian Leadership Awards (ALA-AusAID) program.

Thesis write up underway

One paper on Gender and Fisheries in Pantar Island In PressFitriana, R and Stacey, N. (in review) The role of women in the fishery sector in Pantar Island, Indonesia. Asian

Fisheries Science (Jan 2012)

COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS

Project Details Timeframe Partners Outcomes

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PhD project: Dr Jeanne Rini Poespoprodjo. Graduate of Medicine from UNPAD and Paediatrics from UGM.

She is a paediatrician at the Mimika District Hospital in Timika, Papua, Indonesia. Her main area of interest is maternal and child health.

Supervisors: Dr. Richard Price, MSHR and Dr Nic Anstey, MSHR

Project title: Assessing the efficiency and safety of Dihydroartemisinin-piperaquine (DP) for the treatment of uncomplicated malaria in pregnant women and infants and the impacts of the treatment to the burden of malaria on maternal child health in Timika, Papua Indonesia.

Completed 2011 PhD scholarship funded through the Australian Leadership Awards (ALA-AusAID) program complemented by the Australian Government ALA Allison Sudradjat Award.

In 2004 Rini received a prestigious scholarship from the British Council (the British Chevening Awards) to enrol in a Master of Science program at the Institute of Child Health in London. Her dissertation on maternal child health in Papua was awarded with a distinction.

In 2010, she was given an Indonesian National Appreciation Award conferred by the Vice President of Indonesia for her outstanding contributions to malaria research in Timika, Papua, Indonesia.

More recently she has been invited to review the WHO Malaria control program in pregnancy. She has also been working with the Malaria in Pregnancy consortium (MiP) to investigate the role of IPTp in an area coendemic for P. falciparum and P. vivax.

Rini has also just accepted an invitation by the US Government to attend the International Visitor Leadership Program in the US from July 20th to August 13th 2012. Many prominent country-leaders are the alumni of this prestigious program, including Tony Blair and Julia Gillard.


Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesMRes project: Mr Remi Natoni, field officer, Provincial Agriculture and Estate Crop Service.

The use of mobile technology and GIS on biosecurity.

CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,Chair of Rural and Remote Education, SoE, CDU. But not an enrolled CDU student.

A study on the use of mobile technologies for the purpose of providing local communities access for their knowledge to be recognized and effectively used for pest and diseases scouting.

On-going CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA).

Early stage of research.

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Sustainability of outcomes of a fire management project in eastern Indonesia

CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn Myers, RIEL, and Prof Stephen Garnett, SER.

A fire management project http://fireindon.cdu.edu.au/ was conducted in East Sumba and central Flores from 2002 to 2005 (with ACIAR funding and CRC Trop Savannas support). The impacts of the project were assessed in 2008 to measure the “sustainability” of the outcomes of this project, and described in terms of the five capitals of the livelihoods framework.

May 2008 – May 2010 ACIAR, NT Bushfires Council Greater understanding of the enablers and limiters of the sustainability of project impacts beyond the funding period for a rural development project in eastern Indonesia.

Peer-reviewed article to be published.



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Impacts of Government Rice Subsidy Program (RASKIN) on Food Security of Two Villages in West Timor

Contacts: Dr Bronwyn Myers, RIEL, Mr Sam Pickering, Research Associate for RIEL/SELS, CDU;Ms Wiendyati, Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA); Ms Vidyahwati Tenrisanna, Hasanuddin University.

The impacts of the Indonesian government rice subsidy program were assessed in two poor rural villages in West Timor. The study was a collaboration with Indonesian academics under the Australia Indonesian Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP).


Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), Hasanuddin University (UNHAS), Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership (AIGRP), ANU, AusAID.

Greater understanding of the impacts of subsidised rice on communities of largely subsistence farmers, traditionally having maize as their staple food, and the importance of understanding local social and economic conditions when designing aid programs. Policy Brief to be published by the Crawford School at ANU (final draft under review). A peer-reviewed journal paper to be written.

Managing Biosecurity across Borders

Contact: Prof Ian Falk, School of Education (SE), CDU.

Indonesian in-country project administered through the AusIndoBIOCOM Consortium of 7 partners.

2010 CDU, Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd), Universitas Mahasaraswati (UNMAS), Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana (UKSW), Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timur Indonesia (BaKTI), Pacific Institute for Sustainable Development (PI).

A bilingual, bi-country journal on the biosecurity research.

A book on the research Managing Biosecurity across Borders with Springer, forthcoming 2010.

The establishment of Australia Indonesia Biosecurity Community Management (AusIndo BIOCOM), a bi-country network of biosecurity stakeholders that manages biosecurity research and knowledge exchange

Establishment of an infrastructure for managing biosecurity in Eastern Indonesian region.

Forest cover change analysis in the Kupang Regency of West Timor using a Landsat image time series (1972-2006)

CDU Contact: Mr Rohan Fisher, RIEL.

Analysis of a time series of satellite imagery with on ground validation to describe forest cover change in the district of Kupang in West Timor. Interviews with government officials, academics and community members to determine the perceptions of the main causes and impacts of forest cover change at 4 sites.


BAPEDALDA NTT, Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), Forestry departments of Kupang district and NTT province.

Critical assessment of forest cover change in the district of Kupang in West Timor and an exploration of the implications of forest land classification, and a description and analysis of the perceptions of the causes of forest change.

Time series of forest cover maps created. Book chapter published in Fisher et al (2009) GIS applications in eastern Indonesia and Timor Leste CDU Press. Thesis is completed and accepted. Peer-reviewed article has been submitted for publication.



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Biogeography of birds in the Lesser Sundas – relationships with island area, location and distance.

Contacts: Colin Trainor, Richard Noske, and John Woinarski, NRETA

Analysed distribution patterns of 252 land bird species across 51 Lesser Sunda Islands including Timor the largest, to disentangle the impact of island area, isolation and location (eg. relative distance from continental Asia and Australia) looking at individual species responses and various sub-groupings such as global status and strength of association with tropical forest.

Also examined composition of Pleistocene era islands to explore whether past island area had a present day imprint on bird richness.

2003-2010 Desktop study Results relate to landscape-scale fragmentation and impacts on individual species and specialised species groups.

The present-day island area and the degree of isolation are the major factors underlying variation in bird species richness and composition in the Lesser Sundas. There was greater spatial turnover in the assemblage of specialist bird sub-groups than non-specialist species. These differences relate to the variable dispersal capacity of forest specialists, compared to non-specialist bird species that use a broad range of habitats, disperse more, and are less strongly controlled by physical characteristics of islands.

Thesis chapter, potentially several journal articles

The ant fauna of Timor and neighbouring islands: potential bridges between the disjunct faunas of South-East Asia and Australia

Contacts: Colin Trainor, and Alan Andersen, CSIRO.

Timor is the second largest island in the poorly known Wallacea biological hotspot. We examined biogeographic patterns of ant communities on Timor and five adjacent islands (Atauro, Wetar, Alor, Pantar and Lembata), and explored patterns of richness and community composition across broad environmental gradients (tall evergreen forest to grassland, originally through various stages of regenerating forest from swidden but sampling was not great enough to examine in detail) in Lautem District, Timor-Leste.

2003-2010 CSIRO, Timor-Leste Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries (MAF)

Journal article accepted in Australian Journal of Zoology.

The Timor ant fauna is dominated by taxa of South East Asian origin (76% of native species), and has only weak Australian affinities (18%) but this included several species thought to be Australian endemics. The latter figure is even smaller (14%) for the neighbouring islands, reflecting their closer proximity to South East Asia. In contrast to Australia, there was no clear disjunction between the ant faunas of contrasting tropical forest and savanna habitats sampled in Lautem district because the Timor ant fauna is dominated by South East Asian tropical forest taxa, with Australian savanna woodland taxa being poorly represented.



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Understanding the Whale shark; its migratory patterns in eastern Indonesia and the potential to develop whale shark monitoring and conservation opportunities for Indonesian fishers.

CDU Contacts: Dr Natasha Stacey, RIEL, Snr Research Fellow.

Little is known about the whale shark’s migration and aggregation patterns, population dynamics, and threats.

The project involved research with fishers in Timor and Rote Island, investigating local knowledge of the whale shark’s migration patterns, and complementing previous scientific tracking of whalesharks.

Completed.A final report was submitted to CDU Research Panel and a journal article published.

CDU SER: the Australian Institute of Marine Science; Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), Mr Jotham Ninef (Consultant)

This research has the potential to grow into a monitoring program or a whale shark sea-ranger group that could supplement the livelihoods of locals through alternatives to fishing, as well as collaboratively manage whale sharks that do not recognise international borders.

Stacey, N., Karam, J., Meekan, M., Pickering, S., Ninef, J. (2012). Prospects for whale shark conservation in easternIndonesia through Bajo traditional ecological knowledge andcommunity-based monitoring. Conservation and Society 10(1): 63-75

Enterprise development, value chains and evaluation of non-timber forest products for agroforestry systems in West Timor, Flores, Sumba and Savu, eastern Indonesia.

CDU Contacts: Tony Cunningham, Adjunct Professorial Research Fellow and Sam Pickering, Research Associate for SER/RIEL.

Increasing household income and people’s well-being in a sustainable way in eastern Indonesia is a major challenge. This project will focus on the link between livelihoods and local enterprises based on non-timber forest products (NTFP’s).

Completed.Final report co-authored by Adjunct Prof Tony Cunningham - Hidden Economies, future options: trade in non-timber forest products in eastern Indonesia.published as a monograph by ACIAR July 2011.

Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR)Threads of Life (ToL)Yayasan Pecinta Budaya Bebali (YPBB)Forestry Research and Development Agency (FORDA)Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA)

Identification and evaluation of non-timber forest product species that may have potential for incorporation into agroforestry systems to enhance the incomes of farming communities in pilot-study sites on Flores, Sumba, Savu and West Timor.

Publication: Pancasila Sakti: Sacred Authority of the Pancasila in Indonesian Law and Society’,

CDU contact: Mr Danial Kelly, Lecturer in Law, SLB

Jurnal Yustika: Media Hukum dan Keadilan

(University of Surabaya Law School Journal) Volume 13 Number 2, December 2010 (ISSN: 1410 -7724).

Published December 2010

University of Surabaya Law School


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Project Details Timeframe Partners OutcomesSocio-Economic Professional Skills Training Workshop to AFMA (Australian Fisheries Management Authority)/DKP (Indonesia Fisheries) Officers.

CDU Contacts: Dr Natasha Stacey, RIEL, Snr Research Fellow and Sam Pickering, Research Associate for SER/RIEL.

Workshop Objectives: identify key socioeconomic parameters for MOU Box fisheries management, design test, implement bilingual survey protocols, and report back on survey results.

2009 AusAID (funded)Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)DKP (Indonesia Fisheries) Officers.Department of the Environment, Water, Heritage and the Arts (DEWHA).

This short consultancy trained and assisted the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Department of Environment, Heritage and The Arts and Indonesian Marine and Fisheries Agency staff in socioeconomic baseline assessments and monitoring skills to undertake a survey of current Indonesian traditional fisheries operating at Scott Reef in the Timor Sea.

Publication: ‘GIS Applications for Sustainable Development and Good Governance in Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste’

CDU Contact: Mr Rohan Fisher, RIEL.

Derived from a CDU/UNDANA conference on GIS applications held in Kupang, May 2008. This bilingual English/Indonesian) publication represents an important (unique) set of papers describing the application of such ‘high technology’ as appropriate technology within a remote/regional and developing country context.

Published Sept 2009 Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA).

Successful collaboration between CDU and a regional university, raising CDU’s profile in the region.

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OTHER CDU INITIATIVESInitiative Details Timeframe

Arafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum (ATSEF)

The Arafura and Timor Seas Expert Forum (ATSEF) is a collaborative arrangement between government and non-government organisations from Indonesia, Timor Leste and Australia that aims to address common research priorities and to improve management of natural resources of the Arafura and Timor Seas

In April 2008, ATSEF was advised by the United Nations Global Environment Facility (GEF) that a funding bid for a project known as the Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Program had been approved. The objective of the ATSEA Program is to develop the framework for integrated, cooperative, sustainable and ecosystem-based management of the living coastal and marine resources of the Arafura and Timor Seas.

The ATSEA Program involves two phases – an initial (9 month) Project Preparation Grant phase and a four year Full Scale Program.

Timor-Leste through the Marine and Affairs and Fisheries Department currently chairs the ATSEF Regional Secretariat .

ATSEF’s five programme priorities for research collaboration are as follows: Improving information on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the

Arafura and Timor Seas, Sustaining fish stocks, marine habitats and coastal and marine biodiversity, Understanding marine, coastal, and catchment system dynamics, Assisting sustainable and/or alternative livelihoods for coastal, traditional and

indigenous communities, and Improving capacity for data information, management and sharing between

the littoral nations of the seas.

CDU supports ATSEF through representation on regional and national steering committees (Prof Bob Wasson), consultancy work (Dr Natasha Stacey) and research.

2008 - 2013

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ATSEF/ATSEA

Activities that contribute to the Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) Program, or regional activities of the Arafura and Timor Seas experts Forum (ATSEF)

Biophysical Profile of the ATS region At the Biophysical Profile workshop (September 2010), teams were identified to develop four thematic papers which will be collated to form the Biophysical Profile for the ATS. Teams for thematic papers as identified at the workshop are as follows (these may have subsequently changed):

- Geomorphology, Catchments, Material Flux and BathymetryDan Alongi (lead), Bob Wasson, Sugiarta Wirasantosa, Manuel de Silva- Marine BiodiversityKaren Edyvane (lead) Jotham Ninef, Andrew Heyward (AIMS), Constancio de Silva (MAF – TL), Bambang Sumiono (MAFF)- OceanographyRestu Nur Avi Ati (lead) Fernando da Silva, Widodo, Craig Steinburg (CSIRO), John Church (CSIRO)- Climate changeOdete Guterres (lead) Tukul Rameyo Adi, Dr Andrew Tupper (Bureau of Meteorology, NT - suggested but not present at meeting)

Dan Alongi from AIMS is the ‘Biophysical Profile Coordinator’, and will collate the above thematic papers and prepare the Biophysical Profile for the TDA. His role in this capacity is supported by AIMS and DSEWPAC.

Socio economic Profile of the ATS region Dr Natasha Stacey is the Socio Economic Profile Coordinator, and will be compiling and preparing input to develop the Socio Economic Profile for the ATS. Her role in this capacity is supported by DSEWPAC.

It is understood that Jim Prescott from AFMA may be contributing to the fisheries component of the Socio economic profile (other contributors are uncertain).

Contributing organisations: Charles Darwin University (CDU) Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water,

Population and Communities (DSEWPaC) Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research

Organisation (CSIRO) Australia Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)

Update as per ATSEF Australia Planning Meeting – Tuesday 8th March 2011

ATSEF/ATSEA

Socio-Economic Professional Skills Training Workshop to AFMA (Australian Fisheries Management Authority)/DKP (Indonesia Fisheries) Officers.

Contacts: Dr Natasha Stacey, CDU; Jim Prescott AFMA

This short consultancy to train and assist the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, DSEWPaC and Indonesian Marine and Fisheries Agency staff in socioeconomic baseline assessments and monitoring skills to undertake surveys of current Indonesian traditional fisheries operating at Scott Reef in the Timor Sea. AusAID (funded); Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA); DKP (Indonesia Fisheries) Officers.

Proposed August 2011( previously held in 2009)

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Eastern Indonesia Field Studies Intensive – a collaborative curriculum development project

Contact: Dr Penny Wurm, RIEL.

Staff of three Indonesian universities (Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW), Salatiga, and Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), and now Gadjah Mada University (UGM) have collaborated with CDU to develop the curriculum of a shared field studies unit with field activities in West Timor carried out by students from the 4 universities and supervised by staff from the 4 universities. Field activities focus on rural development issues with collaboration of village leadership.

Ongoing

Unit development: April 2006 – Nov 2009.

First offering of the unit: Dec 2009.

Second Offering: June 2011.

Report-back to village: June 2012.

Third Offering: June 2013

Universitas Nusa Cendana (UNDANA), UKSW, UGM ATSE Crawford Fund.

Successful collaborative development and offering of a shared unit of study which is problem-based, and student-focused. A departure from the model of exporting units of study. The foundation of on-going collaboration between CDU and two Indonesian universities.

Bilingual technical report distributed to participating and other interested students, agencies and institutions

Bilingual journal article (accepted 2012) in Indonesian journal Kritis

Project proposal concept note for ACIAR (in preparation, draft submitted for comment)

Some 40 undergraduate participants - including 9 CDU enrolees, three of whom secured employment opportunities directly related to EIFI, one of whom is currently living and working in Indonesia

Coursework Master thesis at CDU (likely to form basis of publication)

Increased capacity of CDU staff to engage with regional rural development problems, and understanding of public administration and NRM policy.

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Frans Seda English Language Scholarships funded by the NT Government

In honour of the former Northern Territory Representative in Indonesia, Mr Frans Seda AM, the Territory Government has established a scholarship program for suitable Indonesian candidates, to improve their English language proficiency prior to undertaking undergraduate, postgraduate and/or research study at Charles Darwin University (CDU).

Each scholarship will pay the tuition fees for a 10-week intensive English language training course at CDU, valued at $3300.

One scholarship per applicant only. Three scholarships will be offered per annum for three years commencing

in 2011. Preference will be given to candidates from Mr Seda’s home region of

Eastern Indonesia. NOTE: travel and accommodation costs are not included in the scholarship.

2011, 2012 and 2013

Graduates thus far:

2011 Ibu Ira Febriana, 12 Sept to 18 Nov. Looking to

commence PhD studies at CDU in 2012 Ibu Ratih Koesoemo, 12 Sept to 18 Nov.

Commenced PhD studies at CDU in Nov 2011 (under the DIKTI scholarship program)

Ms Desak Made Widyaningsih, 12 Sept to 18 Nov. Commenced MEd in 2012.

Incoming students in 2012

Pak Nelson Sula is scheduled to commence 10 weeks of English at CDU partner English language facility - Navitas English on Monday 25 June. It is intended that he continue on to complete a Master of Tropical and Environmental Management at CDU via an AusAID Scholarship in 2013.

Teaching

Regional Universities Indonesian Language Initiative (RUILI)


CDU is the administrative hub (for next 3 years) of the intensive in country Indonesian language program run over six weeks in January-February each year at the Language Centre, University of Mataram, Lombok.

This in country program belongs to a consortium of universities known as RUILI (Regional Universities Indonesian language Initiative) which include CDU, USC, UTAS, UNE. The program website is: http://your.usc.edu.au/wacana/lombok/

To 2019

Teaching

Australian Consortium for In Country Indonesian Studies (ACICIS)


CDU is also a member of the ACICIS in country program which students of Indonesian from CDU attend.

More information is available at: http://www.acicis.murdoch.edu.au/

Amongst other universities, ACICIS works with UGM, ISI and Sanata Dharma in Yogyakarta.

On-going

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http://www.acicis.murdoch.edu.au/

http://your.usc.edu.au/wacana/lombok/


Teaching

Endeavour English Language Teaching Fellowships (ELTF)

Contacts: Dr Richard Curtis, Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH, CDU and Danial Kelly, Lecturer in Law, SLB, CDU.

The 2010 ELTF Bahasa Indonesia study program comprised a three-week residential intensive language study and cultural program held from 1 – 21 January 2010.

The language training component took place at the Casuarina campus of CDU. The Bahasa Indonesia language and cultural study program was organised by the School of Art and Humanities at CDU and was based in and around Darwin.

The program consisted of Indonesian language and cultural activities including visits to Indonesian communities in and around Darwin to enable Awardees to maximise their professional learning opportunities. Awardees had the opportunity to improve their language proficiency and collect authentic language and cultural resources.

On-going

BRIDGE University Pilot Program

Contact: Dr Richard Curtis, Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH, CDU

$23,608 has been awarded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) to Dr Richard Curtis to fund the BRIDGE University Pilot Program in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is used to facilitate authentic and creative learning exchanges between first year students from various disciplinary areas studying General English language at UNDANA and Indonesian language at CDU.

June 2012

Wallacea Research Group CDU is one of 22 institutions from Asia, Australia, Europe and North America engaged in research on the biogeography or evolution of Wallacean taxa.

Wallacea is a region in Eastern Indonesia comprising thousands of islands separated by deep water straits from the continental islands to the West (Sundaland: Borneo, Java and Sumatra) and East (New Guinea).

For more information go to: http://www.wallacea.info/

On-going

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http://www.wallacea.info/

http://www.cdu.edu.au/

2012 ‘Wallace-Darwin’ Science Symposium

Celebrating the 56th Anniversary of Hasanuddin UniversityMakassar – Wakatobi, Indonesia

Theme: Understanding and Sustaining the Social-Ecological Systems of the ‘Wallacea’ Region for Biodiversity & Human Well-being

Hosted jointly by Hasanuddin University (UNHAS) and CDU.

4 – 7 September 2012


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Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UGM

Signed between Charles Darwin University, and the Indonesian universities: Gadjah Mada University (UGM), Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW), and Nusa Cendana University (UNDANA) principally to pursue opportunities to conduct collaboration under the framework of the Indonesian Government’s DIKTI scholarship program.

The School of Law at UGM is keen to consolidate its relationship with CDU’s School of Law. Both institutions are keen to continue the delivery of intensive law courses at UGM and to develop a twinning program that would be delivered in English. A technical agreement outlining delivery will sit under the current MOU with UGM (similar to the UMS model).

CDU School of Law lecturers Jeswynn Yogaratnam and Danial Kelly have delivered several short courses in law at UGM since 2009 and continue to be invited to deliver on a range of topics including “Human rights relating to asylum seekers - myths and truths” and “English Legal Skills”, Danial Kelly has also been involved with curriculum development for UGM’s International undergraduate law program.

Signed 2010


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Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with UMS

Signed between CDU and Universitas Muhammadiyah Surakarta (UMS). The MOA supports the mutual desire of both universities to promote further cooperation for the purpose of delivering a degree twinning program, undertaking academic and cultural exchange, collaborative research and any other area of cooperation to be mutually agreed upon.

Since 2009, CDU has hosted three groups of UMS academic staff who have participated in 20 week and 12 week programs incorporating a combination of intensive English language training and course auditing.

The first group of 6 staff from the Faculty of Economics spent 20 weeks in early 2010 assigned to the CDU School of Law and Business within the Faculty of Law, Education, Business and Arts. The outcome being a Memoranda of Technical Agreement to deliver a degree twinning program developed by the two faculties.

The second group of 6 academics from the Schools of Engineering, Nursing, Communication Science and Information Technology spent 12 weeks in late 2010 with their CDU counterpart schools pursuing a combination of intensive English language training and course auditing. The outcome of this program being an agreement to expand the MoA to include further collaboration in nursing with at least 1 staff member applying to CDU to complete her PhD as part of her DIKTI scholarship application.

The third group of 4 academics from the Schools of Engineering, Law and Economics spent 12 weeks in early 2011 with their CDU counterpart schools pursuing a combination of intensive English language training and course auditing. The outcome of this program being an agreement to expand the MoA to include further collaboration in engineering and law with at least 2 staff members applying to CDU to complete their PhD’s as part of their DIKTI scholarship applications.

CDU currently has 3 UMS scholars completing PhD programs on DIKTI scholarships.

CDU expects to host another delegation of UMS academic staff from the Schools of Law, Nursing and Engineering in late November/early December 2011 to further progress collaboration between the two universities.

Signed November 2009.

Collaboration ongoing and strengthening.

OTHER CDU INITIATIVES

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Initiative Details Timeframe

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with UMY

Signed between CDU and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY). The MOU supports the mutual desire of both universities to promote further cooperation for the purpose of undertaking academic and cultural exchange, and research.

The prospect of delivering short courses in law delivered by staff within SLB, in particular Professor Les McCrimmon and Mr Jeswynn Yogaratnam, were integral to the establishment of this relationship.

Also interested in the longer term, developing a law twinning program along the lines of the CDU/UGM model, but in the short to medium term focusing on staff/student exchange and facilitating intensive courses.

Signed April 2011

Possible ways of collaboration between the School of Law at Udayana University, Bali and the School of Law at CDU are currently being explored.

Prof Les McCrimmon and Jeswynn Yogaratnam have been visiting UDAYANA since 2011. Both Schools of Law are keen to establish an MOU.

At exploratory stage.

Agreement of Cooperation

Contact: Prof Ian Falk, School of Education (SE), CDU.

Between Mahasaraswati University (UNMAS), Denpasar and Charles Darwin University (CDU) with the objective of promoting cooperation and common interests in education and research.

This Agreement establishes the basis to develop mutually beneficial opportunities for cooperation in the following areas: 1. Exchange of research and academic information2. Development and sharing of courses3. Exchange of research staff and postgraduate students4. Conducting joint research projects5. Any other areas of co-operation to be mutually agreed upon by the Parties.

Signed June 2011

Letter of Agreement for Research Collaboration

Contact: Ruth Wallace, Research Champion, SE, CDU

Between the Centre for Gender Research and Studies, Satya Wacana Christian University, (UKSW) Salatiga, Indonesia and the Social Partnership in Learning Research Consortium, CDU.

Program title: The Improvement of Conservation and Product Competitiveness based on “Putting-Out” System, and Home Workers Empowerment in the Gender and Environmental Perspectives.

Keynote paper: “Globalisation and the naive idea of a ‘borderless society’ prepared for the International Seminar: Global Context and Indigenous Perspectives on Health Issues.” Held at UKSW.

14 April 2010 – 14 April 2013

September 2011


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Ausindo BIOCOM

Letter of Agreement

Contact: Prof Ian Falk, SE, CDU

Between the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity; CDU; Universitas Mahasaraswati; Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana; Pacific Institute for Sustainable Development; Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timor and Universitas Nusa Cendana.

The above are member institutions of AusIndo BIOCOM – Australian Indonesian Biosecurity Community Management Project.

The purpose of the consortium is to conduct research and related activities in the field of biosecurity management in Northern Australia, Indonesia and surrounding regions.

Following 5 years of research with consortia partners, publication of a book: Managing Plant Biosecurity Across Borders. Falk I., Noden, M. And Wallace, R.

Signed June 2007 – June 2012

Note: the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity; CDU is applying for further funding to continue its research and related activities. A decision should be made by December 2011 if the application is successful. If not, it is envisaged that Ausindo BIOCOM will continue as an independent, not-for-profit entity.

July 2011

Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)

Collaboration with CIFOR - http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/

The Center for International Forestry Research is a nonprofit, global facility dedicated to advancing human wellbeing, environmental conservation and equity. It conducts research that enables more informed and equitable decision making about the use and management of forests in less-developed countries.

Current CDU PhD student Nicholas Hogarth works as a consultant for CIFOR’s 25-country global comparative study on the role of forest and environmental income in poverty alleviation (PEN: http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/pen/_ref/home/index.htm) He is based in CIFOR headquarters, Bogor.

On-going

Under discussion - Interest in establishing long term collaboration with and support for science educators in Indonesia and to provide an opportunity for its science educators to share and learn from best practice.

Dr Greg Smith from the School of Education at CDU is engaged with the Northern Territory Government in developing a Centre for Excellence in Science Education. Dr Smith and the Science Teachers Association of Northern Territory are very interested to establish long term collaboration with and support for science educators in Indonesia and to provide an opportunity for its science educators to share and learn from best practice.

Of particular interest to science educators in Indonesia, is the upcoming National Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (CONASTA60) to be held in Darwin from the 10th – 13 July 2011. The Conference will be attended by national and international delegates from primary, secondary and university sectors of science education and will be hosted by the Science Teachers Association of the Northern Territory.

National Conference of the Australian Science Teachers Association (CONASTA60) to be held in Darwin from the 10th – 13 July 2011.


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http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/pen/_ref/home/index.htm

http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/


Under discussion – English for Science program designed for the Department of Education of East Kalimantan.

Navitas English are reviewing the opportunity of designing a suitable program. 2011

Marine Science Partnership with UNDANA

Contact: Professor Karen Edyvane, (ATRF and RIEL)

Funded by NUFFIC, AusAID and the Gates Foundation Late 2011

CDU INITIATIVES COMPLETEDInitiative Details Timeframe

Endeavour Executive Award - Penny Wurm

To pursue excellence in leadership in partnerships in teaching. Developed framework for exchange arrangement regarding teaching in environmental science at CDU, UKSW and UGM.Reviewed shared field intensive unit offered jointly by CDU, UNDANA, UKSW and UGM.Revised joint publications.Contributed to postgraduate teaching.Increased Indonesian language skills.

10 weeks October 2011-January 2012

CDU INITIATIVES COMPLETED

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Arafura Timor Seas Marine Science Symposium

Arafura Timor Seas Marine Science Symposium, held at the national Australian Marine Science Association (AMSA) meeting in Fremantle, Western Australia included 16 presentations on a range of marine science activities and partnership projects in the ATS.

The Symposium was sponsored by CDU and the ATSEA Program.

The primary aims of the one-day ATS symposium were, through presentations and discussions, to: (a) highlight current regional marine science programs, projects and partnerships in the Arafura and Timor seas; (b) identify key marine science knowledge gaps and priorities; and (c) explore and identify future opportunities for regional marine science cooperation. Significantly, the Symposium was introduced by 2 keynote addresses on the ATS by Dr Tonny Wagey (Program Manager, ATSEA Program) and Lourenco Fontes (ATSEF Regional Secretariat, Director General, Ministry of Agriculture & Fisheries, Timor-Leste).

Presentations from the Symposium will be published – and will comprise a significant technical output for the ATSEA Program.

3 - 7 July, 2011, Fremantle, Western Australia).

Publication of the Symposium papers is currently in progress.

ATSEA Project Research Expedition

The Australian Institute of Marine Sciences’ (AIMS) research vessel, the 35m RV Solander recently embarked on a 5 week Arafura and Timor Seas Ecosystem Action (ATSEA) research expedition with scientific researchers from Indonesia, Timor-Leste and Australia on board.

The aim of the expedition was for the scientists to gather information on the physical, chemical and biological characteristics of the Arafura and Timor Seas.

The expedition is one of a number of projects being undertaken by the North Australian Marine Research Alliance (AIMS, CDU, ANU and the NT Government) which is working on research to sustainably develop and manage Darwin Harbour and NT coastal waters.

30 June 2011

Visiting Research Fellow

Contacts: Dr Kate Golebiowska (The Northern Institute) and Dr Selma Liberato (Menzies School of Heath Research).

Dr Petrus Kase, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Nusa Cendana (UNDANA). His topic: ‘Evaluating Inter-Institutional Relations In the Program of Society Nutrition Improvement In East Nusa Tenggara’.

Competed 1 July 2011

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Short term DIKTI Scholarships

Contact: Prof Chris Austin, (formerly of SER) and Prof Karen Edyvane, RIEL and ATRF

Former Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Dra Ratna Susandarini returned to CDU to complete a further 3 months of research on her PhD topic: Analysis of Genetic Diversity of Indonesian Citrus maxima using Direct DNA Sequencing.

Bu Ervina Indrayani from Universitas Cendrawasih, Papua (but a PhD student of the Faculty of Biology, UGM) completed 3 months of research on her PhD topic “Carrying capacity of Sentani Lake – Papua, for aquaculture’.

Prof Ricky Gimin, Head of Marine Sciences and Fisheries, UNDANA, recently completed 4 months of research.

October - December 2011

February – May 2012

Overseas Internship Program - The Faculty of Biology, UGM

The Faculty of Biology at Universitas Gadja Mada has recently announced an Overseas Internship Program. Three staff will be hosted by Prof Chris Austin and SER for a period of one month (4 weeks) between May and September 2011 while two other UMS staff will complete 3 months of research..

Pak Trijoko, worked on the genetics of marine lobsters while Bu Ludmilla Fitri Untari worked on the isolation and culture of microalgae and the study of ultrastructure of microalgae. The third project is TBA.

Between May and September 2011

Overseas Internship Program - The Faculty of Biology, UGM

Dr. Upiek Astuti from Universitas Gadjah Mada completed a visiting research fellowship from the 6th August to 6th September 2011 under the supervision of Dr Rama Jayaraj, Lecturer-Allied Health, FEHSE. She participated in a series of research training programs, research team meetings and workshops with research staff and scientists from CDU, MSHR and the Royal Darwin Hospital. Dr Astuti has applied to complete a PhD at CDU under Dr Jayaraj’s supervision.

2012 - 2015

Visiting Research Fellow

Contact: Prof Chris Austin, (formerly of SER)

Dra Ratna Susandarini, Faculty of Biology, University Gadja Mada (UGM). Her topic was: ‘Genetic Variation in Citrus Maxima in Indonesia using direct DNA sequencing.

18 October – 17 December 2010

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Endeavour Executive Award (AusAID)

Contact: Dr Bronwyn Myers, SELS

Ms Frederika Rambu Ngana (lecturer and researcher at UNDANA) was awarded a 4 month professional development placement in SELS and Menzies School of Health Practice, working on health mapping applications for improved health service delivery.

12 July – 12 November 2010


Internship

Contact: Prof Chris Austin, (formerly of SER)

1 x 11 week internship awarded to Ibu Chelzi Darusullam from the Eijkman Institute for Molecular Biology.

Ibu Chelzi worked in the SELS molecular genetics laboratory researching DNA barcoding of marine fish species. The internship was fully funded by SELS.

7 June - 20 August 2010

4 Party Strategic Planning Workshop

Contacts: Dr Penny Wurm, Dr Bronwyn Myers; Sam Pickering SELS, CDU.

The Workshop involved senior managers and research and academic staff from Charles Darwin University (CDU), Nusa Cendana University (UNDANA), Gadjah Mada University (UGM) and Satya Wacana Christian University (UKSW).

Broadly, the purpose of the proposed meeting is to develop a pathway for future four-party collaboration with regards to research, educational partnerships and professional development of staff.

A parallel program of visits by Senior Delegates to the Menzies School of Health Research; the Darwin Aquaculture Centre at Channel Island; the Berrimah Farm and the CSIRO Darwin facility was also organised.

7 – 11 June 2010

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