The International Indonesia Forum ( IIF ) is an organization that organizes an annual interdisciplinary seminar in Indonesia in an effort to "facilitate interactive engagement and participation of students and educators" both inside and outside of Indonesia. Originally developed as a branch of the Yale Indonesia Forum, it is now managed independently. The first seminar was held in 2008 at Atma Jaya University, Yogyakarta; the eighth conference was held at Sebelas Maret University in Surakarta. The forum has published five books and organized a series of papers on its website.
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The Indonesia International Forum is volunteered. It does not charge the presenter. The audience may come from academia or the general public, including non-academic organizations. As of August 2014, five books have been published based on papers presented at the conference. The IIF chairman is Frank Dhont. The forum hosts a series of papers on its website.
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History
In 2003, Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, formed an interdisciplinary discussion forum for academics with professional interests in Indonesia and related topics. The forum was founded by three students, Frank Dhont, YoonSeok Lee, Thomas Pepinsky, with faculty members, Indriyo Sukmono, as advisor. Originally intended for "Yale community members", the forum grew in size, until in 2006 it was able to hold conferences. The discussion began in 2007 about holding another conference, this time in Indonesia to facilitate the presence of Indonesians from outside the United States, especially in Indonesia. The second conference is expected to "facilitate the interactive engagement and participation of students and educators" from Indonesia and abroad.
The first conference was held at Atma Jaya University, Yogyakarta, in the middle of 2008: Atma Jaya handles financial issues related to hosting, while Yale handles the cost of publication. This conference, with the theme "Towards the Inclusive Community of Indonesian Democracy: Bridging the Gap Between Uniformity of the State and the Pattern of Multicultural Identity", the theme reviewed by Alexander Claver is described as "timely" because of the problem of managing diversity and "social heterogeneity and homogeneity". Claver writes that the resulting book, even though it "does not paint a coherent picture" and is uneven, is still "a rich source of ideas" and that most readers will find something interesting in it.
The second forum, held at Sanata Dharma University (also in Yogyakarta), is associated with Pancasila, Indonesia's national ideology, and its role in the Reformation era. Claver writes that this is a development on the theme explored in the first conference. At this point half the participants are Indonesian academics, with the rest from various international institutions. An academic review of the conference process (published the following year) is very negative: reviewer RE Elson writes that the book was "disappointing", with "too much nonsense and insignificance about identity and too much empty and uninspired nonsense" about the subject the discussion.
Various universities organize this program in the following years, mostly in Yogyakarta but also in Semarang. The number of participants increases every year, and in 2011 the international conference (increasingly separated from its parent organization) branched out under the heading of the International Indonesia Forum. The conference that year, taking the theme of education for the future, was held at Yogyakarta State University and attracted a crowd of 150 spectators and presenters.
In 2012 the conference, which received 171 submissions and saw nearly 100 speakers, was held at Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta; speakers come from a number of international and Indonesian universities, including Harvard, Cornell, Berkeley, Sydney, Leiden, and the London School of Economics. Rector of the University of Gadjah Mada, Pratikno, stated that the conference is relevant for Indonesia and universities because education is needed to fight corruption. This is the last IIF conference with Yale support; a new and independent organizational body was established so that the conference could continue independently.
The sixth conference was held at Sunan Kalijaga Islamic University, Yogyakarta, in 2013; more than fifty people presented presenter. From the conference's theme of change and continuity in the country, Sunan Kalijaga's graduate program director, Khoiruddin Nasution, states that change is growing rapidly in this country and, therefore, it is expected that IIF can make recommendations to the Indonesian government on the right path to take.
The seventh conference was held in 2014 at Hotel Puri Khatulistiwa in Jatinangor, outside Bandung, in collaboration with Sunan Gunung Negeri State Islamic University of Bandung. The two-day conference consisted of six sessions, with three panels in each session, and each panel consisted of four speakers. Sixty-four speakers are from institutions such as the University of Freiburg, the Australian National University, and Charles Darwin University, and come from countries such as Malaysia, Australia and the United States. The topic covered involves various aspects of Indonesian society, including law, history, culture, and economics. Ali Ramadhani, the third vice-president of Gunung Djati, stated that Indonesians, like those at IIF, must remain confident in researching contemporary issues.
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