Update – Summary of CDU partnership activities in Indonesia as at 17August 2012
NEW RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Funded through AUSAID’S 1 May 2012 –
PSLP program.
31 July 2013
The objective of the Activity
is to enable the provincial
and district governments in
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn West Timor to monitor
Myers, and Mr Rohan
manganese mining
Fisher, RIEL.
activities and create basic
site risk assessments.
Monitoring impacts and
risk: case study of
manganese mining in
West Timor
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 January 2012 –
grant.
December 2012
This project will conduct the
preliminary data analysis
and negotiations with
potential partners in order
to prepare a submission for
ARC linkage project
funding.
Partners
Outcomes
Lead: Provincial
1. Review of the extent and range of impacts of
Environment Protection
manganese mining in West Timor from workshop
Authority (BLHD,
contributions by 14 Indonesian officers (representing
Badan Lingkungan
government, university and NGOs) and Australian
Hidup Daerah)
government and university partners.
2. 24 district, 4 provincial, 2 NGO (CARE) and 1
university staff member trained in rapid field data
Others: Nusa Cendana
collection, mapping and monitoring methods.
University (UNDANA),
3. Ten Indonesian staff (3 provincial government, 4
Provincial Mining
district and 3 university staff) trained in providing
Department, NGOs:
training in simple and appropriate mapping and
WALHI (Indonesian
monitoring methods.
Forum for the
4. Preliminary assessment report of extent of
Environment), CARE
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.
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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NEW RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
Project
Details
Timeframe
SMS tools for health
monitoring and
surveillance in eastern
Indonesia.
Funded through AUSAID’S June 2012 - 30 Dec
PSLP program.
2013
Integrated catchment
management for improved
rural livelihoods in West
Timor and East Timor:
valuing environmental
services
Crawford fund support for a December 2012 –
workshops in West Timor
May 2013
exploring Payment for
Environmental services
research.
This Activity aims to
improve the effectiveness
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn of health data reporting by
Myers, and Mr Rohan
adapting and implementing
Fisher, RIEL.
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.
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn
Myers, and Mr Rohan
Fisher, RIEL.
Partners
Outcomes
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.
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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NEW RESEARCH APPLICATIONS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
Ecosystem services and
livelihood opportunities
for Indigenous rural
communities in savanna
landscapes of northern
Australia, eastern
Indonesia, Timor-Leste,
and PNG.
ACEAS and UNU
supported workshop and
on-going collaborations
May 2012 with ongoing 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.
Application for seed
funding: CDU, Worley
Parsons, Biodiversity
Conservation NRETAS
The RBCH Programme is a multi-disciplinary, interorganisational, 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 insitu Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) Credits3
covering a wider ambit of ecosystem services enhanced
(i.e. those ancillary to carbon).
CDU Contacts: Dr Jeremy
Russell-Smith, Prof Andrew
Campbell, Dr Bronwyn
Myers, Mr Rohan Fisher,
RIEL.
Quantification of blue
Seed funding obtained from October 2011 –
carbon stocks on flows in the NT Government
October 2012
Darwin Harbour
Innovation Board to support
the Australian component
CDU Project Leader: Dr
of the AUD$3 million
Natasha Stacey, Snr
research Program on
Research Fellow and
“Rehabilitating Blue Carbon
Theme Leader Natural
Habitats to Facilitate
Resource Based
Sustainable Socioeconomic
Livelihoods, (RIEL).
Development and Enhance
Environmental Values”
Clint Cameron starts with
(The RBCH
CDU in July 2012 and will
Programme) with potential
be leading the proposal
partners in Indonesia.
development and
discussions with Indonesian
partners etc.
RBCH - FFI, MAP
Indonesia, Indonesian
Government, UNEP
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
Increasing remote sensing
capacity in West Timor
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.
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn
Myers, and Mr Rohan Fisher,
RIEL, Dr Karen Joyce, SELS.
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Natural resource
management and enterprise
development: can they
improve indigenous
livelihoods? (Indonesian
component: West Timor).
Details
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.
CDU Contacts: Prof Own
Investigation into incentives
Stanley (SER) and Dr Natasha and disincentives that
Stacey, Snr Research Fellow
encourage or discourage
(RIEL) .
households to engage in
natural resource activities that
do not negatively influence
biodiversity.
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
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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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Implementation of
biosecurity policy and
strategy across the whole
Province of Maluku,
Indonesia.
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.
Contacts: Prof Ian Falk (CDU),
Theo Litaay (CDU PhD
Student), Mrs. Sinda Titaley
(Maluku government), Prof
Tonny Pariela (Pattimura
University).
Outcomes
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Human and Dog Rabies
infection in Bali.
Around 130 people have died
on Bali from rabid dog bites in
the last two and a half years.
CDU contact: Dr Rama
Rabies data from health
Jayaraj, Lecturer-Allied Health, centres across Bali since the
FEHSE, in conjunction with
2008 outbreak have been
Professor Wayan Batan and Dr analysed. The virus appears
Abdul Azis from Udyana
to be re-occurring in areas
University, Denpasar, Bali
where it was once controlled.
On-going
CDU and Udayana
University, Bali
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).
Funding to support a vaccine program for dogs.
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Arafura 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).
Consultancy to provide
2008-2012
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).
CDU Contact: Dr Natasha
Stacey, Snr Research Fellow,
RIEL as ATSEF International
Consultant.
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
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.
Refer Other CDU Initiatives
for more information about the
Other CDU staff in-kind support Arafura and Timor Seas
to ATSEF and participation on Expert Forum (ATSEF)
regional steering committee
(Prof Bob Wasson CDU
Adjunct and , Prof Karen
Edyvane, ATRF/RIEL)
And citations to Biophysical Profile, socioeconomic profile
and TDA report.
Journal papers from above outputs in preparation and
conference presentations delivered by CDU researchers
In 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 On-going
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.
CDU, Cooperative Research
Centre for National Plant
Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd),
Universitas Kristen Satya
Wacana (UKSW).
1. Report on research
2. Chapter in Springer book on same
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Mapping health indicators
and health infrastructure in
East Nusa Tenggara, eastern
Indonesia
Provincial and district health
department officers will be
trained in rapid field collection
and visualisation of health
data, using inexpensive
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn
equipment and simple, free
Myers, Rohan Fisher, RIEL,
software. Indonesian officers
and Dr Suzanne Belton, Senior will be trained to give training
Lecturer, Menzies School of
in these methods. The impacts
Health Research (MSHR)
of the implementation of a
clinic patient database will be
assessed.
Marine Habitat Mapping and
Impact Assessment in
Kupang Bay (West Timor)
Timeframe
Partners
Sept 2009 - Sept 2010 Provincial and District Health
Departments in Nusa
June 2011 - Dr
Tenggara Timur (NTT),
Bronwyn Myers
Universitas Nusa Cendana
(UNDANA), AusAID
(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.
Pilot activity under the CDUUNDANA MOU and
developing CDU-UNDANA
Marine Science Collaboration.
Joint project with Department
of Fisheries and Marine
Science, Nusa Cendana
University (UNDANA).
CDU PhD student Ms Megha 2011 - 2014
Raut (and Principal
Economist, NT Government) is
working with Professor Husri
Muadz, UNRAM on the
project.
CDU/AusIndo BIOCOM, NT
Government and Universitas
Mataram, Lombok (UNRAM)
Outcomes
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.
CDU Contact: Professor Karen
Edyvane, (ATRF and RIEL)
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
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.
A trialled and evaluated new model of measuring and
evaluating regional development
Funded through the CDU/NT
Government partnership with
possible additional support
through an NTRI grant or
similar.
An examination of
July 2011 – December CDU/Ausindo BIOCOM and
development issues in
2012
Semarang National
particular the nature of ‘ethics’
University, Central Java.
across cultures and regions in
Indonesia.
Keynote paper and refereed conference proceedings –
International Seminar “Morality in Development”, Semarang,
July 2011
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CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Glossary 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 life and poetry of
dissident peoples’ poet Wiji
Thukul.
Contact: Dr Richard Curtis,
Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH,
CDU.
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
The research aims to identify On-going
the issues surrounding the
development of multidisciplinary social science and
science publications in the
management of biosecurity in
Northern Australian and
Eastern Indonesia.
CDU, Cooperative Research
Centre for National Plant
Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd),
Universitas Mahasaraswati
(UNMAS).
1. Product developed in 2 languages
2. Published in English version in Springer Book forthcoming
The life and poetry of dissident On-going
peoples’ poet Wiji Thukul who
disappeared during the New
Order regime in 1998. He
came from solo, Central Java.
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
PhD project: I Wayan Mudita, A study on cross-border
On-going
Lecturer, UNDANA, SPiL,
management in negotiating
CDU
the social border for better
managing pests and diseases
Managing Citrus Biosecurity in as an important tool
the Highlands of West Timor,
preventing the physical border
Indonesia (site: West Timor)
being crossed by incurring
pests and pathogens.
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)
Partners
Outcomes
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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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
Details
PhD project: Mr Theo Litaay, A study on the impact of
Lecturer in Law, UKSW, SPiL international, national, and
local policy and legal
Effective international, national, frameworks on effective
and local policy frameworks for management of biosecurity.
a new development paradigm
(site: Papua, West Papua and
East Nusa Tenggara)
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
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
On-going
CDU, Cooperative Research
Centre for National Plant
Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd),
Universitas Mahasaraswati
(UNMAS).
1. Journal article
2. Book Chapter in Springer Book forthcoming
Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,
Chair of Rural and Remote
Education, School of Educatio
PhD project: Eka
Martiningsih, Lecturer
UNMAS
Gender Issues in the
Community Management of
Biosecurity in Eastern
Indonesia. (site: Eastern
Indonesia)
The research will identify and
discuss the participation of
women in collective
community management of
biosecurity activities.
CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,
Chair of Rural and Remote
Education, School of
Education. But not an
enrolled CDU student.
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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
CDU, Cooperative Research
Centre for National Plant
Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd),
Universitas Mahasaraswati
(UNMAS).
1. Co translated journal of 15 papers English/Indonesian
2. Book Chapter in Springer Book forthcoming
UNDANA
Developing research proposal
Livelihood pursuits of fishing
2008 - 2013
communities in Maumere Bay,
Flores, Indonesia.
Balai Besar Riset Sosial
Ekonomi (BRKP);
Departemen Kelautanan dan
Perikan (DKP)
Thesis write-up under way.
Both are working in the SELS
molecular genetics laboratory
researching DNA barcoding of
marine fish species.
Both DIKTI Scholars
PhD project: Ms Sri
Jayantini, Lecturer UNMAS
A study on the contribution of On-going
translation, particularly
scientific translation to the
Knowledge Transfer on
enrichment of both source and
Biosecurity through Translation target languages as well as
the transfer of knowledge due
CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk, to the language borders
Chair of Rural and Remote
among people within a country
Education, School of
or in different countries with
Education. But not an
their various cultures.
enrolled CDU student.
PhD Project: Frederika
Rambu Ngana
CDU Supervisors: Dr
Bronwyn Myers RIEL,
(Principal Supervisor).
Panel to be determined
Project on definition and
September 2012 –
determinants of
Aug 2015
remoteness in rural villages
in eastern Indonesia with
respect to access to health
services
DIKTI scholarship holder
PhD project: Ms Frances
Every.
Supervisors: Dr Natasha
Stacey, RIEL; Prof Owen
Stanley, SER.
PhD and MRes research
projects. Pak Rury
Eprilurahman – Mres
candidate and Ibu Tuty
Arisuryanti - PhD candidate both from UGM.
Commenced 2009
Pak Rury to complete
MRes in 2012, Ibu
Tuty in 2013.
Supervisor: Prof Chris Austin,
HOS, SELS. Attached to the
Arafura Timor Research
Facility (ATRF).
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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
Thesis focuses on the
Kambaniru River
Catchment Area in Sumba
CDU Supervisors: Dr
which provides the
Bronwyn Myers RIEL,
domestic and agricultural
(Principal Supervisor); Prof water for the town of
Bob Wasson, Adjunct Prof, Waingapu and the
Rohan Fisher, RIEL, and Dr surrounding rice fields.
Guy Boggs, Faculty of
Engineering, Health,
Current recipient of
Science and Environment
Prime Asia Australia
(FEHSE) (Associate
Award and AINSE
Supervisors)
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.”
PhD project: Ibu Muamaroh
Maftuhin. Academic staff
member from UMS.
To be completed
2012
PhD Project: Sarah
Hobgen
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.
Seminars at ANTARES, CDU, UNDANA
DIKTI Scholar
PhD project: Dr Franciscus
Thio. Staff member of the
Ministry of Health, Indonesia.
Graduate
of
Dentistry,
UNHAS.
His topic is entitled: Assessing Complete 2013
the cost of Malaria illness as
the impact of
Dihydroartemisininpiperaquine (DHP)
implementation in Timika,
Supervisor: Dr Richard Price, Papua.
MSHR
PhD scholarship funded
through the Australian
Leadership Awards (ALAAusAID) program.
PhD project: Ms Indrawati Her topic is entitled: The
2008 - 2012
Asmara. Staff member of UP. importance of Pelung Chicken
in rural areas of West Java.
Supervisor: Prof Romy Greiner,
RIEL, CDU.
DIKTI Scholar
PhD project: Ms Deasyanti Her topic is entitled:
Adil. Staff member of UNJ.
Personality characteristics of
an effective teacher.
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Greg
Shaw, SoE, CDU.
Funded by the Better
Education through Reformed
Management and Universal
Teacher Upgrading
(BERMUTU) DIKTI program.
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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
PhD
project:
Kussudyarsana.
member of UMS.
Details
Mr His topic is entitled: Role of
Staff family in business start-up.
Timeframe
Partners
Commenced 2010 ( 2014)
DIKTI Scholar
Outcomes
Supervisor:
PhD project: Ms Ratna Her topic is entitled:
Suryaratri. Staff member of Comparison between the roles
UNJ.
of family in help-seeking
behaviour among high school
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Greg students in Indonesia
Shaw, SoE, CDU.
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.
DIKTI Scholar
Her topic is entitled: Mitigating Commenced 2011 coastal hazards: from hard
2014
engineering to ecological
engineering measures.
Supervisor:
Prof
Karen
Edyvane, RIEL and ATRF
PhD project: Mr Abdul Razaq
Chasani. Staff member of
UGM
Commenced Sem 1
2012 ( - 2015)
DIKTI Scholar
TBA
DIKTI Scholar
Supervisor:
Prof
Karen
Edyvane, RIEL and ATRF
PhD project: Mr Philiphi de
Rozari. Staff member of
UNDANA.
Supervisor:
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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
PhD project: Mrs Koesoemo Her topic is entitled: How can
Ratih Staff member of UMS. we best prepare kindergarten
teachers to teach English
Supervisor: Assoc Prof Sue more effectively?
Shore, SoE, CDU.
Commenced Sem 1
2012 ( - 2015)
DIKTI Scholar
PhD project: Ms Pratiwi
Arum. Staff member of UMS.
To commence Sem 2
2012
DIKTI Scholar
Outcomes
Supervisor:
Prof
Rose
McEldowney, SoH, CDU
PhD project: Ms Meika Her topic is entitled: The
Commenced 2011 Kurnia. Staff member of presence of strategic vision on 2015
UMY.
the relationship between
openness to changes and job
Supervisor: Prof Don Fuller, involvement.
SLB, CDU
DIKTI Scholar
PhD project: Ms Evi Warintan
Saragih. Staff member of
Papua
State
University.
Jayapura.
DIKTI Scholar
Her topic is entitled: Role of
large herbivores on seed
dispersal in the nature
conservation are.
Commenced 2011 2015
Supervisor: Dr Sean Bellairs,
SELS, CDU
MTEM student working on Her topic is entitled: Food
project in West Timor: Ms security and land tenure in an
Pia Harkness
irrigated rice growing area,
West Timor
CDU Supervisors: Dr Bronwyn
Myers, Dr Penny Wurm, Rohan
Fisher, SELS/RIEL
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.
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CURRENT RESEARCH STUDENTS
Project
Details
PhD project: Ms Ria Fitriana - Assessing the impact of
graduate of ITB
marine protected area to
the livelihoods of coastal
Case study: Pantar Island, Alor communities.
District, NTT, Indonesia
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
End 2012
PhD scholarship funded
through the Australian
Leadership Awards (ALAAusAID) program.
Thesis write up underway
Partners
Outcomes
PhD scholarship funded
through the Australian
Leadership Awards (ALAAusAID) 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.
One paper on Gender and Fisheries in Pantar Island In Press
Fitriana, R and Stacey, N. (in review) The role of women in
the fishery sector in Pantar Island, Indonesia. Asian Fisheries
Science (Jan 2012)
Supervisors: Dr Natasha
Stacey RIEL and Prof Owen
Stanley, SER, and Prof
Anthony Cunningham
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
PhD project: Dr Jeanne Rini
Poespoprodjo. Graduate of
Medicine from UNPAD and
Paediatrics from UGM.
Project title: Assessing the
Completed 2011
efficiency and safety of
Dihydroartemisininpiperaquine (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.
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
Timeframe
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.
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COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
MRes project: Mr Remi
Natoni, field officer,
Provincial Agriculture and
Estate Crop Service.
A study on the use of mobile
On-going
technologies for the purpose
of providing local communities
access for their knowledge to
be recognized and effectively
used for pest and diseases
scouting.
The use of mobile technology
and GIS on biosecurity.
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
CDU, Cooperative Research
Centre for National Plant
Biosecurity (CRC NPB Ltd),
Universitas Nusa Cendana
(UNDANA).
Early stage of research.
CDU Supervisor: Prof Ian Falk,
Chair of Rural and Remote
Education, SoE, CDU. But not
an enrolled CDU student.
Sustainability of outcomes of A fire management project
May 2008 – May 2010 ACIAR, NT Bushfires Council
a fire management project in http://fireindon.cdu.edu.au/
eastern Indonesia
was conducted in East Sumba
and central Flores from 2002
CDU Contacts: Dr Bronwyn
to 2005 (with ACIAR funding
Myers, RIEL, and Prof Stephen and CRC Trop Savannas
Garnett, SER.
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.
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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COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Impacts of Government Rice
Subsidy Program (RASKIN)
on Food Security of Two
Villages in West Timor
The impacts of the Indonesian March 2009 – March
government rice subsidy
2010
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).
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.
Managing Biosecurity across Indonesian in-country project
Borders
administered through the
AusIndoBIOCOM Consortium
Contact: Prof Ian Falk, School of 7 partners.
of Education (SE), CDU.
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.
Timeframe
2010
March 2008 – March
2010
Partners
Outcomes
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.
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).
BAPEDALDA NTT,
Universitas Nusa Cendana
(UNDANA), Forestry
departments of Kupang
district and NTT province.
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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 bicountry network of biosecurity stakeholders that
manages biosecurity research and knowledge
exchange
Establishment of an infrastructure for managing
biosecurity in Eastern Indonesian region.
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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COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Biogeography of birds in the
Lesser Sundas –
relationships with island
area, location and distance.
Analysed distribution patterns 2003-2010
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.
Contacts: Colin Trainor,
Richard Noske, and John
Woinarski, NRETA
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
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 subgroups 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
Also examined composition of
Pleistocene era islands to
explore whether past island
area had a present day imprint
on bird richness.
The ant fauna of Timor and
neighbouring islands:
potential bridges between
the disjunct faunas of SouthEast Asia and Australia
Contacts: Colin Trainor, and
Alan Andersen, CSIRO.
Timor is the second largest
2003-2010
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.
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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COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
Understanding the Whale
shark; its migratory patterns
in eastern Indonesia and the
potential to develop whale
shark monitoring and
conservation opportunities
for Indonesian fishers.
Little is known about the whale
shark’s migration and
aggregation patterns,
population dynamics, and
threats.
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.
CDU Contacts: Dr Natasha
Stacey, RIEL, Snr Research
Fellow.
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.
Stacey, N., Karam, J., Meekan, M., Pickering, S., Ninef, J.
(2012). Prospects for whale shark conservation in eastern
Indonesia through Bajo traditional ecological knowledge and
community-based monitoring. Conservation and Society
10(1): 63-75
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 whale
sharks.
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 nontimber forest products
(NTFP’s).
Completed.
Final report coauthored by Adjunct
Prof Tony
Cunningham - Hidden
Economies, future
options: trade in nontimber 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.
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Publication: Pancasila Sakti: Jurnal Yustika: Media Hukum Published December
Sacred Authority of the
dan Keadilan
2010
Pancasila in Indonesian Law
and Society’,
(University of Surabaya Law
School Journal)
CDU contact: Mr Danial Kelly, Volume 13 Number 2,
December 2010 (ISSN: 1410 Lecturer in Law, SLB
7724).
University of Surabaya Law
School
COMPLETED RESEARCH PROJECTS
Project
Details
Socio-Economic
Professional Skills Training
Workshop to AFMA
(Australian Fisheries
Management Authority)/DKP
(Indonesia Fisheries)
Officers.
Workshop Objectives: identify 2009
key socioeconomic
parameters for MOU Box
fisheries management, design
test, implement bilingual
survey protocols, and report
back on survey results.
CDU Contacts: Dr Natasha
Stacey, RIEL, Snr Research
Fellow and Sam Pickering,
Research Associate for
SER/RIEL.
Timeframe
Partners
Outcomes
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.
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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 Published Sept 2009
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.
Universitas Nusa Cendana
(UNDANA).
Successful collaboration between CDU and a regional
university, raising CDU’s profile in the region.
OTHER CDU INITIATIVES
Initiative
Details
Timeframe
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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
2008 - 2013
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,
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Sustaining fish stocks, marine habitats and coastal and marine biodiversity,

Understanding marine, coastal, and catchment system dynamics,
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Assisting sustainable and/or alternative livelihoods for coastal, traditional and
indigenous communities, and
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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.
OTHER CDU INITIATIVES
Initiative
Details
Timeframe
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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):
Contributing organisations:
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Charles Darwin University (CDU)
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Department of Sustainability, Environment, Water,
Population and Communities (DSEWPaC)
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Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)
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Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research
Organisation (CSIRO)
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Australia Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA)
- Geomorphology, Catchments, Material Flux and Bathymetry
Dan Alongi (lead), Bob Wasson, Sugiarta Wirasantosa, Manuel de Silva
- Marine Biodiversity
Karen Edyvane (lead) Jotham Ninef, Andrew Heyward (AIMS), Constancio de Update as per ATSEF Australia Planning Meeting – Tuesday
Silva (MAF – TL), Bambang Sumiono (MAFF)
8th March 2011
- Oceanography
Restu Nur Avi Ati (lead) Fernando da Silva, Widodo, Craig Steinburg (CSIRO),
John Church (CSIRO)
- Climate change
Odete 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).
ATSEF/ATSEA
Socio-Economic Professional
Skills Training Workshop to
AFMA (Australian Fisheries
Management Authority)/DKP
(Indonesia Fisheries) Officers.
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)
Details
Timeframe
Contacts: Dr Natasha Stacey,
CDU; Jim Prescott AFMA
OTHER CDU INITIATIVES
Initiative
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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.
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 studentfocused. A departure from the model of exporting units of
study. The foundation of on-going collaboration between
CDU and two Indonesian universities.
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Report-back to village:
June 2012.
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Third Offering: June
2013
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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.
OTHER CDU INITIATIVES
Initiative
Details
Timeframe
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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
2011, 2012 and 2013
Seda AM, the Territory Government has established a scholarship program for
suitable Indonesian candidates, to improve their English language proficiency prior to Graduates thus far:
undertaking undergraduate, postgraduate and/or research study at Charles Darwin
University (CDU).
2011
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Ibu Ira Febriana, 12 Sept to 18 Nov. Looking to
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Each scholarship will pay the tuition fees for a 10-week intensive English
commence PhD studies at CDU in 2012
language training course at CDU, valued at $3300.
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Ibu Ratih Koesoemo, 12 Sept to 18 Nov. Commenced
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One scholarship per applicant only.
PhD studies at CDU in Nov 2011 (under the DIKTI
scholarship program)
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Three scholarships will be offered per annum for three years commencing in
2011.
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Ms Desak Made Widyaningsih, 12 Sept to 18 Nov.
Commenced MEd in 2012.
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Preference will be given to candidates from Mr Seda’s home region of
Eastern Indonesia.
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NOTE: travel and accommodation costs are not included in the scholarship. Incoming students in 2012
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Teaching
Regional Universities
Indonesian Language Initiative
(RUILI)
Contact: Dr Richard Curtis,
Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH,
CDU.
Teaching
Australian Consortium for In
Country Indonesian Studies
(ACICIS)
Contact: Dr Richard Curtis,
Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH,
CDU.
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.
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.
To 2019
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/
CDU is also a member of the ACICIS in country program which students of
Indonesian from CDU attend.
On-going
More information is available at: http://www.acicis.murdoch.edu.au/
Amongst other universities, ACICIS works with UGM, ISI and Sanata Dharma in
Yogyakarta.
OTHER CDU INITIATIVES
Initiative
Details
Timeframe
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Teaching
Endeavour English Language
Teaching Fellowships (ELTF)
The 2010 ELTF Bahasa Indonesia study program comprised a three-week residential On-going
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.
Contacts: Dr Richard Curtis,
Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH,
CDU and Danial Kelly, Lecturer The program consisted of Indonesian language and cultural activities including visits
in Law, SLB, CDU.
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.
BRIDGE University Pilot
Program
$23,608 has been awarded by the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs June 2012
and Trade (DFAT) to Dr Richard Curtis to fund the BRIDGE University Pilot
Program in which Information and Communications Technology (ICT) is
Contact: Dr Richard Curtis,
used to facilitate authentic and creative learning exchanges between first
Lecturer in Indonesian, SCAH,
year students from various disciplinary areas studying General English
CDU
language at UNDANA and Indonesian language at CDU.
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.
On-going
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/
2012 ‘Wallace-Darwin’
Science Symposium
Celebrating the 56th Anniversary of Hasanuddin University
Makassar – Wakatobi, Indonesia
4 – 7 September 2012
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.
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Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with
UGM
Signed between Charles Darwin University, and the Indonesian universities: Gadjah Signed 2010
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.
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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.
Signed November 2009.
Collaboration ongoing and strengthening.
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.
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Memorandum of
Understanding (MOU) with
UMY
Signed between CDU and Universitas Muhammadiyah Yogyakarta (UMY). The MOU Signed April 2011
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.
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
Between Mahasaraswati University (UNMAS), Denpasar and Charles Darwin
University (CDU) with the objective of promoting cooperation and common interests
in education and research.
Signed June 2011
Contact: Prof Ian Falk, School
of Education (SE), CDU.
This Agreement establishes the basis to develop mutually beneficial opportunities for
cooperation in the following areas:
1. Exchange of research and academic information
2. Development and sharing of courses
3. Exchange of research staff and postgraduate students
4. Conducting joint research projects
5. Any other areas of co-operation to be mutually agreed upon by the Parties.
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.
14 April 2010 – 14 April 2013
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.
September 2011
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Ausindo BIOCOM
Letter of Agreement
Contact: Prof Ian Falk, SE,
CDU
Center for International
Forestry Research (CIFOR)
Between the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant Biosecurity; CDU;
Signed June 2007 – June 2012
Universitas Mahasaraswati; Universitas Kristen Satya Wacana; Pacific Institute for
Sustainable Development; Bursa Pengetahuan Kawasan Timor and Universitas Nusa Note: the Cooperative Research Centre for National Plant
Cendana.
Biosecurity; CDU is applying for further funding to continue its
research and related activities. A decision should be made by
The above are member institutions of AusIndo BIOCOM – Australian Indonesian
December 2011 if the application is successful. If not, it is
envisaged that Ausindo BIOCOM will continue as an
Biosecurity Community Management Project.
independent, not-for-profit entity.
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.
July 2011
Collaboration with CIFOR - http://www.cifor.cgiar.org/
On-going
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 25country 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.
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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Under discussion – English Navitas English are reviewing the opportunity of designing a suitable program.
for Science program
designed for the Department
of Education of East
Kalimantan.
2011
Marine Science
Funded by NUFFIC, AusAID and the Gates Foundation
Partnership with UNDANA
Late 2011
Contact: Professor Karen
Edyvane, (ATRF and RIEL)
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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
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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.
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3 - 7 July, 2011, Fremantle, Western Australia).
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Publication of the Symposium papers is currently in
progress.
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.
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.
30 June 2011
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.
Visiting Research Fellow
Dr Petrus Kase, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Nusa Cendana Competed 1 July 2011
(UNDANA). His topic: ‘Evaluating Inter-Institutional Relations In the Program of
Contacts: Dr Kate Golebiowska Society Nutrition Improvement In East Nusa Tenggara’.
(The Northern Institute) and Dr
Selma Liberato (Menzies
School of Heath Research).
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Short term DIKTI
Scholarships
Contact: Prof Chris Austin,
(formerly of SER) and Prof
Karen Edyvane, RIEL and
ATRF
Overseas Internship
Program - The Faculty of
Biology, UGM
Former Visiting Research Fellow (VRF) from Universitas Gadjah Mada (UGM), Dra
October - December 2011
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.
February – May 2012
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..
Between May and September 2011
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.
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.
Visiting Research Fellow
Dra Ratna Susandarini, Faculty of Biology, University Gadja Mada (UGM). Her topic 18 October – 17 December 2010
was: ‘Genetic Variation in Citrus Maxima in Indonesia using direct DNA sequencing.
2012 - 2015
Contact: Prof Chris Austin,
(formerly of SER)
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
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Internship
1 x 11 week internship awarded to Ibu Chelzi Darusullam from the Eijkman Institute
for Molecular Biology.
7 June - 20 August 2010
Contact: Prof Chris Austin,
(formerly of SER)
4 Party Strategic Planning
Workshop
Ibu Chelzi worked in the SELS molecular genetics laboratory researching DNA
barcoding of marine fish species. The internship was fully funded by SELS.
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).
7 – 11 June 2010
Contacts: Dr Penny Wurm, Dr
Bronwyn Myers; Sam Pickering Broadly, the purpose of the proposed meeting is to develop a pathway for future fourSELS, CDU.
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.
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