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Join our Australian Alumni Grant Info Session!
Are you an Australian alumnus or Australia Awards in Indonesia scholar who want to strengthen your Australian... Read more
Alumni Learn Effective Project Implementation in the Grant Orientation Workshop
The Alumni Grant Scheme (AGS) recipients, who receive seed funding on a competitive basis for their initiative... Read more
Mohammad Ismail Bridges Communication between Deaf and Hearing People through Sign Language Interpreters
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, deaf and hard-of-hearing people would often struggle to converse with heari... Read more
Annisa Dina Amalia Intertwines Economic Empowerment and Ethnic Fashion for Female Weavers in Pontianak
When Annisa Dina Amalia moved to Australia in 2018, she was quite impressed with the respect and value that Au... Read more
Subhan Petrana Seeks to Bring Light to Eastern Indonesia, in a Sustainable Manner
When lecturer Subhan Petrana chose renewable energy as his field of study at Khairun University in Ternate, No... Read more
Dirgarini Subagyono Puts Use Board Games to Make Studying Chemistry in High School Fun and Enjoyable
Surrounded by the subject of chemistry from childhood, Dirgarini Subagyono eventually found herself enchanted... Read more
Kristi Praptiwi Uses ‘Peacepreneurship’ to Combat Youth Intolerance
Australia Awards alumna Kristi Praptiwi has used a combination of social entrepreneurship and peace building a... Read more
Sri Susanty Works with a Community to Make Waste Their Business
Australia Awards alumna Dr Sri Susanty believes that education alone is insufficient to solve a serious waste... Read more
Luthfi Juharta Matchmakes Startups with VCs through Australia-Indonesia Online Speed Dating
Luthfi Juharta graduated with a degree in Civil Engineering, but when he discovered the flourishing startup en... Read more
Webri Veliana’s Environmental Activism Starts with Waste Management at Home
The challenges of environmental activism can be overwhelming. Amid climate change denial, the slow pace of pol... Read more
Lia Rosida Promotes Sustainable Tourism through Bamboo Conservation
When Australian Awards alumna Lia Rosida worked at a five-star hotel in Lombok in 2012, she observed a signifi... Read more
Johanna Audrey Leatemia Empowers Women and Young People Through Hydroponic Farming
Johanna Audrey Leatemia believes that hydroponics is an excellent method to get the young generation, particul... Read more
Mobile Application For Farmers Helps Mitigate Pest Attacks, Promote Sustainability
The rainy season keeps Indonesian food crop farmers on their toes as pests and diseases can spread before they... Read more
Tune Map: a participatory mapping app assisting people with visual impairment and raising awareness about disability and accessibility in Bandung
A mobile application started by three friends from Bandung, West Java, is assisting people with visual impairm... Read more
Percacita: using fabric waste to empower people with disabilities
A social entrepreneurship start-up based in East Java is changing the lives of people with disabilities in mor... Read more
Dede Supriyanto Strives for Quality Education for Children with Multiple Disabilities
Teacher trainer Dede Supriyanto believes children with disabilities can grow to their fullest potential when t... Read more
Stickers helping to solve the tuberculosis puzzle in Papua and West Papua
In Papua and West Papua, a puzzle card is helping tuberculosis patients remember to take their medication, a h... Read more
Pesantren Hijau, Building Environmentally-Friendly Practices One School at a Time
Hijroatul Maghfiroh, the founder of Pesantren Hijau, or Green Islamic Boarding School program, measures its su... Read more
Batik wearing dolls: a symbol of hope for female inmates
For women incarcerated in Jakarta, Batam and Bali, a dollmaking project has provided tools to deal with stress... Read more
Australian rules football: a gateway to diversity and gender equality
Every two weeks, one can find a unique scene in a field in Salatiga, Central Java. More than 200 girls in h... Read more
Working together to mitigate future liquefaction disasters
Australia Awards alumnus Dr Ardy Arsyad is determined to find the cause of the largest liquefaction disaster i... Read more
Inclusivity through recycled materials
A Training of Trainers program teaching people with disabilities how to recycle plastic and paper waste into h... Read more
AKATARA: a renewable energy card game for students in East Nusa Tenggara
More than 120 students in the island of Sumba, East Nusa Tenggara, are having fun while learning about renewab... Read more
Gender equality through financial literacy
Financial literacy is changing the lives of more than 100 villagers and their families across two coastal comm... Read more
Wheelchair service centres across Central Java: a service from and for the mobility impaired
More than 30 mobility impaired people and supporters are opening wheelchair service centres across five cities... Read more
Banda Aware: saving the coral and coastal line
Fishermen from the villages of Tanah Rata, Kumber, Pulau Pisang and Gunung Api in the Banda sub-district, Malu... Read more
Palm sugar: instilling pride in farmers on the quality of their product
Thanks to a program spearheaded by Australian alumnus Jufrizal, around 30 farmers are learning how to produce... Read more
POKENTIK: a mobile app to monitor public participation in eradicating dengue
As part of the digital health movement across Indonesia, Idan Awaludin, from the Technical Centre for Environm... Read more
Financial logbooks create a path to financial literacy for fishermen in Ambon
For the first time in their lives, small-scale fishermen in four villages across Ambon are realising the benef... Read more
Lombok farmers optimistic about eco-friendly shrimp farms
In a first for West Nusa Tenggara, ten farmers in Muara Selayar, Pijot Village, Keruak District, East Lombok R... Read more
A Poisonous Tree Becomes a Source for Biofuel
Around 30 farmers in North Maluku are learning how to extract biofuel from the poisonous Calophyllum inophyllu... Read more
Pacet Dairy Farmers Pin Hopes on Cheese-Making to Help Boosting Fresh Milk Economic Value
While cheese is not a staple in Indonesian kitchens, dairy produce has gained popularity as Indonesians’... Read more
Integrating technology as visual support tools for children with autism
Australia Awards alumna Margaretha, who completed a post-graduate diploma of Psychology from University of New... Read more
Nur Asyik Hidayatullah develops app to monitor toxic gas alert for volcanic eruption
Indonesians have adapted well to living with volcanoes, given that the country is part of the Pacific Ring of... Read more
Fighting waste in Komodo National Park through community ‘trash banks’.
With its roaming Komodo dragons, sandy beaches, and turquoise-clear waters, Komodo National Park has become on... Read more
Dare to Hope: Building English skills for the visually impaired in Bali.
In March 2018, visually impaired students from various backgrounds practiced their conversational English skil... Read more
How an urban planner empowers women in Nansean village through weaving.
Indonesia’s cultural heritage of traditional weaving is fast disappearing in many parts of the country.... Read more
A Chance to Play and be a Kid!
Rambunctious laughter and great spirit filled a large field in Lebak Bulus, South Jakarta, one rainy afternoon... Read more
Empowering Domestic Violence Survivors Through Financial Literacy
There is nothing more empowering than the feeling of economic independence, particularly for women. Domestic v... Read more
A Social Enterprise in Central Java Brings Bamboo Back
Bamboo has long been used in many places in Asia, as a building material, for furniture and also as a food sou... Read more
Young Indonesian Engineer Aqmarina Andira Teaching The Art of Storytelling
Colourful paints and poetic words swept through the National Library as children rediscovered the lost art of... Read more
Scholar Yanuardi Syukur Reflects on Peace and Multiculturalism in Australia
Prolific writer and young Muslim scholar Yanuardi Syukur experienced first-hand the devastation caused by a se... Read more
Maths Wizard leads Disaster Risk Reduction Efforts
When the deadly 2004 Asian tsunami struck Indonesia’s Aceh province, it left a permanent mark on Sudi Mu... Read more
Tisha Rumbewas: Finding Roots in Papua
Growing up in a remote area with a wealth of natural resources and diverse traditions, Tisha Rumbewas, researc... Read more
Bringing Fun Back Into Education
School is a place where we get inspired and make friends before we set off towards our dream careers. However,... Read more
Rosita Tandos Sparks Economic Empowerment for Women in West Java.
Rosita Tandos graduated from Curtin University of Technology determined to do more for the economic empowermen... Read more
Bridging the Gap for Local Interpreters in Eastern Indonesia
The largest city in eastern Indonesia, Makassar, has been a hub of international trade dating back to the 17th... Read more
It Takes a Village to Care for the Elderly.
Indonesia is among the world’s five largest countries by population with more than 260 million individua... Read more
Fostering Active Teaching and Learning Process Quality in Indonesia’s Schools.
A committed and experienced educator, Mokhamad Iksan, has dedicated his life to improving education in rural a... Read more