Centre Supports 2024 AIYA Kongress
The Herb Feith Centre supported the Australia Indonesia Youth Association (AIYA) deliver their annual Kongress at Monash campuses in Clayton and in Jakarta. Read on to find out the highlights.
Kongres 2024 Melbourne | 1-3 March 2024
Monash University Clayton Campus
The opening night opened with addresses by Claudia Wijaya, AIYA National President, and Assoc Prof Sharyn Davies, which was followed by a panel discussion and the ASEAN-Australia Youth Diplomacy Networking Night. The panel discussed trade, economy, education, climate change, geopolitics and regional security. With 2024 marking 50 Years of ASEAN-Australia Dialogue Relations, the panel reflected on the current state and future of Australia’s engagement with our neighbours in Southeast Asia.
Across the three day event, the Kongress included an Indonesian Cooking Class and soft skills building workshops, networking opportunities and an Amazing Race scavenger hunt where participants explored the Monash University Clayton Campus.
The Kongres closed with addresses by Claudia Wijaya and Dr Sharyn Davies, and a movie screening of award-winning first nations movie ‘The Drover’s Wife’, the first Australian feature film to be written and directed by an Indigenous woman who also stars in the lead role.
Alongside the Herb Feith Centre, sponsors for AIYA Kongres 2024 in Melbourne were Asialink, ASEAN-Australia Strategic Youth Partnership, Market City Indonesia, Traveloka and Dapur Indo Melbourne.
Kongress 2024 Jakarta | 9 March 2024
Monash University, Indonesia campus and Uptown Serviced Office, Jakarta
Herb Feith Centre welcomed AIYA Indonesia for their half-day AIYA Kongres and had their first-ever campus tour of Monash University, Indonesia. Herb Feith Indonesia Centre’s Deputy Director, Dr Sabina Puspita, co-organised AIYA’s networking night in Jakarta to celebrate the 50th anniversary of ASEAN-Australia relations by arranging Monash Indonesia’s academics, Dr Gabriela Fernando and Dr Luthfi Adam, and student in the Master of Public Policy and Management program, Anne Priskila, to address the AIYA Kongres participants.
Dr Fernando gave a keynote speech on the ASEAN-Australia post-pandemic relations in the public health sector. In a panel discussion following the keynote speech, Dr Adam stressed the importance of studying Indonesian history to understand and contribute to the strengthening of ASEAN-Australia relations. Anne explained the state of electric vehicles development in Indonesia and the potentials of ASEAN-Australia relations in advancing regional energy transition efforts.
The panel discussion also included Causindy’s Rio Afifudin (Board of Directors) and The ASEAN Secretariat’s Dr Zurina Moktar (Assistant Director of the Science and Technology Division) and Ayuni Sari (Project Officer for the ASEAN Economics Community). Ayuni asserted that issues of Aus4ASEAN initiatives become more intersectional, and Dr Moktar called for AIYA Kongres participants as the next world leaders from the region to engage in citizen science activities. Rio emphasised writing as key to engage transnational relationships.
The Centre's commitment to nurturing connection between Australia and Indonesia
The Centre's support for the AIYA Kongress is a demonstration of our commitment to supporting youth and emerging leaders to engage in meaningful and educational exchanges for an egalitarian relationship between Indonesia and Australia, and also the promotion of expertise of academics and graduate students at Monash University, across our global campuses.
