Ed Aspinall

Edward Aspinall is the Coordinator of Inside Indonesia's editing committee. Ed became involved in things Indonesian when he spent a year in Malang, East Java, as a teenager in 1983 (his father was working on an Australian government aid project). Later he studied Indonesian at high school and university. He wrote his PhD on the democratic movement which overthrew the Suharto regime (this was published as a book - Opposing Suharto: Compromise, Resistance and Regime Change in Indonesia - in 2005). Now he researches Indonesian politics at the Australian National University, currently with a focus on the conflict And peace process in Aceh.

Emma Baulch

Emma Baulch has been reading Inside Indonesia since the late-1980s, when she majored in Indonesian Studies at Sydney University. From the early-1990s, she has occasionally contributed (her own) and reviewed (others’) articles for the magazine. In 2003, she edited a print edition on the aftermath of the first Bali bomb. She is a writer and researcher with an interest in Indonesian media, particularly the music and advertising industries. Presently she works for Queensland University of Technology’s Creative Industries Faculty and lives in Denpasar.  

Siobhan Campbell

Siobhan Campbell began learning Indonesian as a high school student in  1990.  After a first visit to Bali & Sulawesi in 1992 she caught the bug and continued studying Indonesian at the University of NSW in Sydney. Her involvement with Inside Indonesia began in 1997 as an undergraduate student. In those pre-internet days, her role was to visit the library on campus and take clippings of the political cartoons from the major Indonesian dailies, photocopy them and send them by post to the then editors in Brisbane  for inclusion in the magazine. This illustrious start launched Siobhan into a  career working as an “Indonesianist” including a stint as a  translator/interpreter with the United Nations Transitional  Administration  in East Timor and as a liaison officer with the Indonesian Consulate  General  in Sydney.

Leslie Dwyer

First came to Indonesia in 1993 to research Islam and gender in Java for a Ph.D. at Princeton University . She and Degung Santikarma, her husband and research partner, were founding editors of the late and lamented Latitudes magazine, and have been collaborating since 1999 on an ethnographic research project on the aftermath of the 1965-66 massacres in Bali . Her scholarly interests include violence, memory, reconciliation, gender, ritual, and the ethics and politics of anthropology. She currently teaches anthropology at Haverford College in the U.S. , where she also serves as coordinator of the program in peace and conflict studies.

Michele Ford

Michele Ford is chair of the IRIP Board as well as a member of Inside Indonesia's editing committee. Michele became interested in Indonesia when she was studying Engineering and Industrial Relations at the University of New South Wales. In 1990, she took an Indonesian language summer course in on a whim, and it changed her life. Indonesia beat Engineering 45-love, and she ended up with an Indonesian husband, an Indonesian house (in Tanjung Pinang in the Riau Islands) and a PhD in Indonesian labour relations. When she is not working on Inside Indonesia, she teaches Indonesian language and Southeast Asian Studies (with a focus on social activism and human rights) at the University of Sydney or does research on Indonesian labour and Kepulauan Riau.

Keith Foulcher

Keith Foulcher retired in 2006 after more than 30 years teaching Indonesian language and literature studies at Monash, Flinders and  Sydney universities. During that time he found himself (at times) a reluctant participant in Indonesian literary politics because of his interest in oppositional writers and their work during the New Order years. He is now an Honorary Associate of the Department of Indonesian Studies at Sydney University, with time for extra curricula interests like helping out with the editing of Inside Indonesia.

Virginia Hooker

Virginia Hooker first visited Indonesia in 1969 for research into traditional Malay manuscripts from the 19th century Riau-Lingga sultanate. Since then she has moved ever closer to the present day and currently researches social change, values and Islam in contemporary Indonesia, particularly West Sumatra. Her most recent publication, co-edited with Greg Fealy, is Voices of Islam in Southeast Asia: A Contemporary Sourcebook (Singapore 2006). She retired as Professor of Indonesian and Malay, Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU in January 2007 and is now a Visiting Fellow in the Dept of Political and Social Change, Research School of Asian and Pacific Studies, ANU. She has been a subscriber to Inside Indonesia since it began.

Lis Jackson

Lis Jackson is a member of Inside Indonesia's editorial team and the proofreading coordinator for the magazine. Lis studied Indonesian at the University of New South Wales after a holiday to Bali in 1994 inspired her to learn the language. In early June 2005 she submitted a PhD on the politics of student identity under Suharto's New Order. The following day, she left Sydney for Jakarta where she managed The Asia Foundation's programs in the Islamic education sector. Lis has taught Indonesian language at the Australian National University and the University of New South Wales and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. She is also a nationally accredited Indonesian translator and interpreter. Her husband, Edward, is a mining engineer who is currently working in Jakarta.  Their first daughter, Isabelle, was born in April 2007.

Geoff Mulherin

Laura Noszlopy

Laura first visited Indonesia as a teenager, travelling from Jakarta to Flores and back. Since then, she has studied various aspects of Indonesian society and culture, concentrating on the ethnography of Bali, Indonesian performance, and youth and popular cultures. Her recent post-doctoral project was on the curious history of ogoh-ogoh – the ‘new tradition’ of giant papier-mâché effigies paraded in urban streets for Balinese New Year. While living in Denpasar she got the job of editing Latitudes magazine, a much missed periodical dealing with contemporary Indonesian life and culture. In the past year or so, Laura has returned to London, become a mother, and started working on new research into Indonesian performing arts and transnationalism.

Blair Palmer

After growing up in New Zealand and Canada, Blair finished his University studies in mathematics and went to Papua to do volunteer work in 1994. He has been living and working on and off in Indonesia ever since. He is in the final stages of writing his PhD dissertation in Anthropology, based on research in Sulawesi on migrant Butonese who fled the Ambon conflicts of 1999. Blair guest-edited edition 82 of Inside Indonesia entitled From Mataram to Merauke: Mobility and Eastern Indonesia. Blair is currently living in Jakarta, doing research in Aceh for the  World Bank’s Conflict and Development Team, and waiting for his first child to be born.

Jo Pickles

Jo Pickles is a member of Inside Indonesia’s editorial team. Growing up in regional Australia, her high school’s subscription to Inside Indonesia kept Jo in touch with Indonesia in between family holidays and study tours. Articles from the magazine inspired her Year 12 art major work which was exhibited through Australia and in New York as part of the ArtExpress program. After finishing a degree in Indonesian studies and working in HIV/AIDS prevention in Jakarta for a year, Jo is now the program coordinator for the Australia-Indonesia Governance Research Partnership.

John Roosa

Since 1994 John Roosa has lived off-and-on in Indonesia for a total of about five years, largely in Java. John’s initial engagement was as an U.S. activist supporting the struggle for democracy in Indonesia and self-determination for East Timor. After the fall of Suharto in 1998 and the independence of East Timor in 1999, John decided to focus on researching modern Indonesian history and building up a research library and oral history archive in Jakarta (the Indonesian Institute of Social History). His research has focused on the events of 1965-66 and their aftermath and has resulted in two books so far, a co-edited book, Tahun Yang Tak Pernah Berakhir (2004) and Pretext for Mass Murder (2006). John is now studying political identities from the Revolution to the overthrow of Sukarno's Guided Democracy (1945-65). Inside Indonesia has always been an invaluable resource for John, its pages being a kind of constantly updated precis of the work of many activists and scholars.

Degung Santikarma

Is an Indonesian anthropologist/journalist/human rights activist, and the former Editor-in-Chief of the now-defunct Latitudes magazine, a Bali-based culture-critiquing monthly. He has written on topics ranging from the colonial history of underwear to the cultural politics of Balinese trance, but his major research focus is on violence and the legacies of authoritarianism in Indonesia , particularly the massacres of 1965-66. With his wife and research partner, Leslie Dwyer, he is currently completing a book entitled, A World in Fragments: Bali in the Aftermath of Mass Murder. He now resides in the U.S., where he teaches on and off at Haverford College , collaborates on a variety of anthropological projects, and suffers his children to correct his English.

Gerry van Klinken

Gerry van Klinken and his partner Helene became avid readers of the magazine when they were living in Salatiga, Central Java in the late 1980s. After both submitting pieces and being thrilled when they were published, Gerry found himself editing the magazine in 1996. After moving to a guest editor system in 2002 he continued to be actively involved in the magazine, first as coordinating editor, and later as a member of the editing committee. He is now a researcher in the Netherlands. Gerry is continually struck by the infectious energy that Indonesia inspires in those who return from their travels. He sees that energy as a sustaining force for the magazine. Helene and Gerry's own memories of Indonesia include high adventure, back-packing around the archipelago and being shipwrecked at night on a coral reef in a traditional sailing boat! They both want the magazine to be a 'bridge between people, to challenge stereotypes, to highlight movements and individuals who we think symbolise a better tomorrow.'