Griffith University and UNICEF partner to improve child protection in Indonesia

Griffith Asia Institute
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Griffith University is partnering with UNICEF and the Indonesian Government to ameliorate child protection and social work structures in Indonesia. Led by Griffith School of Human Services and Social Work’s Professor Clare Tilbury, the project will use three pilot districts in Indonesia to identify best practice models for child protection systems. “Each Pilot site will […]

Bali Nine: poor political leadership creates lasting bilateral problems

Griffith Asia Institute
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Colin Brown, Griffith University Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran are dead. Above all else, their deaths are a human tragedy for their families. But their executions, which took place on Tuesday night, also present major problems for the Australian and Indonesian governments. Indonesian President Joko Widodo, popularly known as Jokowi, clearly bears political and personal […]

Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH) links with Muslim University of Indonesia

MoU signing ceremony
Centre for Environment and Population Health
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On 30 October 2014, Professor Sarah Todd, Pro Vice Chancellor (International) welcomed Professor Dr Masrurah Mokhtar MA, Rector of Muslim University of Indonesia (UMI) to the Nathan campus to sign an MoU between Griffith University and UMI to facilitate collaborations with the Centre for Environment and Population Health (CEPH) and the Faculty of Public Health […]

Australia – Indonesia Dialogue 2014

Griffith Asia Institute
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Griffith University’s Asia Institute will hosted the second annual Australia-Indonesia Dialogue in Jakarta on Tuesday November 25, 2014 where experts addressed a broad agenda covering climate change, urban development, and the changing economic and political relationship between the two countries under Indonesia’s new president, Joko Widodo. Download the Press Release Download the 2014 Dialogue Program […]

Is our rock art older than Europe’s?

The oldest scientifically dated hand stencil and rock painting of an animal
School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
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PERAHU (Place, Evolution and Rock Art Heritage Unit) has announced its discovery of the earliest minimum age for a hand stencil, found in the Maros region of Southern Sulawesi, Indonesia. On October 9 2014, PERAHU’s Maxime Aubert and his Australian-Indonesian team published an earth-shattering paper in the prestigious journal Nature, which revealed that the world’s […]