Thirty FKP webinars were held in the second half of 2020 hosted by thirteen organisations, including the new host Program Kolaborasi Masyarakat dan Pelayanan untuk Kesejahteraan (KOMPAK). The webinars featured 71 speakers, about a third of whom are female, and also a third were international speakers (based in an organisation outside Indonesia). More than 6,000 participations or views were recorded across Zoom and YouTube, the main platforms used to convene the webinars.
There are fourteen Global Seminar series on Covid-19 in Indonesia held in the second semester of 2020. The topics vary, including topics on public health, gender, regional perspectives from Jakarta and Yogyakarta, media, rural livelihoods, trade, industry and investment, religious communities, jobs, digital economy, Covid recovery, and others.
The 2019 Update Book, Democracy in Indonesia: from stagnation to regression, was launched online by Professor Emil Salim from Universitas Indonesia on 25 September 2020. This was a two-day launch.
In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, The ANU Indonesia Project initiated the Indonesia Project’s Global Seminar Series. The webinar series brings together people and research from around the world to broaden the understanding of COVID-19 and stimulate debate on key challenges faced by Indonesia, drawing on the experiences of other countries.
There were 6 Indonesia Study Group (ISG) seminars held in the first half of 2020. The seminars continued to serve wide-ranging topics of Indonesian society, such as tourism boom, census, and care for the homeless with mental illness. One out of the six seminars were given by the international speaker from the University of Bremen.
Forum Kajian Pembangunan (FKP) was initiated by the ANU Indonesia Project and LPEM FEB UI in 2009. At the time, all seminars were held at LPEM offices on the Universitas Indonesia campus on Jalan Salemba, Jakarta. In 2010, other organisations started hosting the seminar and eventually each month was hosted by a different organization(s). Now in its 10th year in the rolling hosting form, eleven organisations hosted 27 seminars in the first half of 2020.