Who will succeed Joko Widodo, Indonesia's President, when he leaves office after ten years, and what will be their approach to the economy and the role of foreign companies?  Hosted by the American Indonesian Chamber of Commerce, a panel of experts will examine national polling organizations, family and party dynamics, the role of "kingmakers", parties vs "success teams", and the role of religion. 

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Yanuar Nugroho, Driyarkara School of Philosophy Jakarta, Indriaswati Dyah Saptaningrum, Atma Jaya Catholic University, and Muhammad Fajar, Atma Jaya Catholic University, will discuss the current state of Indonesian government institutions, legal systems, and social movements.

Hosted by the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, Mari Pangestu, former Indonesian Minister of Trade, will provide her perspective on economic headwinds facing the region, including the climate crisis and food and energy security.

Sponsored by the Harvard University Asia Center and the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation, Tom Lembong, Indonesia’s Trade and Investment Minister, will discuss Indonesia’s growing importance in the global economy.

Sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and NYSEAN, Yayan Ganda Hayat Mulyana, a Career Diplomat at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and NYSEAN co-founder Ann Marie Murphy will discuss the Indo-Pacific and Indonesia's foreign policy.

Hosted by the Asia Society, Samita Sinha, Qian Yi, and Peni Candra Rini, will perform songs conveying their different interpretations of life and love, joy and sadness, and death and danger, including inspiration from Javanese myth. 

Hosted by the Council on Southeast Asia Studies at Yale University, Max Lane, Senior Visiting Fellow from the ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, will discuss the origin and progression of Indonesia’s democratic national consciousness.

Hosted at The People’s Forum, Max Lane will discuss his new book Indonesia Out of Exile: How Pramoedya’s Buru Quartet Killed a Dictatorship, which follows the life of Pramoedya Ananta Toer in and out of prison during Indonesian national awakening.

Organized by USINDO and the Stimson Center Southeast Asia Forum, Bambang Susantono, Chairman of the Nusantara National Capital Authority, Kathleen Bartram, International Development Group, and Deden Rukmana, Alabama A&M University, will discuss Indonesia’s plan to build a new capital city.

Hosted by The Forum at Columbia University, a short film and program from the Dutch Government’s Water as Leverage in Asia will tackle urban water-related challenges in the cities of Chennai (India), Khulna (Bangladesh), and Semarang (Indonesia).

Hosted by Bowery Poetry Club and sponsored by ReginArt, Wawan Sofyan will present his spoken word on Indonesia’s declaration of independence, Besok atau tidak sama sekali (Tomorrow or never). Joane Win will present Cotton Candy concerning sexual violence during Indonesia’s riot.

Hosted by the Stanford Southeast Asia Program, Reza Idria, Lee Kong Chian NUS-Stanford Fellow on Contemporary Southeast Asia, will address the complexities and the unexpected outcomes of enforcing Sharia law through the machinery of inefficient statecraft in the Indonesian province of Aceh.

Hosted by the University of Victoria, Ayu Ratih, co-founder and director of the Indonesian Institute of Social History, will discuss the use of oral history in documenting gender-based violence during the 1965-66 military operation in Indonesia.

Hosted by the Cornell University Library and Southeast Asia Program, Brian Arnold, author of A History of Photography in Indonesia: From the Colonial Era to the Digital Age, will present a lecture on the development of photography in Indonesia, emphasizing the importance of archives and a material-based approach to research.

Hosted by University of Washington, Tania Murray Li and Pujo Semedi will examine the structure and governance of Indonesia's contemporary oil palm plantations in Indonesia, which supply 50 percent of the world's palm oil.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Arsjad Rasjid, Chairman of the Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, will discuss Indonesia’s ASEAN Business Advisory Council Chairmanship priorities, agenda, and legacy projects.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Sophie Chao, University of Sydney, will discuss how the symbolic mobilization of different animals and plants by Papuan activists foregrounds the more-than-human dimensions of their struggle for social, racial, and multispecies justice.

Hosted by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University, Jenny Goldstein, Cornell University, will argue that Indonesia’s peatlands are experiments with land at a scale that states, scientists, and the planet’s inhabitants are just beginning to grapple with in a warming world.

Hosted by the Center for Southeast Asian Studies, University of Michigan, Realisa Masardi, Universitas Gadjah Mada and University of Michigan, will discuss how young refugees exercise passive and active waiting and what contributing factors catalyze or impede the distribution of their agency in Indonesia.

Hosted by ISEAS - Yusof Ishak Institute, Burhanuddin Muhtadi, Syarif Hidayatullah State Islamic University, Siwage Dharma Negara, ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute, and Hui Yew-Foong, co-Managing Editor of Sojourn: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, will analyze support for democracy as a political system and the perception that democracy is on the decline based findings from the Indonesia National Survey Project.

Hosted by the SOAS Centre of South East Asian Studies, Taomo Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, will discuss Indonesian activist Francisca Fanggidaej’s life trajectory through different parts of the decolonizing world as a diplomat, a political exile, and as a mother of seven children.

Hosted by the University of Maryland, Professor ​​Budy Resosudarmo, Australian National University, will discuss the context of climate policies in Indonesia, challenges to achieving their climate goals, and opportunities for developing Indonesia-US work on sustainability research and implementation.

Professor Tania Li, University of Toronto, and Associate Professor Pujo Semedi, Gadjah Mada University, will discuss the structure and governance of Indonesia’s contemporary oil palm plantations as outlined in the book, Plantation Life: Corporate Occupation in Indonesia’s Plantation Zone. This event is sponsored by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies at Cornell University.

Hosted by the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, Airlangga Hartarto, Coordinating Minister of Economic Affairs of Indonesia, and Gregory B. Poling, Director of the CSIS Southeast Asia Program, will discuss Indonesia’s priorities and economic cooperation between the United States and Indonesia.

Join NYSEAN for a talk by Matt Easton, author of a narrative nonfiction account of Munir, one of Indonesia's foremost human rights defenders. Easton will be in conversation with Sidney Jones, senior advisor with the Jakarta-based Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict.

Hosted by SOAS University of London, Benjamin Hegarty, medical anthropologist at University of Melbourne, will discuss how forms of citizenship and national belonging are applied to Indonesian transgender feminine populations known as waria and transpuan.

At Cornell University, Nicholas Kuipers, Assistant Professor at the National University of Singapore, will present the argument that civil servant examinations in Indonesia support preferential treatment and reflect negatively on an ethnically inclusive national identity.

Hosted by Arizona State University, Walker DePuy, an environmental anthropologist, will discuss his ongoing research on Indonesia’s plan to relocate its national capital from Jakarta - a city increasingly vulnerable to sea-level rise --to the island of Borneo.