ANU Indonesia Project Photo Archive
Celebrating our 60th anniversary in 2025, the ANU Indonesia Project invites you to take a trip down memory lane with a collection of photos from our historical archives.

Anne Booth (Indonesia Project staff) at a government office in Bandung, West Java

Heads of the ANU Indonesia Project, from left to right, Budy P Resosudarmo, Peter McCawley, Hal Hill, and Chris Manning

Professor Mohammad Sadli and Professor Saparinah Sadli were speakers at the 2001 Indonesia Update

I Komang Gde Bendesa (right, Universitas Udayana) and I Made Sukarsa (left) with Ruth Daroesman

Tee Kian Wie and Hal Hill

Dewi Fortuna Anwar at the 2014 Indonesia Update

Heinz Arndt with his students: Back: Helen Reid, Hal Hill, Ross McLeod. Front: Chris Manning, Heinz Arndt, Howard Dick, Andrew Elek,Anne Booth, Tony Reid and Peter McCawley

Hadi Soesastro, giving a public lecture at the ANU Indonesia Project in 2009

The 2009 Sadli Lecture. From left: Sisira Jayasuriya (Monash University), Ian Coxhead (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Arianto Patunru, and Hal Hill

Contributors to the 1987 regional development conference gather after launch of the proceedings volume, 'Unity in Diversity: Regional Economic Development in Indonesia since 1970' (from left): Anne Booth, Hal Hill, Lorraine Corner, Colin Barlow and Paul Meyer

Carol Hatler (PhD student, Department of Demography), Valerie Hull (Research Fellow, Department of Demography), Retno Murti (Deputy Editor of Femina, Indonesia) and Anne Booth

Members of the 2015 Indonesia Project staff team: Dian Indraswari, Nurkemala Muliani, Xue Sarah Dong, Kate McLinton

Gareth Evans, former Australian Foreign Minister and Chancellor of the ANU, speaking at the 2014 Indonesia Update

Riandy Laksono and Vania Budiato interview M. Chatib Basri for The Indonesianists podcast 2024

Haryo Aswicahyono is on the left of Hal Hill during the Indonesia Update 2014

Firman Witoelar, Budy Resosudarmo, and Daju Resosudarmo welcoming Suahasil Nazara and Titik Anas in 2023

Hasbullah Thabrany (chair of National Committee on Tobacco Control) at 2023 Mubyarto Public Pulicy Forum at UGM in Yogyakarta
Lecture in Jakarta by Nobel Laureate and former ANU Vice-Chancellor Brian Schmidt (2017)

Blane Lewis, Mari Pangestu, Mardiasmo (former Vice Minister of Finance) and Arianto Patunru (2018 book launch at CSIS, Jakarta)

Yanuar Nugroho presents at the 2016 Indonesia Update

Goenawan Mohamad (founder of Tempo magazine) at the 2000 Indonesia Update

Indonesian Minister of Finance Sri Mulyani Indrawati thanks Former Vice President Professor Boediono as he delivers a keynote address at the 2019 HLPD

Faisal Basri speaking at the 2014 Indonesia Update

Celebrating our 50th anniversary

Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana (UN ESCAP Executive Secretary) and Budy Resosudarmo at the ANU Campus in 2011

Elly Kent and Angie Bexley at book launch in Canberra (2023)

Suahasil Nazara, Vice Minister of Finance, delivers a public lecture to the Indonesia Porject community in 2023
Penny Williams (Australian Ambassador to Indonesia) speaking at the 2023 HLPD in Jakarta

Sudarno Sumarto and Umbu Reku Raya at 2013 Update

Tee Kian Wie browsing at the Nusantara bookstall at the 2000 Update Conference

Sana Jaffrey, Helen Sullivan, Eve Warburton and Ed Aspinall prepare to open the 2024 Indonesia Update

Joko Widodo the 7th President of Indonesia and Budy P Resosudarmo

Inaugural Mubyarto Public Policy Forum at Universitas Gadjah Mada (Yogyakarta, 2017)

Mely Tan and Kathy Robinson at Update book launch at CSIS in Jakarta (2016)

Hal HIll, Arianto Patunru and Firman Witoelar welcome Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Indonesian Minister of Finance, to deliver a public lecture in 2023

Nadjib Riphat Kesoema (former Ambassador of Indonesia to Australia) and Bambang Harymurti (former editor-in-chief of Tempo magazine) during the 2013 Indonesia Update speakers dinner

During FKP Roadtrip to Banda Aceh, Sarah Dong, Kate McLinton, Palmira Permata Bachtiar, Lydia Napitupulu, Teguh Dartanto bumped into former President of Indonesia, Joko Widodo (2015)
Kathy Robinson and Todd Dias, Australian Consul-General in Makassar at a KONEKSI boot camp 2024
Heni Kurniasih, Mesti Marsono, Gita Nasution and Bambang Cahyono Adi at research network workshop in Jakarta (2025)

Paul Burke and M. Chatib Basri lead a public dialogue on Indonesia's middle class in 2024

Santi Kusumaningrum at 2022 Update
Ross Garnaut (2015 Sadli Lecture speaker) Ari Kuncoro, Saparinah Sadli, Mubariq Ahmad, Raden Pardede and I Kadek Dian Sutrisna Artha in Jakarta

Ariane Utomo, Titik Anas and Riyana Miranti at development research network workshop in Bandung (2016)

High-level policy dialogue in Jakarta, 2010. Bill Farmer is on the left of Sri Mulyani Indrawati.

Budy Resosudarmo, Boediono (former Vice President) and Michael Wesley (former ANU CAP dean)

Emil Salim (former Minister of Environment) at the 2004 Indonesia Update

Sarah Dong and Chris Manning interview a coffee vendor during fieldwork for their 2017 BIES survey

The ANU Indonesia Project team 2015: Blane Lewis, Hal HIll, Kate McLinton, Robert Sparrow, Sarah Dong, Cut Nurkemala Muliani, Arianto Patunru

WTO Director General, Roberto Azevedo, at 2016 Sadli Lecture in Jakarta

Emil Salim (former Minister of Environment) at 2016 Sadli Lecture in Jakarta

Participants of 2020 development research network held in Ciawi, West Java

Director of the Crawford School of Public Policy, Janine O'Flynn, speaking at the 2024 Indonesia Update.

Airlangga Hartanto (Indonesia Coordinating Minister for Economic Affairs) with Budy Resosudarmo

Ross Tapsell (right) and Joy Elly Tulung (2nd from right) at lunch after book launch at Universitas Sam Ratulangi (Manado, 2017)

Heinz Arndt with Juwono Sudarsono (former Indonesian Minister of State for the Environment, Minister of Education and Culture and Minister of Defence), Clara Juwono (CSIS Cofounder) and Moh Arif

Titik Anas, Peter Warr, Arief A Yusuf, Lydia Napitupulu and Stephen Marks at the 2017 BIES Economic Dialogue in Bandung

Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific, Helen Sullivan, opening the 2023 Indonesia Update conference.

Cate Rogers, Antoni Tsaputra, Dina Afrianty and Thushara Dibley (2018 Indonesia Update)

Ross McLeod banging the gong at the 2009 Indonesia Update

From left, Budy P. Resosudarmo, Masyita Crystallin, Ross Garnaut, Mari Pangestu, Auguste Soesastro, Djisman Simandjuntak, Yose Rizal Damuri at the Hadi Soesastro Policy Forum CSIS Jakarta in 2024
Ben Olken (MIT) deliver the 2019 Sadli Lecture in Jakarta

Alexander Downer (Former Australian Minister for Foreign Affairs) at the ANU campus

Participants of 2025 development research workshop in Jakarta

Burhanuddin Muhtadi at Update book launch in Jakarta (2019)

Merriden Varrall, Ed Aspinall, Hal Hill and Dirk Tomsa delivering the Mini Update at Lowy Institute, Sydney in 2014

Hal Hill and Arianto (Aco) Patunru 2018
Dian Ratna Sawitri and Sri Kurnianingsih at BIES Economic Dialogue (Universitas Diponegoro, Semarang, 2018)

Greg Fealy and Marcus Mietzner grabbing coffee during an Indonesia Update break.

Eva Nisa (centre), with 2023 Student Research Grant winners Rani Dwi Putri and Jayne Fendyk

Ed Aspinall with Lauren Bain (DFAT) at the launch of the Indonesia Update series book 'Governing urban Indonesia', 2024

Peter McCawley at 2013 Update in Canberra

Picnic on Coombs Lawn during a lunch break of 2013 Indonesia Update

Update book launch at CSIS, Jakarta 92016). John McCarthy, Djisman Simandjuntak, Chia Siow Yue, Budi Mulyanto, HS Dillon, Auguste Soesastro, Mely G Tan, Wiryono Sastrohandoyo and Hamzah Thayeb (both former Indonesian Ambassadors to Australia), and lastly, Kathryn Robinson.

Robert Cribb, Tony Reid, Ed Aspinall and Shafiah Muhibat at 2017 Update

Speakers at 2017 Update

Chatib Basri, Mari Pangestu and Arianto Patunru, convenors of 2017 Update

Sri Mulyani, Minister of Finance of Indonesia at the 2023 Indonesia - Australia High Level Policy Dialogue

IP staff in 2007: Liz Drysdale, Chris Manning, Cathy Haberle, Hal Hill, Trish van der Hoek, Frank Jotzo, Budy Resosudarmo, Ross McLeod

Andy Yentriyani, former chair of KOMNAS Perempuan , at Update book launch in Jakarta

Niken Kusumawardhani, Diahhadi Setyonaluri (Ruri), Atnike Nova Sigiro and Sarah Dong at 2022 Update

Gathering during a pandemic - Arianto Patunru, Firman Witoelar and Santi Kusumaningrum

Maria Monica Wihardja presented at ISG in 2024, here with Firman Witoelar

IP delivering a bootcamp for researchers in Makassar in 2024

Stephanie Copus Campbell AM, Australian Ambassador of Gender Equality, launches the Indonesian Update Book Series "Gender Equality and Diversity in Indonesia"

David Reeve presenting his book Onghokham at ISG in 2022

Nikijuluw, Blane Lewis and Adrianus Hendrawan (2022)

Muhammad Hanri and Putu Geniki Natih on LPEM FEB UI visit to Canberra (2023)
Michael Rock, Thee Kian Wie, Arianto Patunru and Prema-chandra Athukorala in Jakarta for the 2011 Sadli Lecture
Heni Kurniasih, Budy Resosudarmo, moderator, Nazamuddin, Hefrizal Handra (2017 FKP Roadshow in Banda Aceh)
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FKP with Zulfa Nadia, Iqbal Damanik and Arie (all of Greenpeace Indonesia) presenting their BIES paper, with Rizky Argama (PSHK, far left) and Aviani Salsabila (PSHK, far right)

Bhaskara Adiwena, Arianto Patunru, Lydia Napitupulu, Deasy Pane, Denny Irawan and Felippa Amanta at FKP seminar in Jakarta 2020)
Imelda (Geneva Graduate Institute) presenting at FKP seminar in Jakarta in 2024 hosted by Heni Kurniasih (SMERU)

Luhut Binsar Pandjaitan, Chairperson of the National Economic Council and HE Siswo Pramono, Indonesian Ambassador to Australia and Vanuatu meet with the ANU Vice Chancelor and the ANU Indonesianist academic community for a briefing on economic and trade issues.