Sessions

The recent reactivation of negotiations toward an Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA), sparks an opportunity for collaboration between Australian and Indonesian businesses and investors. Lydia Santoso, Justin Fox and Helen Brown will talk about the Agreement, opportunity and barriers to doing business in both Indonesia and Australia.

The CAUSINDY Tech and Innovation panel will explore major developments in the digital and technology sector in both Australia and Indonesia. This includes the policy focus of the Joko Widodo administration to foster the growth of the digital ecosystem in Indonesia. In Australia the Turnbull Government committed $1.1 billion AUD to the ‘ideas boom’. Our panel of Mathew Benjamin, Yansen Kamto, Jamie Camidge and TBC will tease out these policy areas and discuss opportunities and challenges faced.

 
Understanding culture is crucial to the sustainability of the Australia-Indonesia relationship. By properly analysing the diverse roles culture that culture plays, future leaders can better steer the bilateral relationship to benefit both nations’ people.

Since the experiences of Indonesians and Australians in each other’s countries, via tourism, study abroad or migration, are inseparable from ideas about culture, the panel will examine the institutions and development policies that create and disseminate those ideas.

Following Friday morning’s tech and innovation panel, the Australian Consulate-General in Bali will host a networking lunch at Rumah Sanur, and Indonesian-Australian tech coworking space. Delegates and speakers will be joined by Australian alumni and business representatives from Bali.