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01 December 2025

Australian Alumni Gala Dinner Celebrates Outstanding Alumni Contributions

The Australian Alumni Gala Dinner on 20 November 2025 in Jakarta brought together hundreds of Indonesian graduates of Australian u... Read more

Stories

12 January 2026

Hijroatul Maghfiroh: Addressing Ecological Challenges through Interfaith Environmentalism

Hijroatul Maghfiroh believes that small changes will eventually add up to something impactful. This hope has guided her to plant t... Read more

12 January 2026

Zulfan Herman: Balancing Ecological and Economic Growth

For 17 years, Zulfan Herman has been utilising technology for conservation, leveraging data to identify effective and innovative s... Read more

11 December 2025

From Aceh’s Recovery to Indonesia’s First Metro: How William Sabandar Builds a Better Indonesia

An Australian scholarship in the late 1990s set William Sabandar on a path from road planning in remote Maluku to leading reconstr... Read more

09 December 2025

Annette Anhar: Embracing the Culture of Two Nations to Create an Iconic Hospitality Business

Over the past two decades, Annette Anhar has applied her education in Australia to develop a hospitality business that celebrates... Read more

04 December 2025

Alimatul Qibtiyah: A Determined Campaigner for Gender Equality

Professor Alimatul Qibtiyah has been working at the intersection of gender and Islam for over three decades. In that time, she has... Read more

28 November 2025

Cheta Nilawaty Leads the Conversation on Disability Inclusion Through Inclusive Media

By the time Cheta Nilawaty received an Australia Awards Scholarship in 2019, she had already overcome her greatest challenge... Read more

28 November 2025

Bima Aryuna: Building the Inclusive, Gamified Workplace of the Future

Australia Awards alumnus Bima Aryuna wants the workplace to be somewhere that people can learn through having fun, and where the p... Read more

17 November 2025

From Passion to Action: Yuni Asriyanti's Fight for Women and Gender Equity

For Australia Awards alumna Yuni Asriyanti, the pursuit of gender equality and the eradication of violence against women is not on... Read more

03 November 2025

Edwin Sutanto: A Bioinformatician on a Quest to Eradicate Malaria

The more complex a puzzle is to solve, the more important it is to study it from different angles. This is precisely what bioinfor... Read more

21 October 2025

Teuku Muhammad Hairunis: Fostering Future Leaders Through Youth Engagement

An Australia Awards Short Course alumnus is helping young people bring their concerns to the attention of government in Banda Aceh... Read more

20 October 2025

Telly Melinda: Building a Sports-Loving Community, Starting with Youth

After years of training to represent Indonesia in karate, Telly Melinda is now dedicated to involving young people in sport to bui... Read more

02 October 2025

Eko Hari Purnomo Pursues New Technologies to Enhance Food Security and Tackle Food Loss and Food Waste

Indonesia relies on imports of staples like rice, wheat, sugar and beef to meet the basic food needs of its over 200 million popul... Read more

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