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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

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

30 September 2025

Dwi Ratna Hidayati’s Effort to Improve Sustainable Wheat Value Chains Through Research and Education

An Australia Awards Short Course gave agribusiness lecturer Dwi Ratna Hidayati a rare insight into the grains value chain from dow... Read more

23 September 2025

Givano Ramadhan: Championing a Data-Driven Future for Tourism

Enrolling in a one-of-a-kind scholarship program has given Australia Awards scholar Givano Ramadhan new perspectives on how data c... Read more

15 September 2025

Finding the Missing Piece in the Short Course, Andi Junila Aulia Walks a Sustainable Path in the Tourism Sector

After launching as a project to revive tourism in her hometown following the pandemic, Andi Junila Aulia’s organisation, Re-... Read more

04 September 2025

From IT to Clean Air: How Rika Safrina Shapes ASEAN’s Renewable Energy Future

When Rika Safrina thinks of children growing up in Jakarta, one of the world's most polluted cities, she is driven to act. At... Read more

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