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< (l to r) Ross McLeod, Andi Mallarangeng, Hadi Soesastro and an AusAID representative at the CSIS book launch. |
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< Dr Reilly talking about the role of political parties. |
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< Dr. Ir. Siti Nurbaya Bakar, Secretary-General of the House of Regional Representatives of the Republic of Indonesia (DPD), and Mr Irman Gusman, Vice Chairman of the DPD, with Dr Reilly. |
Indonesia: Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance
CDI Director Ben Reilly was one of the speakers at an international seminar on 'Indonesia: Democracy and the Promise of Good Governance' held at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Jakarta last week.
Dr Reilly spoke on "The Role of Political Parties", and examined the ambitious attempts to engineer the development of parties in Indonesia, drawn from a chapter of a book on the same subject being launched by CSIS at the seminar. Other speakers at the event included Dr Andi Mallarangeng, Spokesman for the President of the Republic of Indonesia, Professor Hadi Soesastro, Executive Director of CSIS, and Mr Theo Sambuaga, Chair of Commission I in the Indonesian Parliament.
While in Indonesia, Dr Reilly also held meetings with Indonesian political party leaders and with local and international democracy support organisations in Jakarta, including the Friedrich Naumann Stiftung, the International Republican Institute, CETRO, and the Indonesian parliament.
Click on this link for the full conference programme:
