Yale International Forum (July 2010)

3rd International Yale Indonesia Forum
Interdisciplinary Conference
Diponegoro University
Semarang
Indonesia
14-15 July 2010

Social Justice and Rule of Law:
addressing the growth of a pluralist Indonesian Democracy

http://www.yale. edu/seas/ YIF-Semarang2010 .htm

Call for Papers

The ongoing reforms in Indonesia and the democratization process of the last
decade have produced incredible change in Indonesia. Indonesia is now
successfully working towards gradually accommodating its large diversity of
social, religious and ethnic groups within a democratic state structure.

The focus of the third Yale Indonesia Forum International Conference will be
the various issues, problems and obstacles in the fields of social justice
and the rule of law which limit Indonesia's progress and jeopardize
Indonesia's cohesion. The focus of the third Yale Indonesia Forum
International Conference will also extend to the efforts of both the
government as well as ordinary citizens to address these issues.

The Yale Indonesia Forum will again approach these issues from a
multidisciplinary point of view and will be asking questions such as what
problems are threatening Indonesian society and how both ordinary citizens
as well as government and non-government agencies are contributing to
address problems blocking Indonesian growth into a pluralist democracy of
equal citizens in the nation-state. The third Yale Indonesia Forum
International Conference will therefore again call upon researchers from
various disciplines to bring their expertise together and highlight these
issues in the context of the growing democratic state of Indonesia. We
encourage presentations of case studies of research and also welcome
structural and holistic approaches to these issues.

This year we specifically offer opportunities to both young and experienced
researchers from Indonesia and abroad in order to maintain the Yale
Indonesia Forum's tradition of dialogue and cooperation between established
and upcoming, Indonesian and non-Indonesian academics.

By holding the Yale Indonesia Forum International Conference in Indonesia
the Yale Indonesia Forum aims to invite contributions from Indonesian
researchers with limited international exposure to join and share their
points of view on Indonesia. Given the international status of the
Conference, all papers will be presented in English.

Persons wishing to present papers at the conference are invited to submit a
one-page abstract in electronic form (PDF or MSWord) as well as brief CV to
Frank Dhont at frank.dhont@ yale.edu by 31 March 2010.

Conference Website: http://www.yale. edu/seas/ YIF-Semarang2010 .htm

Conference Organizers:
Frank Dhont, Yale University
Yuwanto, Diponegoro University

Cooperating Institutions:
Social and Political Sciences Faculty, Atma Jaya Yogyakarta University
Indonesian History Studies Centre, Sanata Dharma University