Call for Papers - 3rd International Yale Indonesia Forum in Semarang

3rd International Yale Indonesia Forum
Interdisciplinary Conference

July 14-15, 2010
Diponegoro University, Semarang, Indonesia

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 March 31, 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