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<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%">The Indonesia Forum, the Asian
History Hub, the University of Melbourne</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%">& the Herb Feith
Foundation present</span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%"><br></span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style>
</p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b style><span style="font-size:16pt;line-height:107%">Towards Reconciliation:
Indonesia and East Timor 40 Years On</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><span style="line-height:22.8266677856445px"><b>D</b></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%">Date: June 4 2015</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%">Panel Discussion:
4pm-6pm</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%">Lecture: 6.30-7.45pm </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><span style="line-height:107%"><br></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b>Multi-Function Room, 1888 Building (198) (rear),</b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b>The University of Melbourne, Parkville</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><br></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style>This year marks the 40th
anniversary of the Indonesian invasion of East Timor. To reflect on this
anniversary the Indonesia Forum and the Asian History Hub (both at the
University of Melbourne) and the Herb Feith Foundation will host a panel
discussion and a lecture on the afternoon/ evening of June 4, 2015. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style>In the afternoon <b>discussion panel Associate Professor
Michael Leach (Swinburne University), Dr Vannessa Hearman (Sydney University),
PhD candidate Hannah Loney (University of Melbourne) and East Timorese
postgraduate student Fransedes Suni (RMIT) </b>will speak on histories of
activism concerning the Indonesian occupation and the steps Indonesians and
East Timorese have taken towards reconciliation since Timor-Leste's
independence in 1999. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style>This will be followed by a <b>lecture entitled 'Thunder in the Silent
Zone: the Chega! and Per Memoriam Reports in Indonesia' by activist Pat Walsh,
former advisor to the CAVR</b>, focusing on the official Indonesian and East
Timorese reports on how to deal with the legacies of the occupation and pre
independence violence. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style>Following the publication of
the CAVR report (<i>Chega!</i>) in Indonesia, Pat Walsh has spent several months
discussing it and the 2008 joint Indonesia/Timor-Leste report Per Memoriam Ad
Spem with universities and think tanks in Indonesia in the context of
reclaiming Indonesia's wider past history and addressing victims’ rights. He
has found that residual Soeharto era misrepresentations and denial continue at
official levels to the detriment of the truth, reconciliation and victims, but
that a new generation of Indonesian intellectuals are open to a different
narrative on East Timor when it is put to them. </p><p class="MsoNormal" style><br></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><i>Pat Walsh co-founded </i>Inside Indonesia<i> magazine in 1983 and pioneered a number of Australia-Indonesia
people-to-people projects. He was engaged by the UN to help set up the CAVR
truth commission in Timor-Leste and served as its special adviser. He is
currently adviser to the Post-CAVR Secretariat in Dili and Asia Justice and
Rights (AJAR) in Jakarta. He has been awarded the Order of Timor-Leste and
Australia's AM for services to human rights in the region. His book </i>Stormy
with a chance of fried rice: Twelve months in Jakarta<i> will be published later this year. His website is </i><a href="http://www.patwalsh.net"><i>www.patwalsh.net</i></a><i>. The newly published Chega! Report is
available in Indonesian and English at </i><a href="http://www.chegareport.net"><i>www.chegareport.net</i></a><i>. </i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><i><br></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><i>Refreshments will be served
before the lecture</i></b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><i><br></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style><b>RSVP: 1 June 2015</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style><b><br></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style>To register: <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-reconciliation-indonesia-and-east-timor-40-years-on-panel-discussion-and-lecture-tickets-16969316683?ref=elink">https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/towards-reconciliation-indonesia-and-east-timor-40-years-on-panel-discussion-and-lecture-tickets-16969316683?ref=elink</a>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style><b><i>Printed ticket is not necessary
for entry.</i></b></p>
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