Thank you to everyone who attended the 2025 AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies (June 17 - 21, 2025).

Thanks especially to the community of 150+ scholars who presented their research and writing in the conference this year. We look forward to learning more about new developments and innovations that emerge from your work in the next year, and welcome all scholars working across fields in Indonesian studies to join us to share your research and writing in 2026!

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View fullsize New Book Alert! Dr. Eka Nugraha Putra’s latest book "Free Speech in Indonesia: Legal Issues and Public Interest Litigation" (Routledge) offers a critical look at the state of free speech in Indonesia, focusing on defamation, hate spe
View fullsize 🌿 *Public Talk | IFAR x AIFIS Join us for a thought-provoking session with *Walker DePuy, Ph.D.*, AIFIS-@caorc_council Fellow, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. 🌀 Topic: *Using Indigenous Sonic
View fullsize Welcome to the 23rd Annual Linguistics Conference at Atma Jaya University, Jakarta! Celebrating collaboration and innovation in language studies, this event brings together scholars, researchers, and practitioners to share ideas, discoveries, and the
View fullsize The organizing committee of the 2025 AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies would like to thank you for all your participation and contribution to our conference. We hope all of you enjoyed the experience and benefited from the conference. A hu
View fullsize Greetings! The 2025 AIFIS-MSU conference on Indonesian Studies will kick off in just 2 days! The conference will be opened with welcoming remarks from the organizer and followed by a lively performance of "Warah Swara" by UKMTK Ghitanala N
View fullsize 5 days to go until the AIFIS-MSU Conference on Indonesian Studies kicks off! Get ready for an exciting lineup of keynote talks, dynamic panels, and rich conversations on the past, present, and future of Indonesian Studies. Haven’t registered y

AIFIS promotes the study of Indonesia through research exchange.

The American Institute for Indonesian Studies (AIFIS) is a non-profit organization working at the intersection of academic research and public dissemination of information in the broadly defined field of Indonesian Studies. Our programs foster scholarly, artistic, and community-based collaborations between Indonesian and American audiences by promoting educational and research initiatives among our consortium member institutions, offering individual research fellowships, small grants for public programs in the arts and film, and an ongoing series of public lectures, academic writing workshops, conferences, and more.

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AIFIS invites scholars to connect with different resources, by maintaining a library in Jakarta, as well as links to important web resources around the world.

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Fellowship applications are announced periodically throughout the year.

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To develop new academic and collaborative opportunities, AIFIS supports public lectures and workshops at universities and institutions across Indonesia and the United States.

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AIFIS is a member of the Council of American Overseas Research Centers, with offices operating both in the U.S. and in Indonesia to better accomplish our mission of strengthening research exchange and collaboration between the two countries.

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