ARG Successful Funding Proposal Applications
There are several successful funding proposals submitted by the ARG Teams to conduct team activities in areas of research, professional development activity, community engagement and issue paper.
Health check-up for family affected by HIV
The Australia Awards Alumni Reference Group (ARG) – Health Team (Dinar SM Lubis, Udayana University) in partnership with the Kerti Praja Foundation and Bali AIDS Commission held a health check-up for family affected by HIV in Denpasar, Bali on 1 December 2012. Around 30 families with children affected by HIV attended the event. The activity aims to help children realise that they can become healthy, well-adjusted and productive members of society.
Canberra and its intellectual exchange opportunities
by Fitrian Ardiansyah
Canberra is like a second home to me. This is a city that I not only hold close to my heart but also value highly since it is a place enriched with opportunities for intellectual exchanges, harbouring some of the best Australian academic, political and historical sites—namely the Australian National University (ANU), the Parliament House and many other known museums.
The first period I spent in this beautiful landscape was back in 1999-2001. I had spent two years of my life undertaking graduate diploma and master courses at the ANU with the support of the Australia Awards.
It was a life changing experience.
ARG Professional Development Activity – Yogyakarta
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Theme |
: What is Poverty and How to Measure it? |
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Venue |
: LPP Garden Hotel, Yogyakarta |
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Date |
: 28-29 November 2012 |
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Participants |
: 30 ARG members and alumni |
The Poverty Reduction, Disadvantaged Area and Post-Conflict Resolution team of the Alumni Reference Group - Australia Awards Indonesia recently held a workshop in Yogyakarta titled What is Poverty and How to Measure it? The workshop brought together around 30 professionals––the majority of whom were ARG members––from across Indonesia including from Aceh and Rote, NTT, and aimed to upgrade, refresh and converge the knowledge of participants with better understanding of poverty current issues.
Three-month Plant Breeding Training in Perth
Ida Ayu Astarini, Bali
Recently, I spent three months (November 2010 – February 2011) at the School of Plant Biology, Faculty of Natural and Agricultural Sciences (FNAS), The University of Western Australia. I was sponsored by the Indonesian Higher Education Department (DIKTI) under the Program Academic Recharging (PAR).
During my stay at The University of Western Australia, I studied the microspore culture technique on Brassica plants, as hosted by Winthrop Prof. Wallace Cowling. This technique is a powerful tool in plant breeding, in which it can reduce the breeding cycle to only one year to produce a homozygous line. It involves culture of microspore – immature pollen grain – in sterile condition using specific media under controlled environment, so that they produce healthy, vigorous plants and homozygous/pure line for further breeding purpose. Within three months of working in the tissue culture lab, I was able to produce 17 lines of microspore culture with some having grown into small plants ready to be transferred to the glass house.
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