Eric Hiariej heads the International Relations department at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta. Andrew Philips is associate professor in international relations and strategy in the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia.
Foreign minister Retno LP Marsudi this week will welcome 200 academics from Indonesia, Australia, and the wider region to Gadjah Mada University (UGM), where they will commemorate the Asia-Africa Conference’s (KAA) 60th anniversary and debate its lessons for today’s world.