Beasiswa Scholarship College

Scholars from any Australian and Indonesian institution are invited to apply for funding for research projects addressing major governance issues in Indonesia. Generous financial support is available, with applications being assessed on a competitive basis.

Proposals are welcome on any issue pertaining to governance in Indonesia and may come from any area of the community including media and government.

Core themes for the AIGRP include:

* economic policy, reform strategy and business government relations
* political institutions, public administration, representation of civil society & sectoral interests in policy processes
* law, legal institutions and contracting
* corruption and anti-corruption responses.

Indicative examples of the type of issue that might be addressed under these four streams include: international trade strategy-reform and implementation; the political economy of reform in the agricultural sector; institutional reform and capacity building at the regional level; civil service career development and public sector management; concepts and practices for legal reform; and developing a framework for contracting in the infrastructure sector.

Priority themes will be established each year and proposals addressing these themes will be particularly welcome. Priority themes will be publicised through the AIGRP website and advertising. Current priorities include decentralisation and anti-corruption issues. Priorities for 2007 include poverty and employment issues, as well as economic policy and microeconomic reform.

Your project summary should emphasise the aims, method and policy significance of your research. In describing the methods make particular reference to the institutions that will be collaborating, and where the researchers will work. Specific outputs and outcomes should also be detailed, including anticipated publications, new practices, guides, workshops, film, radio presentation etc that are likely to result from the research.

Projects sponsored under AIGRP will involve partnerships between Indonesian and Australian scholars. All proposals must include participation of researchers from both Australia and Indonesia though the participation need not necessarily be symmetrical in terms of time contributed etc.

The AIGRP consciously seeks to draw participants from across public and private as well as metropolitan and regional institutions. Specific provision is made for drawing in researchers from institutions in outlying areas of Indonesia whose staff - unlike their counterparts in established metropolitan institutions - may not otherwise qualify for involvement in projects at this level. This will be achieved through provision for Research Development Partners (in addition to the principal Indonesian and Australian researchers). The Australian and Indonesian-based Research Coordinators of the AIGRP will be happy to assist prospective applicants to identify a research development partner.

The approach to the definition of the Australian and Indonesian researchers will be flexible and considered first when the research leaders discuss the proposal with prospective researchers at the outset. In general, country of residence at the time of application rather than citizenship is likely to be the most appropriate criterion. In special circumstances, if the expertise of a researcher based in a third country is important to a proposal, this may be considered.

Please use this guide:
- Project Application Guidelines
- Project Proposal Template
- Proposal Budget Template
- Crawford University

The deadline for the next round of AIGRP research funding is Monday 19 February 2007.