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Q & A in Indonesia

A special episode on Thursday broadcast from Jakarta becomes the first Q & A outside of Australia.

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jonestoQ & A has two programs going to air next week.

Monday’s Q & A will focus on the change of leadership and the implications for both sides in the forthcoming election campaign, while a special episode on Thursday broadcast from Metro TV’s Jakarta studios becomes the first Q & A outside of Australia.

In Jakarta the live studio audience will comprise of Indonesians and Australians living and working in Indonesia and it’s hoped the discussion will address contemporary issues from the perspective of both countries. Following on from comments by Kevin Rudd yesterday this will be particularly interesting.

This special has arisen after ABC International recently signed a number of partnership agreements with Indonesia’s key print, radio, television and online media companies.

On Monday 1st July at 9.35pm one of the new Labor frontbenchers will join Tony Jones along with:

Creator of the “Kevin ’07” campaign Neil Lawrence;
Gruen Transfer regular Todd Sampson;
Spin doctor Sue Cato; and
Shadow Minister for Innovation and Industry Sophie Mirabella.

On Thursday 4th July at 9.35pm Tony Jones will host Q & A Jakarta live from Indonesia. Joining him on the panel will be:

Yenny Wahid, Islamic activist and daughter of late former president Abdurrahman “Gus Dur” Wahid;
Tim Lindsey, Director of the Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society at the Melbourne Law School;
Dewi Fortuna Anwar, senior advisor to Indonesian Vice President Boediono;
Yuli Ismartono, Deputy Editor in Chief of Tempo – Indonesia’s groundbreaking news magazine;
Rafendi Djamin, human rights advocate; and
Meidyatama “Dimas” Suryodiningrat, Editor in Chief of The Jakarta Post – Indonesia’s leading English-language daily.

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  1. @ maxxdude

    It is not surprising that embassy staff wore Kevin 07 T shirts, given Kevin’s ability to exude diplomacy and his role in the diplomatic core.

    But in stark contrast Joe Hilderbrand also trots out his Kevin 07 T shirts for totally different reasons and intentions.

  2. @ Jason

    Of course ‘working’ covers a broad spectrum, but there are definite differences in classes, mainly defined by how one starts life, the hardships faced during ones working life and how one can afford to survive in latter life.

    I am wondering which end of your 68 years, your other 18 years refer to, your earliest years or most recent?, because I was not long into my over 70 years after being born in Australia to parents where my mother was a stay at home mum, and my dad was a ‘hard done by’ wounded WW! veteran working as an engineering labourer paying off a war service home loan,that was about the only govt.assistance received till his war injuries eventually caught up with him and eventually leading to him dying, so I was painfully aware very early in life, what ‘working class’ meant and how it influenced life’s experiences.

    Where today ‘working class’ is much more blurred in delineation, and usually is trotted out by those who play the ‘class war card’ if any attempt is made to restrict ‘ greedy rorting’ of benefits intended for the ones who need it the most, but are often gobbled up by those who ‘need’ them the least.

    Or does your 18 years span the era of the Jimmy Barnes’s song “Working Class Man”?

  3. In responce to advoc8 I used to live in Jakarta & when I went to the Australian Embassy to vote for Kevin Rudd in ’07 the embassy staff were all dressed in Kevin 07 tshirts despite the Liberals being in power. This should be a great Q & A as there are so many ties between the countries & just about everyone either knows someone who lives or has lived in Aust. Also there are a lot of Aussies living there.

  4. I wonder if they’ll be able to transport the Q&A set to Metro TV’s studios? They’ve managed to do it every other time they’ve been on the road around Australia.

  5. ” working class” – for 50 of my 68 years I’ve always wondered what this term is supposed to mean. Do doctors, lawyers, TV personalities not fall into this “working class” of butchers, bakers and candlestick makers”?
    Anyway – a great get for ABC, given the comments of the past few days.

  6. Wow! not much chance of working class labor supporters being in this audience,whats the chance of only well off right wingers will be able to fly up and stack the Jakarta QandA show, it will be interesting to see if any of the usual suspects pop up in the audience, that is if they are deliberately never in camera shot, or edited out on request if it is transmitted in time delay.

    I wonder how many people smugglers and associates got an invite?

    David are you sure that is a Fifth panelist, or was it actually a Fifth Pillarist?

  7. “This special has arisen after ABC International recently signed a number of partnership agreements with Indonesia’s key print, radio, television and online media companies.”

    Good work, Mark Scott.

    And, on topic, both of these will be worth watching.

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