Join us for two special events on Wednesday 7 May 2025 - The annual 2025 Sadli Lecture 'Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: How does the Indonesian gender order move into a postcolonial future to address climate change?', and a special Symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change.
Sadli Lecture 2025
Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 9:00-13:00 WIB / 11:30-16:00 AEST
Venue: Rinjani 1 Room, Novotel Jakarta Cikini, Jalan Cikini Raya number 107-109, Jakarta and online via zoom
About this year's Sadli Lecture
The ANU Indonesia Project, LPEM FEB Universitas Indonesia, and KONEKSI invite you to the 19th Sadli Lecture, to be held on Wednesday, 7 May 2025 in Jakarta. In a special continuation of our gender-focused dialogue and supported by KONEKSI, this marks the 2nd Sadli Lecture in the Gender Series, held in honour of Professor Saparinah Sadli. Traditionally focused on Indonesia’s economic challenges, the Sadli Lecture now embraces broader interdisciplinary themes, highlighting the intersections of gender in the Indonesian context. This year’s lecture, titled ‘Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: How does the Indonesian gender order move into a postcolonial future to address climate change?’, will be delivered by Professor Ann R. Tickamyer, Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography at Penn State University. As in previous years, a commissioned paper will be published in the August edition of the Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies (BIES).
Sadli Lecture Abstract
In Indonesia, as in much of the world, women and girls remain disadvantaged in the household, community, and society. At the same time there is great variability of gender roles and relations across the Republic that make it an outstanding testing ground for the impact of gender on disaster risk and resilience. Our research over the past several decades has been to investigate these relationships, empirically and theoretically. We apply a riskscape model to examine the spatial, temporal, and most significantly, social relations entailed in disaster risk, recovery, and resilience. In this paper we start by exploring some of the ways that colonial legacies have structured the exploitation of both gender and the environment and whether and how it is possible to find a postcolonial agenda with hope for a better future for both. We examine the lessons to be learned from studying disaster response and recovery in Indonesia and elsewhere as keys to managing climate change. Finally we propose the use of a riskscape model of disaster and climate change as means to plan and manage both with the ultimate goal of finding transformative resilience.
Sadli program (Jakarta time, GMT+7)
08.30 – 09.00 Registration and light breakfast
09.00 – 09.30 Welcoming remarks
- Dr Mohamad Dian Revindo, LPEM FEB UI
- Professor Budy Resosudarmo, ANU Indonesia Project
09.30 – 10.20 Sadli Lecture by Professor Emerita Ann R. Tickamyer: Colonial legacies and postcolonial agendas: how does the Indonesian gender order move into a post-colonial future to address climate change?
10:20 – 11:00 Discussion
- Chair by Dr Milda Irhamni (LPEM FEB UI)
- Dr Suraya Afiff, Faculty of Social and Political Sciences UI
- Dr Turro Wongkaren, FEB UI
- Professor Damayanti Buchori, Centre for Transdisciplinary and Sustainability Sciences IPB
11:00 – 11:55 Q&A
11:55 – 12:00 Closing
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch
The Sadli lecture will be delivered in English. English to Indonesian interpretation and Indonesian sign language interpretation are available online for the Sadli Lecture.
Symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change
Date: 7 May 2025
Time: 13:00-17:00 WIB
In-person only: Rinjani 1 Room, Novotel Jakarta Cikini, Jalan Cikini Raya number 107-109, Jakarta
Following the Sadli Lecture, a symposium on Social Inequality, Communities and Climate Change will be held to deepen the discussion on this important intersection. The symposium provides a platform for KONEKSI grantees whose research focuses on the gender-related aspects of climate change. Each invited grantee team will share their findings from their KONEKSI-funded projects and engage in discussions with leading experts from academia, policy, and civil society. The goal is to improve the quality and policy relevance of the research through expert feedback and peer exchange. This event is a part of a broader series of events aimed at fostering collaborative learning and supporting inclusive, evidence-based responses to climate challenges in Indonesia.
Symposium program (Jakarta time, in person only)
13:00 – 13:10 Welcoming remarks by Leonardo Adypurnama Alias Teguh Sambodo, Deputy Minister for Food, Natural Resources, and the Environment, Bappenas and KONEKSI representative.
13:10 – 14:20 Session 1 Chair: Eva Nisa
- 13:10 – 13:30 Dr Aplena Elen Siane Bless, SP, MSc, Universitas Papua: Maintaining blue carbon by learning from Indigenous Papuan women’s conservation and adaptation strategies in Papua’s mangrove areas
- 13:30 – 13:50 Dr Daniel M.Sc, Universitas Gadjah Mada: Future proofing a basic social service: climate-resilient community-based rural water supply
- 13:50 – 14:10 Idha Apriliani, Universitas Diponegoro: From technical to socio-ecological pathways for climate change adaptation: analysis of floods in Semarang
- 14:10 – 14:30: Discussion by panel of experts (Ann Tickamyer, Marilyn Metta, Firman Witoelar)
- 14:30 – 14:50: Q and A
14:50– 15:10: Tea Break
15:10 – 16:40 Session 2 Chair: Firman Witoelar
- 15:10 – 15:30 Dr Lilis Mulyani, BRIN Research Center for Society and Culture: Evaluating the contribution of social forestry management rights towards climate proof livelihoods of women and men in Indonesia
- 15:30 – 15:50 Agus Suntoro, BRIN Research Center for Law: Forced labour and climate change: Keeping a focus on women and children
- 15:50 – 16:10 Discussion by panel of experts (Budi Resosudarmo, Eva Nisa)
- 16:10 – 16:30: Q and A
16:30 – 16:40 Closing remarks by KONEKSI and ANU Indonesia Project representative.
The registration for the Symposium on social inequality, communities and climate change is for in-person attendance only. The Symposium will be delivered in English.
E-certificate is only available for full attendance in person.
Image credit: CIFOR-ICRAF/Flickr
Event Speakers
Professor Ann R Tickamyer
Ann R. Tickamyer, is Professor Emerita of Rural Sociology and Demography with affiliations in Sociology and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at Penn State University. Her scholarship focuses on rural poverty and livelihoods, gender and development, disaster, and climate change, and social welfare policy in the United States and Southeast Asia.