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Centre for Dialogue Program Manager, Larry Marshall features in an introductory piece to an Indonesian Language Breakfast program broadcast on ABC Radio Australia on 7 January 2010 (in Bahasa) - what followed was a 15-minute interview with two Indonesian alumni of the Muslim Leadership Program run by the Centre for Dialogue. Hendra Darmawan and Erifah Hidayati were interviewed by presenter Nuim Khaiyath about their experiences in Australia, their panel presentation at the international conference in Padang in December 2010 and their enthusiasm for working together as part of the new 'International Young Muslim Intellectual Network' (IYMIN).
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Larry Marshall l.marshall@latrobe.edu.au |
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Larry Marshall:
I’m from the Centre for Dialogue at La Trobe University.
We’ve been running a leadership training program for young Muslims from 2007, so it’s been four years.
In the first year we ran the program just for young Muslims from Melbourne and of course this was a response to all the... the hurt that the Muslim community was feeling, and we wanted to give young Muslims a feeling that they could be empowered by this training program.
But more interestingly, for the Indonesian connection, in the second year – 2008 – and then again in 2009 and 2010, we’ve brought young Muslims from Indonesia, from Malaysia, from the Philippines and just last year for the first time from Thailand.
So Southeast Asians have joined us, particularly the Indonesians to be part of this program and what I think I’d like to talk about is the Indonesian connection and what they’ve brought to the program and I think what they’ve leant from the program.
A couple of other things: we had the Padang conference and we were asked to deliver a paper. But rather than do the paper myself I got the Indonesians to write the paper, so a gentleman called Hendra Darmawan wrote with his colleagues - with the alumni from the program – and they delivered the paper with me in a dialogue session: we had a panel and we spoke, and they - for the first time - they were at an international conference speaking in English to an audience - to an international audience.
The final thing is that we are building an I Y M I N - an International Young Muslims Intellectual Network – and that’s coming out of the alumni, so we’re using that network to build a network of young intellectuals who’ll be speaking with each other.