Elisabeth Jackson

PhD (ANU), BA (Hons) UNSW
Lecturer
Room 645, Brennan MacCallum Building A18
+61 2 9036 9512


Elisabeth teaches Indonesian Studies and Asian Studies at the University of Sydney. She joined the Department of Indonesian Studies in 2008 after two years in Indonesia working on education development programs in Islamic schools. Elisabeth’s research is currently focussed on Islamic education in Indonesia although she is also interested in language, power and opposition, with a focus on the New Order period, and in Indonesian historiography. Elisabeth has taught Indonesian and Asian Studies at the University of New South Wales and the Australian National University and has worked as an interpreter and translator. She is a member of the editorial committee of Inside Indonesia magazine.

• Islamic education
• Indonesian political discourse and culture (especially political opposition)
• Modern Indonesian history and historiography

Articles

• Jackson, Elisabeth and Lyn Parker. 2008. ‘Enriched with knowledge’: modernisation, Islamisation and the future of Islamic education in Indonesia. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 42 (1): 21-53.
• Jackson, Elisabeth and Bahrissalim. 2007. Crafting a new democracy: Civic education in Indonesian Islamic universities. Asia Pacific Journal of Education 27 (1): 41-54.
• Jackson, Elisabeth. 2001. The Politics of [[i||Pertanggungjawaban: Contesting the Meaning of Accountability in Two New Order Texts. Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs 34 (2): 29-60.

Teaching

• Indonesian language
• Modern Indonesian history

Supervision

• Islam in Indonesia

• ‘Crafting a new democracy: Civic education in Indonesian Islamic universities’. Paper presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, Melbourne. July 2008.
• ‘Islamic education in Indonesia: past, present and future’. Paper presented at the Symposium on Islamic Education in Indonesia, University of Western Australia, Perth. October 2006.
• ‘Satirising the State: Political cartoons and pojok in Indonesia’s student press’. Paper presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, Canberra. July 2004.
• ‘Youth, Nationalism and Unity: (Re)Writing History in New Order Indonesia’. Paper presented at the Colonialism and Its Aftermath conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart. June 2004.
• ‘Rengasdengklok Remembered: Pemuda and the Proclamation of Independence’. Paper presented at the Indonesia Council Open Conference, Australian National University, Canberra. September 2003.
• ‘Heroes of Development: Youth and Students in New Order Indonesia’. Paper presented at the Asian Studies Association of Australia Biennial Conference, Hobart. July 2002.

• Member, Editorial Committee and proofreader, Inside Indonesia magazine www.insideindonesia.org
• Member, Organising Committee, Indonesia Council Open Conference 2009 http://indonesiacouncil.anu.edu.au/index.html