the course format is a two-hour slot in
the evening one day a week for about 25
weeks of the year and then there's a
one-day workshop. Weekly sessions can
involve lectures from myself, guided
research sessions but we also get a
range of absolutely excellent guest
lectures from the ANU. Students have told
me they prefer the exam format that's
their favorite assessment task. Which is
a hour and 15 tasks where students
are in exam-like conditions except that
they have access to the Internet so they
do research and learn to work to that
really tight timeframe in that task. They
also do a learning portfolio which is a
reflective sort of piece which documents
their journey over time in the course
but the largest assessment is the
performance task and that's quite a
creative piece where they get to make a
short film on a topic, a research topic
that they have enjoyed learning about
and they do further research on that
themselves
For the culture unit I did my
performance task on religion and how
it's used in marketing and pop culture
so I made my own sitcom. This episode we
examine the Muslim world through the
lens of pop culture
more specifically television. A medium
which reaches over 90% of the Indonesian
population. In the first year of the
program my performance task kind of
examined stereotypes both informations
and Australians have of each other.
I researched punk movements within
Indonesia and decided I needed a mohawk to
play my character. Today I'm joined
here with Dabal Ulang from the band and
I'll let you say it.. Hak Kita (Our rights).... Hak Kita
Most people do know that Indonesia's
economy is pipped to be in the top
economies in the world by 2050 and for
students of the age who are taking this
course in year 11 in 12
they are going to be at the height of
their career in that that era and
knowledge of Indonesia it's politics and
culture as well of course as the
language is a really important skill for these Australians to acquire.
I learned a lot about culture and politics because
those were the two main things that we
focused on in this course in addition to
a lot about religion, mainly Islam. We
went very in-depth into all of these
topics and especially looked at how
they're all intertwined that is like
how they relate to each other. The first
question I wish to start with today is
regarding the recent election for
governor of Jakarta. I believe this is a
very useful place to start when
investigating the modest status of
unification in Indonesia.
Was the backlash that occurred in
this election something common in this
so-called Negara Kesatuan.. what does this
really demonstrate the Bhinneka Tunggal Ika that Indonesia prides itself on?
I actually became inspired by an
Indonesian vlogger well Canadian vlogger
living in Indonesia called Sasha
Stevenson and that's what I really tried
to base my performance tasks off this
year my task is a satirical advice video
for politicians about how to like buy
your way into elections.
selected goods don't always work but you
know what should work 'amplop' basically
little envelopes full of money I
sometimes use Indonesian I sometimes
used English but the key words always an
Indonesian because that way they can
carry their full weight and that's
ultimately what you're marked on.
She was learning the language but then she was having getting this whole other
dimension was you know this is these
different layers of things about
Indonesia that she was also learning
that she possibly wasn't learning at
school and so I think it really
complemented it really rounded the whole
subject off for her really nicely. In the
future I can see this course will
support Emily to achieve her goals in
terms of her study of languages which is
one of the things that she wants to do
after school
and I think the the fact that she's done
the extension course hopefully will give
her that little that edge that bit of an
advantage in being able to pursue what
she wants to do after school
If you're studying Indonesian at your
home Secondary College the overwhelming
feedback I've gotten from students and
their teachers actually as well is that
this course integrates beautifully with
the study of conversational Indonesian
and actually students find themselves
more motivated to do that study at their
home Secondary College as well
This course was really interesting for
me because it was a chance for me to
look at some of the topics I do at
school in more depth
not just Indonesian which I do but also
I do a politics Global Studies course
and I found this course really had a lot
of links with that course and it also
provided me an experience or an
opportunity rather to investigate
something that was really relevant to me.
I did my performance starts looking at
religious minorities in Indonesia and
I'm actually a Baha'i which is a
minority that's not counted as one of
the major official religions. So looking
into like the human rights situation
around that was really interesting.
Yang terhormat anggota Komisi Delapan yang saya hormati
thank you for this opportunity to
address you in English as a member of
the Australian Baha'i community.
Unfortunately, korupsi is still present in
the police force and they still hire preman to do their dirty work
The atmosphere in the
classroom is really nice and it was so
good to meet all of the other students I
came in this year in the year 11 and
these two year 12 and like we fit we all
fit straight in and they made us feel
really welcome which is nice in a
course that combines it and yeah we all
made friends really quickly and I think
that's another one of the nice things
about the course is that you can learn
but you also learn working together
rather than just like learning off by
yourself don't worry if you haven't
learnt the language before you don't
have to know how to say hello or goodbye
or even how to go to the toilet in Indonesian it was just just learn about the culture and the people
I study art at school and this
performance task has allowed me to further
like to research into graffiti and
graffiti artists and for my performance class
I did a mock interview with like a
young and older graffiti artist in
Indonesia and that sort of reflected
like political movements this course
allowed me to access all of the a new
database and I found it really really
useful for all my other courses in
school. For more information on the ANU
extension program go to the ANU
extension website. Applications close
in early February.
