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Conference Program

Time Room Session Title Speakers
8:00am - 8:30am Ballroom Lobby, Four Seasons Hotel Registration
 
8:30am - 8:45am Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Welcome
Welcome to the Australia Indonesia Business Conference by AIBC National President and launch of Indonesia Perceptions Survey 2010 Results
Mr Chris Barnes
AIBC National President
Ms Lydia Santoso
AIBC Conference Convenor
8:45am - 10:00am Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Morning Keynote Addresses and Launch of "Doing Business in Indonesia" Guide
The Hon. Dr Craig Emerson MP, Australian Minister for Trade
 
Mahendra Siregar, Vice Minister of Trade, Republic of Indonesia
10:00am - 10:30am Ballroom Lobby, Four Seasons Hotel Morning Tea

10:30am - 11:30am Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Panel Session: Indonesia and Australia in the Global Economy
Chair: Sally Loane, Coca-Cola Amatil
 
Discussants: Ian Buchanan, Chair - Australian Pacific Economic Cooperation Committee; S.D. Darmono, IABC President; John Denton, Member - APEC Business Advisory Council; Micky Hehuwat, Indonesian Chamber of Commerce and Industry; Noke Kiroyan, Indonesia Australia Business Council; David Michaelis; President - Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
11:30am - 12:30pm Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Update on the Indonesia-Australia Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (IA-CEPA)
Chair: Leith Doody, Austrade
Speakers: Michael Mugliston, Special Negotiator, Free Trade Agreement Division, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade; Herry Soetanto, Head - Trade Policy Analysis and Development Agency, Indonesian Ministry of Trade
Discussant: Ian Satchwell,  Trade and Investment Adviser
12:30pm - 2:00pm Ballroom II, Four Seasons Hotel Lunchtime Keynote Address
Gita I. Wirjawan, Chairman, Indonesia Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM)
2:00pm - 3:15pm Breakout Rooms, Four Seasons Hotel Sector-based breakout sessions to discuss input into IA-CEPA process (Sectors include: Agriculture; Infrastructure; Legal / IP; Mining; Services; and SME) Coordinated by Danny Burrows
Convenor, AIBC IA-CEPA Advisory Committee
3:15pm - 3:30pm Ballroom Lobby, Four Seasons Hotel Afternoon Tea

3:30pm - 4:30pm Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Panel Session: Indonesian and Australian Perceptions
Chair: Bill Farmer, Former Ambassador to Indonesia
 
Speakers: Bruce Dover, Australia Network; Fergus Hanson, Lowy Institute for International Policy; Sabam Siagian; The Jakarta Post
4:30pm - 6:00pm Ballroom I, Four Seasons Hotel Closing Session: Breakout Summaries and Closing Addresses
Speakers: Danny Burrows, Convenor, AIBC IA-CEPA Advisory Committee; Primo Alui Joelianto, Ambassador to Australia; Greg Moriarty, Ambassador to Indonesia; Chris Barnes, AIBC National President; S.D. Darmono, IABC President.
6:00pm - 7:30pm Ballroom II, Four Seasons Hotel Evening Reception His Royal Highness Sri Sultan Hamengku Buwono X, Sultan of Yogyakarta and Governor of Yogyakarta

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Confirmed Speakers (in alphabetical order)

Chris Barnes has been National President of the AIBC since October 2008. He is General Manager, Business Development, International Financial Services at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. International Financial Services is focused on developing off-shore growth opportunities for Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the Asia region.  Chris was previously the Bank’s head of government and industry affairs. Chris is also a Director of the International Chamber of Commerce in Australia.
HRH Sultan Hamengku Buwono X is the Sultan of the highly respected Yogyakarta Palace. The Sultanate of Yogyakarta has had an important role in the history of the Republic Indonesia as it was among the first palaces to acknowledge the declaration of independence of the Republic of Indonesia in 1945 and thus solidify its existence. Because of its pre-eminent role, the region is among three regions that has a special region status in Indonesia. HRH Sultan Hamengku Buwono X is also the Governor of Yogyakarta, and is known as one of the four prominent figures of the Ciganjur Declaration in the Indonesia reform revolution in 1998 alongside Gus Dur, Megawati and Amien Rais. This revolution known as “reformasi” jumpstarted the democratization process that Indonesia has experienced over the past 12 years. Educated in Law from Gadjah Mada University Yogyakarta, HRH Sultan Hamengku Buwomno X is a figure that has a significant role in Indonesian development past, present and future.
S.D. Darmono is President of the Indonesia Australia Business Council. He President of PT Jababeka Tbk, a public listed company largest industrial estate developer in Indonesia, building and investing in infrastructure such as power plants, water treatment plants, residential area, commercial buildings, golf courses, universities, schools, medical cities, movielands, dry ports, botanical gardens and factories.

Craig Emerson was elected to Parliament in 1998. After the 2010 Federal election he was appointed the Minister for Trade. Prior to that, he had portfolio responsibility for small business, competition policy, consumer affairs and deregulation. Craig holds a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) Degree from the University of Sydney, a Master of Economics Degree from the University of Sydney and a PhD in Economics from The Australian National University. He has been a Post-Doctoral Fellow at The Australian National University and has around 20 publications to his name, including a book setting out a vision and plan for Australia's future. Since becoming a Parliamentarian, Craig has had more than 80 opinion pieces published in national newspapers. Professionally, Craig has been Secretary of a Queensland Government Department, CEO of a Queensland Statutory Authority, an Assistant Secretary in the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet and an Economic Analyst at the United Nations.
Fergus Hanson holds the position of Research Fellow at the Lowy Institute for International Policy. Fergus Hanson has a Masters in International Law from the University of Sydney. His published thesis focused on regional stability in the Pacific. He worked for the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) from 2004 to 2007. From 2005 to 2007 he served at the Australian Embassy in The Hague where he was responsible for Australia’s relations with five international legal organisations and domestic political issues. Prior to joining DFAT he was a fellow at Cambridge University’s Lauterpacht Research Centre for International Law. Fergus has also studied at Uppsala and Fribourg universities. Fergus is the Director of the annual Lowy Poll.

H.E. Ambassador Primo Alui Joelianto has been Indonesia's Ambassador to Australia and Vanuatu since March 2009. He was previously the Director-General for Asia-Africa Affairs at the Indonesian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, as well as the Indonesian Ambassador to New Zealand. He was also held two different posts as Director: for East-Asia and Pacific Affairs and for Middle-East Affairs. He has led official Indonesian Delegations to the New Asia-Africa Strategic Partnership, the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation, the Non-Aligned Movement, the ASEAN Regional Forum, and the Southwest Pacific Dialogue. His overseas postings have included the Indonesian Embassies in France, Algeria, Venezuela and Brazil. He is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
Greg Moriarty is Australian Ambassador to Indonesia and is a senior career officer with Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Prior to this appointment Mr Moriarty was First Assistant Secretary, Consular Public Diplomacy and Parliamentary Affairs Division, and Assistant Secretary, Parliamentary and Media Branch 2008-2009. Overseas, Mr Moriarty served as the Australian Ambassador to Iran between 2005-2008. Other positions in DFAT have included Assistant Secretary, Maritime South East Asia Branch 2003-2005; Director of the Papua New Guinea Section 2002-2003; Counsellor and head of the Political Section at the Australian Embassy in Indonesia 1999-2002; Director of the South Pacific Bilateral Section 1998-1999; Senior Negotiator with the four-country Peace Monitoring Group in Bougainville 1998; Papua New Guinea Section 1995-1998 and the South Pacific Section 1995.
Michael Mugliston led Australia’s free trade agreement (FTA) negotiations with ASEAN and New Zealand for four years, until the agreement was signed in February 2009. In 2010 he was awarded a Public Service Medal for his work on the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA.
Michael is currently responsible for managing implementation of the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand FTA, which entered into force on 1 January 2010, and is leading Australia’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with Indonesia. He is also leading Australia’s FTA negotiations with Malaysia. Michael most recently served overseas as Deputy Head of Australia’s Mission to the EU in Brussels (2001-2004) and was Counsellor to Australia’s Mission to the GATT in Geneva during the Uruguay Round (1991-1994).
Mahendra Siregar is Vice Minister of Trade since his appointment by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on 11 November 2009. He graduated with a Bachelor degree in Economics from University of Indonesia in 1986, and received a Master in Economics from Monash University in 1991. Mahendra joined the Foreign Affairs Ministry in 1986 and was assigned to various postings including Economic Third Secretary of the Indonesian Embassy in London (1992- 1995) and Information Counsellor of the Indonesian Embassy in Washington DC (1998-2001). He joined the Coordinating Ministry in late 2001 as Special Assistant to Minister Dorodjatun Kuntjoro-Jakti. He was then appointed as Deputy Minister in charge of International Economic and Financial Relations in May 2005 by Minister Aburizal Bakrie. He maintained the assignment during Coordinating Minister Boediono (2006-2008) and Coordinating Minister Sri Mulyani Indrawati (2008-2009).
Herry Soetanto is the Head of the Trade Policy Analysis and Development Agency within the Indonesian Ministry of Trade and is leading Indonesia’s Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement (CEPA) negotiations with Australia. He joined the Ministry of Trade in 1981 and has been posted to various positions dealing with international trade. He was the Industry and Trade Attaché to Indonesia's Representative in Geneva (1995-1997) and Brussels (1997-1998). Prior to his appointment as the Head of Trade Policy Analysis and Development Agency, he was the Special Assistant to the Minister of Trade for Trade Diplomacy from 2008-2011. Other positions in the Ministry have included Head of Research and Development Centre for Foreign Trade (2004-2005) and Director General for International Trade Cooperation (2005-2008).
Gita Irawan Wirjawan is Chairman of Indonesia's Investment Coordinating Board (BKPM). The Harvard-educated investment banker has held key appointments in Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan, and was senior advisor to JPMorgan for Southeast Asia. Before his appointment as BKPM's Chairman, he was most recently Founder and Chairman of Ancora Capital, a Jakarta-based private equity fund, a Commissioner of state owned oil giant, Pertamina, and an Independent Board Director of Telekom Malaysia International.
Mr. Wirjawan has been involved in advising the government and private sector in many Asian countries with respect to corporate restructuring, M&A and strategic sales. He has concluded several high profile transactions. Outside the world of business, his passion lies in philanthropy, education, golf and music.

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