Funded by the Australian Government and run through the Australia-Indonesia Institute (AII), MEP was established in 2002 as one of the AII’s flagship programmes. The MEP for young leaders aims to build links between Muslim communities in Australia and Indonesia and promotes greater understanding and recognition of religion and its role in each country. So far, 52 Australians and 132 Indonesians have participated.
The MEP involves two-week visits to Australia by groups of young Indonesian Muslim community leaders and two-week visits to Indonesia by their Australian counterparts. These young leaders include writers, academics and workers in non-governmental and religious organisations. The program is designed to build greater awareness among the Indonesian participants of Australia’s multicultural society and in turn a greater awareness among the Australian participants of the nature of mainstream Islam in Indonesia.
Candidates are interviewed and selected by an independent selection panel based on their professional and social networks and their capacity to act as ambassadors and participate in interfaith dialogue.
Interested?
The requirements for the Indonesian participants are:
- Male Indonesian applicants must be under 40 years of age and for females must be under 45 years of age.
- Demonstrated fluency in English through TOEFL (international or institutional standard) with minimum score of 450; priority is given for scores above 500.
- A completed application form. Applications must be lodged by Friday 11 December 2015 at 23:59 WIB. Applications must be emailed to panitiamep2015 at paramadina.ac.id with a maximum data size of 15 MB. Applications sent via post or mail will not be accepted.
Questions can be emailed to panitiamep2015 at paramadina.ac.id.