ATTENTION: News editors

17 October 2002
Contact: Janet Gillmore
(510) 642-5685
jeg@pa.urel.berkeley.edu

WHAT:
An informal discussion at the University of California, Berkeley, of the recent bombings in Bali and the implications of terrorism for Indonesia and Southeast Asia.

This discussion by a panel of South and Southeast Asia experts at UC Berkeley is being held by the campus's Department of South and Southeast Asian Studies. It is free and open to the public.

WHEN:
This Friday, Oct. 18, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

WHERE:
The department's library, Dwinelle Hall, Room 341, UC Berkeley.

WHO:
Participants will include:

Harry Bhaskara, an Indonesian journalist with the Jakarta Post and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley

Thamrin Ely, an Islamic peace activist from Ambon, Indonesia, and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley

Jeffrey Hadler, an assistant professor of South and Southeast Asian Studies at UC Berkeley

Zuraidah Ibrahim, Singaporean journalist and a graduate student with UC Berkeley's Group in Asian Studies program.

Sylvia Tiwon, a professor of Indonesian at UC Berkeley

BACKGROUND:
For more information, contact Jeffrey Hadler,
(510) 642-8538.