UNITED IN DIVERSITY

United in Diversity forum in Bali

Building Trust for Our Common Future
6 - 8 December 2003, Nusa Dua, Bali, Indonesia. The UID Conference in Bali, December 2003.

To make monetary donations, please use the following account details:
United In Diversity
Bank Ganesha
JL.HAYAM WURUK NO 28 JAKARTA
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USD : 001-2-00801-1
swift code : GNESIDJA

For US or Canada donors on tax-deductible contributions, please email:
Gina Darmawan
gina@unitedindiversity.org

United in Diversity Internship Program

	Each year, we welcome individual volunteers with an interest in helping Indonesia via various projects that the United in Diversity Forum (UID) undertakes.

As an education forum with a mission of serving as a link among the private sector, the state, and civil society for a better future of Indonesia, UID is currently running several projects in the areas of leadership education, post-tsunami reconstruction, community development, and environment conservation. Through UID’s projects, an intern will have an opportunity to sharpen management skills and an experience of working and living in Indonesia. Specifically, an intern will work with the UID team to manage the following projects: Project L Post-Tsunami Reconstruction and Community-Building Sustainable Development Environment Conservation Qualifications and Basic Package Contact

Project L:
This project is working with MIT Sloan School of Management and/or Faculty to bring various Leadership Education programs to Indonesia. MIT Global Classroom Seminars have been organized with participants from Jakarta via video-links. On the development phase is an executive leadership program designed by MIT Professors Peter Senge and Otto Scharmer “Emerging Leaders for Innovation across Systems?(ELIAS) co-founded by MIT Sloan and other partners, which UID hopes to model after and bring to Indonesia. ELIAS mission is to “build a global network of high-potential leaders and develop the capacity, in both the participants and their organizations, to address economic, social, ecological, and political challenges at global, national, and [organizational] levels.?Other programs which the intern could assist to further conceptualize and develop with MIT Sloan faculty include the G-Lab, Sustainability Institute, Social Entrepreneurship etc. The objective of Project L is to build and launch a leadership education program for future Indonesian leaders dynamically engaging diverse sectors.

Post-Tsunami Reconstruction and Community-Building:
Following the Asian tsunami of December 2004 and a major earthquake in March 2005 in Nias island, northern Sumatra, UID has been collaborating with the Monaco-Asia Society (MAS) on a reconstruction project to build homes for 300 victims families expecting completion in June. UID was the first foundation to move Indonesia tsunami victims to their permanent reconstructed homes last august. At the same time, we will continue Monaco funded scholarship program to schools in Nias and are working on a proposal with sponsors to build a self-sustained solar energy system to provide electricity to residents in the area. This is a village rehabilitation project which is highly enriching. UID has agreed to undertake another community development in Pacitan, another rural village of Indonesia.

Sustainable Development:
This project is in partnership with Out of Asia, one of the largest local handicrafts exporters in Indonesia, designed to train women especially widows with children in Aceh, the worst-hit area during the tsunami, how to make exportable handicrafts adapting skills and materials from their own locations. Following the tsunami, many residents in Aceh have lost their jobs and livelihoods. This project is, therefore, meant to help them rebuild and sustain their families livelihoods. At the same time, the project will contribute to the local economy by providing residents with jobs and income. UID will contribute the workshop in Aceh whilst Out of Asia is providing skills training for the women in their design workshop in Tembi.

Environment Conservation:
Working with Conservation International (CI) as its partner, UID is engaged in the vision of developing a Marine Science Conservatory project in Bali island with promotion of marine conservation in other parts of Indonesia. This is an unprecedented marine program in Indonesia combining ecotourism, education and conservation. As a nation blessed with so much natural richness and biodiversity, there is a need to conserve Indonesia’s natural assets, in a race against destructive practices around the world often as a result of lack of planning, education, alternatives or simply illegal practices. This project, again, is a way for UID to contribute to this cause.

In addition to these projects, an intern is also expected to lend support to the UID team in its administrative activities, fund-raising efforts (especially the preparation development and writing of grant applications), public events, and other necessary and important tasks.

Qualifications:
An ideal candidate will meet the following preferences:
• Master’s degree or candidacy
• Interest in Indonesia
• A caring, empathetic personality
• A flexible character and an adaptability to culturally delicate situations

Basic Package:
The internship program offers the following:
• A basic daily meal and transport allowance
• Accommodation in Jakarta for intern(s) from overseas

Note: UID does not provide air-plane tickets for overseas interns.

Contact:
If interested, please write to explain your interest in and qualifications for this internship program and send your biography to the following coordinates:

The United in Diversity Forum
Wisma Hayam Wuruk, Lt. 14
8 Jl. Hayam Wuruk
Jakarta 10120, Indonesia
Tel: +62-21 352-3217 / 384-2648
Fax:+62-21 380-5663

Email: thang.nguyen@unitedindiversity.org
Web: www.unitedindiversity.org